Sydney POTNAC meetup somewhere between 5-8 July meetup thread thing

Sounds like a plan.

JustinLawrence wrote in post #8193318
Im cool with your wife coming mate, i guess its her choice, might be a bit of walking so depends how she feels. My wife has same problem before having the baby, very sore ankles and also had swelling etc.

I will be solo as my wife will be home with the bub.

What i want from get together, thingy: I would like to meet you guys as i haven't met many people from POTNAC before, but at same time i would like to shoot a bit, and more importantly maybe pickup a few tips from you fellow photogs. I pretty much fly solo most the time, so be good to see how other shoot.

Same
I was thinking maybe from 4:30 until sometime after sunset would work, what time does the sunset over there (5:15ish here) maybe starting in kirribilly area then going down towards circular quay over bridge (or are there big fences, I can't remember) if not bridge then start around the rocks or in CBD and head around circular quay? All I can think of is the touristy areas since I've only ever been a toruist (except when I was 4:lol
I think I'm staying in kirribilly but I shouldn't have any worries getting down to the CBD or anything...

Justin, good points, and must agree. Only met a couple of POTNers.

Mark, sunset is set for 4:58pm on July 5th, I'd suggest meeting at around 4ish to get the best out of it all. If kirribilli is the go, best place would be Luna Park really. It's close to Milson's Pt station if anyone is going for public transport.

From there you can walk across the bridge and down to the the Quay / rocks area. It'd probably take an hour or so (depending on how slow we walk as a group :lol.

Well, if you can provide me some sort of parking, I can head down to Kirribilli . Otherwise I don't mind parking down at the city. I think it was 5 or 10AUD all day for weekends.

We could also grab some food/coffee/refreshmen​t what not at the Rocks perhaps?

fungry wrote in post #8198993
Well, if you can provide me some sort of parking, I can head down to Kirribilli . Otherwise I don't mind parking down at the city. I think it was 5 or 10AUD all day for weekends.

We could also grab some food/coffee/refreshmen​t what not at the Rocks perhaps?

You could probably find some free parking pretty close to Luna park if you look.

S7000 wrote in post #8198981
Justin, good points, and must agree. Only met a couple of POTNers.

Mark, sunset is set for 4:58pm on July 5th, I'd suggest meeting at around 4ish to get the best out of it all. If kirribilli is the go, best place would be Luna Park really. It's close to Milson's Pt station if anyone is going for public transport.

From there you can walk across the bridge and down to the the Quay / rocks area. It'd probably take an hour or so (depending on how slow we walk as a group :lol.

So meet up infront of Luna Park at four (it's a amusement park right?) Shoot sunset from there (?) then head down to quay/rocks after sunset and stick around that area/CBD until we get heading? Would be a plan...

fungry wrote in post #8198993
Well, if you can provide me some sort of parking, I can head down to Kirribilli . Otherwise I don't mind parking down at the city. I think it was 5 or 10AUD all day for weekends.

We could also grab some food/coffee/refreshmen​t what not at the Rocks perhaps?

I don't think I can provide parking in Kirribilli... Do you reckon you would be able to park at a park&ride (Do they have them there?) or something, how is the parking at Luna Park?

We could def grab food/coffee/refreshmen​t at the Rocks or anywhere along the way whether we go from Kirribilli or not...

It sounds like sunset time is the way to go, so are there any other places that are nice around sunset time and for night shots in Sydney? (not neccessarily in CBD proximity if you can get there by public transport...)

If this was earlier on Sunday, I'd be in. 4pm is pushing it, as I've got other things on.

pendulum15 wrote in post #8199067
So meet up infront of Luna Park at four (it's a amusement park right?) Shoot sunset from there (?) then head down to quay/rocks after sunset and stick around that area/CBD until we get heading? Would be a plan...

I don't think I can provide parking in Kirribilli... Do you reckon you would be able to park at a park&ride (Do they have them there?) or something, how is the parking at Luna Park?

We could def grab food/coffee/refreshmen​t at the Rocks or anywhere along the way whether we go from Kirribilli or not...

It sounds like sunset time is the way to go, so are there any other places that are nice around sunset time and for night shots in Sydney? (not neccessarily in CBD proximity if you can get there by public transport...)

Sounds good, so meet at Luna park and get some sunset bridge/harbour shot there, then walk across the bridge and maybe make our way over to rocks area or wherever the night takes us.

That should provide ample shooting opps, and ive been wanting to get sunset shots of the bridge for quite a while now.

If we do agree on this then i will get a train over to Milsons point from the City, that way i dont have to make my way to Kirabilli before heading home. Milsons Point station is right near Luna park (5 mins walk)

deletedpenguin wrote in post #8199186
If this was earlier on Sunday, I'd be in. 4pm is pushing it, as I've got other things on.

Mmmm, justin is limited to after 3pm....

JustinLawrence wrote in post #8199192
Sounds good, so meet at Luna park and get some sunset bridge/harbour shot there, then walk across the bridge and maybe make our way over to rocks area or wherever the night takes us.

That should provide ample shooting opps, and ive been wanting to get sunset shots of the bridge for quite a while now.

If we do agree on this then i will get a train over to Milsons point from the City, that way i dont have to make my way to Kirabilli before heading home. Milsons Point station is right near Luna park (5 mins walk)

Yup.... My mum has just told me that we are staying in the completely blown out white roofed building here
http://maps.google.com​.au …0.002822&t=h&z=​19&iwloc=A
She reckons the sun sets right under the bridge from the balcony...
I think it is 2nd or 3rd floor up...
(We have stayed there before when I wasn't into photography)
Is that actually a good place in terms of lining up sunset and bridge?
It def. has a good view of the bridge, I remember that...

I think my brother's mate owns 2 of those units in there. If it's the same building. His olds live in one, and the kids in the other. Lucky #%@^!*

Plan sounds good.

S7000 wrote in post #8199243
I think my brother's mate owns 2 of those units in there. If it's the same building. His olds live in one, and the kids in the other. Lucky #%@^!*

Plan sounds good.

So, that would be a better view from there?

Luna Park does sound a lot more accessible though....

pendulum15 wrote in post #8199261
So, that would be a better view from there?

Luna Park does sound a lot more accessible though....

I think Luna Park being a bit more public is probably a better idea. You can get along the foreshore almost as far as that place, so you'll still be able to catch the bridge. Need a pretty wide lens though.

It also depends on just where the sun is setting.

S7000 wrote in post #8199265
I think Luna Park being a bit more public is probably a better idea. You can get along the foreshore almost as far as that place, so you'll still be able to catch the bridge. Need a pretty wide lens though.

It also depends on just where the sun is setting.

Yeah, sounds good... I guess we can all try panos

pendulum15 wrote in post #8199228
Mmmm, justin is limited to after 3pm....

No worries, we'll meet up sooner or later.

pendulum15 wrote in post #8199273
Yeah, sounds good... I guess we can all try panos

Depends who's got wide angles and not.

Oh yeh, gonna need to lug the tripod round too. Dang it.