We went down to visit family over the new year (and check out some camping areas). We had intended to go camping, but the flooding and rains put us off a little
We dropped in to Ebor Falls on the way through as its a personal favourite of mine. Its always hard to get good shots of the area due to the contrasty nature of Australian scenery. I didn't have 35mm neg on hand so I had a go at HDRI's hand held and tested out the new changes in Photomatix 4 for processing.
I also liked this image looking back up the valley more or less into the sun.
While we were back in the carpark my wife noticed a "funny Kookaburra" up in the tree. It seemed to me to be a young one recently out of the nest. The G1 with the FD300 does quite a good job of birds.
Tail feathers weren't well formed and he had a stumpy beak still. Again I used Photomatix 4 to process and convert this RAW image into a nicely tonemapped rendering. Does quite a good job
We had a great time and there was some wonderful scenery in the New England area (while Queensland suffers under the floods)
Monday 3 January 2011
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At last you got some sunny weather!
From what I've seen in the tele, it's been even worse than when I was last there in Nov!
Interesting that Photomatix stuff. Does a good job of "mellowing" out the contrast.
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