22 December 2018
Yarra river walk - Melbourne
These descriptions are getting tedious, but I went for a walk along the river to South Yarra for dinner snapping pretty generic shots with a vintage Minolta 50mm F/1.7 lense attached to my Sony a7ii.
Yes, its Melbourne, infinity focus, wide shot with a non wide lense, good light, I am still not using a 50mm lense for the reason it is intended.
At least here I have something in the foreground, a non de-script cream colored concrete mystery building.
A typical Australian gum tree. Foreigners refer to them as Eucalyptus trees.
More of Melbourne, and a bridge, and some water.
The same bridge, further away. Pretty good angle this one, the 28mm would have been too wide from here.
Lots of boats going past on xmas cruises up the dirty brown river. It gets browner when it rains. It rained a lot lately. This is a pretty heavy crop, 50mm not long enough.
I tried to get the branches in focus, I did the same shot at f2 with the bridge out of focus completely but did not like it.
More of the above bridge, interesting light, not sure the sky is the right blue.
There is a spot adjustment in the bottom left here to make the bank a bit brighter. Nice details in the trees on the far side of the river.
The Nylex factory is some kind of landmark, people go to take a photo of the neon sign at night.
Train going over the bridge. The light reflecting off the two bridges here is quite challenging. The bridge in the foreground is made of reflective metal.
More of the train bridge. Graffiti of course. Someone a year or so ago jumped off a moving train as it went over this bridge into the river on a dare. He lived but broke all his ribs. I quite like this shot.
This one is an HDR stack. It came out ok. I had to de-magenta it though. I noticed today that all the HDR stacks were heavily magenta. Actually some of the white balance on single frames was weird in this set also. I double checked that the camera was set to auto white balance, it was.
I waited for a moving train with a high shutter, 1/500. Not bad. I couldnt get closer without being decapitated.
This is a government school. It is the nicest one in Melbourne. People pay for multi million dollar houses in this area so their kids can be in this school zone.
Right on the corner near the school is this weird gold / copper apartment building that always gets full sun. I also added a gradient filter on the out of focus vegetation in the foreground here.
I had no intention of hunting for another sunset tonight, but as I came out from the station there was one. This is a 3 shot HDR. Again it was seriously over magenta'd. I will need to look into that. The other couple I took from other vantage points were very noisy and weird looking, un-salvageable. Oh well. Also the newest lightroom is very very slow on my pc....some of the time, and makes my whole screen go black.... some of the time. Frustrating!
Lots of people were out photographing the sunset.