Rodney Campbell's Blog

When it got fully dark it was time for Vonny to go nuts lighting the rocks on fire :).

I’d never played with actual fire when light painting so this was a new and novel experience for me. The way the flames slowly move and flow over the rocks and water is quite mesmerising. It doesn’t last all that long however so you do have to time your shooting fairly well.

Flicker

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 35 mm, 108 sec at f/8, ISO 100

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

I of course wanted to mix it up with some traditional light painting tools :).

And to cap off the evening – mixing the flaming rock with a steel wool spin up on top with a backdrop of the Milky Way behind.

Shooting Stars

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 434 sec at f/8, ISO 100

and thus another evening of fun and frivolity ends. Good times with some friends out shooting and experimenting – this is what it’s all about.

They say all roads lead to the same destination (or Rome – depends who you ask :)). Now I don’t know if that’s really true or not. However when it comes to the water flowing in Sugarloaf creek all roads lead to this lovely set of horseshoe falls at the bottom of the cascades.

The Cascades

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 48 mm, 1/4 sec at f/16, ISO 50

Along the way there Gerry and I discovered some very nice little areas to shoot – including this particularly scenic little cascades amongst the lush rainforest.

Swirl

NIKON D750 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 61 sec at f/11, ISO 100

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All Roads Lead to One

NIKON D750 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 18 mm, 1.3 sec at f/16, ISO 100

At the bottom however this double set of falls is quite lovely. The water is quite wide here at the bottom making it a little difficult to shoot. A stitched panorama might have done this more justice but this shot from this incredibly green rock opposite will just have to suffice.

A spectacular morning out at Balmain East here on Sydney Harbour for this magnificent rendition of backdraft in the sky.

Gerry was originally going to join me on this trip but unfortunately something came up last minute and he wasn’t able to make it… This is what you missed mate :)…

Backdraft

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 44 mm, 62 sec at f/11, ISO 100 x 10 Frames

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I’d originally intended on shooting at Lookes Avenue Reserve (because I’d never shot there before). After I’d arrived and checked out the possible compositions from there however I decided to move elsewhere.

It was lucky that I was early enough to head to Illoura Reserve instead.

At over a minute per frame and ten (10) separate frames it took over ten minutes to capture all the images for this wide stitched panorama. The sky was just perfect and framed the cityscape with the lights still on in the buildings.