May 2017 Open Competition

“China Girls”

ISO 250 45mm f8.0 1/250

I love street photography and I couldn’t help smiling at these two (very modern) young Chinese ladies, sweeping past a row of ancient bhuddist temple shops in downtown Beijing. They obviously have no trouble “Keeping up with the K’s” – in spite of having access to neither Facebook OR Google!

The pic is basically as shot but I tried to do a bit of a ‘street grunge’ effect in Lightroom by easing off on the vibrance and lightening the shadows a little. (Not that you need to add much ‘grunge’ to photos of Beijing!)

This photo was taken on manual at a beach nicknamed doggy beach for obvious reasons!

ISO 100 f/9 65mm lens is 55-300mm 1/320

“Another one waiting to load”

Canon 70D with Canon 18-135mm lens

f/16, 1/250sec, ISO-100, f/length 35mm

I haven’t had much success taking silhouette shots so I was pretty happy with this one, especially as I didn’t really need to do anything in post-processing apart from straightening the horizon a little.

Enter The Sandman

Canon 70D, f/5, 1sec, ISO-100, 100mm

I went for a drive to Narrabri today and ended up at the telescopes.

The telescopes were spread very wide today – there were two way down on the left and 2 way up on the right and one right in front

This photo was taken on shutter priority – settings were f/13 1/100 sec ISO 125

It was taken over a high fence looking to the closest one and trying to capture the 2 further away. This is straight out of the camera with no post editing at all

“Warming up”

1/1600, F4.5.

MilkyWay over the Warrumbungles

This is a composition of photos taken while in Coonabarabran. The gorgeous Milky Way over the Warrumbungle mountains.

Flying High

I took this photo at Gunnedah Show this year. The boys loved the motorbike stunt men and I really liked how this photo came out. It was later in the afternoon (about 5pm) as the sun was starting to set.

f 5.3, ISO 4000, Shutter Speed 1/1250 and Zoom was 240mm.

Junior Entry “Autumn Gold”