Untitled (by Giles McGarry)
Kimmeridge
This is the last shot of the day I took during my workshop on the Dorset Coast with Doug Chinnery and Anthony Spencer. This isn’t my normal sort of work - and in fact is exactly why I went on the course in the first place.
I set my shot up with time running out before the gates. To try and get the foreground interest amongst all the busy rocks I chose to include the big rock below, looked ok in the view finder but now its converted to mono it seems to have taken over the shot somewhat. What do you think?
So to try and balance it out I tried various crops, the first being to keep the same format but to crop in and get rid of the rocks altogether. I like this but everything seems to be a little too close now - its a busy image anyway and this just seems to add to the business
So how about making a feature of the rock, really make it the star of the frame - here’s an attempt using a square crop. I think it dominates it too much really
So I plumped for a 2:1 format shot, taking most of the rock out and giving lots of space to the left to trya nd make the scene a little less busy and a little more tranquil.
Another shot from Dovercourt. This time a I post a 2:1 crop, again for me the sky is the most interesting thing about this shot and therefore wanted to make the most of it.
A shot taken earlier this year in October at Dovercourt just outside Harwich. Lots of debate on the crop on this over at Flickr. Most people want to see it square cropped. I tried this, but for me it lost some of the beauty of the sky and seemed a little too cramped, so here it is in its original format
Dovercourt (by Giles McGarry)
Back from Holiday now - just spent a great week in Harris - the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, and thought I’d return with a bit of a departure from the buildings I have been taking of late.
This was taken during the Autumn High Tide at the end of September in Walton on the Naze in Essex, UK. The shot belays the scale a little this sea defence being 20ft or so high. I’d headed out to capture some huge waves but high pressure and low winds put pay to that, so I found this and was quite pleased with the end result.
I’m going to be concentrating on my LRPS panel for a while so things might be a little varied for a while
