Faded paint... always a great subject. Colours work well here too.
Faded paint... always a great subject. Colours work well here too.
Wonderful colours in these two. I've never been a sunset chaser myself, but we used to live in a house with an east-facing view, and came to appreciate the skies in the oppsite direction.
Looks a great place for a quiet walk.
Looks like a great walk, though the fine weather denies you much in the way of atmosphere. The first one is a much more impressive shot.
Great series of unfamiliar (to me!) wildlife.
Indeed, I've made some of my best mountain images in terrible weather over the years.
@SteveMonks has written:Sunset Selection
Wonderful colours in these two. I've never been a sunset chaser myself, but we used to live in a house with an east-facing view, and came to appreciate the skies in the oppsite direction.
I wouldn't say I'm a sunset chaser myself, but with the curse of a full time job¹, evenings are really the only option I have for mid week walks with photography, so organising my walks such that I end up in a suitable place to catch a nice sunset (should one occur) is just par for the course, because there's nothing worse² than a spectacular sunset kicking off while you're out and about with all your camera gear, but in a terrible location where you can take advantage of it. Fortunately, with the weather around here (specifically the Irish Sea perma-fog) this is rarely an issue.
¹ I suppose it pays for my camera addiction, but it doesn't half interfere with my opportunities to make use of them.
² technically, there are plenty of things that are worse.
He's a very happy looking security person - smiling assassin?
A few shots from yesterday, not much luck I am afraid.
This is very eccentric London.
Carrasqueira, Portugal.
I really liked this, I have an affinity for the old structures when they are captured beautifully.
Sunset Selection
A handful of shots taken at sunset over the past few weeks. I don't think I've posted the first two here before, it's hard to keep track, so apologies if I have.
All images taken with the GFX100S plus either the 32-64 or 45-100 mounted on a tripod. Processed from single raw files in Capture One Pro 23.
The Nab From Black Coppice
I was low on energy on this particular evening and very nearly didn't go out. But as sunset approached the skies were looking increasingly promising, so I dragged myself out somewhat belatedly and scrambled wearily up the steep path around the quarries of Black Coppice as quickly as I could, arriving at the top mere minutes before sunset was expected and not leaving myself much time to find compositions. Fortunately, it wasn't too hard to find something quite nice.
Sunset from Black Coppice
Taken the same night as the previous shot. Although I bracketed this (it's just one exposure from the sequence), I didn't allow quite enough exposure compensation to catch the sun properly without blowing it out a little. The sun had just fallen below the clouds at this point, but I could see the ominous spectre of coastal mist on the horizon, so I only had a brief window of light before it quickly faded as the sun sank into the mist.
Moody skies over Limbrick
This evening began with heavy rain at my initial location (Brinscall woods), that didn't look like it was going to ease up any time soon, so I decided to head back home. Unsurprisingly, as I got closer to home the rain stopped, so rather than writing off the evening entirely, I decided to drive over to Limbrick and investigate a path I'd recently spotted on the maps of the area. Despite living in the same town for the past 56 years, it's surprising just how much of the surrounding area I've not explored and it's always a treat when I happen upon some location I'd previously overlooked, Limbrick being one of them.
The path follows the route of the river Yarrow as it resumes its original route after being rudely interrupted by the Rivington reservoir chain and most of the walk along it was either under woodland canopy or surrounded by trees. However, as I emerged from the end of the path onto a country lane, the impending sunset began to fill the sky with colour. I was in a less than ideal spot to catch a sunset, so I hastily looked around for a better vantage point.
As luck would have it, the lane I was on ran alongside the steep dam wall of Anglezarke reservoir. Having found a hole in the dry stone wall separating the lane from the dam (quite unnecessarily as it turned out because there was a gate a little way back up the lane), I hastily scrambled to the top to see if it offered any better views. Fortunately it did.
Sunset over Limbrick
Taken shortly after the previous shot and just after the sun fully broke cover from the clouds.
I'd moved a little way back down the side of the dam wall at this point so that it didn't dominate so much of the foreground, although you can still see part of it in the lower right.
It's a shame about the flare beneath the sun, I'm not sure what's caused it. For the previous shot I still had the CPL on and that flared like crazy when pointed directly at the sun, so I'd removed that when I took this. I'd hazard a guess we're looking at internal reflection of the PDAF matrix given how regular the banding is, but that's just conjecture on my part. It's not too bad, but I'd rather it wasn't there at all.
I guess I could have used the old 2nd exposure with my finger blocking out the sun trick and then merged the two images later to paint out the finger, but I didn't think of that at the time.
They are just wonderful, it is really hard to pick one. Thanks for sharing.
Very peaceful...
White Maiden and White Pike
A few months ago I climbed the mini matterhorn known as Caw, which is in Dunnerdale, a little frequented part of The Lake District. When the clouds broke on the summit, one of the neighbouring peaks that caught my eye was White Pike.
White Pike as seen from Caw, back in January.
This is so good. It will look wonderful BW too 😉...
Carrasqueira, Portugal.
Such weathered huts are great photo subject, I like it. First I thought that blue colour is natural, but on closer look it seems to be remains of paint.
Sunset Selection
A handful of shots taken at sunset over the past few weeks. I don't think I've posted the first two here before, it's hard to keep track, so apologies if I have.
All images taken with the GFX100S plus either the 32-64 or 45-100 mounted on a tripod. Processed from single raw files in Capture One Pro 23.
Love the warm colours and overall palette. Well done despite of short time for preparing.
White Maiden and White Pike
A few months ago I climbed the mini matterhorn known as Caw, which is in Dunnerdale, a little frequented part of The Lake District. When the clouds broke on the summit, one of the neighbouring peaks that caught my eye was White Pike.
White Pike as seen from Caw, back in January.
IMO this shot is best from set, love the light, colours and clouds. Maybe tad more sky would been better?
Colourful Tirana
Back home from the Balkans, and a first trawl through images of Tirana. The city is full of contrasts and colour. A prveious post-communist prime minister decreed that the city needed brightening up, and a cheap fix was with cheerful paint. Now there are ultra modern buildings going up and street art on every corner.
Cheap but great fix to paint buildings. Seems to be great spot for photographing, lot of interesting buildings and colour combinations.
A few shots from yesterday, not much luck I am afraid.
Eh? I wish to be so "unlucky" as you were... Great captures of colourful characters!
Hello mister police officer
By chance I saw in TV news about opening of new street art exhibition. And by accident I happened to be in that location next day. And by accident I had camera.
Exhibition building
Looks like a fun place to explore, even if the dereliction is a bit scary. I enjoyed this set.