Portland Sunrise, originally uploaded by BrendanDavey.
Over the past week or so I’ve been travelling the great ocean road, many days were a wash out, but there were a few nice mornings where I managed to be up for some great sunrises.
Portland and Lorne were two towns where I grabbed some great pics, over the comming weeks I’ll upload a few to the store, and this time around I managed to shoot a lot in landscape, rather than portrait.
The attached picture is from Portland.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve used a prime lens. I think the last one I used was on my Canon AE-1. Even on a 1.6x sensor body it’s still quite somthing special to be shooting at f1.4, and what better place to start than with flowers 🙂
80mm is quite constrictive and you have to be a fair distance from subjects to get everything in, but once you get used to it and the small depth of field it really starts to work it’s magic. I can’t wait to go full frame, and maybe a macro len.
What is the point of taking pictures if you don’t get to enjoy them, and what better way than via a simple coffee table book. I’ve been spending a bit of my spare time recently creating a photo book which is just about finished.
It will only contain about 20 images, I say ‘about’ because there are 20 large full page images, but quite a few smaller ones as well.
I’ve been using their downloadable book software over the past few months to create my book, The software is quite good (booksmart) and very easy to use, allthough not perfect.
I can’t wait to see the results.
Tranmere Foreshore, originally uploaded by BrendanDavey.
Sometimes I think a big component of photography is being in the right location at the right time. The sunset I managed to capture from the Tranmere foreshore was quite nice last night. Not the best I’ve seen, but with some post processing it matches the orange rocks quite nicely.
I’ve added a few of the pictures taken to the store. (Even a few shot in landscape) If you would like to see more visit my flickr page.
I’m currently in the process of creating a Blurb book, and I’ve decided to use this image as the last one in the book.
This image was taken about 9 months ago at Mayfield Bay Coastal Reserve, just south of Swansea.
It was taken at night with moonlight and campfire glow and it’s a 30 second exposure. It’s quite grainy and I’m not sure how well it will print above 8×10″. If the results are good I guess I’ll add it to the store. Because of the moonlight and campfine glow I think this looks great as a sepia.