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Botanic Gardens

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South East.....

Fawkner Garden, Southbank, Flinders, Crown, Yarra etc. :)

Hi guys I graduated from RMIT a few years back and never went to the actual graduation. Was wondering if anyone could recommend any free lance or studios that are affordable that able to take a few professional family photos with university graduation props such as gowns and cap?

I really want to photograph people with crazy style or just some casual ones with natural emotions. IS IT OKAY FOR ME JUST TO LOOK AT YOU GUYS, SAY HI, AND THEN TAKE A PICTURE

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Not my first rodeo, I knew that a 135 sec gap would be needed between shots to ensure the moon aligned but did not overlap. Programmed the camranger2 to manage the shots but set them to 45 sec apart to provide three options for the sequence (to ensure one option would have the moon cleanly between the pylons. Set up on site early with the moon out of frame and set focus and switched to manual to avoid any hunting and snapped the base image F2.8 ISO 100 and 2sec SS. Moon shots were F2.8 ISO 100 1/500th sec SS. Canon R7 with RF 70-200mm at 70mm (which is the equivalent of 112mm on a full frame camera). Loaded shots into light-room, very minimal edits (white balance, some enhancement of sharpness and basic camera calibration). Picked the sequence in which the moon lines up with the pylons and selected all shots 135s apart from that key shot. Loaded frames into Photoshop, no alignment was needed as the camera did not move during the shoot. selected each frame and utilized selection of highlights which gave me the moon and its reflection, removed all other elements of the scene in each frame and stacked frames in capture order (to overlay the moon on the base frame). Had not expected the reflections to work as well as they have. Hope this helps others who want to try this sort of photography.

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