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Lake Windamere

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/80 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

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Clustered

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/30 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

Still very early morning (just pre dawn). I’ve stacked a 4-stop ND with the CPL to lengthen the exposures to smooth the water. The fog is still hugging the hills around us but alas not drifting down onto the water

Encompass

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR @ 135 mm, 20 sec at f/8, ISO 64

Using a longer focal length on the handy new Z 24-200 lens allows some more selective compositions with a little compression of the background

The Road Less Travelled

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR @ 165 mm, 20 sec at f/8, ISO 64

This is what Lake Windamere looks like from the skies above. A 180˚ stitched panorama from 21 frames (three rows of seven frames) taken with the DJI Mavic 2 Pro at the end of our morning session there

Lake Windamere 180

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/800 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100 x 21 Frames

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Back at Lake Windamere before dawn for an early morning shoot. It was incredibly foggy in town where we were staying, on most of the drive here and on the hills surrounding the lake. However down here on the lake… nothing… it figures 🙂

Blue and Gold

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR @ 36 mm, 104 sec at f/7.1, ISO 100

Anyway a long exposure for some early twilight colour (to the naked eye it was basically dark) and some light painting of the trees to reveal and warm them

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Wretched

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR @ 55 mm, 47 sec at f/8, ISO 100

I headed out to Lake Windamere in rural NSW for an overnight shoot organised by the Focus Photography group

Perched

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR @ 77 mm, 62 sec at f/8, ISO 64 x 7 Frames

It’s a little over 3 hours drive from Sydney and it rained relentlessly on the drive there so I wasn’t hopeful for our planned sunset that evening nor the sunrise the next morning

Miraculously however the rain held off soon after arriving, though the 100% overcast skies put off all thoughts of a colourful sunset or the promised fog 🙂

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We did however get to recce the location. Here’s a seven (7) frame stitched longe exposure panorama (using the 6 stop Lee LittleStopper). When we first arrived this tree had a host of pelicans perched on the various branches, though only two stayed around for some photos…