Saturday, 29 January 2011

South Shields

Long Exposure: South Shields by Alex Nichol (1/3)


It was -5° at South Shields this morning and the rocks were frosted over, making them doubly treacherous! It was worth the white-knuckle treck along the harbour wall to get this shot though.



EXIF: 50mm : f/16 : 320secs : Canon EOS 5D Mark II : Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/1.4 : Lee 0.9 ND Hard Grad : Lee 0.9 ND Soft Grad : Lee Big Stopper




Long Exposure: South Shields by Alex Nichol (2/3)


I made about 8 attempts at this shot, but the sun kept coming out from behind the cloud, blowing out the sky. Ordinarily, I just use my ND grads to dim the sun, but in this case the sea was almost as bright, which made it difficult to balance the whole exposure out.



EXIF: 50mm : f/16 : 144secs : Canon EOS 5D Mark II : Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/1.4 : Lee 0.9 ND Hard Grad : Lee 0.9 ND Soft Grad : Lee Big Stopper




Long Exposure: South Shields by Alex Nichol (3/3)


This shot was deceptively challenging. The sea and the bottom half of the sky were seriously bright, but the land mass and the top half of the sky were really dark, so it took a few attempts with various combinations of hard and soft grads to get an exposure that worked right across the image.



EXIF: 50mm : f/16 : 49secs : Canon EOS 5D Mark II : Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/1.4 : Lee 0.9 ND Hard Grad : Lee 0.9 ND Soft Grad : Lee Big Stopper


Click on any of the photos to see them full-size against black, and please do leave a comment below if you like the photos.

5 comments:

  1. I would like to know if I can purchase one of your photos of sough shields (the teal/green coloured sea scape one).
    Your photos are beautiful and this one would go great in my living room to remind me of my home town.
    Many Thanks,
    Tracy Bone

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  2. Certainly Tracy - glad you like them :)
    If you let me know how big you would like it, I can arrange a print for you.

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  3. Absolutely gorgeous photo's, I've advertised this site on my facebook like page :o) xXx

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  4. Thanks Amy, much appreciated - glad you like them :)

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  5. These are fabulous, I too would like to purchase a couple if you can let me know how please. Keep up the good work!

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