Andy Gock

This evening, I went down to the Bogey Hole (in my home town Newcastle) to shoot the sunset. Its one of those cliche  locations, that surprisingly for me, I have never shot at before. It was nice down there, not many people there at all. It can a bit a little slippery and wet walking down those stairs and rocks (and if not too careful, could be dangerous), but this evening there was very little swell and low tide coincided with sunset as well.

The above was shot with a ND400 filter attached and my favourite landscape lens which I own, the 17-40mm f/4L. It has been blended from two separate exposures, a technique I use often (see the tutorial).

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On the weekend, i joined the movement of the Worldwide Photo Walk (also known as Scott Kelby’s Second Annual Worldwide Photowalk).

A walk was organised for Newcastle by local photographer Tim Boehm, for a 2 hour loop around city. It was a big turn up of around 40 photographers.

I decided this was a good time to do some experimentation with my tilt shift lens, a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 manual focus lens. It is a really interesting lens to use if you haven’t used one before as it allows the tilting of the plane of focus on a standard 35mm format SLR which normally one would associate with large format view cameras.

Here are some of my favourite shots from the day.

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