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Images from the beach
Each year Philip Island hosts their Annual Whale Festival. It's a good excuse to get out of the house for a weekend of cetacean-based learning, fresh air and the opportunity to get some astro images.
Some of the Festival's lectures are very interesting - this year it was a pair of lectures on whale evolution and one on the (sadly now extinct) Giant Killer Sperm Whales. If you can get along to it, I recommend it.
I was lucky this year - the night was clear with only a gentle breeze. It was pretty cold, though, and I didn't stay out too late.
Image data:
* ISO: Either 1600 or 3200, depending on the subject
* Temperature: Cold
* Exposure: 20, 25 or 30 seconds depending on the subject
Equipment:
* Samyang 14mm f2.8 (stopped down to f3.5), Nikon D7100
The Samyang has some interesting distortion effects in the corners. This is inherent to all wide-angle lenses, and whilst it can be reduced with clever image processing (thankfully built into Affinity Photo) it's still there if you go pixel-peeping.
Aside from the star trails, these are all single images processed with Affinity Photo. The star trails are made from 50 frames, each of 30 seconds.
Comments, constructive criticism and feedback are welcome; as always.
Cheers,
V.
Edit: Replace images with ones without all the EXIF data.
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