[GALLERY] Timo's Photography

[Timo]

My 4 week old niece :3:3:3:3

[Corndogman]

Last one of the baby is the best, really nice shot. I like how it sort of makes a heart shape, it works perfectly.

[Timo]

One day away from completing a trip around East Cape

Gisborne to Opotiki, up and around the coast. I got a 10 stop ND filter the other day too which i've used pretty heavily over the trip - it lets in 1000x less light than normal ;o. Went back to the old freezing works I posted up in here at the start of last year, been to the lighthouse at the very tip of east cape, walked up a stream all the way to an amazing waterfall. A 10 year old Dairy building too, that had been tagged up and smashed to bits. When I get back home i'll post process some of these photos, and upload them (using a laptop with canon's raw software, it's pretty terrible).

e: In the mean time here's an unedited 100% crop of something I found while walking the stream:


;o

[Reaper Man]

Weird. What is it?

I really like the blue-tinged light on the cat.

[Timo]

Edit: I've got all of these photos up on my website now for those that want to save a bit of bandwidth: http://timo.modacity.net/2010

~Big post~

It's a moth believe it or not, happened upon it after nearly hitting my head on a dead branch after taking some macro shots. Looked at the end of the branch again and saw it. I just can't believe it's hair/feathers, they almost looked plastic (see a full pic further down).
The wallpaper i've been using, shot of a shrub covered in some afternoon rain outside my dad's house:

I've spent the past couple of hours trawling over the photos, and have picked out around 36 great ones. I've also got about twelve panoramas to process in autopano pro, which is what i'll do tomorrow. In the order of taking them.

Taken from underneath the Tologa Bay wharf, the longest wharf in New Zealand. 30 sec at f/11

A shot from the side, 10 sec at f/11

There's also a big panorama take from the other side of the wharf that i'll look into tomorrow.

The following were taken at the old freezing works at Tokomaru Bay, where i've taken photos earlier this year.


Old graffiti, 1/5 sec at f/8

I tried to fix up the barrel distortion in this one, but I need to get it back into photoshop. Hard to get it perfect. 1/5 sec at f/8

Some new graffiti that wasn't inside this old warehouse last year. 1/25 at f/3.5

The old vauxhall yet again, just trying out my new(ish) 50mm prime lens, god damn it's sharp ._. 1/200 sec at f/35

Some shots of the light house at the tip of East Cape:

40 sec at f/22

1/2500 sec at f/5.6

1/1000 sec at f/5.0



A shot back over Hick's Bay at sunset, 30 sec at f/11


Some shags chilling in a Pohutukawa tree on the way to the lighthouse, 1/2500 sec at f/4.5


Secluded waterfall that was just barely visible from the road. Had to jump a fence and walk through a paddock of cows to get this shot. It seemed to turn into a steep stream pretty fast though, so I decided not to get any closer. 45 sec at f/11


A photo of the rocky beach at Lottin Point. I've taken a couple of big panoramas here too, with the 10 stop ND filter on to give it the same misty water effect. Hopefully they've come out alright! 46 sec at f/11


This waterfall was well up a stream off the main road at Whanarua Bay. Surprisingly it wasn't sign posted, just happened to pass a lady on the way down to the beach who said there was a waterfall upstream. It was an epic walk, visual overload with saturated green colours. On my monitor, the colour is as lush and green as it was on the day. 30 sec at f/13

Another perspective on the waterfall. I wanted to get closer but there was quite a lot of spray coming up from the fall, and I didn't want to get my camera sprayed. 48 sec at f/7.1


Thought i'd take my macro lens for a whizz in here to see what I could find. 0.8 sec at f/7.1

And I found this! 10 sec at f/8

I have no idea what type of moth it is though, but the detail is stunning. 6 sec at f/8

The following are some shots of the stream I followed up to get to the waterfall. I've always wanted to take these kinds of shots.

1/3 sec at f/22

1.3 sec at f/14

50 sec at f/11

90 sec at f/11

The following are of an abandoned dairy works. Didn't stay long, it was really smashed up to hell, covered in ugly tagging. Bad place.

5 sec at f/9

1/125 sec at f/11

Who would write "I HATE" on the wall, followed by nothing? Seriously. 1/80 sec at f/5.6

2.5 sec at f/10

These are some photos taken in a reserve in Opotoki. There's a 2000 year old Puriri tree here that Maori used to bury elders/sacrifice people in that i've taken a massive panorama of. Hopefully good results :] There was pretty bad lighting though so i've only got a few macro shots.

Some 'shrooms hiding underneath the cover of some ferns, 0.8 sec at f/5.6

Farting around with my macro lens, this wet leaf seemed to catch the light. 1/50 sec at f/5.6

1/2 sec at f/5.6

1/4 sec at f/5.6
Some orange fungus that almost looked luminous against the black log they were residing on.

These final shots were taken up the Tauranga River in Waioeka Gorge on the way back home. These a three hour trail that follows the river up and back. Initially we were just going to look at the river mouth but ended up doing the entire walk. There was a stream that fed the river that had a really epic look to it:

Was literally taken right off the track. 101 sec at f/5.6
I decided to trek a bit further up the stream, at it just stayed as epic as that:

95 sec at f/5.6

120 sec at f/7.1

120 sec at f/5.6

To get to the Tauranga river walk you had to go over the Tauranga bridge (heh), but it's pretty awesome, the only harp suspension bridge left in New Zealand.

1/4000 sec at f/7.1

1/80 sec at f/8.0
I've got a panorama sitting on this one too.


To conclude, I love my Tripod, ND filter, and <33 NZ :3

[Timo]

56k killa

Here's the panoramas, a couple more to come too, provided that Autopano stops crashing on me when they start processing :[

They've all been resized to have a height of 1000 pixels.

7615x3917 originally

10030x2428

The view off the trail heading up to the lighthouse, 12199x3298

Hick's Bay, 7305x3495

Lottin Point, 15071x2032

Lottin Point, 13893x2230

A view over Opotoki, 12172x3674

The view off the highest point on the Tauranga river loop trail, 13079x3428

[Con]

my bandwidth

What's loaded so far looks amazing, keep it up.

edit:
If interfacelift doesn't take any of these I will be shocked.

[Timo]

Yeah it is a bit of a killer sorry, wanted to keep the detail up along with the resolution. And thanks :]


e: I've got them all up on my website now for those that want to save a bit of bandwidth: http://timo.modacity.net/2010

[Reaper Man]

Wow, I absolutely love the waterfall shots and the orange mushrooms! Great stuff.

Now, go update your deviantART with the premium FTP access I gifted to you >:U

[Heathen]

Btw, it said

I HATE
JADE