It’s been a while since I’ve done a landscape photography post as I’ve been busy with weddings most of the summer but now the days are drawing short I can get out and take a few landscapes. It’s a bit crazy to think that this was taken at about 3.30 and there was only about 15 minutes of daylight left, and we are still a month away from the shortest day, if I didn’t know better I would swear the UK was drifting north!
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With no new landscapes taken recently, and with the weather like it is, none in the foreseeable future, I’ve resorted to digging a couple from the maybe pile that I don’t think I ever posted. These were taken last October both on the same day, one at the start and one at the end. I had somehow managed to arrive at the duke of Portland’s boathouse on Ullswater about 2 hours before sunrise, no idea how my timings were so off but I proceeded to freeze to death on the banks of the lake so I made sure I got some frozen leaves in the foreground in one of the shots to remind me how cold it was! In the end I decided to use a more panoramic version of this instead of this squarer crop but I still quite like it, I loved the golden Light coming over the fells from the east. I’m also sticking this one up as we have booked to stay at the boathouse on a bit of a minimoon after our wedding next year so fingers crossed for the same weather then! For anyone who is interested the expo data is f/16, 16mm, ISO100, 0.8 secs and if memory serves I will have had a soft Lee graduated filter on to get the deep blue of the sky.
Read MoreNot done much in the way of landscape photos as I’ve been a bit busy with the weddings but I thought I would try and get up to Saltwick bay near Whitby and get a few …
Read MoreI was out last night on a glorious Yorkshire evening doing a bit of landscape photography. I headed for a field near Woolley, a little village not too far away and spotted this fantastic footpath cutting straight through a field of golden wheat. I had a few hiccups on this outing, my new polariser doesn’t have a front thread so I couldn’t attach my graduated filters, a serious no no for the shot I had planned so I kept my new CPL in the bag. I set up and was pretty happy with my original test shot in terms of composition so I tweaked it a little and put my grads on and it was just a case of waiting for the sun to light up the field. I had envisioned a moody black and white version using a slow shutter to get the sweeping clouds and a little movement in the wheat. However when I got them back I was happy with the standard colour version but I have decided to post both versions and you can make your mind up as to which you prefer. In terms of exposure, the colour version was taken at 16mm, f/16, ISO100, 1/13. I had a hard edged 3 stop ND grad to balance the bright sky and the land.
Read MoreI’m going to do a landscape photography post today as I’ve had a few wedding photography posts recently and feel like a change. I was recently asked to supply some large Black and White landscape photos to a client in London. I do have a landscape photography gallery on my site but not all of my work ends up there so I thought I would have a look through some of the archives at some of my favourite landscapes and see if I could do some black and white conversions, and while I was at it I thought I’d do a blog post about it as well!
The three shots I’m putting up aren’t new unfortunately but the Derwent Pier one is a black and white take on the colour version in the landscape gallery, so I’ll start with that one.
Just a super quick post this morning to let people know I have done a bit of a redesign on my Landscape Photography section as it was looking a bit tired, still ironing out a few kinks but hopefully …
Read MoreJust got back from a couple of days in the beautiful lake district, the weather stayed dry which is always a plus up there! I was up bright and early heading to a location I had found the day …
Read MoreHi folks. Just a quick post today, and by post I mean shameless self publication! I was recently contacted by someone on flikr asking if I could be included in a landscape photography blog he was putting together. The Landscape photography Hall of fame really …
Read MoreI’m posting some more landscape photos from around Windermere and Ambleside. We went up to the lake district a few weeks ago for a short break, the weather was pretty awesome, plenty of snow and sun and the roads, for the most part, were pretty clear. I wasn’t there specifically for any landscape shots but it’s always good to take the camera just in case! The first shot was taken at the pier at Bowness on Windermere, I was a bit annoyed I couldn’t get down to the pier, hence the higher angle, however I wanted the pier to lead up to the mountain to the north (think it’s Fairfield). I had to be zoomed in to compress the elements and not make the mountain seem small and distant as would have been the case if I had been on the pier with a wide angle. So in the end it didn’t matter that I was a little further back. I had a 10 stop filter on to smooth out the water. Settings were 70mm, f/16, ISO50 for 30 seconds. ISO50 is handy if you have it and you really have to reduce the exposure when it’s quite light. Couple more after the break.
Read MoreWell we are back from our walk from the Atlantic to The Med over the Pyrenees. In all it took about 45 days walking and about 4 days resting, there were plenty of ups and downs in more ways than one. To say we under estimated it would be an understatement but I …
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