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32mm f/1.4 - people, cats & food (PICS)

Started Nov 12, 2018 | Discussions thread
Marco Nero
OP Marco Nero Veteran Member • Posts: 7,582
Robert100 - re: Sydney Opera House (PICS)
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robbert100 wrote:

Great pictures Marco!

never saw a picture from the opera house from that side. Is it always so crowded over there? (I’ve never been to Australia)

EOS 6D + EF 100-400mm II lens - panorama - taken from Taronga Zoo last year.

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Hi Robert100 - The Sydney Opera House is usually busy but not all the time... usually around midday it has a lot of visitors and tourists and it does look quite different from different angles.  New Year's Eve is perhaps the busiest time to be near this building.  I find it gets quieter as the sun sets.  But it's a fascinating place to sit at any time of the day or night.  One of the best times to see it is just after sunset when the internal lights start to come on... around 30 minutes after the sun has set. The Opera House is also a good spot to photograph the Sydney Harbor Bridge from at sunset. If you ever find yourself coming to Sydney, let me know and I'll pinpoint some great locations to capture it from. Some of the best vantage points to shoot from are from hidden stairwells and garden mounds in the Botanical Gardens and others are from locations on the other side of the harbor.
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It's perhaps a tricky subject because the building is designed in quite an intricate manner. There's lighting projected onto the building at night and if you capture it before sunrise or just after sunset the silhouette against the sky can be interesting. It's in one of the busiest areas of the city so there's always a lot of people trying to take pictures of it.  Even though I live here, I don't seem to have gone out of my way to photograph the Sydney Opera House so the pictures below were taken when passing by with various cameras.  I often see serious photographers setting up tripods etc to try to capture the building in various weather conditions and it's certainly popular with the visitors.
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PowerShot G1X - (CPL filter used)

EOS M + EF 24mm f/1.4L II lens

EOS M + EF 24mm f/1.4L II lens

PowerShot Pro1

EOS M + EF 24mm f/1.4L II lens

PowerShot s95

EOS M + EF 24mm f/1.4L II lens

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There's a few here from the EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM lens (below) that were taken over the last couple of weeks - while I was testing the lens to so how it performed.  The 50mm (equiv) focal length is a little harder to work with up close since it's not a particularly wide lens but if you shoot from more distant locations you can usually get nice results with the wider view.  Every angle of the building offers a unique view.

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32mm f/1.4 lens - (CPL filter used)

32mm f/1.4 lens - (CPL filter used)

32mm f/1.4 lens - (CPL filter used)

32mm f/1.4 lens - (CPL filter used)

32mm f/1.4 lens - panorama - (CPL filter used)

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