Iona Beach

This weekend Mike, of eagle fame, and I went to Iona Beach to photograph the sunset. After the sunset I wanted to try to capture some night landings of airplanes, and well, things just got creative from there. My main goal was to get a nice sunset, and I HDR’ed them all, and well, those take time to process, so i won’t post those right now. But, i did get some nice of the sunset in other ways.

just as i got there, this couple was walking right thru the sun, and it struck me as an opportunity to get a great photo.
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then after all the HDR’s, i got this picture of the sunset
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and we started messing with long exposure and gradient filters, and i quite like how this turned out

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So then we set our sights on the airport, once the sun went down to far to get pictures of much else. this is a composite shot of an airplane landing.

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what i really wanted was the lights from airplanes taking off, but we were at a bad spot for that, and instead I switched to star trails with airplanes taking off in them
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so then we started getting bored/creative. this one is with me in it.
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and then as we were leaving, mike has the great idea to try light painting the equipment around us. so off we went. learned a lot about light painting. it took us a few tries, but i finally got a good one.
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there was a dozer too, so we got him.
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while all this was happening, there was a huge harvest moon behind us, so i tired to get a good picture, but i don’t have the lenses for it.
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and then things got silly with mike’s truck.
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we had a lot of fun, as you can see. go have a look at mike’s pictures too, theres one of me in there!