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Panoramic Photos of Niagara Falls, The Grand Canyon & New York

Jason — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:41:04 +0000

So I’ve managed to put to get a few photos together and make a panoramic view of a few places I visited in The USA/Canada. Make sure you click on the pictures in order to see them blown up!

Niagara Falls, Canada

The American side is to the left and the Canadian to the right

The Grand Canyon, USA

A 360 degree view of the Grand Canyon. You can just see the Colorado River.

New York, USA

New York, Looking South

New York, Looking North

Sunset photos of Tangalooma

Jason — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:50:06 +0000

A couple a months ago I stayed at Tangalooma for a few nights. I was looking back through some photos and thought there were a few sunset photos that looked cool. I didn’t feed the dolphins this trip, how ever I did see a lot of people give it a go.

The photos were taken with my Canon 50D, while walking to the ship wrecks from the main beach. As you might have noticed in the second photo, all of a sudden clouds came over and it started to rain slightly.

Tangalooma Sunset - Large tree and drift wood washed up along the beach.

Tangalooma Sunset - Cloud reflections along the beach with ship wreck in the background

Tangalooma Sunset - Crab holes on the beach

Quark RGB – First Light Paintings Attempts

Jason — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:27:32 +0000

After doing a bit of research on the internet, I decided to purchase a torch/flashlight, in attempt to be a bit creative with the whole ‘light painting’ concept. I ended up finding a flashlight made by 4sevens, called the Quark RGB.

Now I’ve only just got it today and have only played around with it for 10 minutes or so (and taken less than 10 photos). So here are the results. I can see huge room for improvement, but trying to find ‘dark areas’ was a little difficult. For the most part I was just experimenting to see if the reason I bought the Quark RGB would work out.

Light Painting - TV

Light Painting - Car Side

I’ve also got to figure out how I can tell my Camera to keeping taking a photo, until I tell it to stop. (Similar to BULB mode, however I don’t want to be holding the button. I just want to press the button to start, and press to finish).

I’ll need to get out my tripod and try some outdoor shots as well.

River Fire 2009

Jason — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:49 +0000

So River Fire in Brisbane has just passed for another year. The media has mentioned that this was the last year he F-111 will be particpating in the event doing their “Dump and Burn”. I didn’t manage to get a decent spot to look at the fireworks but I thought I would share some photos anyway.

I didn’t have a tripod so the ISO rating was whacked up to 3200 so be prepared for some noise. Anyway, let me know what you think.

Gold Coast Photos

Jason — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:59:38 +0000

I mentioned in my first post that I had intended to share some photos. I’ll start with 3 photos which I had taken earlier on the year. Both photos are taken on the Gold Coast, QLD using my Canon 50D. I haven’t played with it too much, and in both occasions (beach & building) was my first attempts at using a tripod to take some long exposures.

My favourite is the third photo (portrait of the beach, where you can see a dogs foot prints in the sand). Just click on the photos if you want to see a larger view of them.

Update:

I forgot to mention that the photo of the building was meant to capture “Earth Hour”, a before and after which I thought the community would get behind. The reason why there isn’t a after photo (during) is that nothing changed. More about Earth Hour – here