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 point. I must also note that the brilliant image stabilizing allowed me hand held shots throughout not using flash but only museum lighting.

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Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 18mm, Exposure 1/100sec at f8, ISO 800, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none.

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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 none.

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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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Pretty in Pink

We made the most of the sunny weekend with a trip to Harcourt park. This post and the next two to follow, will show some of the quick photos I took while playing with the kids.

Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 270mm, Exposure 1/1600sec at f8, ISO 400, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none.

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Day in the sun

How pleasant the life of a duck must be - that is outside hunting season needless to say :-)

Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 270mm, Exposure 1/1000sec at f8, ISO 800, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none.

Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 270mm, Exposure 1/1000sec at f8, ISO 800, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none.

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Hikitia

For a change I am at a loss for words. My wife would agree that it does not happen too frequently :-)

In any case, I've been trying for a while now to get something useful from this crane boat. But time of day that I can make it there etc. up to now made for some pretty uninteresting photos. In my view in any case. So, this is some form of an attempt to save one of my photos of Hikitia. I hope you like :-)

Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 30mm, Exposure 1/160sec at f8, ISO 200, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none.

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Day at the Spa

On a day trip to the TePapa museum with my family the local bird life also aimed at making the most of the sunny weather. This guy was taking a long and thorough bath with his/her mates. As requested by a friendly poster danielepoalo over at the DP Review forums, here is a full size image for your pleasure (Right Click|View Image to enlarge, not sure how to get blogger to show full image).

Please leave comments, I would love to hear from you.

Canon 600D, Tamron 18-270mm f3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD. Focal length 219mm, Exposure 1/1000sec at f8, ISO 800, Focus auto, VC on, Flash none, Filter none.

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