Light Teaser
More stills from an upcoming timelapse video and a first test hyper-lapse video, both taken yesterday. It was a fantastic day, like early summer, and I was lucky enough to have it off. Sunny, cloudless skies and a zillion people out walking. And a few working outside, with a lot of pleasure.
In this case the workers are putting the finishing touches on a major make-over for the Ogden Point breakwater, which featured in this blog, often.
I have mixed feelings about the breakwater renovation – it includes a hand rail on both sides all the way along. The downside is a photographers complaint – it totally ruins the aesthetic of the long thin line forming an abrupt edge against the seascape, rather like the storm drain I seem to photography every other week. Add to this the loss of the edginess of an adjacent precipitous drop when out for a walk, with or without a camera. However, it is now open to wheel chairs, and people who are nervous of heights, or just frail and worried. I overheard several conversations from mostly older people who were thrilled to be able to walk out there, and at the new benches to sit on when they got to the end. There sure where a lot of people, brought out by an early season nice day, and to check out the changes, but also I suspect because they could, at last.
These pictures are to do with installing a security camera. The guy said it was to watch the adjacent basin of the harbour to make sure ships are not coming loose, but to me that makes little sense since the pilot boats are in and out of there much of the time and it is otherwise a working dock with people out and about, even at night. I think that was a cover story for a crowd watching camera, to watch for vandals, or people in trouble in a big storm – probably part of the plan associated with removing the gates that used to be closed at night.
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Canon EOS 5Dmkii, 3-stop graduated ND filter, ISO100. Top: Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 lense, ~f-16 and 1/80th; Bottom: SMC Takumar m-42 mount 35mm/f3.5 lens,~f-5.6, 1/20th
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The handrail is probably a much needed safety feature, the downside is that it attracts more people. I do like the red and white color scheme and with the blue sky could provide some interesting photo ops.
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I think it will serve well, and increase the range of potential users a lot. It is a shame though to see such a major change in the character and feel of a 100 year old structure. It was the insurance companies and a worker’s union that were insisting on it. Navigation markers, and their big brothers the lighthouses, seem so often to be photogenic. I have taken pictures out here since I first got an SLR in the early 70’s
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I like the shadow of the ladder against the wall- hairline thin and precise, contrasting with the bulkier blob of the workmans shadow
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Thanks Val. I noticed that shadow too and thought that it was unnaturally fine. The sun must have been at the perfect angle to get such a thin shadow.
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The colors are very nice and the geometry in the compositions – especially in the first shot – is very nice. I look forward to the timelapse.
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HI Melinda, the timelapse for that top image is grinding away now. The last one I ran kept me up late last night and failed three times. But it was shot with full resolution images and that taxes my computer more than is reasonable. In the end it came out well. This one is going to be combined with others I took out there, but I am not sure how yet.
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Well, the handrails is a bit of a shame on one hand, but if it includes the removal of the gate it might be a plus. I’ve often wanted to walk out there at night. Amazing colours in the pictures, by the way.
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Hi there! There were a lot of people with baby buggies too, something I don’t recall seeing out there before, or very rarely. Dogs are still not allowed, same for bikes and skateboards. All for the better on all counts.
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