East Java, Indonesia | liewwk

Finally, I make a trip to a beautiful Indonesia again and this round managed to visit East Java which include Papuma and Bromo for seascape and volcano view …

we reach Surabaya which a real busy city , car moving slow …… and we travel ~7-8 hours down south to Tanjung Papuma … spent 2 nights with mix of cloudy and clear days we enjoy the beautiful beach , sunrise, sunset and nightsky … and I am sure will re-visit this place very soon ……….

after 2 nights spending over here , we travel ~3.5 hours to Mount Bromo. another 2 “cold” days we had on the Lava View resort which give us beautiful 2 sunrise, nightsky but no luck for sunset …….. this place like other share a very beautiful volcano … we climb up for 2 viewpoint which I will share the view soon here (by update)…

1. Penanjakan 1 – easy to access but very limit space for photography

2. Penanjakan 2 – nearer to Lava View resort but need ~20-30min moderate hike but plenty of space for shooting .. 😀

*** both view are facing direct south which have sunrise on left ….

2013 Nov – Photohunters – East Java Outing

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update 2018 Jul 1

– simply another Papuma Beach Milky way .. think everyone come here is easy to get this view

update 2018 May 22

– this is from 2018 May Photohunter to East Java .. some capture as usual at this beautiful place

 

the sunrise view , and this is captured with Panasonic G9 80 Megapixel High-resolution Mode

– a nearer view with Mavic Air

 

– beside sunrise , sunset also can have good view here

 

– nightscape view at Mount Bromo always highlight of the tour

– after sunrise sessions, most the tourist will travel close to Mount Bromo with horse or by walk .. this could be good moment capture some good horse moment

 

 

– beside Mount Bromo, as usual we visit this lovely beach call Papuma Beach … sunrise, sunset , slowshutter and nightscape all can be attractive here

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update 2017 Nov 30

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update 2013 Jul 25

… Mount Bromo Dawn … 1. SIngh-Ray RGND 2 stops

update 2013 Jul 22

 

… rocky-rainbow … 1. Lee filter GND .6s 2. Lee filter Big Stopper | ISO 200 | 45.0 sec at f / 14 | 21 mm

 

update 2013 April 11

– sunset spot and good to be there low tide

… wave sky rocks … 1. Lee Filter GND 1.2s

update 2013 April 10

… stand Still , Papuma … 1. Lee Filter Big Stopper 2. Lee Filter ND .9 pro glass 3. Lee Filter Glass Enhancer

update 2013 April 8

– cold , windy .. and misty at lower level …………

… the mist trap …

update 2013 April 3

– a place with strong wave, whole beach is like facing from North-East – South-West .. full with rocks… take extra care of the wave and wet rocks

… fishing …

update 2013 March 26

– I wish I stay near our hotel for the closer view of this beautiful moment even the hotel facing west

1. Singh-Ray RGND 3 stops 2. Lee Filter Pro Glass .9

update 22 March 2013

… volcanoes … 1. Lee Filter Big Stopper 2. Lee Filter Glass Enhancer 3. Lee Filter .9 Pro Glass

update 20 March 2013

… misty crater … 1. Singh-tay RGND 2 stops 2. Lee Filter ND .9 Pro Glass
Papuma Nightsky …

 

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update 2012 Nov 26

… above …

update 2012 Aug 10

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Exposure 30
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 14 mm
ISO Speed 1600

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… owlhouse – Milky Way …

even KL, Malaysia may not good place to chase Milky Way .. but I still travel around this year … and here are some update shots …

*** I still use the same method as share HERE

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Milky from Sekinchan

 

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update 17 Jun

– Exposure 30 Aperture f/2.8 Focal Length 14 mm ISO Speed 1600

 

 

 

 

 

How I shoot Landscape – black card method (use finger)

I actually want to share this “black card” quite some time ago .. but I always forget and not really able to get some good result to share … and while I am doing this , one of my gang actually notice me shaking my finger around the front len .. and she did ask what was I doing … 😀 and here you go ….

what is black card method and when will we use it ?

when we having different exposures, I normally do GND filter, exposures blending, black card, HDR …(we not going to discuss all here but share some sample)

 

A. GND filter

this is just like GND filter, most of the time we have big dynamic range/different between sky and foreground.. it normally have different from 2-9 stops …. e.g. for standard sunrise/sunset/magic hour environment, we face 2-4 stops different between foreground – sky… to resolve this we normally use GND to single frame picture have the correct exposure among foreground and sky e.g.

1. without GND

Magical moment - no GND

2. GND

... the magical moment ...

– the sky is ~4 stops different from the foreground…

– I use GND.9s for above picture and do some PP trick to make the right exposure

 

B. HDR (seldom do this …but think we still good to know this)

Cold Reflection

– why I choose HDR … this was shoot use my SIGMA12-24mm which cannot fit any filter

– it was too cold to think which method to choose so I simply shoot 7 exposures back 😀

 

3. black card

– seldom use this as I am not really experience

– filter much easy

– need a lot of try and error but the good light could be disappear any time

original shot without any filter, blending, black card

– why I choose black card, the environment was dark, not sure how/where to apply GND

– multiple exposures will take double or even more times for single shot

– the exposure different >3 stops

for me I know the area that make me concern as below

the over expose portion

– so what I did was, use my fingers block the over expose area

– allow only ~2-3 seconds exposure over 30 seconds exposure, so I block it until last few seconds and I remove my finger

 

so I get

... another milky way ...

 

most of the time we just need try and error, where some fail sample .. think only expose for ~1s

wrong timing to shake the black card/finger

I will discuss more on other method in future … but let’s try and error on black card 😀

 

some of my Nightscape/Stars collections

Me and my gang was crazy with nightscape with stars since last year but too bad year end is not a good season for stars photography due to weather … so we stop for months and now we are back with full actions where we are thinking, dreaming of stars every moment .. and we also try to plan as much as possible stars chasing outing 😀

some of my stars pictures

1. my very 1st “plan” star shooting

… Galaxias | the milky way …

2. star trail from USA

… a cold Startrails …

– still time elapse for the stars movent

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/4598121297/

3. while waiting for the sunrise

… another waiting moment …

 

4. waiting for sunrise also

… the Star still Shines …

 

5. my 1st Milky way

… the Milky way …

 

6. … the Dawn full with Stars …

… the Dawn full with Stars …

More Nightscape and Stars pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/sets/72157625783040852/

and have share how I shoot stars