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After a little while away from my camera I finally got a chance to get out and snap some more portraits last weekend. We have at last found and settled into a new flat in Sutherland which makes Cronulla our new local beach, so off we trotted with a camera and a couple of strobes down to the northern end of the beach to see what we could do.
Sonia @ Cronulla Beach
These photos are a mixture of one and two flash setups whilst using the sun as the back or rim light. The session was mainly an experiment to see how far I could push my 2 little Cactus flashes in overpowering the ambient light from the high noon sun. Given that my 5D Mark 2’s only synch’s with the flash at a speed of 1/200s or slower, could the flashes produce enough light to light the subject with my ISO and Aperture closed down enough to underexpose the ambient?
One flash worked quite well, but when I added the second it just gave me that little bit of leeway with my camera settings. I pushed the aperture all the way down to f22 for some shots and still had enough light on Sonia to make the picture.
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La Perouse is quickly becoming one of my favourite local places to shoot. A couple of weekends ago Sonia and I headed off on a walk from Yarra Bay, along Frenchmans Bay and onto La Perouse and Bare Island. It took about 1 1/2 hours at a leisurely pace and we got some nice images along the way. Here is a small selection of my shots as we followed the route south.
Yarra Bay – with Bare Island off in the distance
A natural looking breakwater at Yarra Bay
Some mossy rocks between the two beaches
La Perouse Tower
Bare Island
On the rocks below Bare Island
Facing south under the bridge
Capturing the last of the red glow of sunset
It makes a change for me to post some landscapes that were taken in the daytime, I always seem to find myself taking long exposures at night but I really should get out more in the daylight hours as I had a really nice time on this photowalk.
In case you are reading this and would like to follow the walk yourself, please see this google map for the location:
Click here (until I find out how to stop wordpress stripping out the google maps embedding code)
We travelled by public transport mainly because we are currently car-less but it is actually quite convenient for begining the walk in one place and ending it in another. The 309 bus (which goes from Circular Quay) will drop you at the bottom of Military Road, just a short walk from the northern tip of Yarra Bay beach. Then once you have completed the walk south to La Perouse you can catch the 394 back to Maroubra Junction from which you can head off anywhere you like.
Thanks for visiting and see you next time 
Welcome to my latest set of images taken at Manly beach and Shelly beach this week.
Manly is one of my favourite Sydney beaches and even though this was only my second visit there I am completely besotted with it. The beach is just beautiful, the sea so perfect – even surfable on a very calm day. I recently learned that this is one of the popular diving and snorkelling sites in the area due to its wonderful (and now protected) marine life.
The idea of this shoot was to catch some dusky shots of the tidal pool that sits half way between Manly beach and Shelly beach, but as things turned out I preferred some of the other shots I took while we were on our way to and from the pool. I’ve included my picks of the days efforts in this article.
Manly Beach, with Shelly Beach in the background
Shelly Beach
The setting sun over Manly, taken from the tidal pool
The tidal pool at sundown
Moments later, another shot of the pool
Manly beach by night
I was a little bit daring and climbed over a safety rail on the path between Shelly beach and Manly to get this last shot. It was a little bit scary being close to the edge so I was thankful it wasn’t very windy. This sky was almost black when I took this shot but a long exposure allowed me to capture the last hints of colour on the horizon. An interesting mix of warm lights in the distance and a greeny light illuminating the rocks from the path behind me made this one a bit of a challenge in post processing but I think I’ve got away with the few lightroom adjustments I chose.
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Here’s a set of images I captured at Coogee Beach last Sunday at around sunset. The beach is East-facing so we don’t get to see the sun disappearing off under the horizon from here but I quite like the warm glow that is created on the horizon nevertheless.
Those of you familiar with Coogee beach will recognise this tidal pool instantly by the distinctive blocks that line its edge. This location must have been photographed a million times but I had to get down there and have a go myself.
I think the pool must have been renovated recently as some of the shots I’ve seen on flickr here show the concrete blocks looking a little more worse for wear than they now appear.
According to a guy I met who was filling up some canisters with sea water as I was taking my snaps a large wave manifests once every 5 minutes or so and for reasons I don’t understand this theory seemed to work. The first image was taken as one of these waves combined with the swell to crash up against the pools edge spectacularly.
The 5 minute wave
A period of calm
The deep blue
Smoothing the beach
Sulpher lights
This final image was taken in near darkness and was only achievable by a 4 minute exposure. There is a street light up the steps to the right which floods the scene with the orangey tinge, I have chosen to embrace it here rather than try to eliminate it.
Each of the above images looks a little different to the last and that is due to a combination of small differences in post processing as well as the dramatic changes in lighting and colours that occurred as the sun moved lower and eventually said goodbye over the horizon behind me.
A lot of the best pictures of all Sydneys eastern beaches are taken at sunrise but I am hoping to show how you can still get an interesting photo at the other end of the day too. Hopefully these photo’s will give you an idea of the kinds of shot that can be achieved at sundown.
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Here is a panorama I put together whilst holidaying in the Whitsunday Islands last December (08). Many of the shots I took that day did not turn out as well as I would have hoped but somehow the colours really came through and with this panorama and created a good representation of what I saw at the time. The blues of the sky and the sea were so beautiful and the pure white sand so soft, it was like heaven on earth. Having been working on my photographic techniques somewhat since I took this photo I would dearly love to head back there and spend some more time on the island purely with a photographic focus.
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