Author: Dave Wares

Photographer based in the South East of England, UK. http://davewares.co.uk
Blog, Landscapes

Medieval Morning

Dave Wares

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Medieval Morning.

Filter: Cokin Z pro ND2 grad. Processed in Lightroom 5.7.

Looking down the visitors walkway at the wonderful Bodiam castle. I took this a couple of weeks ago on a particularly cold and frosty morning. So cold in fact that frost started to form on my camera and filters!

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Texture and Light

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Texture and Light.

Processed in Lightroom 5.7

I met up with my friend Dan again for a brief explore around old abandoned building fairly local to us. The whole place has been both bricked and boarded up but we found one remaining access point that gave us easy entry. Lights were needed to move around the place on all of the floors except for at the very top, where the only light available was shining through the holes in the roof. The light outside was still pretty dull at this point so we decided to start shooting using our torches and my LED panel. However, as soon as it became bright enough outside, the feel of the building had completely changed. At this point we continued to shoot using only the ambient light. I think we both came away pretty pleased with our results.

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Prelude to happiness

Dave Wares

Prelude to happiness

Prelude to happiness.

Shot on Hasselblad 500c. Film; Ilford FP4. Developed by and scanned by my good friend Dan Smith.

Met up with my mate Dan to take the Hassleblad 500c out for a test drive yesterday morning. I have the camera on loan to get some use out of it as it hasn’t been used in quite some time. It was a bit hit and miss as I think that due to lack of use there are a couple of issues with at least one of the backs (did’t always wind the film on) and a number of shots didn’t come out. This could be down to poor metering on my part or maybe the shutter not firing correctly. I think that it’s just a case of putting more rolls of film through it to loosen up all the components. I still got a couple of shots I like, however,(this being one of them) and I’m quite fond how the light is shining across the front of the lens.