When You Get Down Low

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I Like to get low with my camera from time to time to have a different perspective of different subjects.
I liked the look of the light that was falling on some little rocks with the shadows on one side.
It was at sunset time and there was just enough soft light to give a 3 dimensional look in my mind at least.

I flipped out the LCD screen on my Olympus and got virtually an inch of the ground to get this look.

3 Dimensional maybe yes.

I found it interesting and its amazing what you can do when changing perspective.

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Vedran

Capturing Moving Subjects 3

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Continuing with the third instalment of moving subjects I have a slightly different moving subject today.
I was at the Old Fremantle Bridge and I was hoping to capture a nice sunset. I set up my tripod and mounted my camera on the tripod. I framed the composition I wanted and waited for the sun to go down. Only problem was I miscalculated where the sun would go down.
Not to let that worry me, I noticed how the trains on the Fremantle to Perth were travelling across the train bridge every 15-20 minutes.
The light was fading so I thought I would slow the shutter and get some Light trails from the train and also some motion blur.
It took me a few attempts as I had to expose for the scene as well but below is one of the better attempts.

Motion Blur Light Trail

The train was moving from left to right and the yellow streak is the windows.

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Vedran

A Black And White Evening At The West End

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One of the genres of photography I like is black and white at night. I was walking around the West End of Fremantle and was trying out my Olympus 25mm F1.8 Lens. I wanted to see how it would perform. The idea was to capture the light from the old style street lamps reflecting on the old buildings.

The next four photos is what I came up with.

A Quaint Little Court Yard

The Reflection In The Window

Street Corner Lighting

Old But Still Standing

It was a fun exercise and as you can see not to shabby me thinks.

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Vedran

Capturing Moving Subjects 2

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I'm continuing the series on moving subjects today as I practise my panning.
I was standing in a nice location with the low early morning light directly behind me. I happened to be situated on a main beach road close to Leighton Beach in North Fremantle. I had my shutter stopped down to about 1/80th of a second and as the cyclists were zipping by I would focus and rip of about 4 frames.
It is fun trying to practise and from memory i had a group focus going on my auto focus on my camera.
One interesting thing that happened was as I was making the photographs a car slowed down to a very slow crawl and a woman with a look of hate was taking my photograph.
I didn't think anything of it but about 15 mins later 2 police cars stopped on the side of the road and 4 police officers got out and 2 walked towards me.

They came to me and asked me what I was doing as they were investigating a complaint. I politely told them that I was making photographs and practising a technique called panning. I then asked if they wanted to see the photographs and then I showed the dozen or so that I had taken at that point.
I explained what i was trying to do and they then told me I was doing nothing wrong and that I could continue.
They wished me a good day and all of them left. I continued for about half an hour more and then left as the light was getting harsh.

Here is one of the better ones of the morning.

Riding At A Nice Speed

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Vedran

Landscape Sunset By The Salt Lakes

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I don't do a lot of hiking or walking for that matter, which makes things a bit hard for nice locations.
A lot of what I see is what I see when driving. Here I was driving along the old Mandurah Road when i noticed a section where there still was some water in the salt lakes.

The sun was on its way down and I saw a section where I could frame the shot with a shrub in the foreground. I positioned myself so the sun was just peeking through the right tree. I wanted to create a sun star but didn't quite get the sun star I wanted but still got a nice frame I think.

The Salt Lake On Mandurah Road

I liked the clouds that were in the frame also so I had to wait from time to time for the sun to make an appearance.

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Vedran

Magenta Sunset At The Boat Marina

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Today I will talk about a FLW Filter.

What is that filter you ask...
It is a filter that is primarily used for cutting out the colour cast from fluorescent lights to correct the imbalance. It is magenta/purple in colour and is quite interesting what it does.
It can also be used at sunrise or sunset for landscape photography to bring out the magenta you see in the sky.
In the photograph below I used it and it gave the scene a lovely magenta feel. I could have not used it but in my opinion the scene wouldn't have had the same effect.

Of course I used my tripod to steady the shot.

Magenta Sunset

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Vedran

Watching The Light Shine On The City

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It is interesting to me how until you take up photography that you don't take a whole lot of notice of the light around us all. I find when I'm out and about I always tend to notice the light now with a thought in my head how can I capture what I see.

I don't mean to say that I don't notice a beautiful sunset or sunrise if we are out and about because that's a given. What I mean is like my photograph below. I was driving through South Perth and came to the foreshore on the Narrows Bridge side.
I liked the look of the way the late afternoon light was covering the city as the shadows were just starting to form.
There were no clouds to complete the picture the way I wanted but none the less I took out my tripod, mounted the camera and selected my focal range. I wanted to smooth out the water so I attached a 10 stop ND filter to make the shutter speed longer.

The Light And Shadow

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Vedran