Another old one. This time from October 2009, taken with the Canon 450D and the Sigma 18-200 lens.
When I took this I stacked the Cokin ND4 and ND8 grads so that the water in the foreground would be smooth and bright and the light from the setting sun would be correctly exposed. I didn’t really like the result when viewed “in camera” though so I didn’t carry on. On reviewing the images I changed my mind - it might not have been an entirely faithful reproduction but the result was quite striking.
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Earlier in the year I set myself a challenge in order to improve my photography and broaden my horizons a bit - I’d seen this concept mentioned in some old magazines that were passed on to me. I find it can get terribly difficult to think of things to photograph so I decided to combine two of my favourite past times, cycling and photography.
The idea was that I would attempt to find something to take pictures of each time I went out - it didn’t matter what - just anything that took my fancy.
On this occasion I was taking a short cut across some fields. It was early spring and despite the sunshine the ground was a little too wet for cycling, let alone lying on, so I got pretty soaked getting this shot.
Despite having the features I wanted, the shot didn’t capture my feelings at the time - the warmth of the first sunny day of the year, the freedom of being out doing what I wanted to do. It needed to be more fluffy and dreamlike and fortunately I knew exactly what I was going to do.
A friend on Flickr produces some fine textures for layering and I already had one in mind that would add the tone I was looking for to the picture.
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Tagged with canon 450d, clouds, cossington, fluffy, grass, print, sigma 17-70mm, sky, spring, texture.
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