Warrnambool Camera Club Blog

last week I set up a blog for the Warrnambool Camera Club - check it out www.warrnamboolcameraclub.blogspot.com

A few photos from my TAFE course

I'm studying a diploma of Visual Arts at TAFE - I only started at the beginning of the year and I'm only doing 2 subjects per semester so it will probably take me 10 years to finish. One of the subjects I'm doing is digital photography. These ar a few photos I used for my first semester assessment.







This one was taken on Anzac day at the 11 am service. I went to the dawn service, but I didn't think it would be the appropriate time to pull out my camera and tripod. I did get to go and take some sunrise photos after it though. This next photo is one of them. Actually this is three exposures combined. I have tried to use HDR programs to do this, but I'v never had much success, so this for this I just used layers and masks etc to combine them.









Joey looking all rock chick. She was so good letting be take photos of her. I wanted to practise the high key kinda look. The focus is probably more on her hair than her eyes, but all in all I was pretty happy with it.







And this is Mike, my photography teacher.

Feeding the giraffes

During the holidays we went to the Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo. The best part (well my favourite) was feeding the giraffes. This is Erica being mugged by giant giraffe tongues.

Griffiths Island lighthouse

These are some early morning shot I took at a local lighthouse. We went over there to get sunrise shows, but arrived a bit early. The jetty one is on the walk to the lighthouse - yep, it was really dark. The glow in the distance in the lighthouse shots are the lights from the town I live in

Cement works at dawn

I took this yeasterday morning, just before dawn. Not sure if I like the warning sign at the bottom, might need a bit of cropping.

the 12 apostles - B & W

Today we went down to the 12 Apostles - the coast line down there is just spectacular. Unfortunately the light wasn't great and it was really hazy, so I thought I would have a play with converting them to B&W. This is only about an hour from where I live. The original plan was to get some sunset shots, but we got sidetracked sight seeing.

This next one is just my crazy boy - I was trying to take a photo of my two girls and then this little head pops up into the view finder. I ran a lomo action on it just for fun.

Fireworks over the Speedway

A few weeks ago I took some photos of the fireworks over the local speedway. All the parts of this image were taken on the same night, just not necessarily all in one shot. The speedway with the lights on is one shot. Each fireworks burst is a separate shot. The green one was pink, but I already had a pink so I changed the colour. The moon shot was taken looking in the opposite direction, but i thought it was a nice addition. There was a thunder storm in the distance behind the fireworks and I did manage to capture one lightening shot, but the pic looked a bit over the top (well more so) with it added.