As the path close to Mayals road reaches the house half way down the gardens, the view of the small valley opens up. This was? a popular?spot on my Clyne day course last year, and was originally spotted by Trevor, one of the participants. In winter the view opens up more with the lack of foliage, but as a view point it works all year round. The main problem with this view is that there is normally quite a high exposure range and I needed 5 stops of neutral density soft graduated filter to bring the sky into range of the sensor. Even with that help I still needed to add an extra 1 stop of graduation in Lightroom to totally balance the sky and trees. I suppose another option would be to take two exposures; one for the sky and one for the undergrowth and then combine them later on the computer. This involves to much computer work for my liking, so I will stick to the filters, even though they may not be as subtle or accurate as the merged images.
Most scenes allow some extra images to be made from a wider view by switching to a longer lens and selecting some details of the view. If you watch movies, you will often see that they make a wide image of a view, but rely on long lens detail images of the view to show more of the landscape for the next few scenes. This is where stills and video differ so much. In still photography you are trying to capture the essence of a scene in one image, unless you have the luxury of being able to use multiple images to tell a story in an article etc. With video, multiple scenes can be interlinked to allow you to build up an impression of a place, and where as?individual scenes?in themselves?may not be remarkable,?due to the input of the other scenes?you develop the essence of the place. I took quite a lot of video while in Clyne, and I hope to get a short film together which I will try and post on the blog, or at least a link to a website page with it on.
