Shot of the Day #11
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This photo of the Eastern Freeway – outbound from the Melbourne CBD was taken tonight around 2 hours ago. I love the streaming car-lights of freeways and whenever there’s an opportunity to get a shot of moving car-lights I’ll take it :P For beginners I think this type of long exposure is an awesome start to building enthusiasm for urban night photography.
Streaming Car-Lights - Eastern Freeway, Melbourne
Shot of the Day #6
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I was recently in Penang, Malaysia and relaxed on the beach for a few days. I took some interesting shots of the locals as you might see in photos to come as apart of my shot of the day series. So stay around and I hope you enjoy my photographs :) !
By the beach at Sunset - Penang, Malaysia
Remembering the Victorian Bushfires of February 2009
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On the 7th of February 2009 severe bushfires devastated the Victorian countryside destroying families, homes, whole towns, killing wildlife and lush bush, that day will forever been known as ‘Black Saturday’ the worst natural disaster to hit Victoria, Australia.
“The Black Saturday bushfires, were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday 7 February 2009 during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in Australia’s highest ever loss of life from a bushfire. 173 people died as a result of the fires and 414 were injured.
As many as 400 individual fires were recorded on 7 February. Following the events of 7 February 2009, that date has since been referred to as Black Saturday.” [continue reading…]
Springing back to life
Blue Moon – Melbourne, Victoria
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Just saw the Blue Moon rise over the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.
“A blue moon is a thirteenth full moon in a year. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each solar calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days compared to the lunar year of 12 lunations.” [Read the full Wikipedia article]
Blue Moon rising over the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
White Balance Post – Processing with GIMP
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This tutorial is all about lifting colours and putting life back into those flat looking photographs. By adjusting the White Balance you can change the Kelvin of your photograph, this can create a warm or cool effect.
Before and After Post Processing!
