Photo 150 "2022" - Wetapunga

Week 30: July 25 to August 1

I managed to finish work earlier enough on Friday to make it to Muriwai. I thought I'd packed a set of my 21mm, 50mm and 110mm (I like to take 3 lenses as a rule of thumb, each of which roughly doubles the focal length of the previous). But well, the 35mm and 50mm Loxia are practically identical in size and hood, so I did grab the 35mm out of the lens cabinet instead.

I was hoping the sunset would deliver something spectacular (it didn't), but before then, I took some other photos. This was with the a7Riii and Zeiss Loxia 21/2.8mm, with an ND64 (6-stop) filter.

#2 Pic 93 Muriwai Beach (scenic shot)


EDIT
And to finish this week's collection off, waves crashing on rocks at Te Henga. This qualified as my telephoto shot because I used the Voigtlander 110/2 for this image.
#3 (Pic 94) Crashing Wave (telephoto theme)


On to the next week

Edited by Wētāpunga - 31 July 2022 at 09:30

After embarrassing myself in the Landscapes and Seascapes thread I am pleased to see my preferred coastal shot here as well - there's nice movement in the water coming off the rocks. I like the wave smashing over them too, and indeed the focus-stacked lilly. Good results for this week!

#3 is a very creative view of a wave! I like it very mmuch!

TFS!

Week 31: August 1 to August 8

Anyway, the creative shot this week is also from Muriwai Beach. An early evening shot with my a7Riii, Zeiss Loxia 50/2 and an ND64 filter.

As a frustrated waterfall photographer, I try to look for movement of the waves, rocks and steps that give similar effects of flowing water with depth into the shot. I don't find however, that waves benefit from a very long exposure time, and often the best effect ois at between 1/5 and 1/3 sec.

This scene seemed to bring a lot of those elements together. Especially with the little rock pools.

#1 (Pic 95) Rocks at Muriwai


The second shot is my creative (long exposure shot). It's part of my conversion of all my old Lightroom Catalogues to Capture One. So one thing I've been doing is reprocessing some of my older shots. This one is from my 2016 catalog.

#2 (Pic 96) Pohuehue Stream

This was taken with my a7R with a Minolta 17035.3.5 G lens, at 20mm. And Lee filters to create a long exposure effect.
This time round I did a slight crop of the shot, added a vignette and used the C1 colour and exposure tools to craft something.

For comparison purposes, the original 2016 photo is below


I think I've improved it.

Thanks @waldo_posth

To conclude this week, I took this shot with the a7Riii and Zeiss Basis 135mm. at Muriwai. It's a juvenile kekeno (NZ fur seal) taking a rest. about an hour later it was sitting up, looking alert.

#3 (Pic 98) Juvenile kekeno (telephoto theme)


Edited by Wētāpunga - 07 August 2022 at 00:10

Thanks for the feedback Pieter

I now have the urge to go back and revisit a lot of my old photos with C1. Deciding on the shutter speed for streams and waterfalls is as you say, tricky, and there is a strong element of personal taste. I think back in 2016 I had a greater preference for a more blurred effect, whereas now I like to have a bit more structure.

I did examine the photos I took of the kekeno at 100%, for any signs of ill health, as that is the only reason rangers have for intervening. It seemed basically to be dozing, and opened one eye to watch what I was doing.

Wētāpunga wrote: Deciding on the shutter speed for streams and waterfalls is as you say, tricky, and there is a strong element of personal taste. I think back in 2016 I had a greater preference for a more blurred effect, whereas now I like to have a bit more structure.

And then there is the option to take multiple shots with different shutter speeds and merge the final image from these in the post processing.