Dorset Coast

[Tazzie]

I had a fab weekend with Ben Pipe learning more about landscape photography, unfortunatley the weather didn't play ball for most of the weekend and were rather disappointed at times having trecked down to Durdle Door (well the trek back up was the nightmare!) to get a fairly bland sunset but all in all it was a fantastic weekend.

If anyone has any criticisms on the pics please feel free to comment...

More can be found here: My underwater photography journey - Gallery

[DDT uk]

Tazzie

Some nice shots. The first is my preference.
It looks like an interesting choice of shutter speed. There is an ever increasing use of slow speeds to give that soft effect which I must say is rather over use. The other end is to normally to freeze the waters action. You seem to have gone half way between. Was this deliberate?

Any more top tips for this week? Have you discovered the art of using a ND grad filter? If so, please tell me what it is!!

Daniel

[whacky]

Lovely pics Tazzie, I will venture outside with my camera once i add another lens to my collection.

I think the one i like most is number 4 it has a very tranquil feel to it

[Tazzie]

Thanks Whacky

Originally Posted by DDT uk

Tazzie

Some nice shots. The first is my preference.
It looks like an interesting choice of shutter speed. There is an ever increasing use of slow speeds to give that soft effect which I must say is rather over use. The other end is to normally to freeze the waters action. You seem to have gone half way between. Was this deliberate?

Any more top tips for this week? Have you discovered the art of using a ND grad filter? If so, please tell me what it is!!

Daniel

I wanted to show the water being rought but at the same time give it some atmosphere hence the inbetweey - to be honest I shot off loads of different speeds and this was that one I liked the best.

We talked some about where is best to meter, that was interesting (although still trying to get my head around it) metering on a "mid tone" rathe than just where the meter point ended up!

Most of the shots were using ND4 grad filter, I really like the way it gives detail back into the bottom part of the shot - I've trearted myself as a result and bought a couple of other densities so I can play around further to find out the effects

[DDT uk]

Originally Posted by Tazzie

I wanted to show the water being rought but at the same time give it some atmosphere hence the inbetweey

Nicely done. It certainly achieves that. Were there any tip of when to use the different strengths of ND grads? Is it just dependent of the different in light of the foreground and sky?

The only real problem I have with landscape photography is getting up for the golden hour