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Long Exposure Sunsets

Posted: July 26th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography, Tutorials

Since getting my 10 stop B+W ND filter I have become somewhat obsessed with long exposure photography. A large majority of the photography taken with these filters seem to end up in black and white, and very often feature water in the frame – everyone (well, almost everyone) …
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Coghill Bridge - Wick Riverside Park

Photographing silhouettes at sunset

Posted: July 12th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography, Tutorials

One of my favourite things to shoot are sunsets, and while sunset are fantastic on their own, they also provide a fantastic opportunity to capture interesting silhouettes. Silhouettes provide sunset images with something even more dramatic than a fiery red sky, and the stronger the subject used for the …
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South Head, Wick - 1st attempts at long exposure with my new B+W 10 stop ND filter

Long exposure photography

Posted: July 10th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography, Tutorials

Yesterday I received my B+W 10 stop ND filter, which as you can guess, reduces the amount of light getting to the sensor by 10 stops, making it perfect for taking long exposure shots in pretty much any light! Handy! The weather wasn’t terribly nice last night at …
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Wick in the fog

Photographing fog

Posted: July 5th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography, Tutorials

We have had almost three days of moderate fog up here in Caithness, which is a major pain in the bum 99.9% of the time. Brilliant, sunny days on the east coast of Caithness are frequently ruined by huge banks of fog creeping in from the sea, engulfing …
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Understanding Lighting Ratios

Posted: June 29th, 2012 | Posted in: Tutorials

Lighting ratios in photography is something many people seem to find confusing, when in actual fact ratios are very simple to understand. What are “lighting ratios”? Lighting ratios are simply the difference in output between your key light and your fill light. These two lights are the main …
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