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Another image from a snowy morning walk in Watermead Park in January. There are three things I like about this image - firstly, the pink glow, secondly the overall tones, but most of all I like how much the snow has utterly transformed this little section of river. Normally this is just a tangle of bushes and thorns, and admittedly this is still a messy composition, but the snow hides many of the scenes sins.
For me, setting the correct white balance when taking shots like this is a bit of a nightmare - if not done correctly (or if you leave it up to the camera to decide) you can easily end up with lots of dull or blue snow. This time I used the camera’s Custom White Balance feature, which involved taking a shot that contained just snow, then choosing that image as the one for the camera to base the white balance on.
This is technically incorrect for a couple of reasons:-
- Ideally I should have used a piece of 18% grey card (or so I’ve since read)
- Snow isn’t really white
I found the results to be incredibly accurate initially. However, as I’d set the balance based on an image taken just before dawn my white balance drifted away from reality as the sunlight brought with it a change in colour temperature. This slight drift away from reality is partly responsible for the tones of this shot.
Posted in landscape, sunrises.
Tagged with pink, riverbank, snow, trees, watermead park.
By Andy
February 15, 2010
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been revisiting the same location (Cossington South Lakes and Meadows) - beginning with a chilly morning visit with Flickr contact John Houghton and ending with an overcast and rainy afternoon out with “her indoors” this weekend. This shot was taken earlier this week after a short, mid-afternoon snowfall.
It’s not a great composition I know, but opportunities were a little limited. However the pretty sunset and reflection were too much for me to pass without taking a few shots, of which this was my favourite.
Posted in sunsets, trees.
Tagged with cossington, reflection, snow, sunset, tree.
By Andy
February 15, 2010
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A couple of old shots again today, as I continue working though last year’s images with a view to making some of the better ones available as prints (and just generally sharing some of the others that had been languishing on my hard drive).
These were both taken on an overcast afternoon on a footpath just outside Brocks Hill Country Park in Oadby, a few days after I’d got my Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens. I find it hard to ignore the combination of crops, tractor tracks and trees and many of my images from this time were similar to this, as I tried to find a composition I liked (and I imagine there will be a few this year also).
Posted in landscape, trees.
Tagged with cokin, crops, leicestershire, nd grad, sigma 10-20, tree.
A small amount of snow just before Christmas gave me the ideal excuse to get up nice and early on a Sunday morning to go to Bradgate Park. When I arrived, long before sunrise, there were only two sets of prints leading into the park from the Old John car park - someone taking their dog for a walk.
The sunrise itself was rather uneventful - a cloudless sky, a bit of a glow and then the sun appearing - not really my favourite. Perhaps I could have made more out of it if I’d prepared (or had more imagination) but it was pleasant enough just to be there in the fresh snow.
While the light was still good I headed to one of the places I’ve been meaning to visit at daybreak for sometime and got the shot above. This is just as it was taken - no filters, no post processing, just good old fashioned sunlight.
Posted in landscape, sunrises, trees.
Tagged with bradgate park, old john, snow, tree, winter.
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