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St Monans Pier, St Monans,Scotland.

St Monans Pier, St Monans,Scotland.
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Dec, 2017

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Winner in Black and White Nature Photo Challenge

Contest Finalist in Rule Of Seconds Photo Contest vol1

People's Choice in Monochrome Creative Compositions Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Monochrome Creative Compositions Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Long Exposure Experiments Photo Contest

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good shot

Thank you, much appreciated!

Platinum

Beautiful image, fantastic composition all around excellent work. This is worthy of a large print on Fuji Pearl black and white paper for your wall.

Thank you Michael, much appreciated and will consider your suggestion.

wow! you captured this lovely!

Thank you _atombomb, much appreciated!

Great composition in the wall with the water
It just leave you want more

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Great leading lines and composition...definitely rocks in B&W????

Thank you Mike, very much appreciated and black and white works very well for this image.

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great BTL. Now I know what it takes to be a great photographer.

Thank you very much for your nice comment, glad the BTL help, that and lots of practice!

Wonderful shot. It makes me feel like this pier goes on forever. So effective in black and white too. Congratulations on your very much deserved award too!

Thank you Rosa, your nice comments are very much appreciated!

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Love the subject and your vision, your B&W is amazing!

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Congratulations!

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Congratulations for win

Thank you Bob, very much appeciatedand congratulations to you too!

Congrats on the win, amazing photo.

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Beautiful image. Congratulations!

Thank you HaliSowle, very much appreciated!

good job

Thank you, appreciated!

Great composition with the leading line and shape

Thank you Bernard, very much appreciated!

Beautiful image. Great use of lines and form. Perfect in B&W.

Thank you for your nice comment, much appreciated.

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this looks like the image that adobe used on the last Photoshop CC

Thank you, was it CC 2017 you were talking about?

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Such a beautiful shot

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Amazing capture, simply stunning...

nice

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Behind The Lens

Location

This image, being not only one of my personal favourites, but also very popular, was taken in the bay of a small fishing village of St Monans, on the eastern coastine that is part of the Fife region of Scotland. This is a breakwater, a stone structure that serves as a means of preventing both coastal erosion from the Firth of Forth estuary and a means of boats passing safely into St Monans harbour.

Time

Arriving in St Monans the night prior, I stayed overnight at a local guest house, to arise very early at 5am in the morning. The reason for the early rise is that having studied the tidal times the night prior, I wanted to capture a long exposure at high tide to capture the effect of the water hitting of the side of the breakwater.

Lighting

Having decided I wanted a long exposure shot, I mounted my camera to my tripod and using a shutter release cable, allowed for a 34 second exposure shot.

Equipment

Canon 6D, Canon EF 17 40 f4 L lens at 23mm, ISO 50, f14, 34 second exposure. Vanguard tracker 3 tripod and wired shutter release cable.

Inspiration

The St Monans breakwater serves as a great leading line that follows your eye through the photo, I felt that given the weather conditions using a black and white composition served this image perfectly, gave it a kind of surreal yet dark and mysterious feel to it. I also like how it conveyed a sense of solitude within the emptiness of its surrounding environment.

Editing

Using Photoshop, After I had worked on the RAW image to get the best black and white tones, I decided to add a gradient curves layer to the top half of the photo and a circular gradient layer to the bottom half of the composition.

In my camera bag

Canon 6D, 17 - 40 f4 L lens, 70 - 200 f4 L lens, Vanguard tracker 3 tripod, Lee big stopper and filter holder kit, various ND grad filters, spare batteries.

Feedback

Visualize the type of shot that you are aiming for even gaining inspiration from others work through sites such as Viewbug, plan ahead to determine tidal times, weather forecasts, travel arrangements and arrange accommodation prior to visiting, before leaving check all batteries are charged and lenses are cleaned prior to taking photos, before taking the shot take time to plan your composition and framing of the shot.

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St Monans Pier, St Monans,Scotland.