Local Hero Pete Bridgwood captures 'perfect' image of TRAIGH EAIS, Barra Island
Manfrotto UK Local Hero Pete Bridgwood captures this 'perfect' shot of the remote coatsline of Barra Island or TRAIGH EAIS in the Gaelic language...
Where: TRAIGH EAIS, Barra Island, Scotland
Platform: Manfrotto 441 tripod, Manfrotto 322RC2 Heavy Duty Grip Ball Head
Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II, 24-70mm f/2.8 L @ 25mm
Exposure: 0.8 seconds @ f/22
Thinking: The challenge of successfully transferring the emotional qualities of a scene through to the final viewer of the print provides an obsessively enduring lure for landscape photographers. The camera distills our three-dimensional world into two dimensions and often captures ‘frozen’ moments in time, but this isn’t how we see things. A long exposure, introducing a slight sense of movement is often closer to our real world human experience. The other subtle aspect of showing movement is that it re-introduces a third dimension to mitigate the loss of spatial depth. Time, the ‘fourth-dimension’, is therefore allowed to emotively shape our images.
I’m never happier than when photographing at the coast in a location like this. Conditions could not have been more perfect. A remote coastline without another soul in sight, the sun was setting off-stage left giving a subtle pink tinge to the layered clouds and providing some direct illumination to the sand dunes. I stood there for a while observing the movement of the waves gently rolling in to the broad flat beach and trying to visualise how I might capture this beautiful moment. I eventually positioned myself so that the waves were moving diagonally, both in to the beach and towards me, creating this painterly brush-stroke effect in the foreground. As they lapped around my feet, I made this exposure at 0.8 sec, just long enough to capture some movement in the water but comfortably fast enough to avoid any unwanted movement in the clouds.
Quote: “But soon the sun with milder rays descends To the cool ocean, where his journey ends” - from ‘Summer’ by Alexander Pope
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