Alex Wise Photography

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.

A series of images cap­tured on a freez­ing win­ters night in 2007.  The light trails were cre­ated plac­ing coloured cd cases over the front over a torch.

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

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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As more and more pho­tog­ra­phers post their shots online, it becomes harder to find emerg­ing tal­ented pho­tog­ra­phers worth watch­ing.  I’ve com­piled a list of some of my favourite pho­tog­ra­phers who inspire me with their amaz­ing work. All images are linked to the rest of the pho­tog­ra­phers gallery.

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You have to be able to observe life as if you were a cam­era all the time, con­stantly look­ing at light and the way that things are placed and the way peo­ple hold them­selves. You need the abil­ity to see some­thing in some­one or some­thing that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basi­cally, you have to be an obses­sive crazy person.

— Ryan McGin­ley

An excerpt from an inter­view in Mon­ster Chil­dren #25 that I’m par­tic­u­larly fond of.

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It’s fair to say 2009 was the year of the long expo­sures for me. I’ve had a lot of fun with the Canon 5D Mark II and B+W 110 fil­ter over the year and look­ing back am sur­prised how many pho­tographs I actu­ally took.

I hope 2009 was a good year for your photography!

These are just a few things that I take into account before going on a shoot. They aren’t rocket sci­ence I’ll admit and are actu­ally quite sim­ple but I hope they help a little.

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One of the more spec­tac­u­lar sun­rises I’ve seen cap­tured a lit­tle dif­fer­ent then normal.

Not one for pho­tographs of myself, who is.  Some­times it’s nice to put a face to a name and this is mine.

Pho­tographed on a recent trip to the Tas­man­ian west coast, a pig in mud.