King Island 2024

 

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 that is understandable, I have to do my photography within my budget.

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King Island sits in the middle of the Bass Strait and part of the state of Tasmania, it has a rugged coastline whipped by the roaring forties and this blog will present some images taken recently on the beaches.

This is a very isolated island and its beaches are un-spoiled, windswept, shaped by roaring sea and violent winds.

The bays and beaches are named after many shipwrecks, and the tragic tales of the lost lives are stamped upon the island history and haunt the memory of Islanders.

The image above is a slow shutter speed shot taken using a variable density filter on an old Tamron AF LD 28-200mm lens on a Pentax K1 full frame digital camera. All the shots in this blog were taken with the same camera and lens.

 

Kelp gathering is a local industry, the kelp is winched up onto trailers and then taken to the factory where it is dried and milled. Most of the kelp is sent to Scotland while the finer particles are sent to make Seasol fertilizer in Australia.

 

 

 The track from Currie Light house to the Kelp factory, past Netherby rocks named after the ship wrecked of that name, is the walk from which the following shots were taken.

 

 

 

Now home after a 5 kilometre walk from the lighthouse past Netherby rocks and the kelp factory.

Please respect copyright on all published images and contact me if you would like to use them or wish to see other images of this fascinating island.

I have hundreds of images which I will share with anyone interested.