MY NEW TOYS....FIRST USE!

Having just recently had a birthday, I was surprised on the big day by my wife, who had been conspiring with her dad for the last little while to get me some Lee filters. I was lucky enough to get 2 sets of filters - a sunset set and a neutral density (ND) graduated set....well sort of - the ND Grad set has been so popular of late that Lee in the UK were out of stock for up to 8 weeks. Yikes! But I did get my sunset set :)
This was the first usage. Inparticular the orange filter, this gives the shot a nice warming.
I had been to Forrester's to shoot before so I knew I wanted to revisit a rock platform to have a little play with my new toys. I remembered that these platforms have the best highlights of mossy green that I have seen around here on the coast! Another good thing about this location is that the sun stays hidden for a while, allowing you to shoot for longer with nice light. I like how the scene has come together - with the green, the little pool alongside the green and the sun poking around the headland.

I hope you enjoy it too.

Josh :)

Delight, Forrester's Beach NSW © Josh Pitt

WHEN PLANETS ALIGN

Motivation was high over the last fews days after having some great shoots out at some of my local spots. Tossing up whether to revisit some general locations that I have shot a number of times previously. I was glad I did!
The following image is a little different to the normal Josh Pitt shots. That's right - it's a black and white.
It was captured out at Terrigal Haven on the NSW Central Coast. When I arrived it was pitch black and I could see a red light just in front of me, when I scoping out the scene. It took me a while to figure out what it was it was until another light came on and the penny dropped - it was the display screen of a camera. There was another photographer out! I started wondering down to set-up and more photographers emerged from the darkeness.....it was kind of weird. Because I was almost running into all these people camouflaged by the darkness. I guess it was a little more crowded because Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter were all aligned in the sky, which is apparently a 50-100 year occurance. You can see them faintly in the top left third of frame. Once the light became lighter I was fascinated to see the pumping ocean that lay before me, it was the heaviest I had seen in the Haven for some time.
I was pleased with the drama in the shot and the mystery created before me. You may even notice the faint fingers of light shooting up from the horizon.

Currently it is untitled, if you have a suggested of what I should call it, please leave a comment below. If yours is the best, I'll adopt it as the official name.

Untitled, Terrigal NSW

Kind regards,
Josh

Brand New Images!

Over the past two mornings I decided to visit a beach on the NSW Central Coast called Forrester's. Surprising it was the first time I had been there to shoot and I don't know why?! It's really cool for photography!

On Tuesday morning I arrived nice and early to survey the landscape. Having not been there before in photographic frame of mind, I wasn't sure which way to go......left or right. I chose right which took me to southern end of the beach. I must say I was a little disappointed. I couldn't find an interesting subject matter, plus the sky wasn't doing much at all. There was a thin strip of cloud on the horizon and I knew that the scene was going to blow out pretty quick. I spent about an hour wandering around to the point that I decided to call it a day.

On my way back to the car I thought - while I'm here I should take the left turn and do recon for tomorrow. To my delight I discovered a rock shelf close to the shore where the waves were crashing and splashing up really high. There was also a lot of really cool mossy rocks for forground. 

I arrived the next day very excited of the sunrise to come. My excitement elevated as I got nearer, because there was reasonable cloud cover. Bring on a colourful sky! Plus I had my new spot already figured out.

Whilst the sky did start quite colourful (which you'll see further down the post), at the time I took this one it had disappeared. It took quite some time and a heap of captures to get this shot. The scene seemed to be playing with me because every time I went to move on to a different composition and before I re-set up the biggest set of the day would roll in.

This was one of the biggest I captured. I like having the wash from previous waves in the foreground.

The next shot to be released is something quite different to what I have done previously. After a little bit of a play I think it finished to look exactly how it deserves to be. The initial eye catching point of interest was the intense moss covered rocks. I knew that this had to be the be the main focal point of the scene, so after some deliberation I edited to end with what you see below. I hope you agree - that this adjustment adds a real dramatic feel and show cases what I had set out to achieve, even though I wasn't sure exactly what that was for a while.

 

The third and final release from this shoot is probably my favourite. It was actually the first taken of the three, when the colour was a lot different. 

I thought these colours were actually going to get better as the shoot went on, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Well....I shouldn't say unfortunately because the overcast conditions allowed me to shoot for much longer than I ordinarily would.

The scene has a dreamlike state and was actually overlooked in my original perusal of my morning work and I was glad I took that second look. I hope you are too.

I hope you enjoyed this round of new images. If you did, I'd love if you could share it with your family and friends and have them enjoy them too!

Kind regards,

Josh