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
Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog
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 website Ian Bramham - Fine Art Photography where prices are listed in the gallery sections under each individual photo.
@Didier DE ZAN: Thanks Didier!
@Onlymehdi: Thanks very much!
@flyingwind风飞扬: Thanks for that!
@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: Thanks Ana!
@MadScientist: Thanks very much!
@akarui: Thanks akarui!
@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!
@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)
@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
@stephanie: Thanks Stephanie!....the D40 is a lovely camera isn't it!
NIKON D40
1204/5 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
24 mm (35mm equiv.)