Photo Details: Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM @ 40mm, 2.5 Seconds, f/18, ISO50
A couple of nights ago Simon Beedle and I took a drive around the Swan River and ended up at Matilda Bay to shoot the sunset. We had been watching these amazingly large, puffy white clouds all day, and new that we had to be in the right spot to photograph them.
We were not the only photographers with the idea that Matilda Bay was the right spot, as there were a few of us around with our tripods and large cameras. One of the other photographers turned out to be Mark Stothard, someone whose blog I have been reading for a while, so it was nice to meet him.
It was a tough composition, trying to capture the clouds in frame, while still having some kind of foreground interest…
Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM @ 17mm, 1 Second, f/16, ISO50
In an attempt to bring my blog back from the dead – I’ll be honest, I’ve neglected it for a few months now – I have re-designed a few things and tidied up around the place. I am in the process of writing a few new posts which I will publish over the coming weeks. I plan to spend a bit more time and effort writing each blog post before pressing the “Publish” button.
The photo featured above is from a quick trip Clint Baker and myself took down to Dunsborough in June earlier this year. I recall waking up on this cold morning and heading down to Meelup Beach to photograph the sunrise, only hoping that the light would be nice to us. It was dark and quite overcast when we arrived – so it was fairly hard for us to tell what was going to happen. Thankfully, there was a thin break between the clouds and where the sun was to appear from. When the sun finally hit the horizon, it lit the sky up a gorgeous orange colour, which reflected across the water and changed the whole scene.
We were the only people at the beach on this morning, besides a lone fisherman in the distance. To me, it’s a great and satisfying feeling to be out there, early in the morning with hardly anybody else around, witnessing something so beautiful, especially in such an amazing part of our country. Photographing scenes like this to share with others only makes that feeling better!
I thought I’d make a quick post with a new photo before the weekend begins.
This is one of my photographs from my trip down south with Clint – Redgate Beach. Despite what it may look like in the photo, it was windy and cold on this day. I suppose that’s what you get for going down south in the middle of winter, huh?
Make sure you click on it to see it larger.
I’ve also got a pano of this one, but i’ll post it a bit later on.
As most of you probably know, I’ve recently purchased the Canon 5D MkII and have been playing around with the HD video features of the camera. The quality of the recordings it captures is quite astonishing as you can see here.
This is just a quick edit I have put together as I don’t have much more footage to play with at the moment. Over the coming weeks I will be traveling around Perth capturing some more footage and I will extend the length of this film.
I have put together a few short clips from my last few weeks with the Canon 5D MkII. I have no idea how to edit video footage, but just thought I’d share this anyway.
The footage is from:
Nerang River, Gold Coast, QLD
Springbrook National Park, Gold Coast, QLD
Perth, WA
Wategoes Beach, Byron Bay, NSW
Brindle Creek, Border Ranges, NSW
Music by Street Warriors – http://vimeo.com/7059302
