Porth Nanven
As an unwitting consequence of uploading a revised crop along the lines suggested by Joe Rainbow I've erased the comments I originally made with the first version. They were along the lines of....
Mrs Rowteight and I spent last week on holiday in furthest Cornwall, the Penwith area beyond Penzance. I took the opportunity to book a workshop with Joe Rainbow, whose landscape work I very much admire. The idea was to learn something of his technique and approach to low light landscape work and composition, so we deliberately booked the session at Porth Nanven for 4:30, in the hope of getting interesting light and maybe a sunset. In the event we had the worst weather of the week, worsening from light drizzle to thick fog, which made the drive back to the cottage through thick fog interesting to say the least.
Despite the weather I learnt a lot and hope to put the technical and compositional advice Joe gave me to good use. He's a good teacher, and very knowledgeable both technically and in terms of composition, being an artist by training. He's also well equipped with filters and polarisers and other good stuff (or was till recently -see his comments below). I can certainly recommend a workshop with him, which he'll happily tailor to your specific requirements.
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Porth Nanven
As an unwitting consequence of uploading a revised crop along the lines suggested by Joe Rainbow I've erased the comments I originally made with the first version. They were along the lines of....
Mrs Rowteight and I spent last week on holiday in furthest Cornwall, the Penwith area beyond Penzance. I took the opportunity to book a workshop with Joe Rainbow, whose landscape work I very much admire. The idea was to learn something of his technique and approach to low light landscape work and composition, so we deliberately booked the session at Porth Nanven for 4:30, in the hope of getting interesting light and maybe a sunset. In the event we had the worst weather of the week, worsening from light drizzle to thick fog, which made the drive back to the cottage through thick fog interesting to say the least.
Despite the weather I learnt a lot and hope to put the technical and compositional advice Joe gave me to good use. He's a good teacher, and very knowledgeable both technically and in terms of composition, being an artist by training. He's also well equipped with filters and polarisers and other good stuff (or was till recently -see his comments below). I can certainly recommend a workshop with him, which he'll happily tailor to your specific requirements.
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