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Great to catch up with so many old friends, some I havn’t seen for ages, and to meet and make so many new on our Sydney Photowalk with Trey Ratcliff. Thankyou all for making it a great afternoon out – looks like we got a lucky break in the weather.

I only took a grand total of two frames with my “real” camera – but I think that’s what photowalks are really about – spending good times with others with shared interest and just chatting :).

I did manage a handfull of shots with the drone however, so here is the first “group shot” – gotta love a good fountain don’t you think Trey 🙂

Fountain Tutorials

DJI Phantom 4 FC330 + 3.6 mm @ 3.61 mm, 1/10 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100

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.

The group when we’d finally made our way down to Mrs Macquarie’s chair for sunset.

Photowalk Group

DJI Phantom 4 FC330 + 3.6 mm @ 3.61 mm, 1/15 sec at f/2.8, ISO 293

Interesting… – I’m not quite sure how I timed this so that Trey was basically the only one looking up at the drone, perhaps like we somehow suspected – he has this uncanny sixth sense…

Looking Up

DJI Phantom 4 FC330 + 3.6 mm @ 3.61 mm, 1/15 sec at f/2.8, ISO 998

The sun has now set it was time to put away the drone and bring out the “real” camera.

There wasn’t any real colour in the sunset sky but there were some nice whispy clouds in the sky so I figured a classic long exposure with our cliche icons might be the go. This is the first of those two frames with the D-SLR. A two stop graduated neutral density filter (Lee 0.6 hard) over the sky (horizon upwards) and a six stop ND filter (Lee LittleStopper) over the whole scene to lengthen the exposure.

This is Why they call it Blue Hour

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 193 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Thanks too to Stephen Godfrey, Francis Gorrez and Paul Carmona for unknowingly choosing the shutter time for this one:). Tho they didn’t know it at the time as I had simply asked them to “pick a number?”. The consensus was Pi… so 3.14 (minutes it was)! Serendipity must have been on our side – the exposure was just about perfect… freakish luck perhaps :). I was originally planning to do 2 minutes so when they came up with Pi I wasn’t massively concerned 🙂 – now if they’d said something like 42 then I might have been in some trouble :).

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