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It was too good an opportunity to miss: with covid restrictions suggested keeping within Perthshire, but weather forecast suggesting oodles of thick fog around the time of sunrise around Rannoch, I just had to get up and go.
For once, the weather didn't disappoint. The fog was indeed thick, the sunlight came with a first flush of red to the east and pink to the west, then faded obscured by mist, returning golden around sunrise itself.
The low cloud was so thick and consistent I never even saw the favoured mountain, Schiehallion, all morning; but the views across the loch to the trees on the opposite shore were awesomely atmospheric.
I'm particularly impressed at how still the trees stayed despite it being 25*4 = 100s exposure (thanks to pixel-shift).
Prints, masks, cards and other things are available from the website: Misty Morning, Loch Rannoch 1.
Experimenting with the new Pixel Shift feature in the Nikon Z8.
You can certainly see every bug LOL!
Possibly the most photographed tree on the planet. In the running at least, and rightfully so, it is a glorious tree on screen. I had the good fortune of a trip out to Portland during fall season so this was an absolutely *mandatory* stop. It was not quite peak fall color, was about a week early for this particular tree, though some of the other japanese maples in the gardens were in the deep rich red stage. In my previous post I talked about not having done much image modification with Photoshop yet. However, I sometimes do quite a lot of tweaking in Lightroom, so In FULL disclosure, I have shifted the colors in this image some to bring out a little more orange and red. In my initial take I shifted it dramatically but then realized that the near rainbow of colors here was quite compelling in its own right and decided to pull back to a more delicate shift in the 5-10% range. Clearly a lot of vibrancy used in this too, though I went pretty light on the saturation (+5). It's one of those images that depending on my mood and the lighting in the room, etc., I will either be very happy with it or want to continue tweaking it.
Met up with fellow photographer Kevin Benedict on this trip. There was a major downpour for multiple days in Portland but we managed to catch a small window where the rain lightened up enough for us to hit the famed Japanese Gardens for this epic tree. The tree is surprisingly small, and even after reading very specific descriptions of its location and warnings that you can easily walk right by it, I did in fact walk right by it. To shoot it, one needs to set up very low to the ground and so it was a bit of a challenge shooting upwards through the dripping canopy in rather dreary light (although that ultimately helped make the dynamic range more manageable). It took multiple attempts with the drying towel handy before getting a clean shot. Fortunately the poor weather kept most people away and so we were able to shoot in peace for quite a while. There was almost no breeze at all so the "Pixel Shift" feature on the K-1 together with the terrific Tamron 15-30 lens grabbed some nice detail.
For those who have the opportunity, the Gardens are well worth the effort and time, they are gorgeous, especially in fall, and recognized as one of the finest public Gardens in all of the USA. An absolute treat for fall color photographers.
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Simple things: waves lapping around an outcrop of hard rock surviving erosion by the sea
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/Water--Water-and-Rocks-deaa67f...
I just couldn't drive past that caramel light on the way home today ... so glad I stopped by Boonerah Point - Have a great weekend folks :-)
The incredible Multnomah Falls in Oregon, with some terrific fall color popping in. The Eagle Creek fire famously caused a lot of damage along the Columbia River Gorge near Portland and access trails to many of its famous waterfalls were shut down while the natural area recovered and damaged infrastructure was repaired. To my great disaappointment, many of the trails and falls to the east of Multnomah are still closed and inaccessible. However, Multnomah is open and as beautiful (and popular) as ever.
I cloned most of the people off the bridge here (in a pretty quick and dirty edit - don't look too close), but found the one figure silhouetted by the falls to add an intriguing detail, so I let them live (jokingly referring to the "god mode" ability to delete unwanted people from pics of course). In my previous shot of the falls from last year I used a vertical composition but with all the fall color surrounding, I decided to go wide. This is a pretty straightforward shot, the only thing you have to is patiently wait for people to make room for your tripod, oh and make sure you don't overexpose and blow the highlights on the water. D'oh!
This is such an epic waterfall that it really feels like it should require a monstrously difficult hike to get to it. But in reality it's just a pit stop along Interstate 84 from Portland and a few short stairs up to the viewing platform. I was really hoping to throw in a longer hike to some of the lesser photographed falls further east along the gorge route, but they're pretty much all closed. I sure hope they start to open some of them up again by next autumn.
Pentax 6x7 MLU
SMC Pentax 4/55
f13
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Rollei IR400 (effective EI 25)
Hoya R72
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Self developed in DD-X 1:4 at 19 °C for 8.75 minutes
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture
Toned
Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.
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Fine details: abstract lines in the snow (from wind-swept drifts to fences to animal tracks). Winter, Strathtummel.
A triumph of super-resolution techniques: with a combination of pixel-shift and HDR, one can resolve an individual wire in the deer-fence approximately 2km away.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/Pure-Geometry-f8d748c7d6f12b0a...
Linhof Technikardan S45
Schneider-Kreuznach Apo-Symmar L 5.6/150
Heliopan Slim High Transmission SH-PMC CPL
Lee 81A
No movements
f32
1 second
Fuji Provia 100F
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Lab development
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture
Note: my images are processed to appear correct on a calibrated, professional grade colour-accurate monitor set to Adobe RGB output / 6500 K temperature / gamma 2.2. Many consumer grade screens (particularly mobile phone screens) at default settings will display these images with too much saturation and contrast, so please bear this in mind when viewing on such devices.
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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
#HenryWardBeecher
Water, rocks and trees: these are a few of my favourite things.
The river runs for a few miles out of Wester Camghouran into the Rannoch Forest uplands; the gorge accompanies the path for an impressively long stretch of waterfalls and cascades.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/In-the-Allt-Camghouran-Gorge-e...
My wife and I rarely get a day off with the kids in school, if possible a bushwalk together (free of moaning kids!) is always something welcome. As I work towards my first book I am still scouting possible locations, worthy walks that might make the cut. On this occasion I don’t think Little Zig Zag will make an appearance but I am very happy with a couple of the shots I managed to grab and should eventually make their way to the Print shop.
All images shot with the Pentax K-1 and the vintage 1960’s Takumar 50/1.4 eight element (which is very much the subject of the forthcoming book).
This particular shot was pixelshifted, it's worth zooming in.
The first rays of sunrise hit the twisted overgrown row of beech trees lining the Bregagh road in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This is a spectacular tree lined road, known as the "Dark Hedges", but sadly it won't last forever as the trees are said to have lasted longer than their usual lifespan and are now in decay and under threat from traffic and weather events. In 2016, a storm destroyed or damaged 3 of them. There are about 90 remaining of the 150 originally planted in 1775 by the owner of the estate to which the road leads. The location was made famous in an episode of the TV series Game of Thrones, and now dozens of tour buses visit every day. Reading about these trees was a Stark (GoT pun there for any fans) reminder to me that a surprising number of the great landscape features I photograph are vulnerable and may not exist in their current form for so much longer. Sometimes it's because of the pressure mankind puts on our fragile ecosystems, but quite often it's just the ever-changing nature of this incredible planet, we bear witness to those changes even in our short lifetimes.
I was happy to have another visit to Ireland during a recent trip to Europe and I arranged an extra evening and morning to drive from Dublin up to the Antrim coast. It was my first time braving the mysteries of right hand drive cars, and I am happy to report that I managed it without "pranging" my rental car. I found the Dark Hedges first in the late afternoon, but the road was mobbed with people, there were even a number of vehicles parked visibly within the frame which is a shame, and I could see that it would set up better for an early morning picture where hopefully there wouldn't be so many tourists around. I drove from there to the Giants Causeway (an amazing feature I've posted before) but sunset was a bust. Coming back to the Dark Hedges in the early morning was the right thing to do, there was only one small group of photographers there and so I was able to squeeze my tripod in among them and wait for the sun to come up. The road is a treat to photograph at any time, in any season. It would of course be beautifully enhanced by a little Irish mist but no matter, I was really surprised and pleased to see the orange/red glow effect of the morning sun as the rim of the sun peeked over the nearest ridge. It lasts only a precious minute or two before the glow fades to a nice warm yellow light among the beeches. Happy Hedging!
Hasselblad 501CM
Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5/100 T* CFi
f16
1/2 second
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Kodak Ektachrome E100
Lab development
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture with a 99 CRI light source and an IT8-calibrated custom profile.
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Thought I'd give pixelshift a go, I've owned the A7rIV for a year and never used it. Well it works, 203megapixel image after some 16x9 cropping, not sure I see the benefit though honestly
It is scenes like this that keep us all coming back for more. It had been a few months since our last road trip and Kevin Benedict and I were starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms, which can include obsessively starting at each sunrise and sunset and muttering, forming "picture frame" hands around random things, envious perusal of other peoples' flickr streams, and constantly observing to spouse how great Iceland would be at this time of year.
We met up in Salt Lake City for a quick trip around Utah (in a Volkswagen Tiguan so cheaply made that I managed to yank the door handle straight off, but I digress). One of our stops was in Moab UT for visits to Canyonlands and Arches. We had a hard time finding accommodation because it turned out there is an annual car show in Moab and this was the weekend for it. It did make for some very entertaining and unusual sights on the street. I have to say that Moab seems like the new Austin to me, now that Austin has become so grown-up and touristy, it's not so "weird" any more. Moab is much smaller of course, but manages to capture much of the authentic individualist weirdness that Austin used to be known for. That's a good thing. Keep on weirding on Moab.
This is the well-known and frequently shot Green River Overlook. Of course, it's frequently shot for a good reason, because it is damned majestic and highly photogenic, and just a general pleasure to look at. A storm chased us up to the overlook and caught a few hints of interesting light at sunset before shutting it down altogether. I've not even been home for two weeks and I'm already trying to figure out the next outing. More to come from this trip.
Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada really lives up to its name here. This is the "Fire wave" feature, lit above with some really interesting sunset light on low hanging clouds. I really had some exceptional luck on my visit to Las Vegas in late March, not at the card tables, mind you, but out in the field, which counts way more in my books. Valley of Fire is only an hour drive from Las Vegas so its pretty easy to get there for a sunset shot of the famous Fire Wave and then head back to town. Absolutely one of my favorite places to visit in the Vegas area, it never fails to put a smile on my face.
As I drove in, the clouds were really menacing and dramatic looking. So I was excited about the prospect of some interesting cloudy shots, but I did not expect sunset to amount to anything because there was just too much cloud. However, for a brief few minutes the sun found a crack and lit up the clouds in little pockets. There are always people shooting the fire wave at sunset, and today they were all lined up in one particular spot hoping for the fire wave to catch the sun. However, I could tell it would not but once I saw the clouds catching some color I scrabbled all around the fire wave trying to find an interesting angle with the color. It was one of those times where one has to keep an open mind and adapt to the conditions to get a usable shot. Planning is important (and I don't typically do enough of it), but I also find it is extremely important to let Mother Nature's plans have the final say.
Shot with Pentax K-1 and Pentax 24-70mm using Pixel Shift.
[EDIT] Originally I shot this in a vertical format and displayed as 8x10 with a lot of the fiery sky in the photo, but I found the wonderful lines in the fire wave were getting lost under so much sky so I recropped in square format to bring some focus back to the rock and am more satisfied with this.
It was too good an opportunity to miss: with covid restrictions suggested keeping within Perthshire, but weather forecast suggesting oodles of thick fog around the time of sunrise around Rannoch, I just had to get up and go.
For once, the weather didn't disappoint. The fog was indeed thick, the sunlight came with a first flush of red to the east and pink to the west, then faded obscured by mist, returning golden around sunrise itself.
The low cloud was so thick and consistent I never even saw the favoured mountain, Schiehallion, all morning; but the views across the loch to the trees on the opposite shore were awesomely atmospheric.