We have been blessed with some fantastic sunrises over the last few weeks. It makes getting up early for a run well worth it!
These images were taken with my iPhone SMAX from the public golf course overlooking City Beach, Wollongong.
I am not yet brave enough to take traditional style portraits but I really like the idea of taking environmental portraits. That is, taking pictures of people doing their thing in their space. These two images are from the photo shoot I talked about a couple of weeks ago in Photo of the Week 18.
Taken with a Panasonic FZ1000 and edited in Lightroom. Natural light.
This is one of my very first images from when I started taking photography seriously. It was taken on a Panasonic FZ250. Not a bad zoom for a little camera! I was at least 1 km away on the other side of the Habour at Lady Macquarie’s Chair in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. I don’t have any details on the settings.
I think it still stands the test of time
Well, this week it’s “photos of the week”, not just a photo! I took these photos of a spider web in the Wollongong Botanic Gardens on a lovely autumn morning. The sun was shining through the leaves above and making an interesting polarised pattern on the web. Optics, physics and photography all in the one place at the one time!
I tried getting rid of the parking meter with content aware in Photoshop but it ended up being too dodgy!
Panasonic Lumix FZ1000. 1/80s @f5.0 15.02mm ISO 1000
Edited in Lightroom.
I particularly like the women sneaking a peek at the other one’s phone!
Panasonic Lumix FZ1000. 1/40s @ f4.0 ISO 3200 76.94mm
Edited in Lightroom
Taken in Chinatown, Sydney.
Panasonic Lumix FZ1000. 1/80s @f5.0 19.47 mm ISO 500
Edited in Lightroom
Nothing says summer holiday quite like a palm tree!
Taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 1/60s f2.8 9.12 mm ISO 125
Edited in Lightroom
I took a long time taking lots of frames of these cockatoos waiting for one to fly away when I was finally rewarded with my battery flashing red.
Once I was home in front of the computer, I was fooling with the clouds – trying to get more texture, when I clicked on a preset filter. It changed the mood immediately and made me think of the Saprano’s. My cheeky cockatoos had suddenly become gangsters! Here the Gangsters have finished their meeting!
Taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 1/1000 f8.0 ISO 125 65.81 mm
Edited in Lightroom and then with a Digital Photo School preset – Splendid Day
