DROMANA PIER - MONDAY 18TH JAN 2021

A morning trip to Dromana for the kids to attend Vic Swim, and of course Dad was focusing… On the deep blue clouds and the green bay sea water…

Photo Tip: Always take a tripod… of course I didn’t again today, so these were all hand held with a 70-200mm lens. When using such a zoom lens, camera shake is even harder to control. Unfortunately many of these pictures have a slight blur to them. It is very hard to bend, hold still in near gale force winds, and most importantly, remember to breathe…

These shots were all taken in manual aperture mode. Being able to set your own aperture, enables a more focused overall picture. It has also slowed down the exposure, creating deeper colours, and the softer wave lines. (But wait, more on these settings will be coming soon !!)

ANTHONY'S NOSE, DROMANA - WED 13th JAN 2021

Going out with friends, and walking in the sea water at sunset, is a great way to end a day.

My camera of choice is a Nikon D800E. It offers a huge 36 Megapixels of stunning ‘full frame' detail and colour in each photo. However, it is also a very heavy and an expensive camera to carry around.

Tonight’s pictures were taken with a Nikon D5100, a 16 Megapixel cropped sensor camera. There are many differences between the cropped sensor and full frame sensor cameras, one being, the cropped sensor cameras, being made with different quality material, are a lighter unit than the full frame cameras. This makes them much easier to carry around your neck for long periods and on hot days.. And, while you would still cry, you would not cry as much if you dropped a cropped sensor camera in the ocean as you would a full frame sensor camera.. ($$)

I moved between a 18-140mm and an 18-200mm lens tonight. (Both recent 2nd hand purchases). There was no tripod brought along, so long exposure was out of the question. (It would just be too blurry from camera movement).

The advantage of having such a large zoom lens, as the 18-200mm, is that you can really zoom in on the action. In this case, the sun setting, and subsequently, the immediate sky around the sunset.

You can see in the last two pictures below, how using a zoom lens can fill your picture differently.