Photo-pfaffing – a term used to describe a situation where there is a photographer in the party, and where plenty of photographic stops are made – which usually involve tripods, changing lenses, screwing on filters, waiting for the right light etc. A camera artist at work (but somewhat boring for others in the party…..)
Digi Dave and myself headed up the mountains for the weekend. The weather forecast was not too bad. Snow at first – but that would soon clear to a nice fine Saturday and Sunday. We took our cameras plus a bit of other gear.
First stop was Blackheath, where we headed out to a local lookout. The weather was wintery. A cold wind and a bit of sleety rain. But the views were quite spectacular.
We then headed out into the Gardens of Stone National Park. We walked to a nearby cliffline and set up camp and hoped for a few photographic opportunities. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate. Rain! Light but steady. A real dampener. Instead of some nice sunset lighting a wet mist rolled in. We spent a lot of time in the tents or around the fire.
Later in the evening the rain did relent. But it was too late – the light had gone. We did experiment a bit with using torches to light paint the pagodas.
Light painting. Shot at night – using a torch
Broken-spectre created using a torch
At least Sunday was a fine day. The sunrise was not particularly striking, but the delicate and intricate rock formations provided some photographic subjects.
Our final stop-off was on some pagodas near Lithgow.
More photos on my website here.