I can’t remember the name of this waterfall. There is a lookout to view it on the downhill run from Queen Mary Falls to Kilarney.
This is just a CPL filter shot this time, but closed the aperture right down, turned Shake Reduction (IS/VR/OS whatever your manufacturer of choice calls it) and snapped away about 7 handheld shots at 0.5s exposure. This was the sharpest, and i think its pretty damn good!
Taken with Pentax K200D, Pentax SMC DA 18-55 AL II lens and Kenko CPL filter.
Processed in Lightroom 2.5, minor adjustments only.
This is Queen Mary Falls itself, in the Main Range National Park (at the very southern end).
Its a 2km loop walk to the bottom of the falls from the carpark and back, little steep at the beginning going down, but not too bad. I wandered down with my camera gear and tripod.
This is the very first shot i ever took with the Hoya NDX400 filter (once I had worked out the exposure). I have found with my body I need to set exposure compensation to +2.0 just to get the correct exposure when using the NDX400 filter. This isnt a real problem as generally I will be wanting to use exposures longer than 30 secs anyway, which means ill be into bulb mode territory.
This was shot using the Pentax K200D, Pentax SMC DA 18-55 AL II kit lens, Hoya NDX400 filter and Slik 500DX Pro tripod. It was processed in Lightroom 2.5 but I can’t quite remember what I did with it…
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