On Saturday afternoon Sydney had it’s hottest day in 4 years. The temperature finally dropped below the 40′s and I ventured outside for some fresh air, after sitting in the air conditioning all day. These rainbow lorikeets were cooling off in the neighbours birdbath so I whipped out the Sigma 70-300mm and fired off a few shots of them making a splash.
F5.6 1/180s Onboard Flash
I was inspired by a thread on the Digital Photography School forums on capturing water droplets. After seeing some of the results I had to give it a try. Using a blue cup in the bathroom sink and my new macro lens adapters onto my Tamron 18-200 I was able to obtain a decent shot. It turned out to be more about chance than skill. I took about 20 shots and got about 4 keepers. One thing I learnt from this exercise is how handy an external flash would be. This would allow me to experiment with high speed flash photography.
I don’t normally go into the city, maybe like once a year so it is a bit strange to have the second photo of this weekly challenge to be of Sydney Harbour yet again. I went in to see Peter Helliars Dreamboat Tour at The Opera House and took my camera along. I bought my brother tickets for Christmas, the show itself was pretty good. I took a while to get into the humour but after a while I was laughing. I was more excited about just going to The Opera House and mingling with the city life.
I thought choosing one awesome photo a week would be easy but it’s hard to restrict it to just one as you can see I’ve included a few other photos from the night. I settled on the harbour shot as I find it the most interesting as there’s plenty to look at. It was also taken with some finesse by hanging my camera outside the railing on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the strap tight around my wrist in order to get a clear shot of Circular Quay and not lose the camera. It was also the first time I’ve ever walked across the bridge so that was kinda cool.