I've been out the past couple of days looking for locations in my local area.. thought this one might be worth revisiting at sunset sometime - this was just a "scouting shot" but I quite liked how it turned out..
* updated 13/7/10 - fresh edit of this shot as I needed to tidy it up a bit for entry to LPOTY. More natural orange tones, different crop, better web sharpening, slightly softer contrast.
Original comments: Another shot from that morning's sunrise looking down on the Warwickshire countryside. Home sweet home
Not sure, but I think I prefer this to the previous one, and probably have one more angle in landscape format to post at some point soon.
I'm in the process of getting files ready to print for my portfolio, and digging through my folders came across this one which I clearly missed first time round...
I miss having the beach nearby
West Sands beach in St Andrews, Scotland, at sunset. Photo taken in March 2009.
This one was long overdue a re-process... I have replaced the haloing and whacked out colours of the previous HDR version with this exposure blended one. I also decided to change the name from "An Icy Dawn" to "Frozen Sunrise"...
(Original comments below)
Another one from yesterday's trip to Anstruther, down on the beach among the icy rock pools. From the left you can make out where water had been trickling down, but we found it turned to ice along with the pool. On this occasion I concentrated on shooting the beach and sunrise in a wider sense but there's great potential for abstracts with the contours of the rocks and low morning light.. a return visit may be on the cards at some point...
St Andrews cemetary/ cathedral grounds.. it's a shot I've been wanting for a while since I messed up a pano stitch last year.. this time I didn't need to bother shooting to stitch as I had a wide angle lens along with me.
Canon 40d, Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm, f/8
*updated 30/8/09 - totally fresh process for print - I softened the extreme contrast, removed much of the distortion, applied fewer filters, sharpened with a different method for web and made the final image a little larger.. enjoy!
Another angle and different take on the undercroft of the cathedral in St Andrews.. you can see my original shot here [link]
Just playing around with tones and a slightly different approach to the processing... the shots were taken many months apart btw... not that much changes down there.
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