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Find Beauty Somewhere New

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I’ve recently discovered a neat little cove near where we live. It takes a little effort to get there; climbing over the rocks a through a few caves. Sometimes you have to take a few risks (dropping your gear!) to get a shot. I was climbing over rocks with a couple of cameras strapped over my shoulder, using the tripod as a walking stick. Really the only risk was wrecking my gear. Having said that I did manage to bang my head on the roof of a cave. There’s nothing like shedding a little blood for your art, right?

This image was captured with the new Canon 5D Mark III, with a 24-105 f4 lens attached. Actually the hardest part is keeping the lens clean with the constant salt spray whipped-up by the wind. By the way, I just corrected some exposure and levels on this to create the image. Finally adding a little vignette to complete.

So, take a risk and find somewhere new to capture beauty.

Beautifil Seascape

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Flaw into a feature

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I was thinking back over the last year or so and I noticed that most of my top photos (in terms of views) have all been from “random” shots. I mean those “spur of the moment” ones, where you have the camera on you and you see something interesting. I do go on a lot of planned outings and these are worthwhile too. But there is something to ne said for keeping your eyes open, ready to pounce.

These days most cell phones have great cameras as well and these can be all you need. The key I think is to be intentional and keep on looking. So, here I am a passenger on the way to the city and of course I’€™ve got my DSLR with me! The harbour looked peaceful after the storm. I only had a few seconds to get this…. My shutter speed wasn’t really fast enough; there was a little motion blur in the capture.

I learnt this technique a long time ago – take a flaw and make it a feature. In this image that meant increase the glow or blur and make it a bit more mysterious…. Did it work? I think so!Wellington Harbour, New Zealand

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There’s a Chill in the Air

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There’s a chill in the air.  I love it when a photo has some kind of “feel”, when you can sense what it must have been like when it was taken. I think this one creates that kind of feel.  The light was so blue, which made the temperature seem colder than it really was.  So, there’s not much to do when processing the image, probably the key thing is to get the white balance right.  In New Zealand we often set the white balance at cloudy even during sunny days.  For sure the further south you go the more this guideline holds true; there’s something strange going on up in the atmosphere.  Might that pesky hole in the ozone layer.

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