[pinholecam] From Alps to Ocean - A bicycle/photo log
Its interesting to me that it took me so long to get this trip going.
In a way, it took decades.
The accumulation of my interests from a young schoolboy who liked camping back in the day when Ubin was still unpaved to cycling for triathlons later as a younger man, and with photography slotted somewhere in the middle of this.
So since 2 years back, I decided to put them together and do some tours by bike.
Got me a foldable to make it simpler to do multi-modal travel and headed out to Perth on the first trip
That trip here : https://www.clubsnap.com/threads/going-solo-a-week-of-cycle-touring-in-perth.1644561/
So having read about the Alps to Ocean trail in New Zealand, I decided to give this a try.
Church of the Good Shepard by jenkwang, on Flickr
The K1 astro tracer proved to be very useful in this situation being able to let the FA31ltd I was using to go over the '500' rule and expose the sky for 40s at ISO3200, f2.8.
If going by the '500' rule, it would have been only 16s and I'd have had to use high iso and a larger aperture.
Super cold and windy night when I ventured out to shoot this.
I had to do a lot of moving around to keep myself from freezing.
Between 8pm-10.30pm, there are lots of tourists coming to shoot the church with their phones, light interference from car headlamps will be common until about 10.30pm.
There is a wooden gate erected at the entrance now, but its still possible to just clamber over the low escarpment. (which all the more serious photographer do.
The reason is that the milky way is at the back of the church, not the front, so those going pls take note. (and refer to photos on flickr, etc)
Its interesting to me that it took me so long to get this trip going.
In a way, it took decades.
The accumulation of my interests from a young schoolboy who liked camping back in the day when Ubin was still unpaved to cycling for triathlons later as a younger man, and with photography slotted somewhere in the middle of this.
So since 2 years back, I decided to put them together and do some tours by bike.
Got me a foldable to make it simpler to do multi-modal travel and headed out to Perth on the first trip
That trip here : https://www.clubsnap.com/threads/going-solo-a-week-of-cycle-touring-in-perth.1644561/
So having read about the Alps to Ocean trail in New Zealand, I decided to give this a try.
Church of the Good Shepard by jenkwang, on Flickr
The K1 astro tracer proved to be very useful in this situation being able to let the FA31ltd I was using to go over the '500' rule and expose the sky for 40s at ISO3200, f2.8.
If going by the '500' rule, it would have been only 16s and I'd have had to use high iso and a larger aperture.
Super cold and windy night when I ventured out to shoot this.
I had to do a lot of moving around to keep myself from freezing.
Between 8pm-10.30pm, there are lots of tourists coming to shoot the church with their phones, light interference from car headlamps will be common until about 10.30pm.
There is a wooden gate erected at the entrance now, but its still possible to just clamber over the low escarpment. (which all the more serious photographer do.
The reason is that the milky way is at the back of the church, not the front, so those going pls take note. (and refer to photos on flickr, etc)
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