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          Landscape Photography Exhibition at the Light in Leeds

          I am going to be exhibiting a few examples of my landscape photography work at the light in Leeds.  The exhibition is called ‘A view from the North’ and comprises of landscape photos taken all over Northern Britain.  There will be photographs from local national parks such as the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors but also from the lake district and a few pieces from around Scotland.  The idea behind it is we have such natural landscape beauty in this part of the world, all relatively close by and hopefully these photos will encourage people to get out to these spots and check them out.

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          Sunset at Emley Moor Mast

          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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          A couple of lakes landscapes from the vault

          Boathouse on Ullswater at Sunrise

          Boathouse on Ullswater at Sunrise

           

          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.

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          Saltwick Bay Landscape

          Not 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 …

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          A few more Scottish Landscapes

          Thought I would put some of my remaining landscape photos from our recent trip to Scotland up. These were taken from a couple of different locations so I’ll go through each one. I generally have my …

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          Oldshoremore and Sandwood Bay

          A couple more shots landscape photos from our recent trip to the top end of Scotland. These were from the beautiful beaches of Oldshoremore and Sandwood bay. These are really more seascape photos and whenever I see a bit of turbulent water or waves crashing on rocks I always do some with the opaque 10 stop filter to really slow down the exposure and get a silky look to the water, it’s often a good trick if the light isn’t overly dramatic. When the horizon is pretty flat I also use a harder edged graduated filter, this just has a more pronounced transition and ensures the sky is balanced out right down to the horizon. In most cases I used a 3 stop grad in conjunction with the 10 stop, this really darkens the sky and makes for a bit more of a moody shot, the skies were pretty dark but luckily they didn’t really break on us and soak us to the bone!

          The first two are at Sandwood bay which is about a 3 mile walk from where you park, we had originally planned on camping on the beach but weren’t 100% sure it would stay dry so we stayed at nice B&B. If you are up that way I really can’t recommend the old school near Kinlochbervie highly enough (www.oldschoolhotel.co.uk).  Alan who is the chef and owner there is a greak bloke, takes a keen interest in his guests and the attention to detail at the place was really great.

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          Landscapes from Elgol in Skye

          Got back last night from doing some landscape photography in Elgol on the Isle of Skye. Elgol is a bit of a landscape photographers Mecca but last time I was up that way I didn’t get round to doing …

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          Yorkshire Landscape Photography

          I 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.

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          Poppy’s and Ponds

          I went out to grab a couple of local landscape photos last night as the sun looked like it was going to light the land quite nicely.  There was not much in the way of clouds so I knew it wasn’t going to be a spectacular sunset but I thought I could perhaps get something, plus its nice to just get out and about at that time of the day, unless of course you get attacked by pollen and start sneezing until someone mistake you for the girl from the exorcist!  Anyway I diverge.

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          Black and White Landscape Photography

          I’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.

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