Warm light on a chilly dawn...
With a four meter swell predicted for dawn yesterday .. the old quarry at Bombo was always going to be a hot ticket ... well a good chance to catch something more than the flat sea's that have been prevalent of late.
Weatherzone happily told me via my phone that it was "13c (feels like 4.2" with a rising 'Sou westerly (offshore) wind predicted.
Nice and dark when the group of us arrived, did you realise hard to have a face to face conversation with headlamps on ? well it is lol ..
You could hear the swell doing it's thing on the walk out - from the headland I could see it rolling through - nice long period swell.
That wind was rising pretty quickly, "well we'll get nice mares tales off the top of the waves" I was telling myself.
Sadly for most of the quarry it was too exposed and the wind really took the sting out of the breaking swell, still I managed a few frames imagined from preivous couple of walks out there - ended up shooting mostly with the 40-150/2.8 Pro on the OM-1 and in monochrome - flat light for the most with the colour just starting to peep through on way to Kiama for brekky and much needed coffee.
Apart from a couple of compositions where slow shutter required it I shot the morning hand held - that wind was too strong for long lenses on tripods.
Probably a dozen images overall - but I'll drop this one here for the morning ... one of those little bits of colour that snuck through the heavy cloud.
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 40-150/2.8 Pro
ISO200 f/8 -1.7ev (exposed for the white water) 55mm
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 7, colour graded in Nik Color Efex 7, tweaked in Affinity photo and Topaz AI-3 finished off back in PhotoLab.
Bombo Historic Quarry, Kiama, NSW
Warm light on a chilly dawn...
With a four meter swell predicted for dawn yesterday .. the old quarry at Bombo was always going to be a hot ticket ... well a good chance to catch something more than the flat sea's that have been prevalent of late.
Weatherzone happily told me via my phone that it was "13c (feels like 4.2" with a rising 'Sou westerly (offshore) wind predicted.
Nice and dark when the group of us arrived, did you realise hard to have a face to face conversation with headlamps on ? well it is lol ..
You could hear the swell doing it's thing on the walk out - from the headland I could see it rolling through - nice long period swell.
That wind was rising pretty quickly, "well we'll get nice mares tales off the top of the waves" I was telling myself.
Sadly for most of the quarry it was too exposed and the wind really took the sting out of the breaking swell, still I managed a few frames imagined from preivous couple of walks out there - ended up shooting mostly with the 40-150/2.8 Pro on the OM-1 and in monochrome - flat light for the most with the colour just starting to peep through on way to Kiama for brekky and much needed coffee.
Apart from a couple of compositions where slow shutter required it I shot the morning hand held - that wind was too strong for long lenses on tripods.
Probably a dozen images overall - but I'll drop this one here for the morning ... one of those little bits of colour that snuck through the heavy cloud.
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 40-150/2.8 Pro
ISO200 f/8 -1.7ev (exposed for the white water) 55mm
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 7, colour graded in Nik Color Efex 7, tweaked in Affinity photo and Topaz AI-3 finished off back in PhotoLab.
Bombo Historic Quarry, Kiama, NSW