After Melbourne, I headed back to Sydney because I had a friend joining me there. So the next few posts will be from there but I thought I’d share one last photo from Melbourne. One of my favourites. This is the view from the Paladio apartment the family and I stayed in. Magnificent isn’t it? If you’ve seen my previous posts, you’d recognise the pier below. Docklands is such a beautiful area and well worth a visit.

It was quite windy and very cold out on the balcony but I spend about half an hour or so taking a couple of panoramas and this photo. Though it was windy on the balcony, I noticed it wasn’t down at street level. This ten second exposure shows that with little movement in the trees below. Now if I remember correctly, I under-exposed this photo by a stop of light because I found the highlights were, otherwise, slightly over-exposed. I sometimes do this knowing I can recover the shadows a little without introducing noise in post-processing. Just a little though, I do have an entry level camera. I could’ve taken multiple exposures and blended them later but I find the images don’t come out right. And that’s my fault, I just haven’t yet mastered the techniques well enough. I’m working on it.

10 sec @ ƒ/8, 18 mm, ISO 100