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Flood reflection

Feb 18, 2015Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Flood Reflection.

Filter: Cokin ND4 Grad. Processed using Lightroom 5.7

As the light got brighter I switched from using my ND8 grad to the ND4 and eventually an ND2 (for my castle shot a couple posts back). I always work in manual for my landscape work and so continuous reassessment of light levels is needed to get a good and balanced exposure to ensure the atmosphere of the scene is not lost. It was in this location that I had the most difficulty with frost forming on my filter due to being down a bank with the mist rising from the river. As usual, more cloud in the sky would have been nice. It’ll all come together eventually.

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The door’s always open…

Feb 7, 2015Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

The door’s always open

Processed in Lightroom 5.7

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Medieval Morning

Feb 5, 2015Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

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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Once called home

Feb 4, 2015Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Once called home.

Processed using Lightroom 5.7.

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Texture and Light

Feb 1, 2015Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

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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Ice cold morning

Jan 17, 2015Dec 23, 2015 Dave Wares

Tranquility. Looking out across a flooded field at Bodiam, East Sussex.

Cokin ND4 grey grad filter, processed in Lightroom 5.7.

I made a spur of the moment decision today to head out to nearby Bodiam. The sky was clear and there was a heavy frost covering everything, including my car, of which a good 10 minutes was taken up defrosting the windscreen. I arrived after a short but careful drive just in time for first light, I put on my hat, gloves and wellies, grabbed my camera gear and quickly set up to start photographing. The light was fairly even but to bring up the foreground grasses (trapped in ice and covered with frost) I decided to put on a ND4 (2 stop) graduated grey filter. ND Grads are an invaluable accessory for any landscape photographer and I really encourage you to invest in a filter system of some kind if you can.

I took a fair amount of similar shots to this, making slight adjustments in both composition and focal length (using my Sigma 10-20mm EX f4-5.6) but standing in the freezing cold meant that my fingers and toes started to go numb. This told me that I had been taking pictures in the same spot for far too long and it was high time I moved on to capture something else and my feet and fingers thanked me for it.

Other than my extremities getting a tad cold I had a really peaceful and pleasant time photographing. The only thing I encountered was that ice kept building up on the ND filter as well as on the top of my camera, so every few minutes I found myself having to wipe the filter with a lens cloth. Never leave home without one.

I’ll be posting more shots from today over the next few posts.

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