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Following the Bushfires we have had a couple of cyclonic weather episodes hitting the East Coast of Australia. So it is the land of drought and flood...I am documenting the effects of the cyclones here in Sydney as far as their impact goes on the beach I live on. It has been a catastrophic perfect storm of unusually high 'King" tides +/- 2.5 meters or about 8 feet in Imperial when combined with Winds gusting up to 40mph bringing in storm waves -we have trouble.
Below is an example fo the size of wave hitting the beach from yesterday...
Still shots taken from a couple of hundred meters away can't really show the size of these monster waves - beautiful but damaging...the front wave pictured is a the second rise and fall of the back wave - front wave is 3-4 meters back wave is 5-7 meters - compression of scene via tele distorts size...and the cliffs were too dangerous to venture on to to get a sideways shot - they were being doused with water and spray
GFX100+ 250+TC
I live on the Queenscliff end of Manly ie North Manly - the Beach is over a kilometer long. The only way I could get better shots of the size of these waves was to go in the water - but the water has also been polluted by the lagoon that runs into the beach (Manly Lagoon) itsef polluted by all sorts of run off and huge bits of trees which have been spilled into the waterway which find their way into the beach...Queenscliff Beach has largely been taken away by the combination of Flooding lagoon sweeping sand into ocean and huge waves on king tides taking it all away..also I dont fgancy swimming amongst 15-20 footers or trying to get out in white water that is 10 foot tall!Which beach are you on Pete? That whole coast north of the harbour seems to be taking a real pounding! Lord Howe seems to have got off lightly considering that the system went right over the top...
Nice B&W Bart- darktable ?...
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no darktable yet, rather my darkmood ...Nice B&W Bart- darktable ?
I understand - my mother turns 94 this Thursday all the best to you and your Dad.no darktable yet, rather my darkmood ...
Still scratching my head how to generate any output ...I understand - my mother turns 94 this Thursday all the best to you and your Dad.
I've had a quick look at darktable and I think it seems to have some powerful features to go along with a very steep learning curve...I think not for me - but Williams - (the youtube guy) lives in Sydney so maybe I'll get him to give me a crash course - on day.
Go to the Lighttable tab, select your images, open the "export selected" menu on the right, and Bob's your Uncle!Still scratching my head how to generate any output ...
Thanks, Matt. I've managed to create some output. So that's a start. Now the editing ... :shocked:Go to the Lighttable tab, select your images, open the "export selected" menu on the right, and Bob's your Uncle!
Matt
Certainly will do that, Alan. But in due time ...You need to look at the You-tube vids by Williams that I told you about Bart!
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BTW: there is one annoying feature of the lens. It is so light that the body tends to tip up backwards while carrying the camera and lens on a neck strap (which I carry across my body). I've never encountered this with any other GF lens as they are generally heavy enough to top the body forwards. This is exacerbated by the strap lugs being at the front of the body as opposed to the centre or back. There is always something...
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