Posts tagged Autumn

Newmillerdam near Wakefield in Autumn with tree leaves starting to turn

The light was looking nice yesterday, which might be the last nice day for a while looking at the reports, so I decided to potter down to Newmillerdam. This is a country park not far from where I live and for some reason I never quite get what I want when I go. I was actually after a sunlight through the trees type shot but the autumn colours on the far bank looked a better bet. The thick ND filter slowed the water down and sent the colours haywire, I didn’t pull the reds back too far as they suited the subject. I struggled a little for foreground interest, I finally decided on the tree roots breaking the surface might act as a leading line toward the building (a boathouse I think, there is a cafe in it actually) and the trees. The exposure was 15 seconds so there was a little movement in the leaves to the bottom right but I thought I could let it go. The rest of the settings were ISO200, 19mm at f/8.