{"id":10401,"date":"2017-01-05T21:07:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2017-01-05T21:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:07:29","slug":"before-and-after-warburton-cement-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/before-and-after-warburton-cement-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Before and After – Warburton Cement Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Thursday I spent the morning watching the weather forecast as a heavy pattern of rain made its way over Victoria and tried to find somewhere new to take photos. I can’t say I’ve ever gone and chased waterfalls during summer on a 35 degree day but I am so glad I did! I eventually decided to take a drive to Warburton and explore the area around East Warburton which is home to Warburton Creek and the beautiful redwood forest<\/a> which I’ll look to share in a future post. <\/p>\n

Walking around Warburton Creek was stunning even if I did take the wrong turn and walk the wrong way for 30 minutes or so in the scorching heat. Boy was it hot!<\/a> But with that said, I eventually found some stunning little streams in Warburton to photograph and I was suddenly like a kid on Christmas day. It was the most refreshing feeling standing knee deep in water<\/a> on a boiling Melbourne day. I just regret not taking some swimmers! <\/p>\n

Without realising I was suddenly caught in the heavy showers<\/a> I’d been watching in the weather forecasts in the days leading up. The rain was almost torrential at times which led to flash flooding in the area and difficult photography conditions. Unfortunately I didn’t get much of a chance to fire off many photos as the lens would quickly be saturated whenever I aimed in any direction.<\/p>\n

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With the severe weather conditions, this is what led me to photograph and process the image how I have. The plan was to take 3 images to create a vertical panorama which sort of worked. I luckily managed to get a photo off of the bottom half of the scene without any water droplets on the lens but as I slowly moved my camera upwards, a few water droplets made their way onto the camera lens. Easily avoidable if you actually stop to check your lens between shots. Oops!<\/p>\n

Getting water drops on your lens isn’t the end of the world and just leads to some blur to parts of your image. In trying to hide the water drops, I looked to create a light burst effect through the trees. It was very much an experiment of a new technique that I’d picked up off a Phlearn video<\/a> and I’d love to hear your feedback. Is it too much? Doesn’t float your boat? Let me know!<\/p>\n