Not the only shot from this location on my blog, but my favourite of the two here (and of the 10 or so I took) – taken just a few minutes after the previous one.
Aug 242009
Aug 132009
This hadn’t been intended my location for the evening – I’d been going through some earlier shots and wanted to carry out some further experiments with the green filter and reflections in water, so I chose somewhere at random from the OS map. Once I’d been for a walk through some fields and found that the water was on private land and not that great anyway I set off to find something else to do – then I noticed the Ratcliffe On Soar power station :)
I watched the sun go down from another location, waiting for the light to improve to give me a good balance between the sky and the ground but it was cloudy and slightly windy. In the end I decided to head home without any particularly decent shots but, when I drove past this field with easy access and a good view of the power station I knew there was going to be the chance of a nice image. Fortunately the breeze was intermittent so after a few attempts it was still enough to get this 1 second exposure without any noticeable movement in the crops.
I used a Cokin P121 ND grad filter to reduce the brightness of the sky by 3 stops – it would perhaps have been better if I’d stacked another grad on top too, but the wide angle filter holder only has room for a single filter (and even then there are still vignetting issues between 10 and 12mm)
Technical details : P121 ND grad, 1 second exposure, f/22, 10mm, ISO100
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Aug 102009
Another image from our holiday in Cornwall earlier in the year. I’ve always loved the rich dark colours of this shot and the gentle ripples in the water, which looks almost like black treacle.
The sun was low in the sky to my right when this was taken, casting a warm glow across the harbour.
