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Guard the slopes (in explore)
So, after scaring off the beast of Dartmoor (see previous tale!), a rather grumpy Dave and myself had to next tackle my own personal nemesis........a hill. A person of, ahem the larger persuasion and with the knees of an 70 year old wrestler, I dont fare well on steep climbs. However, I sucked up my overhang, tucked in my muffin top and plodded my way up the rather steep and slippery stone path, watched over with a retaliatory glint in his eye by Mr Shaw. With only a couple of stops we eventually arrived into the promised land (no, I hadn't passed over on the climb!). Thick fog, no wind and trees so full of character even Deniro would have struggled to be one.
The bracken uo here had gone a lovely deep orange, almost red colour as it died off and it contrasted beautifully with the vibrant greens of the moss, lichen and oak leaves.
The fog too reflecting light up from the ground was a mysterious reddish colour in the predawn light. I Often see green mist but never this rust colour to it. Sadly my early images from the session were ruined as I had relied on manual focus on my Z6 and my eyes decieved me as I thought my images were in focus when in fact they were far from it. Ah well lesson learned there and to be fair, the rest of the session turned into a bit of a belter!
I have decided this autumn to work on a new edit and am tweaking a preset I have called Grim Moor. It still needs refining but its getting there and so far i am loving the results I am getting. I think its always a good thing to not put yourself in a rut when it comes to photography and this applies to your editing style too. A couple of years ago my woodland edits were bright and colourful, last year more pastel in tone and this year I am going full on dark fairy tale with my edits. I have already found this beneficial as the day after this shoot I visited a local woodland and got some lovely images of a well photographed patch that I have edited up very differently. I like the way the tone of the images have altered how I approached shooting them as I had this new edit in mind when composing thus making it exciting both in the field and at the mac.
Anyways thats enough of my ramblings for today. I look forward to sharing more images of dark mysterious woods in the coming weeks! Now wheres my bag of breadcrumbs??
Guard the slopes (in explore)
So, after scaring off the beast of Dartmoor (see previous tale!), a rather grumpy Dave and myself had to next tackle my own personal nemesis........a hill. A person of, ahem the larger persuasion and with the knees of an 70 year old wrestler, I dont fare well on steep climbs. However, I sucked up my overhang, tucked in my muffin top and plodded my way up the rather steep and slippery stone path, watched over with a retaliatory glint in his eye by Mr Shaw. With only a couple of stops we eventually arrived into the promised land (no, I hadn't passed over on the climb!). Thick fog, no wind and trees so full of character even Deniro would have struggled to be one.
The bracken uo here had gone a lovely deep orange, almost red colour as it died off and it contrasted beautifully with the vibrant greens of the moss, lichen and oak leaves.
The fog too reflecting light up from the ground was a mysterious reddish colour in the predawn light. I Often see green mist but never this rust colour to it. Sadly my early images from the session were ruined as I had relied on manual focus on my Z6 and my eyes decieved me as I thought my images were in focus when in fact they were far from it. Ah well lesson learned there and to be fair, the rest of the session turned into a bit of a belter!
I have decided this autumn to work on a new edit and am tweaking a preset I have called Grim Moor. It still needs refining but its getting there and so far i am loving the results I am getting. I think its always a good thing to not put yourself in a rut when it comes to photography and this applies to your editing style too. A couple of years ago my woodland edits were bright and colourful, last year more pastel in tone and this year I am going full on dark fairy tale with my edits. I have already found this beneficial as the day after this shoot I visited a local woodland and got some lovely images of a well photographed patch that I have edited up very differently. I like the way the tone of the images have altered how I approached shooting them as I had this new edit in mind when composing thus making it exciting both in the field and at the mac.
Anyways thats enough of my ramblings for today. I look forward to sharing more images of dark mysterious woods in the coming weeks! Now wheres my bag of breadcrumbs??