An image to appear in my 2011 Calendar.
After narrowly avoiding some suicidal sheep, driving on the meandering roads near Postbridge in Dartmoor National Park, I parked up and began my walk to the top of the Tor.
I have been up this Tor three times in the past and still have not learnt that loafers with holes in the toes are not the shoes for the job. There is no path as such up to the Tor, only what seems to be a ankle deep floodplain to wade through, complete with an alarming array of different types of faeces to step in. I successfully stepped in all types available.
After I squelched through the marshland surrounding the Tor I arrived at the top. These outcrops of granite are scattered all over Dartmoor, each presenting a dominating panorama over the barren autumnal landscape.
Tripod, Camera, Remote-release and a 0.9 + 0.6 graduated filter in order to balance the brightness of the foreground with that of the sky, and I was ready. Your compact camera or a SLR without a graduated filter will expose for the sky or the foreground giving you either a well exposed foreground and a white sky or a great sky and black foreground, to stop this happening get a graduated filter! On this occasion I used two graduated filters to darken the sky down sufficiently to match the brightness of the foreground sky. Boring bit over!
I took this shot with a 10 second exposure which gave a little movement in the clouds. The subtle orange hue of the setting sun over the west horizon made it all worthwhile.
I have been up this Tor three times in the past and still have not learnt that loafers with holes in the toes are not the shoes for the job. There is no path as such up to the Tor, only what seems to be a ankle deep floodplain to wade through, complete with an alarming array of different types of faeces to step in. I successfully stepped in all types available.
After I squelched through the marshland surrounding the Tor I arrived at the top. These outcrops of granite are scattered all over Dartmoor, each presenting a dominating panorama over the barren autumnal landscape.
Tripod, Camera, Remote-release and a 0.9 + 0.6 graduated filter in order to balance the brightness of the foreground with that of the sky, and I was ready. Your compact camera or a SLR without a graduated filter will expose for the sky or the foreground giving you either a well exposed foreground and a white sky or a great sky and black foreground, to stop this happening get a graduated filter! On this occasion I used two graduated filters to darken the sky down sufficiently to match the brightness of the foreground sky. Boring bit over!
I took this shot with a 10 second exposure which gave a little movement in the clouds. The subtle orange hue of the setting sun over the west horizon made it all worthwhile.
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