More Syd Harbour

Comments please.
I took these with my Tamron 28-300mm. Not a lens i get out too often but i thought i would give it run. Just need to keep it under 200mm to get acceptable results.

Opera house @ 63mm, 100 iso, ap 6.7, sp 1/350sec



Fort Denison. A stone structure which used to be a prison and then a fort built in the early 1800s
63mm, 100iso, ap 6.7, sp 1/60sec



Tall ship which does day cruises around the harbour. Haven't done it yet but i intend too.
115mm, 100iso, ap 8.0, sp 1/125sec

Clarky - # 1 is a excellent shot - probably cropped a bit - very nicely!!

# 2 & 3 - Good shots - but I think you need to do something about the horizon - I now figure why the ship cruises that way (it's downhill)

No its not cropped thats how i took it
And the downhill ship is now cruising straight. I did notice it after i posted but was too lazy to correct it thanks

Lol - ok

I really like the #1 shot.....

Excellent one!

I think the first one is an excellent abstract, and as such you could be even bolder, and darken it slightly more so that the detail at the very bottom is less visible.

It's a tribute to the designers that the SOH works so well with so many different interpretations.

If that's the whole frame though, it's a little disappointing not to be able to see the finer detail between the main zig-zags.

Is it there, or is there just a slight lack of sharpness for some reason? I might be expecting too much, though. Looking at mine, the ones where I could resolve that detail were taken a bit closer than that.*

I like the ship too. The sepia treatment isn't unreasonable, but I'd like to see the colour version as well.

*Edit: actually on reflection I think I'm just expecting too much. I'm not sure many monitors would be able to resolve detail that fine. If I resize my only photo where I captured it, the detail disappears.

Chris i can still go in another 70% on that opera house shot if thats what you mean : Just show me where you want it cropped and i will take a chop out of the raw file.
By the way the guy who designed the OH was a dutchman who won an international design competition back in the early 70s. He never stuck around to see its completion because the egg heads paying the bills kept trying to cut corners and change his design. He ended up pulling the pin and walking out. He never came back to see it completed. His son came over a couple of years ago to accept an award on his behalf.

Here's the boat pic as it was taken. It was a little hazy along the coast last Sunday as you can see. Thats the main reason i went for the sepia effect

Well, this was the detail I was hoping for, but as I say, I think I'm being unreasonable to hope to be able to see it in your picture on a monitor.

If it's in the un-resized version, I reckon you could turn that into a fantastic print.

Here is mine cropped too 100%. I was going to leave a bit of the sky as you have done but decided against it




Just a touch of sharpening to enhance the grout between the tiles.

It was a Dane who designed it - Jorn Utzon

Thanks Gwyn you are right and i could'nt remember his name so thanks for that too

That detail is terrific. It's crying out to be printed large enough to show it.

Thanks Chris I believe your right. The more I look at it the more I like it