Late Afternoon in St Kilda

I went for a big walk around the St Kilda foreshore yesterday. It was a showery and windy afternoon, a fairly typical early spring day really.

The beauty of it - in terms of photography - was that some big shower clouds passed over and went east, making the east sky dark and dramatic as the sun was going down, while the west sky cleared, making for a beautiful red sunset.

After the sun went down, I tried to take some night shots too, but these were less successful - mostly because it was just so windy out on the pier that my tripod was vibrating - making long exposures a bit blurry.

Here's a selection of the best shots of the walk:

St Kilda Pier

City from St Kilda Pier

Sun Going Down Over Williamstown

St Kilda Beach Sunset I

St Kilda Beach Sunset II

Looking Out Over the Bay

City from St Kilda Pier After Sunset

St Kilda Beach After Sunset

The Colours of Les Mis

No, I don't mean the actual show itself, I mean the building it's playing in!

Her Majesty's Theatre is currently playing Les Miserables, and the building is decorated in the colours and images of the show. One awesome feature of this is the flood lighting scheme which makes the whole building very colourful at night. I walk past here virtually every day (it's right in my neighbourhood), and have been meaning to do some night photography of it for a while.

My night photography is getting better I think. There's less graininess and noise in the images now.

I'm also getting more and more confident about setting up my tripod in relatively crowded public spaces - such as these sidewalks in the area around Her Majesty's Theatre. It no longer feels weird like it used to. Not that I really need to develop this tolerance - it's not like I'm actually aiming to be a professional photographer or anything - but it's just something I've been noticing.

Here are the best shots I managed to get. Most are quite short exposures, but some are up to 4 or 5 seconds. There's minimal post-processing too, and I haven't added any saturation to the colour. It really is as colourful as it looks here in real life!