One of Cape Patterson's most southern points after sunset
From MV Photography Happy New Year and all the best for 2011. Thank you to all the readers, clients, family and friends for your support over the past year, it wasn’t as busy I had hoped but 2011 is shaping up to be a great year for my photography.
Above is an image I took while I was down in Inverloch for my annual Boxing Day trip at Cape Patterson on the South East coast of Victoria an hour 40minutes from Melbourne. I surveyed the area during the day looking for a spot so I didn’t have to hurry around when I got there for sunset. Unfortunately the sunset wasn’t anything to write home about so I pointed the camera at the rocky peninsula I was sitting on. This particular photograph was the second last picture I took of the evening about 20minutes after the sun had gone down. To the naked eye you could barely see this as it was quite dark. I ended up using a 30second exposure to render the scene visible and I used an aperture of f8 to get good depth of field and to keep it in the sharpest range of the Tamron 17-50mm I used. To maintain optimum sharpness I used the mirror lock up feature in camera to lift the mirror before the exposure was taken and a cable release so I didn’t have to touch the camera. I used my monster Benro tripod to hold the camera steady. A smaller tripod would rattle in the wind and the picture would be soft as a result. The focal length used was 35mm (approximately 56mm in the old film scale) and I needed to guess the focus point because it was so dark and I forgot to bring a torch (there is a lesson for you, always pack a torch for sunset photos, not only to help you focus, but also to see you way back to the car). The photo was entirely processed in Lightroom 3.
Until next year, keep safe, relax and have a good time.
