Alex Wise Photography

Non exis­tent sun­set at Howrah Beach. Cap­tured with usual shi­daz­zle of a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 17–40, Cokin Z-Pro .6 and .9 grad­u­ated neu­tral den­sity fil­ters under expos­ing the sky to give it more oomph. It occurred to me while writ­ing what equip­ment I use that it sounds ter­ri­bly wanky. I try to post my equip­ment and retain the exif data on my images in case any­one is curious.

As the cloud slowly rolled in through­out the after­noon, I made plans to take a drive and get some pho­tos some­where. As I arrived at Clifton I realised I had brought my bro­ken tri­pod, fan­tas­tic! I wanted to cap­ture at least one photo of the beau­ti­ful clouds so I laid over the rocks, posi­tion­ing the cam­era on a rock and snapped away.

This is a 1.3″ sec­ond expo­sure at F.13 with the Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 17–40 and Cokin Z-Pro grad­u­ated neu­tral den­sity fil­ters to con­trol the expo­sure of the sky.

Recently I wrote a small buy­ing guide for neu­tral den­sity fil­ters that you may want to look at (click).

A small buy­ing guide to assist you in mak­ing the right pur­chases to pho­to­graph day­time long expo­sures. Using strong neu­tral den­sity fil­ters will allow you to shoot 1–5 minute expo­sures dur­ing the day depend­ing on the con­di­tions. If you’re bored with pho­tog­ra­phy, neu­tral den­sity fil­ters are a great way to reju­ve­nate your hobby and get pas­sion­ate again. It can be reward­ing but also some­times chal­leng­ing as you’re forced to look at a scene from the per­spec­tive of how a long expo­sure will trans­form it.

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Beau­ti­ful golden light hit­ting Mt Welling­ton on sunset.

I haven’t taken pho­tos for almost 2 months and it has been killing me. Even though I’ve taken a ton of pho­tos at Clifton I still wanted a shot look­ing towards Cape Deslacs with a nice golden hour light over the cliffs. Luck­ily the light came out for around a minute then quickly disappeared.

Min­i­mal­ist long expo­sure pho­to­graph of a small boat launch ramp in Dunal­ley, Tasmania.

A day-time long expo­sure right on golden hour at a favourite spot of mine Clifton, Tasmania.

Over the last few months I’ve made two long dri­ves over to the Tas­man­ian West Coast with my cam­era in hand. On both occa­sions the weather was aver­age which wasn’t the best for pho­tos but it was nice to be a tourist. I found myself just tak­ing lots of snap shots which aren’t port­fo­lio wor­thy but they seem a waste to not show anyone.

If you’re trav­el­ling to the west coast soon and have any queries of where to take pho­tos drop me a line as I might be able to help.

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Long expo­sure of an aban­doned jetty at Mid­way Point, Tas­ma­nia on a dull sunset.

Another from Clifton sorry! This was shot with the Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24–70 and B+W 110. I never really use the 24–70 so was quite keen to give it a whirl and actu­ally use it more. The lens is obvi­ously a lot less wider then the 17–40 so for this image I decided on a two image stitch to get more in the shot.