Ben Loveridge » Landscape

Moomba Fireworks

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:03:17 +0000

Moomba once again graced the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne providing the ideal opportunity to practise one’s fireworks snapshots. With the camera at ISO 125, F8.0 and set to ‘Bulb’ mode, the shutter was manually pressed and released to time with the fireworks. Most usable shots ended up being around 2 to 3 sec long. Spinning rides make for interesting blurry light shots too with around a 10 second exposure.

Southbank Sunset

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:46:35 +0000

Summer usually provides some good opportunities for capturing interesting sunsets. This one was was taken between two pillars helping to provide some extra framing around the flag

Southbank Storm

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:33:59 +0000

Ah, the serenity

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:31:36 +0000

Lake Eildon, 29th October, 2011

Under the Milky Way

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:50:01 +0000

Shot on a chilly night in Daylesford, 21st August 2011. It’s not often that I’m surrounded by a clear, non light-polluted sky with both my camera and a tripod in hand but thankfully the stars aligned last night. I was surprised how well the milkyness comes out with a relatively short exposure but a high ISO and plenty of noise reduction certainly helps. Canon 7D, 16-35L @ 16mm, f2.8, 11sec, ISO 3200.

A foggy night in Melbourne

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:58:11 +0000

Visibility was low, but clearly not low enough to cancel soccer training in Princes Park.

Supermoon

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:20:58 +0000

Here’s a 14% bigger and 30% brighter looking version of the moon captured on the 19th March, 2011.

Flowers in the rain

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:05:23 +0000

Nothing like a good drop of rain to help bring out the colour on a low-contrast day.

Tasmania

admin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:05:48 +0000

Tasmania has an amazing amount of picturesque scenery to behold. It’s a great place to point a camera…

Blackrock Beach day/night

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:28:29 +0000

Shooting directly into the sun with a reduced exposure and aperture is a good way to simulate the ‘day for night’ effect often seen in movies. This photo has had the sun replaced with an image of the moon taken on a separate occasion.

This is the original shot after crushing the black levels a bit and setting the white balance at around 3900K. The exposure was f16, 1/8000, ISO 100.

This is a shot of the same scene straight out of the camera with no effects and an exposure somewhere toward the middle of the range (f11, 1/1000, ISO 100).