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Light trails arising from ongoing traffic along the roads to Shinjuku during a long exposure at night.
Shinjuku is one of the most famous districts of Tokyo, where the many dazzling signs and alleys light up in the night and compete for the attention of many visitors to the area.
This shot was taken on a Fotopro X-Aircross 3 tripod with a 21 second long exposure.
I've just had a great trip down onto the South Coast of Dorset, one of my favourite places in the UK and not somewhere I'd been to for ages, the trip was a mixture of photography and also a recce for locations as later in the year I hope to come back in Autumn and Winter.
Summer long days and weather aren't always ideal for photography but there's no better place to be than on the coast, life down here is really slow and very chilled out and it's not hard to fall into the I can't be bothered moving from this spot mentality ! This evening, although really pleasant had looked quite poor from a photography point of view with the sky being bereft of any cloud to catch possible sunset colours but I decided to have a go anyway as I'd picked up some new kit namely a new tripod/head and filter kit the day before so I wanted to test them out, the gear is absolutely fantastic and for anyone who may be interested, details can be found below in the text.
As it happened as sunset progressed clouds just magically appeared drifting through the scene allowing for the colours to display themselves right across the sky, the exposure time on this of eight and a half minutes has given the scene a truly surreal feel and allowed the colour in the sky to drag right the way across the frame. If you zoom in, The Isle of Wight can be seen on the horizon just off left of center.
It wouldn't be me though if there wasn't some form of blunder or mishap whilst shooting, and this day was absolutely no different... I was actually sat on the groyne here while I was shooting, I watched the Weymouth to Guernsey ferry go past about a mile in the distance, I remember thinking yeh that won't show up during these long exposures... what I didn't think about was that about 5 minutes later the wash off it would come pounding into the beach without warning, and yes, I got absolutely saoked and covered in seaweed, much to the amusement of some kids walking past on the promenade.... you'd think I'd learn having been done with this before but nooooo.
Nikon D810
Nikon 16-35mm f/4
Fotopro T-74C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
Nisi V6 System
NiSi Landscape Cpl
Nisi 100mm 10 stop filter
Nisi 4 stop hard gnd
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A familiar location but something a bit different, you'll probably have seen this location shot with water flowing over the top, despite all the rain we've had lately the levels are right down at the moment leaving it totally exposed out of the water so I've gone super wide to get the lot in, and against a fairly angry sky makes for a quite unusual take on this place.
The set up for this was iffy to say the least with a lot of moneys worth of gear hanging over a wall pointing down with huge 150mm filters on the front, and the rear leg of the tripod rested (a bit precariously) on my camera bag to give extra height need to get right over the wall and looking down. While setting it up I had visions of the lot dropping off over the wall, but thankfully that didn't happen !
Even taking it down really had to be careful, bit of a hold your breath moment for sure!
Nikon D850
Nikon 14-24 F/2.8 @ 14mm
NiSi S5 System
NiSi 150mm 10 stop
NiSi 150mm 3 stop medium gnd
Fotopro T74-C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
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Great little location in Glen Etive that yeilded a few images this freezing cold morning, if you look in the small pool of water you can see the last batch of hailstones that had fallen, big critters too!
I found this scene a bit difficult to compose as in Landscape format you are left with a huge bit of empty sky on the left unbalancing everything, switching to portrait has all but eliminated that leaving just enough around the snow capped mountains and giving more balance to the 3 sections of the image.
The rocks formations here are really curious, you can only wonder how this exact scene was created many moons ago, presumably in the Ice Age I'm guessing.
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Just had a great couple of days up in the Peak District scouting new locations and trying out the new camera for the first time, I wasn't especially lucky with the light on this trip at each end of the days but certainly came back with a few dramatic images from the afternoons, and a good list of new spots with potential for the next visit.
I hadn't planned to shoot here today but the contrasty light and dramatic nature of the sky when I was passing by changed my mind.
Naturally as soon as I had set up it started raining and with nowhere to shelter it was just a case of covering the camera up and getting wet for 5 minutes until it passed by, I often like the light that follows a rainstorm so it's worth hanging around rather then running for the nearest tree. it soon blew over and I was able to get my shot.
Nikon D850
Nikon 24-120 f/4 @ 65mm
Fotopro T-74C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead
Nisi V6 System
NiSi 100mm 10 stop filter
NiSi 3 stop medium gnd
1S064
f/11
88 seconds
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The opportunity arose for a shoot here as I was taking my car in for repair in nearby Liverpool at 0900, and I noticed high tide was 1045 over here so it would have been rude not to have a mooch across (or rather under) The River Mersey....
First shot of the day with the tidal breakers leading out into Liverpool Bay and the Irish sea.
I did quite well with getting this as not too long afterwards it aboslutely lashed it down with rain. The 10 stop hadn't been out for ages so thought it was time....
I think I got 3 images I like from this shoot on the Wirral (I did 2 other spots too) , which is great from a bonus trip, I have to take the car in again in a week or so so another trip will be made I think and see what else I can get this time, I'm not sure they will give me a courtesy car again though as the footwell and the boot were totally covered in sand when I took it back lol :-)
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Well what's this!? some actual new material?... with the recent relaxation of the seemingly never ending lockdown rules it was time to escape from the confines of the house with the camera to a real location, and one that I hadn't been to for some time.
The weather looked quite good for sunset so I just decided to go for it, even if it didn't work out I really wasn't bothered as it was as much about getting out into nature again, with a view to look at at, a bit of exploration, and some more practice flying my drone, basically it was just GREAT to get out!
Mike Tonge decided to come up as well and meet me for sunset so there was the added bonus of some company as well on the jaunt. The few hours I had up here seemed to go very quickly and all to soon it was time to find a spot for the impending sunset, this one was chosen with the hope the the smaller tree could be fitted 'inside' the larger one by getting low down, which worked out really well, the weather had gone from being sunny and perfectly still to blowing a gale from nowhere which made keeping the tree still a quite hard task, but it wouldn't be landscape photography without a challenge! I had bumped the ISO up to 400 to deal with that, but this is shot on the base ISO so I must have just got lucky for a second!
The sun vanished totally into the low cloud and haze shortly after this shot, knowing there wouldn't be an 'aftershow' of any kind tonight, we made our way back down the hill and out of the strong winds before setting of home. A great use of an evening.
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I've not posted anything from here in absolutely ages so here we go, we stopped off here on the way to Skye in February, which really does seem like an eternity ago now!
As always with this location I always look for something different than the 'regular' shot, (then always end up taking one of that anyway..) I do like a low perspective, and this was about as low as I could get in the River, even with wellies on it was a bit of a contortionist job getting wedged in....
The sunrise came and went and only had very brief colour, but what it lacked in colour it certainly didn't in drama with some great storm clouds either side of the Buachaille and with the top perfectly visible in full snow I was happy enough... well until my backside got soaking wet .... not a lot wellies can help with there!
A dull and dreary day and what at first glance appeared to be a lone tree in a field was looking like a great subject for a minimal long exposure image...
Upon further investigation for angles from which to set up the 'lone tree' revealed itself as actually being 2 trees leaning against each other and becoming one in the upper entangled branches, I've never seen anything like this before where they are so far removed from any other trees so I picked a spot to show the separation and set up to do some long exposure work.
It wasn't long after I'd started that the rain (that wasn't forecast) came rolling in and I had little choice but to to just cover the camera and bag up and stand in it until it passed.
Just shortly before it stopped the only bit of light I saw all day came bursting through a tiny break in the cloud to illuminate the tree, and also the passing storm clouds, a quick reset of the camera from long exposure and removal of the filters saw this captured instead.
Certainly not what I'd intended to shoot but something I'm far happier with, you can still see the rain coming down in the left hand side of the scene.
I did get really wet taking this but the thought of missing any potential shots after the rain finished, (which can sometimes be the case) made me stay, I just got very lucky with that little burst of light that only lasted 1 minute or less.
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The fantastic 'Diamond Beach' at Jokusarlon, Iceland.
The last time I came here there were hardly any Icebergs around, this time was the Polar opposite with the beach littered with them in all shapes and sizes, I've got a load of shots from here, all different and this is the first one I'm sharing online.
For people not familiar with the place there is a huge glacier a few miles to the rear of the beach, as the glacier moves forward, huge chunks of Ice break off it and fall into the lagoon. Here the Ice will stay for a while being jostled about by other Icebergs until it meets the tide at the head of the lagoon.
At high tide the bits of Ice nearest to the edge get swept out to sea, but only to get smashed back onto the beaches by the punishing waves. By the time they get onto the beach everything they have been through causes them to arrive in the most curious of shapes, on this visit I saw what appeared to be 'ice creatures' in the shape of a Shark, a Whale, a Bear in a hat!, and a perfect Scorpion (pics to follow).
Quite simply one of the most remarkable places I've ever visited and an absolute photographers playground.
The hardest part is getting the exact shutter speed you need for the effect you want, and then making sure your shots are pin sharp as the ice pieces often move when the waves crash around them, but it's worth waiting for 'that shot' as the results can be magical.
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This was my second visit to this place, and I've had great light on both occasions, the last time the clouds covered the top 1/4 of the mountains so although the sky was quite plain on this visit is was great to actually get to see the jagged tops of the mountain range.
The light stayed good for quite a while here allowing for plenty of shooting opportunities, I've ended up going with a 5 shot panorama here to get a wider scene and include more foreground as that was also bathed in the golden light that was making the mountains really glow with life.
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Another one from the 'vivid imagination required' series...
One of the most curious and bizarre Icebergs, or 'Ice Creatures' I saw washed up on Jokusarlon beach at sunset on this extremely productive day.
An upload I promised to do for Katybun of Beverley, who after reading my comments from a previous upload expressed an interest in seeing a Bear in a hat sunbathing, well here it is.
Not an image title I ever thought I'd type..
This one worked a lot better with the tide fully surrounding it as the glow from the low sunlight didn't show up very well against the black beach, so it was a case of getting the right shutter speed and waiting for the 'right' wave to envelop the 'Bear'.
Do you see it ?
Happy Easter Folks, and stay safe :-)
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The first trip out since lockdown began, and I headed over to the Yorkshire Dales to meet fellow togger Terry Roberts (Bingleyman) for an afternoon of socially distanced shooting.... in true fashion the weather was fairly grim and wet and we had thought about calling it off, but seeing as I've had so much grief recently about actively going out shooting in poor weather (since I mentioned the same subject at a talk in Birmingham at the NEC) I thought yeh I have to practice what I preach really or I deserve it :-)
Meeting up it was pouring down but this wasn't the end of the world as the 2 falls we visited were both heavily wooded over and the poor light outside did us a real favour lower down at water level...
Thi shot is from the second spot we visited, Catrigg Force, it was like an ice rink down here with extremely slippy limestone that I was sliding about on let alone the tripod...
It was just fantastic to get out again and a top time was had, shooting both of the waterfalls and also researching a couple of spots to revisit again when the light was better higher up. Great to use the longer lens as well, ditching the wide angle for this one.
Zoom in for full effect
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Following on with the 'impromptu relelvent title series'... this seemed to fit and obviously a word we are now using in regularly in our everyday lives, as opposed to only using it when referring to the rather excellent Joy Division track of the same name...
Anyway... this is Arnastapi in Iceland, on the wonderful Snaefellsness Peninsula.
A fresh covering of snow had left this scene looking just glorious with enough rock detail coming through to break up the bright whites.
This was shot not long after sunrise with some lovely light falling over the fresh now and hitting the mountains and glacier to the rear, not the easiest of shots to get right to keep the snow bright white without any blown out details and retaining the sky detail / colour in full.
I think if you had the supplies to dig yourself in here for the duration you would be hard pushed to find a better location I think.
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Something a little different from the norm a night panorama of Manchester taken a while back, shot at around 500mm (exif is totally wrong) the image was constructed from 54 seperate images ranging from 30 seconds exposure time down to 1 second, blended together then broken down into 9 individual files and from there then stitched together as a panorama in PTGui.
The scene is absolutely huge with the view ranging from Manchester City's Ethihad Stadium on the left far out past the Trafford Center and M60 ring road out to the right.
While we were here we had the pleasure of 2 very curious fox cubs out on their nightly hunt for food.
The issues with my hard drive last week have thankfully been solved and I managed to resue all the images off there safe and sound which was a great relief! somehow it just started working again when plugged into a laptop, think I've dodged a bullet there, I've replaced it anyway, not taking any chances.
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Probably my favourite place I have visited in Iceland and an absolute playground for photography, you never quite know what you are going to get here.
We had come for sunrise this day whikle we did get some great light it wasn't a fiery one by any stretch of the imagination, but it really doesn't matter as what may lose in colour is usually more than compensated for in drama and mood.
The dunes here were unshootable this day due to howling winds and it whipping all the sand up everywhere, literally impossible conditions to shoot in, as there was a alot of wind and cloud about I decided to just hunket down somewhere shelterd and try and capture the cloud movement and mood of the scene at the far end where the sea meets the black beach.
Totally different from the shots I have got here previously and a location that leaves you in awe each time you get there.
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This was the second time at this stunning location for me, but the first time coming up high to this spot to shoot from above the falls, and I'm so glad I scrambled up to this spot as it has so much beauty to give and in a very different way entirely.
The 2 falls you can see are coming down from different mountains, the main falls coming from the snow covered glacial peaks to the rear, and the one on the left can be seen just trailing away left towards another top. There's actually a third fall here but it can't be seen here as I've gone portrait for this composition to create more depth looking directly up to the snow covered peaks at the rear.
I do normally geotag my images, I know a few of you will know the location of this spot anyway, but some won't, we were asked by a local to please not share this place online as they don't want it to get busy and destroyed, I'll happily respect that. Infact since we came last boulders have been placed on the track a lot further than we got in the 4x4 on the previous visit to stop cars ruining the area so we had to walk quite a bit more, which, let's face it in this place is hardly a chore!, and not much to ask to keep somewhere relatively untouched.
Despite seeing a lot of snow on this trip this location was pretty much snow free apart from up high which I think works well as you get the 2 contrasting scenes in one image.
From memory I'd say this was a polariser (as not much clear sky to ruin) and 3 stop 100mm NiSi ND.
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Finding this image by chance on the hard drive was definitely something of a 'poisoned chalice'...
I happened across this image and liked it straight away so I thought right time to get this one done... for someone who doesn't like to spend too long editing images this one was an absolute pain in the backside as it actually took several hours to do... nothing complicated about the image, no advanced or complicated methods needed, nope nothing like that... it was due to the sheer amount of dust spots on my camera sensor at this time! I don't think I've ever had an image as bad as this for dust spots, pollen, and crap on the filter / sensor which really shows up on long exposures such as this, as I remember I got this camera cleaned professionally after this shoot due to this...
This is 'Charlies Garden', a fantastic rock stock in the North Sea in Northumberland, this was shot just after sunset, the tide was just at the height I wanted and there were plenty of clouds about so this type of image was always in my mind.
At 3 minutes long it can be considered a really long exposure, I just wish it had taken that amount of time to process it!
Amusingly after I had done it, I found a PSD file in the folder which was titled 'unfinished dust spot nightmare', and when I opened it up it was this :-)
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This image has been lain on my hard drive untouched since February, having another root through the the images from the Isle of Skye it stood out as one that definitely needed some love and attention as it had been passed by.
The end to a great shoot at Elgol with the sun already having gone down, with there still being some really good colour in the dramatic stormy sky, and the sea absolutely pounding inland it was hard to stop shooting, so I didn't....
I think this image for me just epitomises Skye and just how wild it is when the weather takes a turn for the worst, which sometimes is no bad thing if you are out with your camera, well it is if you are only 5 minutes walk from the car....
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An image from last year taken at Estrahorn in the far South East of Iceland, it's very remote out here and feels it too.
I've not taken anything recently that I'm happy to upload on here and I'm not uploading possibly below par images just for the sake of it, so I'll continue to find shots from the archive until (hopefully) I get something worth posting soon...
This was shot at Sunset with the low sun illuminating the fantastic and dramatic form of the Eystrahorn, this is shot a lot less than it more famous neighbour at Vestrahorn.
There is a headland here that basically has 2 beaches either side, the beach to the East had enormous breakers coming pounding in, which were great to shoot but the sunlight was far more prominent on this side hitting the gnarly tops.
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Yesterday's weather here in Hawaii was kinda unforgiving for photographing. Although not much wind, it was raining here & there & also hazy/voggy at the same time. Still managed to take some decent photo with my newly acquired tripod from Fotopro, lightweight but solidly built one. Every Friday, people gather here in Ala Moana Beach Park to take photos & watch the fireworks.
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Into September now and I still haven't been back to the Lake District since C19 kicked off, I guess I'm just builing up a appetite for it... I decided on the spare of the moment without even bothering to check the weather to book a few days in Snowdonia, I fiugred that even if the weather went dreary I could just head to Dinorwic Quarry and embrace the gloom as it often looks great in wet and dramatic weather....
I'd never really got anything I liked from this location before and hadn't planned to shoot it on this trip, but the B&B was only 5 minutes away, the conditions looked good the night before, and I'd also get my breakfast before a day in the hills so I talked myself into it...
As it happens I'm glad I did as this is to date the best image I've got from here, definitely worth crouching down in the water and getting a soaked backside for anyway!
The eruption of light over the tops of Dinorwic was great but quite brief, the hardest part of getting this shot was getting the tree as still as possible during the exposure as you can see by the water movement it was (annoyingly) fairly windy, a couple of grads on for the sky was giving me around a second and then just had to stare at the tree to wish it to keep still.
For anyone like minded who is wondering, the Breakfast was great :-) even with a wet backside.
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I've been after this shot for a good while now, timing was always going to be the key here along with when I was free, I'd planned to shoot it a week before this but the warm weather meant all the roads were heavily congested into the area with people heading for beaches....
This is the result of about 4-6 weeks weather watching, and this evening was the first night where it was going to be dry, not much wind, and where the (right height) tide, and Sunset were all pretty much aligned.
The high tide at under 7m was low enough not to swallow the entire hull of the boat so it was all systems go! Mike Tonge, and Mike Muddyboots decided to join me for an evenings shooting as well which was great.
I've been panicking a bit as the wrecked boat is due to be removed so this night was possibly my best or only chance at getting what I wanted, I ended up with 3 shots that I'm really happy with, so it's job done for this one.
Having been marooned since November 2019, Beached Yacht, 'Celestial Dawn' rests on her side at Lytham, on the Lancashire Coast..
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A very windy late Summer evening in a huge Worcestershire Poppy field.
This turned out quite well as the cloud which was the precursor for a massive rainstorm had mostly been covering the sunlight, it was just a case of waiting for a possible break and hoping that came before the rain did ...
Luckily I did get the break, the wind had really got up though with the storm coming in so it was a case of just shooting what I had in front of me, I was curious as to how the poppies would look during a slow exposure and was ready to up the ISO to quell any movement, as it happened I liked the result and I think it tells more of a story about the scene so I left the ISO alone and just went with the shot as it was.
Amazngly for me I got this and still made it back to the car about a mile away before the rain came.
Nikon D810
Nikon 16-35 f/4 @ 16mm
ISO 64
f/11
2.5 seconds
NiSi V6 system
NiSi 100mm 4 stop medium GND
Fotopro T-74C tripod
Fotopro LG-9R ballhead