Southern Tasmania: Waterfalls & Architecture Photography

toadlet

The Derwent Valley is located in the South of Tasmania and is a wonderful area rich in both natural and built environments for photography. I thought I'd share some photos, love to hear what you think.
Cheers.

The Oast Houses are a wondeful site in this region. They were used for drying out hops in the summer time, and there are many of them dotted around. Some have been converted into houses, whilst others have fallen into ruin.


This town hall is a nice design in Art Deco architecture. Here I used a wide angle lens to capture both the building and cross in the left and then converted to mono. I enjoyed the texture of the clouds.




Russell Falls is in the Mt Field National Park and is one of many lovely waterfalls in the area. Its best in the winter with more rainfall then. All shots were taken with wide angle lens.

toadlet

Comments?
Anyone have comments on these series?
Thanks.

USAIR

Awesome photos #1 very cool looking building
Would like to see the waterfall in color but all good

Fred

jamesl

Wow! These are beautiful. Especially the waterfall shots. I'm a real sucker for good waterfall shots. You did a good job using a longer exposure to create the silkiness in the water. Have you ever tried using an ND filter to allow really long exposures? The results can be pretty cool:



This was created using a 10 Stop ND filter. The eposure time was around 30 seconds, and that creates the cool movement in the water. If your camera can accept filters, you should see about getting one.

Oh, I'd like to see the waterfalls in color too. I bet they look great!

James

toadlet

Thanks
Thanks for your kind words. Yes, I have and do use a ND filter from time to time. I didn't for these photos, as I was using my new wide angle lens that has a 77mm thread, so need to purchase a ND filter for this lens. I know what you mean that really do come in handy. I managed to get 1/2 second exposures of the waterfalls as its winter here and the sun is low, and also it was a overcast and late in the day. This helped as well. There have been a few posters now who have said that they would like to see the colour version of the waterfall, so when I get around to it I'll post one up and see what you all think of the two versions. I personally liked the mono photo.....

jamesl wrote:

Wow! These are beautiful. Especially the waterfall shots. I'm a real sucker for good waterfall shots. You did a good job using a longer exposure to create the silkiness in the water. Have you ever tried using an ND filter to allow really long exposures? The results can be pretty cool:



This was created using a 10 Stop ND filter. The eposure time was around 30 seconds, and that creates the cool movement in the water. If your camera can accept filters, you should see about getting one.

Oh, I'd like to see the waterfalls in color too. I bet they look great!

James

jamesl

toadlet wrote:

Thanks for your kind words. Yes, I have and do use a ND filter from time to time. I didn't for these photos, as I was using my new wide angle lens that has a 77mm thread, so need to purchase a ND filter for this lens. I know what you mean that really do come in handy. I managed to get 1/2 second exposures of the waterfalls as its winter here and the sun is low, and also it was a overcast and late in the day. This helped as well. There have been a few posters now who have said that they would like to see the colour version of the waterfall, so when I get around to it I'll post one up and see what you all think of the two versions. I personally liked the mono photo.....

Cool! Rather than buy new ND filters, have you thought about getting a step down ring? I do that with the lenses on my 30D, and it works very well. They are also very cheap, and wide ND filters are very expensive! If you have a camera without a full frame sensor, you don't have to worry about vignetting from the smaller filters.

James

theinlawjosie

Very nice shots! I love the conversion on #2 and the use of layers in #4 is completely awesome. Well done!

Mikko

Toadlet, I really like number 2 and 3. The compositions are right on and the black and white are amazing. If you have some more? Let's see them.

MK