{"id":2072,"date":"2012-02-04T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T08:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2012-02-03T20:50:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:50:19","slug":"experimenting-on-cefn-bryn-gower-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting on Cefn Bryn, Gower Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The four trees on the skyline close to the triangulation point near Arthur’s stone have always proved a fruitful subject for me. Up to now I have tended to use long lenses to pick them out from a distance and also to compress the perspective to make the sun in the background appear larger for instance. I set myself the challenge to something slightly different this week. With clear skies I knew that the sky would be quite plain without any cloud interest and this provided an extra challenge to deal with.<\/p>\n

My first idea produced the image below. Not to different from what I had done before, but a bit more graphic and more sky. It still wasn’t different enough, so off came the telephoto lens and an extreme wide angle put on. This allowed a closer approach, but tended to lose some of the trees. An image of a single tree didn’t seem to work as well and didn’t reflect my vision as much. Eventually I found that by getting 4 foot from the lowest tree, I could include the others in the background. This created the problem of a lot of the closest tree being lost in the background that was silhouetted with the correct exposure for the sky. I needed to pick out the closest tree and separate it from the others in the background. A flashgun was set with the flash head zoom at a narrower field of view to concentrate the light on the tree and was altered to give – 2 stops of light less than the main camera exposure. This seemed to give the correct balance between the tree and sky. I like how the wider lens has emphasised the curvature of the tree trunk making it more interesting than a straight one would be. I though originally that I wouldn’t want any light on the foreground, but when processing the image it looked better with more foreground detail.<\/p>\n

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As the colours in the sky changed from blues to oranges, I wanted to try and make an image to show these. There wasn’t much foreground interest around and the trees didn’t line up with the most intense part of the sky. I passed the triangulation point? and remembered an image I had made before in daylight, so I decided to try something similar with the post sunset colours. Most of the triangulation pillar is quite dull, so I moved in close to emphasise the top and used a very wide angle lens to allow it to fill quite a lot of the frame. The metal work picked up the light well, plus the concrete has quite a nice texture on it as well. A bit more interest in the sky would be nice, but you can’t have it all sometimes.<\/p>\n

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