23 December 2018
Lakes Entrance day 1
I have gone to a place East of Melbourne called Lakes Entrance for xmas this year. These shots are with my Minolta 50mm F/1.7 lense attached to my Sony a7ii.
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First I went for a walk in the bright mid afternoon sun and took some generic photos of the small town. There is a commercial fishing fleet.
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The area is by the ocean but its a weird geography of ocean lakes and then the ocean. Soon you will see the ocean.
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Apparently there are 4 mini golf courses in town, which is 3 too many. This is 1 of 4, I am yet to find the 4th one. They are all shut at night? Weird.
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The ice cream shop is very aware of what Chinese girls would like to pose in front of for instagram.
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This bridge goes across to another island, on the other side of it is the real ocean, and then Antarctica.
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Like many an Australian seaside town, there is a carnival set up. Like all of them it is quite a sad deserted place these days.
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Now its time to walk over the bridge and stare at the sunset until I go blind. This is still my Minolta. The flaring wasnt too bad when the sun was fully in frame. Off frame was much worse.
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Some fishing fleet from the other side. More on that later after it was too dark and I decided to mess around with HDR again for no good reason.
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The carnival from afar, more HDR of that later too, I dont think I like HDR ever. This is ok because its not HDR. Thats enough about HDR.
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Silhouettes got closer, I have no idea what that structure is in the sea, sewer pipe maybe? Quite happy with this shot.
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One more. After this I tried to get back to the other side through the sand hills, that was a challenge. By the time I got back the sun was all but gone.
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HDR carnival. I edited it because lightroom wants it to be very magenta again. I wont bother with HDR in future. Maybe I am doing it wrong.
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This is perhaps the only worthwhile use of HDR in this entire set. The causeway across from the island to the island to the ocean.