[Tobers]

Three more from me from last night's exploits. Whilst Gordon was off chatting to unsuspecting strangers, I got these three with the ND110 filter on. It was quite windy which is hugely annoying when you've got a 1 minute or longer exposure. I'm happy that my Giottos tripod is a very solid bit of kit, and I hung my bag underneath it to keep it steady.

As usual at the moment, I'm looking for strong compositions with angles and hardness to offset the softness of the water. Conversion to mono is to get a "look" to the whole series, out of which I hope to get 4 or 5 to print out smallish for frames in my hallway.

The tide was out. I had been hoping it would be in (should have checked the BBC tide tables), but this revealed more opportunities than I'd have originally thought. My first shot was out because of the tide, so I scrabbled about on the slipway below the lifeboat station for this.

#1 Slipway

69 sec | f/20 | ISO400 | 24mm on 24-105 | ND110 and Photoshop ND grad

#2 Barnacles under the piers either side of the slipway. Again, nice hard angles & structure and a soft sea to offset.

105 sec | f/20 | ISO640 | 24mm on 24-105 | ND110

#3 Lastly at the end of the rusty pier about 20' above the water. I composed to get the lead line from the light rusty foreground girder in to the wooden upright, which then goes down and sort of across to the ladder, along the breakwater and off to the horizon. Well, that's what my eye does

80 sec | f/20 | ISO400 | 15mm on Sigma 10-20 | ND110

The ND110 takes some getting used to. I'm on trial & error at the moment but found it useful to juggle the ISO to keep the exposure time from going too high and having the chance of the wind ruining the shot.

Comments welcome as always...the set of 14 shots so far is on Flickr.

Tobers

[sbowler]

Very nice shots these, its almost like the structures are coming out of a low fog.