Stakky's photography blog

Taken in Lang Tang Valley, hand held stitch. This is about the time my lens started to freeze up on me due to condensation in the air. A few days later as we ascended to around 5000m, the whole focusing system jammed up and I was stuck on infinity focus. Luckily, that’s about all you ever use for landscape photography… so no skin off my back

Definitely my favourite panorama from the trip down south. Shot at the same location as the last image, but a 12 image stitch this time. There was a rogue bushfire somewhere along the coast,  which spread a plume of smoke all the way across the horizon and gave me that epic sunset.

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve updated the blog with a new layout and some other high-res content to deal with today’s bigger screens. I know you guys don’t wanna go clicking small images and opening up unorganised windows all over the place, so now images are much larger, and don’t require opening in a separate window for your viewing pleasure and utmost convenience!! Not too sure if it’s an improvement (especially the slightly pretentious header image), so if you have any thoughts about it, drop a comment. Also, I’m redoing the blogroll, so let me know if you weren’t previously on it and I’ll ad ya!

Cheers

This is a completely experimental image I shot from Fitzgerald National Park.
From this, I’ve concluded that astrophotography requires stupidity, especially when on a high cliff at midnight with blistering winds. Thankfully, the Mk2 can handle a little iso extrapolating, and a tonne of salt spray. Still, never arouse a bar fight with an amateur astrophotographer, because sh*t, they are apparently made of the toughest material!! The image itself is a stitch, taken around 20s on ISO 3200, just as the moon began to rise.

Despite the lack of a proper supermarket, cafe and population of excess 300, Bremmer bay has some good beaches. Surfed all day here, then broke out the tripod for sunset.

Hi, folks
I’ve been shooting down south at Fitzgerald national park recently, building up some new images to potentially exhibit later this year. I like this image, despite it being simple and extremely traditional. Used the grad filters to burn in that nice colour in the sky.

Hey folks, here’s a selection of some of the lesser ‘mess around’ shots I’ve picked up across Nepal. 3 of 4 have had hardly any editing done to them (I’m sure you can pick out the 4th!) as I’ve tried to shoot with as much done in-camera as possible. Actually, I think I’m slowly getting over the photoshopped look, but that may just be a teenager phase, right?

Just kidding, it’s Lang Tang in Nepal again (but you wouldn’t guess, right??). This was a 5-image stitch taken in twilight hours at a small village along the trek.

Ok, it’s not space, but it was close enough and I had a hell of a time shooting this when my tripod jammed with ice. Trying some different styles of photography, to be diverse and all!