Happy New Camera Gear... I mean New Year!

Nikon has just released a bunch of new stuffs. Now I need to justify making that expenditure of new gear after a slow 2011.

From Hargraves Lookout in the Blue Mountains - (click to zoom in, or press your face against the monitor)

UPDATE: info on set up, 24mm 1/100, f8, iso400, the magic is in post-processing

Floriade 2011

In between other more important projects this month, here a some sneaky Floriade photos.

Vanuatu

Went Vanuatu for a friend's wedding. It's a tough life to have to eat a 3 hr breakfast and snorkel all day.

Temora Spitfire

How often do you get to see a pair of eliptical wings and hear the roar of a 12 cylinder Merlin engine with its supercharger whine? Geez it's a thing of beauty.

Corin Dam - HDR Pano

Hi all, quick post of Corin Dam in Canberra. 8 frame (5 EV each) HDR + stitched pano. Some foreground artifacts from stitching and the right and side is over processed for HDR. Missed the full rainbow as it was partially casted in shadow by clouds

Big Band - Big Bang - RMC centennial celebrations

Quick post, Centennial Celebrations for RMC Duntroon with Big Band and Fireworks

Brit Classic Sprint - Wakefield Park Goulburn NSW

It was a dismal drive out to Goulburn last weekend, fog, sleet, ordinary breakfast meat pie... But the highlight was to see my mate's dad's Adelaide housed Triumph Spitfire MkIII doing time trials around Wakefield Park race way.



Other notable classics were GT6s and TR7, some making the trip up from Adelaide too. The foggy start to the morning added to the atmosphere of hearing high performance engines shrouded by mist (and the occasional tyre squeal!)



Access was limited (and I was somewhat lazy), so the shots look kinda samey.



All in all, still need to practice slow shutter speed panning (though 70-200mm VRII does most of the heavy lifting) and shot dicipline to start tracking and panning earlier whilst keeping and eye on composition. I'm most satisfied with the GT6 and Wakefield Park sign in the background.