Fearless

I'm having a few issues with the blogging side of things today so if I don't post this time I'm going to give it up as a bad job!

This is the last of my wedding posts from this wedding, I've done a couple as I was a bit low on wedding posts but after this I'm going to get back to some landscape stuff.

I was pretty nervous shooting this part of the wedding, the river was quite wide so there was quite a lot of stepping stones, it didn't help matters that one guy who went turned back as he didn't like the look of one of the stones. I was also aware of a number of spectators filming it on their mobiles and commentating on it as if they knew they'd be sending it to you've been framed! Luckily it went off without a problem and I got a lot of keepers. I had to clone out quite a few people on the banks but it's easy enough with Lightrooms spot removal and photoshop for the more tricky parts.

Fountains Abbey

This was taken at fountains abbey in North Yorkshire. There was a bit of a druid gathering going on (or people on a druid experience, whatever one of those is) you can just see them at the bottom of the frame but as the shutter speed was 13 seconds they are very blurred but it gave me an idea about processing this to try and get a mystic effect. It's basically another split toning image with the shadows set to blue and the highlights to green. I also added a slight diffuse glow in photoshop along with a little dodging and burning on the roof.
The exif data for this one was ISO 100, f/11 for 13 sec at 27mm, I am starting to look at ultra wide lenses now (10-22mm range) as this would have helped for the great interiors (and exteriors) at fountains abbey.