Just a couple of images from a few hours wandering around Whiteford NNR a week or so ago. As with may of our recent days, it was a mixture of sunny spells, cloud and changing light. To counter this I was switching from ideas in black + white to colour depending on the light conditions.
The sunset was a bit of a messy affair, but there were still some interesting colours to photograph. When I started photographing the metal container (looks like an upside down tank turret) on the beach, there was no reflection of the sunset in the water in it. After a few minutes the water started to pick up the colour of the sky and the whole image was lifted and gained more life to it. I didn’t want too much blur to the water motion as I like a bit of detail in it and with a two stop ND graduated filter to balance out the exposure for the sky and sea, it all came together.
A bit of a postcard image below, but overall the conditions proved challenging and a great test of the new camera I was testing at the time. The over wintering birds hadn’t arrived yet, so there weren’t any great numbers to be seen. Hopefully they will arrive soon and allow another reason to return to Whiteford, as if I needed a reason to return anyway!
