Cascading Cooyar Creek.

[hotspur]

Not far from home is Cooyar creek.Recent rain has made it flow again.

My son and his school mate wanted to go fishing in it,so we went on a little excursion,this afternoon.

The fish did not bite,but we saw platypus swimming,snakes everywhere and lots of interesting stuff.

I had my Canon 50d and 17-55 F 2.8 lens and a tripod,so I gave it a whril in the creek,following the usual formulas for longer exposures,on dusk.Bit tricky set up tripod with rocks and drift wood everywhere,but after that the creativity was fun.

Check these out

1, 5 sec,28 mm F18 iso200

2, 3.2 sec,55 mm F18 iso 100

3, as above

4, 2 sec rest as above

5, 3.2 28mm F18 iso 100

And a couple of the kids fishing.

The longer exposures had ICNR on,time taken approx 5.40 pm to 6 pm.

Comments,critique and advice welcomed.

hope you find these interesting.

Cheers Chris

[kinetic]

Hi Chris,

Pic 4 does it for me for overall beauty and composition,
(not that I would know),but they are all nice.:thumbsup:

Steve

[multiweb]

Very nice. The first five shots are terrific indeed. :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Beautiful photos Chris. Wild and natural.

[hotspur]

Thanks jjj,Marc,and Steve.

Yes,I wanted to try and capture the wild rugged feel of the place.

As you can see,the creek was really flooding a couple of weeks ago,

see the logs etc up trees.

On review of these images,I noticed I used mainly F 18 AV

May be F 11 to F 16 might have given better results,Any comments

welcome,This was my first attempt at 'Octane' photography,I really did

not think the 17-55 F 2.8 lens would be suitable,But was happy with these

results.My pick is #5.I thought the very last two of kids fishing,came out better than I hoped.

Cheers Chris