Flagging

Now that autumn is here things are beginning to look good as far as photography is concerned. All those glorious days when the light is just right, and the big skies that come with it all, are now just around the corner. Days, albeit somewhat cooler, when I get my beaches back and it is a joy to be out there shooting.

It is something of a slow process returning to making photographs, but I feel that once I get a couple of good images in the bag it will become less of a struggle and more of a passion (again).


12-24mm f/4 AF-S Nikkor. 1/800 second at f/11. Matrix metering. ISO 160



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Autumn skies...

First of all I would like to thank Nic, Spanner and Dave for their supportive comments on the previous post, and my photography in general. It is all too easy to get yourself in a rut, and this can often come about with the expectation to shoot something specific, yet not have that subject available.

I have, during the past few weeks, set my mind on  skies and seascapes as a subject, and although this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere is right up my alley, photographically speaking, it just wasn't happening on the Dorset coast.

Until today, that is. I leave it until late afternoon before I leave the house, and the constantly changing light looked promising so I visited the beach in hope. The reality was that all I had to do was wait and let nature perform, firing the shutter when inspired to do so.

I shall say no more.


27-70mm f/2.8G AF-S and 12-24mm f/4G AF-S Nikkor lenses.



© 2013

Drama, and a sense of scale...

The forecast stormy weather this week never materialised in the south. Instead of strong winds and rain I actually got sunshine and a brisk breeze. It is said that it is necessary to check at least three different weather forecasts, and if they are more or less in agreement then what they predict will actually happen: in other words, a "dead cert". Otherwise, it seems, they are just guessing. I was out in shirt sleeves, today, as temperatures are above average for the time of year, touching 20º Celsius in the sunshine.

What I can rely on are tide tables and the time of year. There are several high and low spring tides over the next few days, and autumn brings with it some dramatic skies. Although the tide had already turned when I shot the photos from Boscombe pier, this afternoon, there was still enough exposed wet sand to make things interesting when the light came. The figures give the scenes a sense of scale.

                               

24-70mm f/2.8G AF-S Nikkor. 

Top: 1/5000 second at f/8. - 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 400

Below: 1/1600 second at f/8. + 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 400

© 2013