Hi Everyone,

How cool is this? A double rainbow! This shot was taken at Injidup Beach about one and a half years ago as I was on my way to Injidup from the Yallingup main surf break.

I had decided earlier on during the day that I would do a sunset shoot at Yallingup, but as always Mother Nature had other ideas. I had a feeling that I really was in the wrong place and that I should head off and setup somewhere else. I only had 20mins before sunset so I decided to hit Injidup as it nearly always produces results no matter where you stand on the beach and I’m glad that I did on this particular day.

As I was driving down to the carpark I was presented with this scene a double rainbow, right next to a rain shower, with the setting sun throwing a beautiful glow across the surroundings. It doesn’t get much more magical than this does it?

I hope you guys enjoy this photo. All comments are certainly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jamie Paterson

Hi Everyone,

Lots of people ask me what sort of lens I normally use so I thought this question deserved its own post! Because I do lots of seascape photography I typically use a wide angle lens for a lot of my Australian landscape photography shots. There are some advantages and disadvantages to using wide angle lenses and I thought I would discuss what the advantages are in this post.

One of the greatest advantages of wide angle lenses is quite simply that you can capture a lot more of a scene in one shot than you could with a standard lens. This is really cool if you want to get really close to an object to shoot it yet still be able to capture all the scenery behind that object in the background and make sure that its sharp all the way through the photo.

So can you see any advantages to the above scenario? As a landscape and seascape photographer you certainly should do. Imagine being able to get up nice and close to a tree to get a shot of in the foreground yet still being able to place some mountains into the background and have the shot razor sharp all the way through. Talk about a huge advantage.

I find one of the big advantages for me as a seascape photographer is that I can capture water almost lapping at my feet whilst also ensuring that anything else that is in frame is still in focus. As water can be quite difficult to stitch it is quite often easier to use a wide angle lens to capture it.

As with anything there are also disadvantages to wide angle lenses as well but I’ll discuss them in another post.

Hope that helps,

Jamie Paterson

A few weeks ago I was out near Northam so I decided to take the back roads to see what was there. Fortunately for me I found this place called Glenfield Homestead near Katrine. It was a really large place so I’m guessing the original owners must’ve been quite wealthy. I just felt that it was going to be a really warm orange sunset so I decided to stick around and see what I could capture. As always I was glad that I did, the sun started to set and everything started to glow and I was lucky enough to capture it!

This was a four image stitch using my Canon F/1.2 50mm lens and it was stitched together using PTGUI.

Apparently this place is absolutely covered in Canola fields in early September so I can’t wait to get back out there and see what it looks like then.

Thanks,

Jamie Paterson

Hi Everyone,

These days Perth seems to get very little rainfall so its quite exciting when we are going to get a storm with lots of rain. Its ironic because unfortunately for a lot of Australians they have been affected by floods, yet here in Perth its been months since we have seen a drop of rain. Well on Sunday I knew a storm was coming so I headed out to capture it. After driving for about 50kms I finally made up my mind that I wanted to shoot a place called Pt Perron. Its got so many interesting formations and the storm was hovering over this area.

When I got there I was in two minds as to whether or not I should bring my camera out as the storm front was just sitting off the coast waiting to drop all its rain. There was a strong wind though that was keeping it offshore, so I decided to risk it. I hopped out of the car and walked for 10mins to this spot and set up my camera.

I’m really happy with this shot and I hope you like it as well. I used my Canon 1DsMkIII with my 16-35mm F/2.8 lens for this shot. I had no filter on as the sky and foreground were pretty much the same.

Thanks,

Jamie Paterson