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!

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This is my first post in my new blog. I want to get down to business and see how well it displays photos. I’ll post some photos from a recent trip to the National Zoo in Canberra. To see all of the photos, please visit this page of my album: http://www.madviolinist.com/album/v/animals/canberra2/

Please click on the images below to see the large sizes.

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