Photo Competition for March 2010

[RonH]

[richard amora]

LOVE TREE

[Yan Zhang]

It was about 8.45pm - one hour after sunset. Almost everyone left the Twelve Apostle platform. As I wanted to shoot stars, I was still there. Finally I took this last shot: the clear sky allowed me to capture the Milky Way over Apostles.

[RonH]

It was about 8.45pm - one hour after sunset. Almost everyone left the Twelve Apostle platform. As I wanted to shoot stars, I was still there. Finally I took this last shot: the clear sky allowed me to capture the Milky Way over Apostles.

Interesting capture Yan ... especially since you are a Sydneysider spending $ in Victoria
Keep up the good work.

[Sahil]

It was about 8.45pm - one hour after sunset. Almost everyone left the Twelve Apostle platform. As I wanted to shoot stars, I was still there. Finally I took this last shot: the clear sky allowed me to capture the Milky Way over Apostles.

Heck!!! Is this for real??? Amazing... Yan I love your shots. They are breath-taking. I would love to have this as my wallpaper. You mind sending me the Bigger version. (I really would not mind if it has your name watermarked.)

PS:- I don't have a plug-in to see its EXIF data. Can you send those too?

[Sahil]

Sorry, Dave
And thanks. Won't happen again.

[Yan Zhang]

Interesting capture Yan ... especially since you are a Sydneysider spending $ in Victoria
Keep up the good work.

Thanks Ron. Yes, I spent some $$, flew to Melbourne and went to Great Ocean Road for 4 days (2 days work off plus one weekend).
No fatastic sunrise and sunset light that I would expect during these days. But this one was beyond my expectation:-)

[Yan Zhang]

Heck!!! Is this for real??? Amazing... Yan I love your shots. They are breath-taking. I would love to have this as my wallpaper. You mind sending me the Bigger version. (I really would not mind if it has your name watermarked.)

PS:- I don't have a plug-in to see its EXIF data. Can you send those too?

Sahil,

Thanks for your comments. This is real. EXIF is:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 400
shutter speed: 63 seconds
no filter was used
The real challenge was focusing, as it was very very dark in reality and the Apostles were hardly visible (they were probably around 2 to 3 km away from the position I took this shot).

Not a problem, I can send you the bigger file, but tell me how to send it to you with the size of 11MB?

Regards,

Yan

[Sahil]

Thanks, Yan.
Well could you reduce the pixels to 100 dpi and mail me the pic @ sahil.chd@gmail.com
Please watermark the pic as I would like to show it to my friends too. Thanks

[Steve S]

[Steve S]

[Yan Zhang]

Thanks, Yan.
Well could you reduce the pixels to 100 dpi and mail me the pic @ sahil.chd@gmail.com
Please watermark the pic as I would like to show it to my friends too. Thanks

Sahil,

Will do this today or tomorrow.

Regards,

Yan

[arith]

Sahil,

Thanks for your comments. This is real. EXIF is:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 400
shutter speed: 63 seconds
no filter was used
The real challenge was focusing, as it was very very dark in reality and the Apostles were hardly visible (they were probably around 2 to 3 km away from the position I took this shot).

Not a problem, I can send you the bigger file, but tell me how to send it to you with the size of 11MB?

Regards,

Yan

I think your photo is amazing and could hardly be better but I don't understand your comment about focusing, I don't normally bother to focus but set it on infinity. 63 seconds sure is a long time, and must have been very dark. It would be very nice if there was a little bit more mist, not too much but I think your efforts paid off.

[ScoutR]

[Getsome]

[Yan Zhang]

I think your photo is amazing and could hardly be better but I don't understand your comment about focusing, I don't normally bother to focus but set it on infinity. 63 seconds sure is a long time, and must have been very dark. It would be very nice if there was a little bit more mist, not too much but I think your efforts paid off.

Steve,

Thanks for your comments. On my 16-35mm/2.8 II lens, there is a big gap between 1 meter and infinity. Setting directly to infinity (under aperture=f/2.8) will cause middle ground (the two apostles and side rock) quite blurred. What I did for this shot was, before the dark, I took a photo on the two apostles with aperture 2.8 using manual focusing in live view (10x). I checked the image on camera LCDscreen, enlarged it, it was reasonably sharp. So I remembered the focusing position on the lens. Before I took the milky way photo, I took several other photos with different aperture readings. When I took this last shot, I just set the focusing to the position that I remembered from earlier shot with aperture=2.8. The result looked OK afterward.

[arith]

Cheers for that, it is a great photo. Although you usually do great photo's this one is even better.

[Maritimer1]

[cneedha]

A quick shot running for the train

[dvp]

Paradise