LittleB and I were at Milsons Point before 6am this morning to photograph the dust storm. There were a couple of other photographers there too, but a lot were arriving when we were leaving. They missed the best light when the sky looked really orange.

I post-processed these photos straight away so that I could match the colour with the sky colour out the window. Not many adjustments were done, mainly resizing and sharpening, exposure adjustment (D700 exposed brighter than in real life and I had to reduce it). The vignettes were not added by me, they are from the lens. I was surprised at how much vignetting there was at 28mm, but then again it only showed up when reducing the exposure. It would be easy to remove the vignette in photoshop, but I normally add vignettes anyway, so I left them.

All photos were taken handheld @ around ISO 6400, I didn’t bother with the tripod. Click on the images to see the larger size. Also see my album!

Below: Couldn’t see the city across the harbour!

Below: The sky was getting brighter, taken just before we left. Still can’t see the city.

The last photo below is like the first one, but the sky was getting brighter, and the lights were off.

Below: This is a photo from my kitchen window at 5.41am. Normally the view goes for miles.