Lake Caroline
Lake Caroline -Caroline Springs Melbourne
Lake Caroline -Caroline Springs Melbourne
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Location
Lake Caroline is a local lake created by the developers of Caroline Springs, when town planning made use of a swamp area around 6km from our home. It has become a haven for bird life, flora, and the occasional reptile slithering across a walk way during the warmer months.Time
It was a warm cloudless day, around 3:00pm on Spring afternoon in Melbourne Australia 2020Lighting
It was cloudless, with direct sunlight, ISO 100, f4.0, 1/1600 shutterEquipment
Nikon D850, Nikkor 24.0 to 85.0 f2.8-4.0Inspiration
I wanted to break up the foreground with a focused shot on the reeds, and filing in the mid ground and leaving the background with a bokeh shimmer.Editing
Taken as an NEF Raw file from the XQD card, and converted to DNG in LRCC, minor post edit with a little sharpening on the clarity to ensure the separation of foreground from mid and background.In my camera bag
I always carry a few Nikon lenses: 35mm 1:8 prime, 50mm 1:4 prime, 24-85mm f28-4.0 telephoto and macro, 80-200mm F2.8 push/pull telephoto, flash pack with spare batteries, spare memory cards 1 XQD & 1 x SD, 1 x spare camera battery, cleaning kit, plastic bags for water protection, outer skin for back pack water proofing. Bottle of water, face mask since May 2020. Business Cards, pen and paper.Feedback
Be prepared to go wide open with the aperture on a DX(Crop) or FX(Full Frame) lens eg f1:2 to 4:0 depending on your lens choice. Tight focus on the foreground subject with the closest possible focal length to the subject. The background will look blurred out, and you may notice the circular spheres appearing in TTL view finder in non mirrorless cameras. I don't have a mirrorless camera, hence not sure what the digital image looks like. Practice will definitely give you rewarding images.
