Southward Car Museum

Over the coming weeks I will post some highlights of our trip to the Southward Car Museum yesterday. All in all I took almost 500 photos :-) So as a start, here is a 5 shot panorama of the main floor of the museum. For those of you who have not yet been, especially if you are a petrol head like me, YOU GOTTA GO!!! Back to the aim of this blog - my Tamron lens performed beautifully. It allowed me a useful 18mm for most of the shots since you are pretty close to the subject matter being constrained by the insides and layout of the museum. I could also get some nice close ups shots like the badge off a Porche 911, and it gave me the option to take shots of interesting bits at full 270mm zoom to blur out the busy background to isolate the focal...

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Aiming at Wellington

This cannon is just next to the Dominion Observatory in the botanical gardens in Wellington. Not the easiest subject due to the greyish paint color of the cannon. I've tried to make the composition as interesting as possible with the cannon on the right etc. Some post processing in Photoshop managed to regain some character in the cannon. Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 18mm, Exposure 1/250sec at f8, ISO 100, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter no...

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Cable Car

I am on leave, so we took the boys on a field trip to the Botanical Gardens and the Observatory. To get there we took the cable car up from Lambton Quay. At the top I had a chance to snap the following pics. Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 18mm, Exposure 1/250sec at f8, ISO 100, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none.  Below a 3 shot bracketed HDR. Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 18mm, Exposure 1/320sec at f8, ISO 100, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none. ...

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