Camera in hand is the only way to roam your local area, you can never tell what is going to be round the next corner and if you have to struggle with your bag to get the camera out you may miss the moment and what you were attempting to capture may be gone for good.
This little chap was in front of me as I emerged from an alley from the sea front at Whitstable quite happily watching the world pass by from his perch on a garden fence, I had time for two frames before he grew wary of being in the lime light.
Be prepared you never know what is waiting round the next corner……..
One of my local walk’s takes me through local farm land where I used to play as a child, close to the River Medway and surrounded by fruit orchards stands this old and rusting shed that is used as a fuelling shed during the fruit picking season.
During my last walk through the farm I wandered past the old fuel shed and then glanced behind me and noticed the rain clouds slowly following me home .
Whilst you are out walking looking for scenes to capture never forget to look behind you, things are always changing and moving and it may not alway be directly in front of you.
Here is a few shots captured whilst having a wander round London in the dead of night with some fellow Photographers. The slideshow is below just press the play button and the slideshow will begin.
I do like to try and produce more than one image from a frame and here are two alternate images from some of the Dorset trip images.
The first image is taken in Lulworth Cove and was taken from a High perspective on the cliffs on the right hand side of the Cove, was a bit of an interesting clamber to get up there as the ground under foot was muddy and not that stable, never the less up I went. I decide to process the image with a dark feel and removed the nice tones of the morning light that was captured in the original image, I think I prefer the image with a darker undertone.
The second image is a black an white conversion of one of the Kimmeridge Bay shots I have posted, I do not think it is the same frame but it was taken from roughly the same location, I feel the Black and White conversion add’s to the drama of the shot and enhances the water in the foreground but that is my own view and others may prefer the muted colour version in the Kimmeridge Bay Post.
Whilst doing my weekly tour of the Blog’s that I normally look in on, I noticed on Zack Arias’s site he was attending the Photocamp that was taking place in Utah. He would be doing his normal Onelight Workshop and he was down to be the Keynote Speaker.
I tried to watch the talk live at Ustream however the lag was driving me crazy so I waited for the completed file to be uploaded.
I have embedded the Speech here for you to watch if it of interest to you, I found it informative and very humorous as well. Hope you enjoy it, if you visit Zack’s site you will find loads of helpful information including screen cast and videos on the techniques he uses.
On the final leg of the short Dorset trip the final stop over before head home was Swanage. When I arrived there the weather was anything but co-operative, wind blow and rain still falling.
Driving into the town I headed straight for the water front to see what was on offer, slowly driving along the front toward the pier, I saw lots of opportunities for some great images however they will have to be for another day as there was not way I would be able to capture the shots I was after with the rain driving into the lens.
When I was near the pier I parked up the car and grabbed my tripod and bag and headed off for a wander hoping to find something to point the camera at with out driving rain covering the front element.
Well I was lucky I managed to get the following shots, one shot by being at a slight angle to the driving rain and the other by setting up the tripod beneath a roof overhang and behind a wall which sheltered me from the wind and the rain.
I processed the Jetty Shot a specific way, this is something that I visualised whilst I was taking the shot. Now granted it will not be to everyones taste, but that is the beauty of photography! we all see things in a different way.
