Kosioszko Landscapes

We had our first camping outing since way back in 2007 at Girrawheen. We hiked and stayed in the Kosioszko National Park and covered 22 km in one day doing the Main Range track to Mt Kosioszko. I sure wished the camera wasn't quite so heavy, I wonder how I will go trekking with it.

Lessons I learned:
VR is no substitute for a tripod in doing panos...
trying to guess hyperfocal distances sucks - use the iphone app... or a prime with f-stop markings
50mm f1.8 rocks in portrait orientation - that's what the L-bracket is for...
be consistent with using an index frame at the start of each pano/HDR cycle - it costs nothing...
Don't go beyond diffraction limit of a lens just to get a shorter close hyperfocal distance...
Watch for the change in polarisation angle whilst panning across the scene - a bitch to fix in PP...
HDR looks fake - use a ND grad. filter where possible

On to the photos...


The start of our walk. The ascent on the other side is much steeper than it looks


Blue Lake Pano - pushed more blue into the lake as it was looking greeny-brown, maybe too much


Head waters of the Snowy River - towards the end of the day


HDR Pano - Lookout from the Alpine Way back towards the Main Range


HDR Pano - Tom Groggins Camp site - late afternoon

Now for a MANscape... Awwww Yeahhhh.