Milton Abbey
I recently went on a 1:1 landscape photography workshop with a local professional and freelance photographer.
We visited three North Dorset locations in about 8 hours and a huge amount of learning points were covered including lens choice, filtration, exposing to the right, spot metering, use of light, hyperfocal focussing, manual focus, mirror lock-up, use of histogram, dynamic range and diffraction.
Milton Abbey was the first location. The Abbey sits in a natural amphitheatre surrounded by wooded hills. The first church was established on the site in 933. After a fire in 1309 the church was completed in the 14th Century.
This was an exercise in lens choice, manual focus, mirror lock up and exposing to the right. One of my first photographs was taken in "portrait" format:
My favourite photograph is available to view in the gallery.
We sat for a while eating sandwiches, discussing photography the difference in light levels between the ground and the sky.
As an experiment I used my wide angle lens and took a photograph without filters.
The sky is blown out in places.
We calculated the difference in light from the ground to the sky (the number of stops) then started adding filters:
Now this obviously doesn't work because you can see the line of the filter right across the photograph and it's the wrong lens choice! However, a really useful experiment and discussion to back up a few discussion points.
A great location to return to in the autumn.
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We visited three North Dorset locations in about 8 hours and a huge amount of learning points were covered including lens choice, filtration, exposing to the right, spot metering, use of light, hyperfocal focussing, manual focus, mirror lock-up, use of histogram, dynamic range and diffraction.
Milton Abbey was the first location. The Abbey sits in a natural amphitheatre surrounded by wooded hills. The first church was established on the site in 933. After a fire in 1309 the church was completed in the 14th Century.
This was an exercise in lens choice, manual focus, mirror lock up and exposing to the right. One of my first photographs was taken in "portrait" format:
My favourite photograph is available to view in the gallery.
We sat for a while eating sandwiches, discussing photography the difference in light levels between the ground and the sky.
As an experiment I used my wide angle lens and took a photograph without filters.
The sky is blown out in places.
We calculated the difference in light from the ground to the sky (the number of stops) then started adding filters:
Now this obviously doesn't work because you can see the line of the filter right across the photograph and it's the wrong lens choice! However, a really useful experiment and discussion to back up a few discussion points.
A great location to return to in the autumn.
Return to homepage or contact me.