Serene end of the day.

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Third from the series of four square cropped photos. I’ve photographed this one from interesting pier with three boats, one partially submerged, and I had a feeling that I would get something interesting from that place. Turns out that none of those photos turned out the way I hoped, and this one that I took because it was there and didn’t give it much thought was the most pleasing to me. There is something in the calmness of the scene. You can see that clouds moved somewhat, boat only a little during this 13 sec. long  exposure. And those two little poles just add an anchor in the middle. Some photographers would clone them out, but I like them just the way they are.
The gear was Nikon d7000, Sigma 10-20, Cokin 2 stop ND filter (probably), don’t remember any more. Smile

Poles, fire in the sky and all in square

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Today, another from the series of four square photos taken on same day, at the same place.  Different from the one I’ve showed yesterday, this photo is much more intensive because of red colour of the clouds. Sun was low, painting the clouds red, and all that reflected on the water. Long exposure made the water smooth and motionless, and the poles are guiding our eyes towards the horizon. Composition is simple but strong, I reckon. Smile And square format works like a charm here. I was with friend photographer here, and I liked his composition of this place even more.  He stood couple meters to my right. And I was siting. Smile If you’re wondering about technicalities, I was using Nikon d7000 + Sigma 10-20 + B+W 1024 ND filter, and I think I used Cokin GND S filter (3 stops). But, I would take this photo with any other camera and or lens. But I reckon it’s a good way to lure people here, if they search for camera brands. Open-mouthed smile Anyway, next time, another square of the lake.

Little purple square

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Or is it green? Or purple-blue-green? Never mind! Smile
This photo is from April, taken in Marina in Prelog, Croatia. It was end of the day, sun was setting down, but not down enough. I’ve found this little pier with interesting end. As I look at it, it makes me feel like I would grab both poles with my hands and  eject myself into lake! I’ve desaturated and cooled colours a little bit, I just felt better, with little twist, not your ordinary end of the day colours. Smile I decided to go to square format, because I got focus on the poles, and the contrast of them and planks on the pier against silky clouds and their reflection in calm water. How do you feel about this photo?
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Light is all we need!

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Good light, I might add! Today, I’m showing you two photos, taken from same spot, same day, on same focal length, but in different time of day. And, of course, different light.

In preparation for workshop on landscape photography my friend Davorin Mance and I went to scout location in Gorski Kotar area in Croatia, in small town called Skrad. More details on workshop soon, but today I want to show how changes is warmth of the light bring different feelings on same spot.

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Upper photo was taken somewhere around 9AM, sun was behind us, still not very high, but high enough to start creating harsher shadows, (you can see it behind the house)  and that is something we usually don’t want in landscape photography. Due to haze, the distant peeks are barely visible and postprocessing can’t bring all the details out because the sky is blue and the peeks are greenish to bluish. You can see some remains of morning mist in first valley in the bottom of the photo. This photo would work nice in this time of day if the air was without haze and if we had some nice clouds. Since we didn’t it’s not bad that way, but it can look much better in better conditions.

Now, let’s look the lower photo. As I said, everything is same, but the photo is much more subtle, gentle, with warm light of sunset with non existent shadows. Time of capture was around 8PM, just after the sun set behind the peeks little to left of the left edge of the photo.  Now the haze is helping to bring sense of layers of mountains , sense of landscape disappearing into distant void. For me, it’s just evoking different feelings. Click on both photos to see them larger.

Feel free to comments, ask questions, write which one you like better, and why? Thank you!

Dreamy tree.

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Using ND filter I’ve photographed this tree with way longer exposure than it would require on sunny, warm spring day. Most of long exposure photos focus on water and/or sky, while I like to play with it on any motif. Tree is good as any.

It was very windy day and there aren’t much sharp details. But this is why I like it. Sharp enough to be clear, but blurry enough to make it dreamy. Colours are little of, but that is how it goes with dreams. Smile