Alex Wise Photography

Clifton Beach, Tasmania

Clifton beach is a lit­tle over 30 min­utes from my home depend­ing which part of the beach you go. I’ve made many vis­its there from when the weather is lovely like this evening or even at times of an incom­ing storm. Being able to pot­ter around and admire the dif­fer­ent scenery, then finally cap­ture it with the click of a cam­era is a feel­ing of ecstasy. I’m prob­a­bly soon run­ning out of dif­fer­ent angles to take at Clifton but there are many other water­scapes along the South Arm coast which I’ve only vis­ited occa­sion­ally and show future potential.

Each shot below was taken with a Canon 350D, .6 and .9 Cokin neu­tral den­sity fil­ters, Canon 10–22 and a mon­frotto tri­pod. My fil­ters are in need of a clean as in some shots you can see patches of where I have cleaned water off them in the past. All can be solved in pho­to­shop with the almighty heal­ing tool luckily.

The scene had become dark and we were only lit by the moon over our shoul­der. For this shot it required a 5 minute expo­sure which cre­ated a con­sid­er­able amount of noise which is some­what evi­dent even in this small ver­sion. I like the move­ment of the stars in the sky..

I love water­scape pho­tog­ra­phy and wish petrol was a free com­mod­ity like water so I could drive around the state, camp­ing and shoot­ing. Dri­ving long dis­tances play­ing music which never grows old. I recently dis­cov­ered a Hobart musi­cian named Jor­dan Mil­lar, being a big fan of John Mayer and Jason Mraz, this guy is tops! Ride it all the way goes down a treat.

I need sleep.

- al