People Photos -aarrgghh

As you all know people photo just isn't my thing. Basically i'm just not very good at it, but in the spirit of extending myself, i went out with my DD and gave it a go. I found some great locations and I have lots of fun post processing, but the photos, well, they just aren't very good. My focus was really off today. I was using my 50mm 1.8 lens, aperture priority with the aperture around f4. All advice and HHCC welcome. I am determined to get better at this. The first one is urban acid (yeah i know it's abit old now, but I kinda like it), the third one I used Cristina's B&W conversion.

Same sunset, two views

The sunset this evening was really pretty. I was trying to capture the silhouette of the lighthouse and the Norfolk Pines. The angle isn't right though and there isn't enough separation between them. I'll have to scout for a better location. The second one is basically looking in the reverse direction. Again more pines - they are everywhere here. The sky was a really pretty soft pink.

you can't scrapbook without photos

Erica had a friend over for a sleepover and today they wanted to scrapbook, so I had to take some pics for them them use. The pages they made where gorgeous , nothing much lined up and there was plenty of trapped white space, but what the hell, they had fun. At least someone is using my scrap booking stash. There is a pink reflection from the shirt on her chin - any sufggestions on how to get rid of it would be greatly appreciated, or is it okay how it is. She has very fair skin naturally and anything I did to adjust her skin tone made it way to yellow.

iso 400, f 8, ss 1/250

Killarney Windmill

This is the windmill that I took pics of way back at the beginning of the year. I finally got back to reshoot it with better light. These were taken just before sunset tonight.

Random stuff

Just some random shots from this afternoon.

After the storm

Lots of pics today. On Friday we went up to Newcastle for my nephew's wedding. Newcastle is a port city north of Sydney, so it should have been a lot warmer than down here. BUT on Thursday a huge storm it. When we arrived on Friday it was cold and windy and very, very wet. This huge cargo ship ran aground on the beach just near the harbour entrance. It was an amazing sight. I took these pics on Sunday - by then the sea had calmed down a bit, but as you can see by the wave it was still pretty rough. We were staying on the other side of the river so we took a ferry over to have a look. The rainbow pics were taken from on the ferry. I love the second one how the rainbow was coming down in front of the buildings. i have still a 1gig card of pics to PP yet so you may see a few more of these.

Storm watching

The last week or so has been really stormy. I guess that's good coz we were in drought, but I have to admit I'm a bit over the rain now. I took these yesterday evening out at the Whale watching platform. The whales will start arriving any day now so there were a few people out looking for them, but alas, no whales, just lots of storm clouds.

iso 200, f 16, tripod