Wedding Photographer, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Posts tagged Snow
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Mar 3rd
Sunrise through the Branches
Hi folks, one of my traditional landscape photography from the Wakefield region posts today. I’m having to post a couple of my B-sides from earlier this year when we had all the snow. I found it during after a bit of an unforced photo library reorganisation, the less said about that the better! It wasn’t my favorite shot of the morning but I thought I’d put it up, if anything to remind people what a sunrise looks like as it seems so long since we’ve seen a decent one (although it was a nice day yesterday). The details were ISO100, f/16, 1/8 at 32mm and if I recall correctly I’ll have had my Neutral density grad on. Even though I have used a silhouetted tree and branch to frame the sky I still wanted the snowy field behind to be visible, so I still used a grad, otherwise everything but the sky would be black. I polished it up a little in lightroom as I tend to do with shots with all my landscape photography with quite a high dynamic range.
Emley Moor Mast in the Snow
Jan 8th
I did a landscape commission a while back where a client wanted a panoramic photo of Emley Moor Mast, it has since become one of my most popular images so I decided to try and get a version of it in the deep winter snow we have had recently. I used my 70-200 lens and zoomed in to 200mm and did a stitch of about 10 vertical photos to get the image you see below.
Panaramic Photo of Emley Moor Mast in the Winter Snow
I did a talk at a photographic club the day after, this being one of the images I showed. The high resolution version really is quite detailed, you can pretty much see the windows of the church near the mast. It was taken about an hour before sunset, I should have really stayed to get a better version with a lower sun but I had to move to a different place and I thought the location isn’t going anywhere and neither is the snow by the looks of it!
It’s Snowed!
Jan 5th
Snow covered tree in a field with a white sky
Hi folks, hope everyone had a great christmas and a happy new year. Not posted for a while but I will hopefully be out and about this week or next as I think we are due a lot of snow, this was a quick snap I got today just on a walk, no setting filters up or anything. The light was about as flat as it can get but for once I wanted a white sky to create almost a black and white scene. It’s important when taking shots in the snow to set your camera to overexpose by at least a stop, otherwise you get grey snow! Anyway I think we are in for 4 more days of this, have to get the sledge out!
A Sunrise in the Snow
Dec 22nd
Sunrise in the Snow
I was up early this morning and could see we would be in for a decent sunrise so I donned just about all the clothes I own to keep warm and set off to a nearby field. I got there in good time but the shot I originally planned wasn’t going to work, it was more of a sun set location so I went over a small bank so the land would be lit up as soon as the sun peaked over the hills. As a side note, I also found quite a substantial bee farm, about 20 hives, luckily with it being -10 degrees there were none about. I used the tracks and the fence/hedge for foreground intrest and as leading lines towards the dramatic sunrise. I had my 3 stop ND grad on to balance the exposure and thats about it. I had underexposed the shot slightly to get the saturated colours, generally you should overexpose snow scenes to get the snow white as opposed to grey but in this case the sky was the main subject and I knew I could bring up the land a little with the graduated filter in Lightroom. This shot was taken at ISO100, f/16, 1/3 sec at 16mm.