Term 2: Week 3-4 Portfolio Trees 5#

Day 4: Tree Testing

360 Mt Wellington Panaroma Whow!!!! What beauty?

Stockade Hill Howick (Callitropsis Macrocarpa tree)

• Canon 5DMK3 • Canon lens EF24-70mm • Mefotto Tripod • Shutter release • Sunrise 6.53am • F22 small f-stop • 13.0 slow shutter speed • ISO200 • Focal length 24mm • Wide depth of field • Natural light 

Planning: to capture the early morning colours coming through the trees to create a silhouette. The idea is to create a mood and soft looking shoot for the viewer too see the beauty of the trees against the morning sunrise and the sky. The street lights help with the natural lighting. 

Really enjoy the bench to the right, the tree on the left helps balance the photo. Overlooking Howick before the start to a new day (left). Pathway leading line time to head home (right). I really enjoyed this shoot. These 3 photos could add to my final presentation.

 Bucklands Beach walkway bridge Panaroma

Trees totally complete the walkway, a busy area for joggers, people walking there dogs or going to work heading to the ferry. No one stops to notice the trees.

Capturing the trees has be a very enjoyable and natural shoot for me. My aim is to document a variety of different trees all over Auckland and Franklin District. Differently seen some unusual looking trees dead and much alive.

What do I see and hope the viewer gets out of seeming these images. An appreciation to all the amazing beauty that surrounds us. To stop and look!!!

Planning: Photos taken on different times of the day. All sorts of weather. Sunny, rainy, windy.

Looking at the light? How the natural light changes the look and colours of the trees. Documenting the types of trees has being a lot easier than I thought. Raining weather was a challenge keeping the gear dry.

Rain adds to the photo and differently the mist.

Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, Norfolk Pine, Pohutukawa,  Metrosideros Excelsa, Windswept and Callitropsis Macrocarpa trees above. 

Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, Norfolk Pine and Callitropsis Macrocarpa trees above.

 “Mountain of the Whau tree”
Mt Wellington

Panmure Basin with the magnificent trees around the basin and the reflection of the trees on the water. 

A project I will definitely go back and document genre in greater depth and complete. So much beauty in many different and amazing ways.