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Wellington Point

May 30

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Camille and I have been wanting to head out to Wellington Point for a while now to take some photos. I haven’t been out that way for years, so I decided to do a bit of recon this afternoon in case we decide to head out before the sun comes up some day. Don’t want to be trying to find a spot when you can’t see anything! I had assumed that being on the coast, I would need to get up for sunrise shots, but it turns out that the sunset shots are quite nice anyway. It was a good chance to try the new grad filters I bought at work :)

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Friendly visitors

May 23

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As Camille and I were heading out to dinner with her relatives, I noticed a rustling coming from the tree next to our stairs. It turned out to be two possums (a big one and a little one) feasting on the berries in the tree. We were already running a bit late, and I only had my 50mm lens on the camera, but I just had to take some photos of the cute little critters. Surprisingly they didn’t even run away – they just kept eating! I decided I would only take my prime lenses to dinner, as they needed a good workout (I haven’t used them for quite a while!). The following photos were either taken with my 50mm f/1.8 or my 28mm f/2.8 lenses at ISO 800/1000. A little bit of noise in the photos at such high ISO, but nothing Lightroom 3 couldn’t fix up :)

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Buddha’s Birthday

May 2

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According to Google, Buddha’s birthday is December 6, 1970. According to the organisers of the Buddha Birth Day Festival 2010, it was today. Camille and I went to take some photos of the fireworks. It was my first attempt at fireworks photos, and I think they turned out quite well. The fireworks themselves weren’t anywhere near as big as the New Year displays (they only used one barge instead of three), but still stunning nonetheless.

Buddha Birth Day Festival 2010

The festival provided plenty of great Asian food and drink, along with the fireworks and some great bands playing for the crowd. I wouldn’t mind going next year to check out some of the other activities. Click on the photo above to see the rest.

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Stadium Drift

Apr 28

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Well… it’s been a long time since last update. I’ve been getting very slack, including not taking many photos. In fact, I haven’t really taken photos since I got back from New Zealand in February! I finally set a date to take some photos with Dan, so we headed down to the Gold Coast for our first attempt at motorsport photography at Stadium Drift. It was a fairly quiet event which meant we were able to get nice and close to the action and get a few shots before it turned dark. So, without further ado, here are some of my photos (click through for more).

Stadium Drift

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To HDR or not… that is the question

Mar 4

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Recently I’ve been playing around with HDR (or tonemapped, if you prefer) photos. They seem to be somewhat of a love/hate affair, with many people voicing strong opinions against them. The term “HDR” refers to high dynamic range; more specifically in digital photography, it usually refers to the process of bracketing and combining multiple exposures of the same image. By combining underexposed and overexposed images, you end up with a final product that shows all the detail in both shadow and highlight areas.

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