Sony Photowalk - Melbourne 2024

While thousands of Swifties descended on Melbourne, I was taking photos.
Setting the scene:
That night the question was whether I drive into the CBD, and be caught in Taylor Swift traffic, or catch a train and risk standing the entire time, listening to concert-goers screaming 'you belong with meeeeeeeeee'. Luckily I got out of the city while Taylor was wrapping up, so enjoyed a nice quiet train ride home.
The Shoot:
The Photowalk was organised by Sony, in collaboration with North Borders and Hayden Pedersen. Generally speaking photographers do their best work when they remain unnoticed, however a hundred people with cameras, huddled together like a semi-awkward mob tends to draw attention. Whilst part of the event was a few models to shoot at different locations, I found myself drawn more to the location itself, and the opportunities it brought. Until the we got to the cars. Then my attention was on the cars...
This was the last big shoot I did with my Canon M6 Mark ii, before I spent four months doing sixty hour weeks driving a streetsweeper to be able to buy a Canon R5C. Going through these photos again, makes me realise how much of a beast the M6ii was.

Wanting to keep my back light, both for the sake of comfort, and also not losing too much if I were to be mugged, I only brought my Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 with me. Lots of narrower apertures for the cityscape shots, but also the automotive ones, to try and get as much in focus as I could.

Because of this, I needed to get as much light as I could from elsewhere. Thankfully, Lightroom's AI Denoise was there to save the day from grainy photos. Additionally, editing the photo from the Princes Bridge was painstaking, getting the colours just right.
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