Trees In Morning Light, originally uploaded by BrendanDavey.
This shot was taken at Taroona near the shot tower in the early morning light. The leaves lit up a nice goldern colour, appearing they they were just about to drop from the trees in Autumn.
Failing to capture anything on Taroona beach due to a rather plain sunrise, this was the best I could do for the day.
I’ve printed this picture out at A3. Looks Great.
Melbourne @ Night, originally uploaded by Brendan Davey.
I think one of the important things that has worked for me in the past in capturing interesting pictures is the location and sometimes risk I’ve had to place my camera in to get them.
For example the above shot was taken while sitting my camera on the curb (in a bicycle Lane) alongside busy traffic in the middle of Melbourne. In the same outing I also lost a lens hood into the river while precariously balancing my Camera on the edge of a bridge to capture a Melbourne Night Scene.
It can probably be said that a good picture involves risk, something new, something different. So why not use the same philosophy when capturing the picture.
Stick your tripod in the water, use the fact that your camera has weatherproof seals. See your camera as a tool, built to do a job. Your camera is most likely depreciating at a huge rate, so you mite as well get some good use out of it.
Sure don’t take unnecessary risks, but don’t be scared to get a scratch on your camera, after all why do you have your camera?
P.S. Don’t worry Paul, I’m taking real good care of your baby 🙂
A friend of mine keeps trying to convince me to buy a Nikon. Recently I had the chance to try a D300. (Thanks Paul).
My overall impression is the Nikon has more features, some useful, some not. Quality wise it’s about the same as my old 40D, all though slightly more Megapixels.
I did however notice that Lightroom changed the images a lot more than it would from a picture from the Canon. Not sure why, maybe someone can let me know. (I noticed a similar change from my 300D to the 40D, where the 40D needed less correction).
Being a Canon user I found the Nikon to be fairly unfriendly and not all that intuitive to use, but I’m sure it was just the way it was setup. The lack of the focus / metering Beep was most frustrating.
I just hope with the falling Australian dollar Canon can keep the 5D mark 2 price reasonable. I still have some money invested in Canon glass, and I’d hate to have to defect to Nikon.
I’ve posted a few flower shots on flickr taken from the D300.
Long Walk, originally uploaded by BrendanDavey.
It looks very very nice, good enough to make you run like a 10 year old ready to bomb right off the end. In reality it was frezzing COLD!
Not somthing I normally shoot, but it makes a nice change.
Lorne Sunrise (PP), originally uploaded by BrendanDavey.
I’ve been fairly busy recently, and I’ve only just found time to sit down and start post processing some shots. This is one of the first to get the Photoshop treatment. I think the end result is quite “dreamy”.
This is the first post to my blog via flickr as well. The inbuilt blog feature is quite nice, and will save me a lot of time. So you should start to see more posts here in the future. 🙂