The True North off the coast of Rottnest Island
The Australia Day trip on the True North was a blast - perfect weather and a great group made it a day to remember, and it’s quite likely we’ll be doing it again next year.
The usual boring flight across to WA passed quite quickly for once, I passed the time shooting pics out of the window on my little Lumix camera - I even got a few that I was happy with!
Central Australian dune fields
Nick Melidonis picked me up from the airport and kindly put me up for the night before dropping me of at the docks in Fremantle to board the True North. Glen, Christian, Tony and myslef then talked ourselves hoarse doing 2 talks each and answering numerous questions throughout the day - it was lots of fun and it’s really good to see so many folks so keen on bettering their photography.
Michael Fletcher talking video
I’m now staying with Christain Fletcher down at Dunsborough and getting ready for the weekend’s workshop at Bunker Bay. We went out on a recce today and as expected we have found some great spots to shoot at - and as a bonus it’s a full moon over the weekend!
6 Shot pano using my little Lumix FX03
Christian with a Phase One P65+
Wyadup Rocks
Wyadup Rocks - again - with full moon.
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Hi mate the bottom shot is of Wyadup Rocks, but it all looks kind of the same!! hehe, This is better than anything I got with the phase one!! ;-(
Oops! I was hoping no-one would notice that I didn’t know where I was - trust Fletcher to pick it up. I’ve corrected it now, don’t want to upset the locals.
Top spot though - there are lots of nooks and crannies to explore plus some really weird rock formations. Well worth a visit if anyone is in the area.
Hi Nick,
Thanks again for the day yesterday, really inspirational!!.
I took the same pano of the true north from the top of that small cliff, think there will be 100 versions of it aha!!
Thanks again, hopefully catch you on another workshop soon.
Cheers
Matt
Hi Nick,
Thanks for the brilliant workshop on the True North. It was great seeing some of your fantastic photos from the trip up north. Love the budgies too!
Cheers
Leigh
Gday Nick, I finally made it onto someones blog, haha having a chat with Mike in that third one. Nice shots there were they all taken with your little lumix? Im heading down to the dunsbrough area on the week end would you recomend checking out wyadup rocks for a sunset shot?
Dan
Hi Nick, great day on the TN! Loved your stuff, slide over to my blog if your real board, bit of a funny one on there, just had to do it you will see why!
Cheers mate
David
Hi Nick, Great talk on True North I really learned alot from what you had to say. Especially loved those moonlit shots, awesome.
Wish I was going to Bunker Bay, sadly I missed out on the announcement
Any chance of getting on the mailing list for any future workshops.
Enjoy your stay Nick , Fletch will make it a memorable no doubt.
Thanks for your time on TN great day out.
There’s a shot of you on my blog as well, your a popular guy !!!
Hi Nick, was great seeing your presentation on TN. Your pano work is real inspirational. Especially the night shots.
On that note it looks like the 6 pano stitch on the lumix was not as seemless as your other work
Yeah, the distortion from those little lenses is hard to smooth out - you are very observant, it’s only a tiny flaw! And I did it in a hurry, no doubt I could do a better job with Autopano Pro or PTGUI.
That is always my biggest worry with stitching that the horizon’s don’t match up. Which is why I was surprised in the TN workshop that you use a wide angle lens for your pano stitches.
If I may, I am adding you to my blog roll
Nick, thanks for a great Tuesday’s presentations - even bought a copy of your magazine on Sat to check it out. Was good chatting with you about timelapse and moonlight shooting, will definately try some of that out.
Nice shots, you guys had a p65! I should have come just to fondle it