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Gannet in Wellington New Zealand

Please Critique, thanks.

Monster Hit at Te Marua, Family Speedway in Upper Hutt Wellington New

Zealand 25 April 2002

It was awesome to say the least.

One photographer from the evening post Maartin Holl and myself were

the only photographers and they allowed us inside the track.

It was fun and made my day, no month or maybe year!

Body Painted Lady on Bike in Cuba Street Carnival Photos

Link to 149 photos

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Where only the locals go This photo was taken on a public holiday

26 December 2002.

Please comment and rate. I would really appreciate it very much!

Thank you all for being so kind.

Cheers

Thank you all for the wonderful ratings and comments. I got the idea from a friend of mine and here is what I have done. This is nothing but a double exposure using a digital camera and Photoshop.

The first photo was a soap bubble with the following setting used:

Exposure time 1/100 s

F-number 2.2

Max. aperture value 1.6

Metering mode Spot

Focal length 50 mm Nikon F1.8 Fixed Lens

The second photo of the sunset:

Exposure time 1/2 s

F-number 32

Exposure program Aperture priority

Max. aperture value 4

Metering mode Spot

Focal length 280 mm

I then cropped the sunset and placed it over the soap bubble in Photoshop using layers and a transparency setting of around 50%. That was all and took me five minutes to apply this idea.

Kind regards

Gerry

Double exposure with digital..... Thats all.

One photo of a soup bubble and the other of a ship and a little magic

with photoshop.:-)

Real sunset on 25 December 2001 and the soap bubble was made by the

kids new toys they received on Christmas day.

Shot with Nikon D1X, tripod, 300mm Sigma lens plus 1.4 TC. This is a

statue outside the Embassy Cinema in Wellington New Zealand where the

Lord Of The Rings was filmed. The two storage high monster has

incredible detail.. more photos

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Focal length 420 mm, add 1.5 TC for the Nikon D1Xs CCD and you have

600mm!

I think the little under exposure was due to the sun reflecting

from the sail and the camera being on SPOT metering. This closed the

lens a little although the shutter still went on 1/3000 which again

shows how FAST the water was travelling in the air!

Believe me I was BLOWN around myself and had to sit down using a

Tripod.

Kapiti Island Nature Reserve, Waikanae Estuary Scientific Reserve on

the adjacent mainland shore and the Kapiti Marine Reserve linking the

two, form a rare and special part of New Zealand. Together they

create a very rare continuum of protected land, sea and estuary

habitats. Kapiti Island is some 30 kilometres north of Wellington

city.

For those interested in birds, Kapiti Island offers some special

experiences. During the early and late summer months the Kaka, the

bush parrot, frequents the area. They are close relatives of the

South Island mountain parrot, the Kea, and, as with the Kea, their

numbers in the wild are declining. A feeding station near the

ranger's house on the island enables visitors to observe Kaka at

close quarters. Birds will often land on visitors' heads and

shoulders.

Air balloons in Masterton New Zealand.

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Sunset over Wellington from Petone Foreshore yesterday 23 September

2001

One of the hundreds of waterfalls in the Milford Sounds. Raining 300

day of the year, you can say I was lucky!

One of those situations where you have to be quick! Traffic and road

conditions do not always allow you just to stop, and take a shot like

this. Maybe I was luckylol.