Photography from Western Australia and beyond
an elephant seal that spent a few day on the sand at Sorrento Beach (Perth)
a young adult or teenager catching a bit of sunshine, but not a lot of peace and quiet
a few thousand people showed up to see what is a very infrequent visitor to our shores
this is a 6 photo stitch taken with the Pentax 300mm f4 lens
the full size image is 12000 x 3000 pixels
for some reason a sub adult Southern elephant seal has decided to make Sorrento beach, Perth, its home for a while. They, as far as I know, have never come to Perth before, although we do get other seals and sea lions. Tasmania I think is a close as they normally get
As you can see it has become quite the celebrity
The sun sets on the West coast
disappearing into the Indian ocean
after the wedding of John and Barb (Gumnut and Xerraire) on the beach at Siesta Park, Busselton
Pentax fisheye
I like macro photography, and so far I have had to make do without a macro lens. resorting to dioptre lenses, reversing one lens onto the front of another, or more recently using a 2x converter with the glass removed. One day I will get a proper macro, I hope, a Pentax 100mm macro lens, weather resistant too.
This shell was taken using my Pentax 35-70 macro zoom on a macro converter lens (like a 2x converter except you spiral it in and out).
However when doing macros the depth of field is inevitably very shallow, but I found a program that can get around that (to some degree)
CombineZP
You take a series of photos and change the depth of focus slightly on each one ( a tripod is handy). Open CombineZP and load the photos into it. It will then stack the photos and work its magic to give you a photos with a much larger depth of field 🙂
and its a free program too
The image was turned to black and white in GIMP (free too) using channel mixer
Black and white weekend
I went down to the west coast the other day hoping to find some windsurfers, instead I ended up at Scarborough beach and found kite surfers, so I had a bash at taking photos of them. Hand held, standing back in the dunes trying to keep the salt spray and sand out of the camera.
There are a few more photos on my site plus some old windsurfer photos
