Rodney Campbell's Blog

Over the weekend I joined a healthy crowd of enthusiastic photographers for the Varina & Jay Patel Sydney Photowalk hosted by Dianne & Mykal Hall.

It was great to meet up and spend some time chatting with this dynamic duo from Ohio in the USA. The walk started late in the afternoon and went from the Sydney Opera House around Circular Quay and up onto Observatory Hill and it was just great to catch up with old friends and meet some new.

The main attraction (besides taking some photographs on a lovely summers evening) was actually the respite to the pub after the walk (as is pretty typical of our photowalks here in Sydney) and the many many hours spent just chatting, drinking and eating in a relaxed atmosphere (I didn’t get home till almost 3AM). Our guests shared a wealth of knowledge and I’m sure everyone else, as I did, really appreciated the opportunity.

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

Varina & Jay

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 55 mm, 1/400 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100

We had some fairly decent clouds in the afternoon and evening which made for some interest in the sky. Sticking around the front of the Opera House before sunset I spent most of my time with the Lee BigStopper for some long exposures

Looking back at Circular Quay and the city with the wind blowing the clouds towards and to the right of us from the setting sun – the clouds were moving but not quite enough so to get a stupidly long 379 second exposure I stacked the Lee BigStopper with a Lee 0.6 GND and my CPL

With this image I wasn’t totally convinced with the colour version so created this very dramatic monochrome rendition – here they both are – so what do YOU think – colour or monochrome?

Sky Explosion

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 18 mm, 379 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Just after sunset we had some lovely pink clouds in both directions

Opera Looming

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 84 sec at f/8, ISO 200

I cut the previous long exposure exposure short so I could quickly swivel around and catch the fluffy pink clouds just hovering above the quay (374 seconds)

Simplicity in Pink

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 29 mm, 374 sec at f/8, ISO 200

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