King Island Images of surf, rocks, sky and Island adventures

Currie Harbour on King Island Currie is the main town on King Island and the harbour is one of its great attractions. It is common to see people park in the car park looking across the water to watch the sunset in the evening. The pictures that follow show the harbour at different times of day. The night shot of the harbour was taken over three minutes exposure and when you look at the water it seems as if you can see through it to the sand below.  The small building seen to the right above is 'the restaurant with no food'. This unusual and quirky place is shown in the images below. The interior is very colourful, music is playing, and the chairs are comfortable, just bring your own food or sit and read a book. Maybe you just look at the kelp crafts or the water outside.   The lighthouse is iconic The harbour has a collection of crayfish boats that go out at night.   Stay tuned, more uploaded next week

  Some photo information for those interested:  Many of these water shots were taken at a slow shutter speed and with small aperture. This gives the water its milky flow image. I used small apertures from f16 to f32 and this gives a wide depth of field showing the foreground and distance in acceptable focus. These images were processed on On 1 RAW or Luminar Neo. Both offer good noise management, and noise is the enemy of all photographers.  The camera that I used on King Island is my Pentax K1 which has reasonable noise management up to 6,400 ISO, and I usually set my camera to varying ISO so that I can have greater f stop and shutter speed control. During daylight hours I used a variable density filter so that I could have a slower shutter speed. All my equipment has been obtained cheaply or second hand and lenses are from old film cameras which I bought for the lenses and then sold afterwards.  Consequently if you see blemishes in the images due to old equipment t...