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Suren convinced us to give the Lee BigStopper a try during our morning session at Long Reef at Collaroy. Only tried two shots but was pretty happy with this result – with the signature BigStopper blue cast. This image with the Lee BigStopper, Lee 0.9 ND Grad and the Heliopan CPL

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Boulders in the Blue

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 26 mm, 166.00 sec at f/8, ISO 100

and this is a monochrome conversion (in Nik Silver Efex) for those who are freaked out by the blue 🙂

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 26 mm, 166.00 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Headed around through Circular Quay across to the Opera House to shoot some more of the light displays of Vivid Sydney

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A little fisheye fun with Ana Andres with this light globe inspired piece

Ana From Within

NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/25 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100

Beehive

NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 1/160 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100

Ana had brought along her glass ball so we tried some compositions up close to the Opera House itself (the ball is like an insane fisheye lens – plus it also inverts the image viewed through it – the trick is to:
– get the right distance from the ball and the ball to the subject so it appears filling most of the ball
– focus on the image projected within the ball
– whilst also trying to include some of the “real” scene outside the ball (it will naturally be in blur because you’re generally focusing near minimum focus distance of your lens)

A Ball at the Opera

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 1/15 sec at f/4, ISO 3600

Note in this last the large white ball is actually the full moon in the sky

Operatic Ball

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 35 mm, 1/40 sec at f/4, ISO 6400

For a few mornings in a row now Sydney has been under lockdown – the entire city has been completely covered in fog. Here the skyscrapers rise up into the void.

Rising into the Void

NIKON D600 + 35.0 mm f/1.4 @ 35 mm, 1/640 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100