Andy Yip Photography

Added some photos to the Panorama portfolio

More Panorama photos can be viewed at the link below

Panorama Album

We went there for the release simply thought it is something special as we have never watch a dam release before. But never have we thought we would have witnessed what contributed to the flooding in Brisbane. The flood report didn’t conclude Wivenhoe Dam release is not the cause of the Brisbane Flood 2011, but i personally believe Brisbane won’t be flooded if:

1) Our dam level isn’t always need to be kept over 100%

2) Our dam was released earlier but not when it’s nearly at a critical level

3) Our dam was released more frequently with a smaller amount each time.

4) Our dam was not release on heavy rainy day.

The condition of surrounding suburbs are heavily affected by the dam release. All the rivers in Mt Nebo National Park are all filled up with water from the dam release. Some part of Fernvale was flooded.

The photo taken during this trip, after processing are no longer in a documentary type. It was processed to add more mood to the photos and have them present in an artistic way. However, the degree on the flood has not been manipulated. What you see was what happened there.

In conclusion, it indicated a problem when Brisbane flooded at a bright sunny day.

Added some photos taken from Mt Nebo National Park and also some more photos of Lake Wivenhoe.

Also updated are some photos of Lake Wivenhoe.

More landscape photos with better quality can be found following the link below

Australia Landscape

Unlike most wedding nowadays, the wedding of Sonia and Alfred is entirely organised by themselves and their family. It is a pleasure for me and my partner Lou to be the photographers of this wonderful wedding.

This is my first ever attempt in shooting and editing a video. We were just down at the Coast with cousins for a fun and relaxing day. Equipment used included my Nikon D3S, AFS 17-35mm f2.8D and AF 50mm f1.4D. The entire video is taken handheld without using any tripod and stabiliser.

Seeing all these photos of lunar eclipse on the net definitely give me a strong motivation to re-process my own lunar eclipse photos. So i went and processed all the photos taken during the lunar eclipse. I don’t think i have ever released any lunar eclipse photos before. So…… here they are, photos of lunar eclipse that i have taken…… 4 years ago in 2007

And, there are also some with a bit of background so that it looks more interesting, hopefully.

A slight better quality ones can be found following the link below:

Total Lunar Eclipse

Just about anything can be used as an object for photograph. Found this in Vapiano in city and think this is quite interesting.

Winter Festival is probably the only time to ice skate outside Brisbane City Hall. Unfortunately, ice skating is never one of my favourites and i am just happy to be outside photographing.

While thinking the ordinary skating photos are too common, i notice the round light from the festival actually made the scratch on the ice quite interesting. Under exposed a couple of photo with increased contrast and a bit of processing made the photos below.

Another attraction of the Winter Festival is the ice skating show. A perfect chance to practice. Trying not to use a very fast shutter with everything frozen, and keeping the shutter speed low with some blurred motion but a face that’s sharp enough is totally not easy. Didn’t try any pan shot though is a pity. By the time i was about to do pan shoot the show had already ended…

The Pumpkin Festival feels like a mini Ekka to me. Numerous of stall, shows can be found at the festival.

Of course this was not the reason we were there. We were there mainly for the famous pumpkin roll. Surprisingly, it looked more interesting than i thought. Unfortunately it was too late for me to registered. May have to come back next year despite the killing 3 hours drive.

Stopped by the Lake Wivenhoe on the way to the Pumpkin Festival and i certainly wouldn’t miss the chance to take some landscape photos.