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Loch Leven

I took a stroll down to the loch from our friends house that is most enviously situated only half a mile from the shore. Many water birds were scattering as I a...
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I took a stroll down to the loch from our friends house that is most enviously situated only half a mile from the shore. Many water birds were scattering as I approached but my primary aim was to photograph the loch as part of a landscape composition...and in black and white! The oily hues you see on the water surface are not pollution from agriculture or industry nor are they purely reflections from the early evening sky but rather they are an oily residue left behind from the Oysters. Yes natures very own organic pollution!
I love the way the differing refractive index of the oil makes swirling multicoloured patters on the water surface, I love even more the fact that it is not man made destruction of the natural environment as we see only too often.
I used my ultrawide 10mm - 20mm Sigma EX lens at the wide end to add impact to this image and to include as much foreground as possible without sending the composition off balance, I used an aperture of F-11 to give enough depth of field for sharpness front to back and also as this lens has a sweet spot in that region. The camera used was a Canon 550d whit a shutter speed of 1-125 of a second and ISO 100, mounted on Manfroto 055 carbon legs with a Gitzo head and a Cokin Z graduated filter to keep the sky within printable boundaries.
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