Alex Wise Photography

F.16 / 0.6 of a second.

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Once a year, the deciduous beech that surrounds the Tarn Shelf turns from green to a beautiful yellow. I’ve walked into the Tarn Shelf a few times but always managed to miss out on this limited opportunity. Knowing it was the right time of the year, I set off early (7am) hoping for pretty reflections on the Tarn and to avoid the crowds (60 people as we left at 11am). It was a cold but nice morning with fog throughout the Derwent Valley.  Unfortunately once reaching the Tarn it was quite breezy so this ruled out any hope of capturing the Tarn reflecting surrounding fagus.

First four shots were captured with a Canon 24-70 2.8 whilst the remaining with a Canon 50 1.4

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Lindisfarne is normally a quiet little bay that barely has a ripple, but was wild this windy evening. Captured on sunset just as a wind surfer made his way out.

Shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 17-40 and Cokin Z-Pro neutral density filters. The Cokin filters are great but can be a huge hassle when there is lots of sea spray everywhere as you’re constantly cleaning them.

It was cold tonight. I arrived much too early so setup and waited around playing Scrabble on the iPhone (best time killer). In case you’re wondering, this is how the scene looked before the sunset begun. The long exposure (10 minutes) smoothed the water whilst capturing the blur of moving clouds. It could have been photographed in a shorter exposure but I like to push for longer as it usually smoothens the water more.

5″ sec exposure at f/22

Captured not long after this image once the sun had disappeared behind the hills. Amazing the difference that a little light can make.

This was an exposure of 5 secs which was just long enough to capture the movement of water without blurring the plants in the foreground.

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.

f.16 at 1.60 seconds with a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 17-40, Cokin Z-Pro neutral density filters.

Another shot from Kingston Beach, Tasmania on sunset. This time captured in portrait. I find myself shooting in landscape orientation more and more now, but love going back to portrait composing with a powerful foreground that leads into the background.

Just in case anyone is interested, a before and after showing the straight out of camera a little under exposed which was adjusted in Lightroom.

Water rushing over rocks at Kingston Beach, Tasmania captured with a 1/3 sec exposure at f/14.

Set timer, mad dash over wet rocks into frame, fingers crossed that I don’t jiggle around, check lcd.

30 second exposure at f/11.

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).