27 February 2021
A very grey Port Melbourne
Took a long walk around Port Melbourne for the second to last day of a very cold summer. Fittingly, it was grey and cold, although a bit of twilight sun appeared just as it was time to go home.
Here is a silly little lighthouse. I played with this photo for a while in Lightroom. Not entirely happy with how it looks. Tried to make it matte looking, failed.
This photo has a lot of texture. Too much contrast perhaps.
There will be another shot of this place later. I quite like how it looks a bit spooky here.
Full zoom over at the container port. My destination is around the other side of it after walking around a path on the edge of the Ocean.
More pylons, like last night. These ones are very popular with photographers at sunset. Lowered the contrast here.
Lower angle, more contrast. More dramatic. An even lower angle would be better, but I would have to get in the Ocean.
A light pole.
De saturated to emphasise the greyness of the day.
This is kind of a test shot. Sharp enough, no purple fringing.
Background blur. Decent.
The beaches here are not really used by anyone, because they are crap. The seagull enjoys the time to himself.
Getting closer to the container port. This shot came out pretty good. Light was getting a bit brighter.
Redundant shot, I think I could really add contrast and make it seem dark and scary.
Melbourne from afar.
And Melbourne at full zoom.
The lookout towards the end of the path. Not a great view from the lookout.
They really try to stop you from seeing into the container port. I climbed up a sand dune.
Spirit of tasmania. Again I feel this is too contrasty.
Another shot of Melbourne now that the sky was bluer.
On my way back and the great twilight light appeared. I probably left a bit too early as the light got better after I was back on the tram. This is the light I like, I guess everyone does.
f/2.8 1/2000 second. Ths fastest the shutter can go. But dont worry, camera has a built in ND filter if its still too bright. I like this shot.
Random apartment building contrasting against the late afternoon sky.
Same building as before but in better late afternoon filtered sun. Photo of the day for me.
Pylons in better light.
Nearly back. Bit of a nothing photo this one.
The ferry terminal was bustling with activity as the ferry had just arrived.
And finally, the ferry from the other side looking back towards the sun.
More thoughts...
Second half of this set with the better light came out better than the first half. Need to up my game for processing gloomy grey shots of greyness.