Ian Bramham's Photoblog
Weather Worn
Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 18 September 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
I hope you are ready for some B&W photos as I have quite a few that I want to show you that have all been taken this summer in the area of coastal NW England where I was born and lived most of my life.
I particularly enjoy coastal landscape photography so I hope you'll like this series that I'll be showing you over the next couple of weeks.
This first one is a long exposure photo of an old wooden beach protection groyne on the coast of NW England.
Groynes are basically heavy wooden barricades and are quite common on UK beaches and are there to stabilise the sand and to stop it all drifting up to one end of the beach
Nikon D40 and 16-85vr lens
16 stops of nd filter
4 minutes exposure at f8 and iso200
For purchasing high quality archival prints of any of these photos you can send me an email by clicking here or by going to MY NEW WEBSITE where prices are listed in the gallery sections under each individual photo.
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Links to the websites of other photographers whose work I love and who have all helped me enormously over a long period of time. I find the work of all 3 to be inspirational.
Didier DE ZAN from somewhere, France
Very beautiful I like this BW and the sky result of the long exposure Great !
18 Sep 2009 5:20am
@Didier DE ZAN: Thanks Didier!
@Onlymehdi: Thanks very much!
flyingwind风飞扬 from Bridgetown, Barbados
What a long exposure and fantastic effect!!! Very well done!
18 Sep 2009 5:31am
@flyingwind风飞扬: Thanks for that!
Peter Martin Jorgensen from Hjoerring, Denmark
Absolutely beautiful. And YES! I'm ready for some b&w
18 Sep 2009 6:33am
@Peter Martin Jorgensen: Thanks Peter....I've been experimenting a lot with the compositional balance of light & darkness in my B&W photos recently. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and I'm still trying to figure out why. I hope you like some of the photos over the coming week or so.
Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal
Fantastic composition, it leads your eyes to the end... excellent.
18 Sep 2009 6:54am
@Ana Lúcia: Thanks Ana!
MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany
Fabulous shot with great tranquility. So different from the common 'point and shoot'!
18 Sep 2009 8:38am
@MadScientist: Thanks very much!
@akarui: Thanks akarui!
Anthony Morgan Lambert from Bielefeld(Old West Wales boy), Germany
First off the composition is great,pulling the eye right into the shot and secondly the technical side is very well done.
The four minute exposure realy gives the sky a dramatic feel !!
Well done.
18 Sep 2009 8:59am
@Anthony Morgan Lambert: Thanks Anthony....thse kind of B&W long exposure photos do need a bit of practice but i'm slowly getting better at them.
@babzy: Thanks babzy!
@Mags: Thanks Mags!
gavin hart from Gold Coast, Australia
Interesting dichotomy of perspectives; the line of the wall plus the converging forms of the clouds. Really nice shot. I too like the long exposure effect.
18 Sep 2009 10:47am
Jeremie from St-Etienne - Paris, France
Great landscape shot. I love in particular the treatment in B&W and the use of long exposure. By the way, just a technical question: how do you do to have a 4 min exposure? Do you use the bulb mode with a remote trigger device? If yes, what kind of remote control? If no, what is your technic? Cheers.
18 Sep 2009 11:29am
@Jeremie: Thanks Jeremie!.....yes, I use the camera in bulb mode with a very cheap Nikon infra red remote trigger (the ML-L3 which costs about £5)
LB from Portugal
A great compositiion, processing, tones... An excellent b&w image!
18 Sep 2009 11:34am
Polydactyle from Montreal, Canada
Beautiful classic shot Ian! Excellent technic et and great textures!
18 Sep 2009 11:40am
sawsengee from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
superb view & graphic composition......excellent picture tone
18 Sep 2009 12:18pm
Stu from Kyoto, Japan
This is a crackin' shot Ian. Do you stack up 2 8-stop filters? And how do you work out what exposure you'll need with them attached? Trial and error?
18 Sep 2009 12:25pm
@Stu: Thanks Stu!....to answer your question, I stacked a 10 stop and a 6 stop to get the 16 total. I work out the exposure by doing a trial shot without the filters and then adding the 10 stop filter and retaking the shot with an extra 10 stops of time. Finally I add the 6 stop (lots of mental arithmatic and counting on fingers :-) I wrote a couple of brief explanations here if you are interested: http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikon_d90_d40_users_group_/discuss/72157622113384749/?search=long exposure http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1034&thread=30371910
Ian Smith from London, United Kingdom
A great shot yet again Ian! Your control of somposition and lighting is sublime! Can't wait for meore...
18 Sep 2009 12:44pm
MARIANA from Waterloo, Canada
Beautiful scene in this great BW shot . Light is great !
18 Sep 2009 1:28pm
hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong
Hey Ian, just another beautiful masterpiece!!! Perfect composition, b&w tone and the motion blur of the clouds works so well in bringing life to this awesome coastal landscape! Can't wait to see more!:-)
18 Sep 2009 2:15pm
Paco Díaz from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Great depth and perfect composition. Congratulations.
18 Sep 2009 4:55pm
Pavan Kaul from Mumbai, India
So stunning and dramatic! I love this great composition and your hallmark sky Ian!
20 Sep 2009 5:17am
stephanie from taipei, Taiwan
i just found your gallery, and it's AMAZING! i uses the same camera, but your gallery is totally different than mine, keep up the great work!
21 Sep 2009 2:59am
@stephanie: Thanks Stephanie!....the D40 is a lovely camera isn't it!
dj.tigersprout from New York City, United States
beautiful timeless isolation in this shot -- faaabulous cloud movement!
21 Sep 2009 2:56pm
Bob Towery from Granite Bay, United States
Timeless, beautiful. Makes me want to wade in and just contemplate life for a while.
22 Sep 2009 2:52pm
Nikon D40
1204/5 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
24 mm (35mm equiv.)