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captivatingartphotography
November 04, 2015
Great image. Wonderful rich saturation within the photo.
suzannesingleton
November 19, 2015
One of the best photos of the Opera House that i have seen, and your composition is spot on.
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Sydney AustraliaTime
Night time at 10:15pmLighting
Used of camera flashes to light the interior of the building that I shot throughEquipment
Camera: Canon 1DsMKII Lens: Canon 70-200mm Tripod Off camera flash f20 119 secondsInspiration
I was told not to bother taking photos of the Sydney Opera House as it had been done by millions of other Photographers. Thats like a Red rag to a Bull. For 7 days and 7 nights I wandered around the it to try and find a way to give it a different view. On the other side of the water I found an old gun shed made of bricks, it had an arch window on the side and an arch door way facing the front. Crawling at ground level I found that at a certain point you could line up the arch wind and door way to emulate the Opera houses arched roof. Had to put the tripod at flat ground level. Once the shot started I went inside the Brick Gun Shed and popped of several flashes to light up the bricks. "A Different View" was bornEditing
Cropped and some dodging and burning of the bricks, sharpened.In my camera bag
Canon 1DsMKII- 2 x 1DMKIII- Nikon D800E- Fuji XT100- Leica M9 x 4 lenses Canon-600mm-400mm-300mm- 70-200 f2.8 & f4- 24-105- 85mm f1.2-50mm f1.2 Nikon- 16-35mm-24-70mm-70-200mf2.8- 200-400mm 4 flashes 4 tripods. They are in 3 Pelican cases and when going bush they all come.Feedback
Time time time, you need to be able to have time, take your time, look, search for that angle, that unusual way to capture things differently. If you have only minutes you can only get a minute image, if you have time then you can get "The Image". Try different ways, experiment, look out side the box, you will fins a way to capture what you want that you might not of thought of, this then becomes part of your style, your way. David Rennie www.davidrennie.com