Photography Thread

rjsterry

I have some in my garden.

Ben6899

Guess where I've been...

Pross

Ben6899 said:

Guess where I've been...

Making a charity advert for ITV4 ahead of their TdF coverage?

Ben6899

Pross said:

Ben6899 said:

Guess where I've been...

Making a charity advert for ITV4 ahead of their TdF coverage?

You don’t want to be riding anything smaller than 35mm on the roads where this was shot!

Munsford0

Rhodes? Paignton?

Pross

Blackpool

pblakeney

Spain?
With Don Keyote. 🤣

Ben6899

Munsford0 said:

Rhodes? Paignton?

A prize for being closest to the bull. Santorini.

masjer

Yay, more flowers.

pblakeney

A little background. Suva is now the capitol of Fiji but Levuka was the capitol back in the heydays of the Empire. This is how the main shopping area of Levuka Main Street looked last month.

briantrumpet

Making the most of a damp morning, not watching TV...

The first one was a creative crop, as what I thought would be interesting wasn't as interesting as the stalks...



I thought I ought to get in a flash of a flag for the French folk, as they seem to follow the royal family much more than I do...



And my namesake...

masjer

Obligatory flower shot

Conifer woods.

briantrumpet

I find atmospheric forest shots surprisingly elusive... I feel that they shouldn't be, but offhand I can't think of any that I've taken that I've been really pleased with.

masjer

Yeah, woodland shots are prone to failure. Conditions play a large part. Although it doesn’t look like it, this was taken in low cloud/mist and part sun, which helped in separating the trees.
A big problem is, unlike the eye, the camera provides little distinction between foreground trees and every other tree, branch, twig and leaf in the background, resulting in a confusing mess with little depth.
A path is the obvious solution to provide some depth. Finding a clearing seemed to do the trick today.
I find slightly underexposing can help, as (especially when in full leaf) it’s obviously naturally quite dark, which the camera tries to wrongly remedy.
Full sun is said to be the worst weather to shoot in, as the highlights and shadows complicate an already complex scene.
Anyway, I like a challenge (and hanging around in woods) so am happy to give it a bash.

masjer

And try not to include sky. Valley sides are good for this.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

And try not to include sky. Valley sides are good for this.

Sky was out of the question for this one...




But it's rather more (burnt) trees than 'forest'...

briantrumpet

Mist is definitely the magic ingredient:

masjer

That's certainly got atmosphere, but I suppose it's taking a shot of a woodland from outside rather than under the canopy. Nice though.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

That's certainly got atmosphere, but I suppose it's taking a shot of a woodland from outside rather than under the canopy. Nice though.

Yes, from my house, in fact... under a canopy, but not a woodland one.

I've had a quick rummage through my French forest photos, and deeply uninspiring.

briantrumpet

Oh, I just remembered my favourite tree-canopy photo. Right place (Bellever), right time.

briantrumpet

And this one. Maybe Dartmoor is easier than my bit of France, or maybe I just need to try something different there.

masjer

^They tick all the boxes. Wistman's wood?

briantrumpet

masjer said:

^They tick all the boxes. Wistman's wood?

No, on the River Dart between New Bridge and Dartmeet. I've not been to Wistman's Wood with magic light, and these days it's just too popular. Black--a-Tor Copse would be where I'd head now.

masjer

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

^They tick all the boxes. Wistman's wood?

I've not been to Wistman's Wood with magic light, and these days it's just too popular.

That's a shame, but not surprising given the amount of misty mossy tree pics out there.

briantrumpet

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

masjer said:

^They tick all the boxes. Wistman's wood?

I've not been to Wistman's Wood with magic light, and these days it's just too popular.

That's a shame, but not surprising given the amount of misty mossy tree pics out there.

I think it won't be long before they fence Wistman's Wood off. Last time I went there, as I left, I was convinced that a rave was about to begin there, there were that many people walking up the path to it. It is a magical place when deserted, but too many people not respecting its fragility will kill it.

At least Black-A-Tor Copse is a little harder to get to, so less attractive to those who want only want to walk 500 yards from their car.

briantrumpet

Here's a jungle I used my machete to traverse this afternoon...

masjer

Not good weather for riding, but the mizzle/mist did its thing in the woods.

briantrumpet

Lovely - I've not got anything like that. Must remember to go down to the woods when it's misty.

masjer

briantrumpet said:

Lovely - I've not got anything like that. Must remember to go down to the woods when it's misty.

Thanks, I was pleased with the outcome. On the edit, I had to really turn the green down as the fresh beech leaves looked luminous!

briantrumpet

masjer said:

briantrumpet said:

Lovely - I've not got anything like that. Must remember to go down to the woods when it's misty.

Thanks, I was pleased with the outcome. On the edit, I had to really turn the green down as the fresh beech leaves looked luminous!

Ha, you've just reminded me of a misty one I took five years ago... road trip with my mum, driving through cloud for what seemed like forever - I wanted to show her one of the mad roads I'd ridden - and then, suddenly, just before we turned left to descend to the gorge, we emerged out of the top of the cloud, and had a picnic. Magic.



This was the silly road we'd gone to see, on a sunnier day one August: