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After my failed attempt at a decent heather shot I lugged the camera gear and tripod up to Charterhouse this evening while out with the dogs...
After a decent walk the dogs were knackered enough to lie at my feet while I shot the sun going down over the beautiful field of gorse in flower!
As always I shot a few 'standard shots' of the lovely sky before sliding in the 10 stop Lee Big Stopper and taking a few LEs - it is always the long exposures I prefer!
Feeling a bit daring I decided to break a few 'rules' for a change :) shooting in portrait, (something I rarely do) and ignoring the rule of thirds as in this instance I decided the sky and the flowering gorse complimented each other equally...
Canon 5Diii, Canon 17-40mm f/4 @ 19mm
179secs, f/11, ISO100
Lee 0.9 soft grad ND filter, Hitech 0.9 hard grad ND filter, (6 stops of light reduction for the the sky, hence the rapid fall off 'vignette' in the sky away from the sun!) and the Big Stopper were used for the shot, edited in LR5 then passed through Nik dfine noise reduction and Nik output sharpener...
The first full day of a workshop with my brother and Randall Sanger Photography, we visited the Second Falls of Graveyard Fields. We had not been there long when the rain started, and it soon became heavy enough that we had to pack up leave. This is an HDR image. Four exposures were merged in HDR Efex Pro 2. Final adjustments were made to the merged image in Lightroom and Color Efex Pro 4.
Every year when they start injecting water to the rice field, i get a bit shocked to see that the field becomes the ''sea'' just in one night. i'm surprised to see that they put water in the field almost on the top of the hill. It is interesting to figure out how they get the water.
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Another from a foggy morning the day before. The combination of the vivid green grass and distant shrouded trees was amazing to see in person. I hope I was able to reproduce that atmosphere here.
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Saturday we went up to a lavender farm and checked out the lavender festival. More pics to follow (I hope)... Flickr keeps reminding me that my "pro" account ends today...
Anywho, the festival was tons o' fun. I bought dried lavender so I will be able to have some fun with still life images... I just couldn't resist. I also tried lavender lemonade. I must say it was wonderfully refreshing! I didn't know what to expect, but glad I took the "risk!"
PP: This was processed with Kim Klassen's Luminous on soft light.
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Infrared photo shot on expired (2014) Efke IR820 Aura film. Exposure time was 1 second at f/11. Stand developed in Rodinal 100:1 for 1 hour. Minor edits in PS.
I'm still on holiday by the coast and apart from the abortive attempt on the first morning have not managed any seascapes yet. Spending too much time holidaying and not enough time photographing, with the exception of this terrifically ploughed field that i've visited on a few evenings in different conditions so expect a few more over the next few weeks.
Vertorama 2 shots manually stitiched.