Photo Competition for March 2010

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LOVE TREE

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It was about 8.45pm - one hour after sunset. Almost everyone left the Twelve Apostle platform. As I wanted to shoot stars, I was still there. Finally I took this last shot: the clear sky allowed me to capture the Milky Way over Apostles.

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Originally Posted by Yan Zhang

It was about 8.45pm - one hour after sunset. Almost everyone left the Twelve Apostle platform. As I wanted to shoot stars, I was still there. Finally I took this last shot: the clear sky allowed me to capture the Milky Way over Apostles.

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Interesting capture Yan ... especially since you are a Sydneysider spending $ in Victoria :D
Keep up the good work.

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Originally Posted by Yan Zhang

It was about 8.45pm - one hour after sunset. Almost everyone left the Twelve Apostle platform. As I wanted to shoot stars, I was still there. Finally I took this last shot: the clear sky allowed me to capture the Milky Way over Apostles.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...8&d=1269665991

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Heck!!! Is this for real??? Amazing... Yan I love your shots. They are breath-taking. I would love to have this as my wallpaper. You mind sending me the Bigger version. (I really would not mind if it has your name watermarked.)

PS:- I don't have a plug-in to see its EXIF data. Can you send those too?

Sorry, Dave :(
And thanks. Won't happen again.

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Originally Posted by RonH

Interesting capture Yan ... especially since you are a Sydneysider spending $ in Victoria :D
Keep up the good work.

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Thanks Ron. Yes, I spent some $$, flew to Melbourne and went to Great Ocean Road for 4 days (2 days work off plus one weekend).
No fatastic sunrise and sunset light that I would expect during these days. But this one was beyond my expectation:-)

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Originally Posted by Sahil

Heck!!! Is this for real??? Amazing... Yan I love your shots. They are breath-taking. I would love to have this as my wallpaper. You mind sending me the Bigger version. (I really would not mind if it has your name watermarked.)

PS:- I don't have a plug-in to see its EXIF data. Can you send those too?

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Sahil,

Thanks for your comments. This is real. EXIF is:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 400
shutter speed: 63 seconds
no filter was used
The real challenge was focusing, as it was very very dark in reality and the Apostles were hardly visible (they were probably around 2 to 3 km away from the position I took this shot).

Not a problem, I can send you the bigger file, but tell me how to send it to you with the size of 11MB?

Regards,

Yan

Thanks, Yan.
Well could you reduce the pixels to 100 dpi and mail me the pic @ sahil.chd@gmail.com
Please watermark the pic as I would like to show it to my friends too. Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by Sahil

Thanks, Yan.
Well could you reduce the pixels to 100 dpi and mail me the pic @ sahil.chd@gmail.com
Please watermark the pic as I would like to show it to my friends too. Thanks :)

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Sahil,

Will do this today or tomorrow.

Regards,

Yan

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Originally Posted by Yan Zhang

Sahil,

Thanks for your comments. This is real. EXIF is:
Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO 400
shutter speed: 63 seconds
no filter was used
The real challenge was focusing, as it was very very dark in reality and the Apostles were hardly visible (they were probably around 2 to 3 km away from the position I took this shot).

Not a problem, I can send you the bigger file, but tell me how to send it to you with the size of 11MB?

Regards,

Yan

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I think your photo is amazing and could hardly be better but I don't understand your comment about focusing, I don't normally bother to focus but set it on infinity. 63 seconds sure is a long time, and must have been very dark. It would be very nice if there was a little bit more mist, not too much but I think your efforts paid off.

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Originally Posted by arith

I think your photo is amazing and could hardly be better but I don't understand your comment about focusing, I don't normally bother to focus but set it on infinity. 63 seconds sure is a long time, and must have been very dark. It would be very nice if there was a little bit more mist, not too much but I think your efforts paid off.

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Steve,

Thanks for your comments. On my 16-35mm/2.8 II lens, there is a big gap between 1 meter and infinity. Setting directly to infinity (under aperture=f/2.8) will cause middle ground (the two apostles and side rock) quite blurred. What I did for this shot was, before the dark, I took a photo on the two apostles with aperture 2.8 using manual focusing in live view (10x). I checked the image on camera LCDscreen, enlarged it, it was reasonably sharp. So I remembered the focusing position on the lens. Before I took the milky way photo, I took several other photos with different aperture readings. When I took this last shot, I just set the focusing to the position that I remembered from earlier shot with aperture=2.8. The result looked OK afterward.

Cheers for that, it is a great photo. Although you usually do great photo's this one is even better. :)

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A quick shot running for the train

Paradise

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