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After a 4 am alarm and subsequent wasted trip to St Ives yesterday, I was keen to get out this morning despite the inclement weather!
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B A R E
After a 4 am alarm and subsequent wasted trip to St Ives yesterday, I was keen to get out this morning despite the inclement weather!
Yesterday, I didn't even get the camera out of the bag. Partly due to being just too tired at that time in the morning. Partly because after taking ages to find somewhere to park I had little time to find compositions in the best light. And partly because although yesterday's weather was great for the beach, the clear sky caused strong light even just after sunrise - not as good as a recent visit. So I just wasn't feeling inspired. A long way to go to not take a photo!
Having checked the weather forecast the night before, I was confident that there would be no colourful sunrise, and thick cloud would give diffused, non-directional light in a fairly constant intensity all morning. Which meant I could lay in until 6.30!
A final check in the morning suggested drier conditions to the east - so that's where I headed. With thick cloud everywhere, I opted for a woodland setting to eliminate the uninteresting sky from my compositions.
Finding compositions in these conditions was on one hand tricky, but the unchanging light meant that I had hours to find one. And indeed it took a while to find this!
As Photoninja Photography​ quoted Thomas Heaton Photography​ - "When there is poor light and no colour, look for contrast" - that's what I did here! (The quote subject to Chinese whispers is probably more of a paraphrase by now, but I think I've retained it's meaning!)
This tree (and another group of bare trees) out in a field stood out to me. It took a while to find a suitable background that contrasted them well without dissecting the shot. I eventually found a slightly elevated position with some dense, dark foliage behind it. A long focal length compressed the perspective to eliminate the sky, and a -2 stop exposure bias darkened the background even more (with a little more tweaking in post editing).
Canon 6D MkII | 75-300mm lens at 155mm | ƒ-5.6 | 1-250 sec | ISO 100 | -2 Exposure Bias| Tripod | Taken 23-06-2019
**Photos available to buy**
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2019
www.hocking-photography.co.uk
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After a 4 am alarm and subsequent wasted trip to St Ives yesterday, I was keen to get out this morning despite the inclement weather!
Yesterday, I didn't even get the camera out of the bag. Partly due to being just too tired at that time in the morning. Partly because after taking ages to find somewhere to park I had little time to find compositions in the best light. And partly because although yesterday's weather was great for the beach, the clear sky caused strong light even just after sunrise - not as good as a recent visit. So I just wasn't feeling inspired. A long way to go to not take a photo!
Having checked the weather forecast the night before, I was confident that there would be no colourful sunrise, and thick cloud would give diffused, non-directional light in a fairly constant intensity all morning. Which meant I could lay in until 6.30!
A final check in the morning suggested drier conditions to the east - so that's where I headed. With thick cloud everywhere, I opted for a woodland setting to eliminate the uninteresting sky from my compositions.
Finding compositions in these conditions was on one hand tricky, but the unchanging light meant that I had hours to find one. And indeed it took a while to find this!
As Photoninja Photography​ quoted Thomas Heaton Photography​ - "When there is poor light and no colour, look for contrast" - that's what I did here! (The quote subject to Chinese whispers is probably more of a paraphrase by now, but I think I've retained it's meaning!)
This tree (and another group of bare trees) out in a field stood out to me. It took a while to find a suitable background that contrasted them well without dissecting the shot. I eventually found a slightly elevated position with some dense, dark foliage behind it. A long focal length compressed the perspective to eliminate the sky, and a -2 stop exposure bias darkened the background even more (with a little more tweaking in post editing).
Canon 6D MkII | 75-300mm lens at 155mm | ƒ-5.6 | 1-250 sec | ISO 100 | -2 Exposure Bias| Tripod | Taken 23-06-2019
**Photos available to buy**
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2019
www.hocking-photography.co.uk
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