Textures and colours
I went out back to Climping beach on Monday, the only chance this week to get out with the camera, a clear bright day but you make the most of it.
I wanted to shoot this beach at high tide to see the difference from the full low tide of the previous week plus I wanted water around the groynes and rocks.
To say I found photography challenging that day would be an understatement, I have to wear glasses with UV protection, so you can imagine they were dark, the sun was bright and some conditions like my foreground here of white chalk made exposure a challenge, I would normally rely pretty much on the flip out LCD screen but today I had to use the viewfinder a whole lot more as the screen I just could not see, the histogram was my best friend and the amazing autofocus of the R5 did an amazing job for me.
We were able to park in what was left of a small lane rather than the 6K walk there and back from Littlehampton, the tide was high with quite large waves coming in.
With the tide being so high and waves braking on the beach we were able to see the effect of the waves and how the beach is being eroded first hand, each wave would pull away some material from the bank which would collapse forward into the water, imagine this being repeated with each wave and tide and you get the picture.
I took many shots that day, this one as the tide was dropping out, the receding water revealed chalk and other coloured rocks and one of the old groynes.
It was sadly a blue sky day so not the best, but, it`s what you have on the day and make the best of it..
Textures and colours
I went out back to Climping beach on Monday, the only chance this week to get out with the camera, a clear bright day but you make the most of it.
I wanted to shoot this beach at high tide to see the difference from the full low tide of the previous week plus I wanted water around the groynes and rocks.
To say I found photography challenging that day would be an understatement, I have to wear glasses with UV protection, so you can imagine they were dark, the sun was bright and some conditions like my foreground here of white chalk made exposure a challenge, I would normally rely pretty much on the flip out LCD screen but today I had to use the viewfinder a whole lot more as the screen I just could not see, the histogram was my best friend and the amazing autofocus of the R5 did an amazing job for me.
We were able to park in what was left of a small lane rather than the 6K walk there and back from Littlehampton, the tide was high with quite large waves coming in.
With the tide being so high and waves braking on the beach we were able to see the effect of the waves and how the beach is being eroded first hand, each wave would pull away some material from the bank which would collapse forward into the water, imagine this being repeated with each wave and tide and you get the picture.
I took many shots that day, this one as the tide was dropping out, the receding water revealed chalk and other coloured rocks and one of the old groynes.
It was sadly a blue sky day so not the best, but, it`s what you have on the day and make the best of it..