Alex Wise Photography

Not much swell tonight at Park Beach but luckily it was a pretty sunset. I pushed for a longer exposure (10 minutes) to give a sense there was a lot of swell and movement.

I’m slowly running out of seascape locations to photograph in Hobart so it’s always nice to come across something new.

This was shot last night at Blackmans Bay, Tasmania with a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 17-40, Cokin .9 ND grad and a B+W 110 filter. I love this filter as it me to push for a longer exposure (5 minutes at f.11).

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.

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.

A beautiful red sunset just near home in 2006. Captured with a Canon 350D, Canon 10-22 and Cokin Z-Pro neutral density filters.

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.

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).

Tonight’s sunset captured at Kingston Beach, Tasmania. This was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 17-40 and Cokin Z-Pro ND grads.