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Feature
Val d’Orcia Dawn by Phil Malpas
Supernatural – Into theMystic byMatt Anderson
Location: View looking across the Val d’Orcia from just below the village of Castiglione d’Orcia in Tuscany, Italy in May 2016. Technical in: Taken using a Nikon D800 DSLRwith a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 lens at 200mm. The exposure was 1/250sec at f/11. About the image: The Val d’Orcia in springtime is truly a special location. In particular if conditions are right, there is
Location:
often low-lying mist that can be viewed from a number of vantage points as the sun rises over nearby Pienza. I have been lucky enough to witness this miracle over 100 times and it is always exciting. On this day, conditions were perfect and ever since, everyone who was on the tour with us has referred to 25 May 2016 as ‘that dawn’! It was a wonderful shared experience that we will never forget.
Loch
Oich
Forest,
Invergarry,
Scotland. Technical info: Nikon D800E and 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 lens at 70mm, Exposure of 1/40sec at f/5.6 and ISO 400. About the image: This image was achieved by complete luck. Joe Cornish had passed this area many times while driving workshops around Scotland. We decided to stop on this wonderful frosty morning. Fog from the nearby loch was creating a mysterious cloak to the landscape. Setting a cool white- balance setting helped create contrasting colour with the warm autumn foliage. I took nearly 1000 images in three hours.
The series of images from this setting, ‘Into the Mystic’, has proven to
be my most fruitful from a magnificent Light & Land trip.
We decided to stop on this wonderful frosty morning. Fog from the nearby loch was creating a mysterious cloak to the landscape
BlueWave by Carla Regler
Garage Doors by CharlieWaite
Location: West of San Diego, Andalucia, Spain. Technical info: Nikon D800 with 24-120mm f/4. Exposure of 1/40sec at f/16 and ISO 200. Above the image: I had passed these garage doors many times and on each occasion, I felt that there were elements that conflicted with one another, yet I wasn’t confident that
I
could
identify
what
Yet it was that cloudless morning that allowed the colours in the garage doors to find themselves again in the sky and sea beyond. The white garage surrounds seemed to replace a need for any scattering of cloud, which to my mind would have diminished their stark expression and ultimately would have loosened the photograph.
these were.
Finally, I concluded that it was the sky that seemed to be the culprit. It was paradoxical that so often I thrive on a sky laden with building cumulus or high cirrus and normally don’t care for an uneventful sky with monotonous shades of blue. It took me some time to accept the lack of cloud.
Location: Porthleven, Cornwall. Technical info: Canon EOS 5DS R with Canon100-400mmLIS II lens set to 110mm. Exposurewas 1/15sec at f/22 and ISO 100. About the image: We were greeted with stunning light on the morning of our workshop. We had started at a spot
overlooking the harbour and as the sun rose we could see thewaves looked lovelywith the light on them. I took the group to the edge of the pier where the waves were breaking and creating lovely curls. I used slower shutter speeds to produce art-like images to enhance the curl of thewaves.
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