I call this the Clinging Tree because it has been clinging to the edge of the cliff by its roots for years and has even survived cyclones. This photo was taken with the sun setting to the left.
1/80 f/8 ISO 3200 54mm
For this assignment we were to add texture and punch to one of our pictures by adding contrast.
Nightcliff Jetty – Original 1/1000 f3.5 ISO 80 24mm
I didn’t like the white patch in the sky when I removed the lamp posts, but I didn’t like the result when I tried to fix it either so I started again:
End results with and without lamp posts.
For this assignment we were to find one of our photos where the lighting or exposure was off and fix it using the tools in Lightroom and Photoshop we’d learnt about in Day 23: Control the Light.
I selected this photo from Day 6 Assignment – Stop the Action because Jim Hamel liked it but said it needed brightening in post processing.
This first photo is the original.
Finn Road in the rural area before the bridge – accidentally replaced the original
This is almost identical to the original which I seem to have deleted.
Cropped and removed blemishes in Photoshop.
I love the balance of the little fishing boat on one side against the dark menacing storm cloud on the other.
This cloud balanced itself but I took a few other shots to include some foreground.
It was hard to find an example of formal symmetrical balance. I used the jetty lightposts.
For this assignment we were required to take photos in one location from sunset to full darkness so that we could experience the changing light and the adjustments we needed to make to our settings.
I started shooting at 7.12 pm and took about 35 photos until 7.47 pm when it became impossible for my camera to capture any image, regardless of what settings I chose.
7.12 pm 1/160 f6.4 ISO 400
Within five minutes I had to widen the aperture and Increase the ISO:
7.17 pm 1/130 f6.3 ISO 800
From 7.18 pm I had to use the widest aperture on my camera f5.6
7.18 pm 1/320 f5.6 ISO 800
At 7.19 pm I increased the ISO to 1600 but that made the image too bright and washed out the colours.
7.19 pm 1/320 f5.6 ISO 1600
I tried including some foreground after that and adjusted the shutter speed and ISO settings to try to get a true representation of the colours – f5.6 aperture being the widest on my camera used for all.
7.27 pm 1/100 f5.6 ISO 1600
From then until the end of Civil Twilight at 7.34 pm I turned the ISO up to 800 and adjusted the shutter speed to between 1/30 and 1/100.
7.34 pm 1/30 f5.6 ISO 800
After that, while I was shooting in Nautical Twilight, I increased the ISO to 3200 and adjusted the shutter speed to between 1/25 and 1/160
7.47 pm 1/25 f5.6 ISO 3200
My camera didn’t make it to the end of Nautical Twilight, which is probably just as well as it was past dinner time and we were hungry!
I’ve been doing an online photography course for a couple of weeks now, ’31 Days to Becoming a Better Photographer’, which requires posting photos to a Facebook group.
1/320 f6.4 ISO 200 Off Nightcliff Beach
I’m trying to work out how to do this from WordPress.
I would like to post my photos and assignments here so people can view them if they are interested instead of on Facebook where they don’t have any option.
I used Google Maps to locate Nightcliff Jetty, my favourite place to take photos. I had a look at some of the photos other people had posted on there. It’s a very popular spot and it looks like it has been photographed from every possible angle already. I’ll have to get creative!
This assignment proved very useful in planning our upcoming trip to Hawaii. When I Googled ‘Hawaii photography guides’ it came up with three sites detailing the best locations for classic shots from painted forests and snow-capped mountains to volcanoes and lava flowing into the sea.
Flickr World Map was also full of amazing shots.
A search of my local libraries found a recent edition of Lonely Planet’s Best of Hawaii which is full of amazing photos a well as being a great source of information.
I can hardly wait to make my own attempts!
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