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So there I was, Saturday night in and there's nothing on the tellie, so I thought I know I'll go out and play at something I enjoy. These are the results. These trees are living happily in Lake Wakatipu at Glenorchy at the head of the lake. The shot of the group of trees had an exposure of 100 secs at f9 with an ISO of 3200. The lens was my 12-24mm Nikon set at 20mm. The lighting on the trees was courtesy of a single lamp on the wharf.
The first of two shots of the single tree was taken at 4 secs f16 ISO 3200 and the second one 15 secs at f13 with an ISO of 400. Because we had had a warm day the heat from the land was being drawn to the middle of the lake and creating a eerie mist, the 4 sec shot has picked up the mist whereas the 15 sec shot has blurred the mist. Lighting on the tree was courtesy of my car parked behind me and off to one side. If you would like to see these photos in a larger format you can on my Paradise Pictures Facebook page.
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I was explaining to a client the other day the benefits of High Dynamic Range. So I thought I would show you an example. I've taken a series of the same photograph of the old shed at Paradise, this was a big ask in that the inside of the shed was very dark and the snow capped mountains and sky were very bright. So I took five photographs with a different exposure for each. The darkest had a setting of 1/500th sec at f10 and the lightest a setting of 1/30th sec at f10. I then put them through a programme called Photomatix. This programme then layered all five photographs (dark to light) on top of each other giving correct exposure for all parts of the scene. You can get an explanation of Photomatix by clicking on the name. Give it a go, you will need a tripod and preferably a cable shutter release. Cheers. Laurence..
So many great things about living in Paradise. Often you don't even need to get out of your car to get the shot you want. I did actually get out of the car, but this shot was taken just beside the Dart River road bridge looking up towards Paradise. So you don't always have to go tramping through bush just to get a good location.
In the words of my good friend Phil Collins, it's just "Another Day in Paradise"
Have a great day. Cheers. Laurence.
Woke today to another absolutely stunning day in Paradise. Cool, clear and crisp. Just the sort of day to be out there taking photographs. Hope the weather is treating you well wherever you may be. Cheers. Laurence.
I always invite clients to send me some of the images they took whilst on our photo tour and it's just great when they do. Here are a few that Ellies from Jakarta took whilst we were exploring the head of the lake. There is also a shot of Ellies taking the lake photo, I had been explaining to her how to get low angle wide shots. I think you will agree that she has made a good job. Thanks Ellies for sending them to me. Cheers. Laurence
It's always great to hear from people who have joined one of our photo tours in the passed. Here's an email from Jim who was out here from England with his wife Anne earlier in the year. His email is below.
Hi Laurence
There is probably a lot wrong with these pictures but the one thing right
about them is that I managed to take them.
I'd trekked to the top of Snowdon with a group and heard this roar,
grabbed my camera out of its case and just clicked, these are the best two
of the three images that I got. The ridge in the foreground is called Crib
Coch (English = red ridge). The camera had last been used with focus at
infinity ,aperture priority at f8 and a fairly slow speed as that is what
I'd taken my previous landscape with and I didn't have any time to twiddle
the controls but I'm quite pleased with the outcome.
Thanks for the trip up to Paradise earlier this year
Jim Davies
