Mylor

Church yard at Mylor

An interesting place if a  bit eerie for some more Cornwall photography sessions. I am always hunting new locations to capture with my camera and this spot just jumped out at me.

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Photo of Oyster Catchers Porthleven

Abstract bird Photography

In my ever expanding Cornwall photography range I thought I would include a few abstracts and try and explain a little about how and why this was captured.

Abstracts get a beating by many. A few argue Photography is meant to portray a subject to its very best and should show a clear representention of the object being recorded in a factual way – meaning they want clear difined photographs of a subject, your standard picture postcard type image.

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Boat in St Michales Mount harbour

A picture on St Michaels mount

This island is the perfect location for some Cornwall photography practice. St Michael’s mount is located about 200 yds of the shore at Marazion in Cornwall where I recently took this picture – Cornwall in pictures, marazion marsh. Reached by walking over a stone causeway when the tide is out, the mount offers some great photographic opportunities.

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Photos capturing motion

I promised a few days ago that I would bring you a photo that “blows my socks off”.  Well it is here, the second photograph down. None of these photos have been taken by me. They are a round up of great images from Flickr. All of them show motion in one way or another. There are some lovely images here, that catch the eye a scene and the imagination.

My favorite is a great creamie swirl of light. It is full of detail and colour, pulling your eye deep into the photo. I really love it, it catches my eye and mind. Some photos just work and for me this is one of them.

The other two photos I love here are the seagull and sparrow. I think the sparrow photograph is a great image. The detail in the bird is beautiful and the whole scene makes for a truly outstanding shot.

Please let me know what you think of these images by re-tweeting and commenting on this post…. I look forward to reading some feedback!

photo credit: Ivan Zuber

photo credit: Éole

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Rule of Thirds

Photo composition rule of thirds

I recently explainded Long Exposure photography and What is Depth of Field which will help provide artistic effect to your images, however, capturing a photograph is more than knowing the settings, pointing and shooting. You need to consider the the scene and how to best portray that by framing the subject correctly. This tip will help you learn how to compose a digital photograph.

For some reason, as a rule of thumb things look better in odd numbers. A photograph of three apples will generally look more balanced than just two. A photograph of five people works better than 4, for some reason it just works - speeches have gained impact by using a term three times, mathematics, writing and nature often use the rule of three.

So, how do we use this knowledge in our photography? The image above The rule of thirds from theirls flickr stream shows perfectly the rule of thirds. It is a well capture photograph, the horizontal lines create perfect thirds. The vertical line is again set on a third. If you mirrored that horizontal to the other side you would dissect the image into nine, equal boxes. Where those lines cross are you biggest impact points and where you want the focal points of your image to lie. (more…)

Marazion marsh photo

Marazion Marsh Nr Penzance

It was perfect weather to get out shooting the type of  photographs I have had in mind recently. I have been looking forward to adding some more photos here on my blog (Cornwall Photography) aka Digital-scene.

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Black and White photo - Pendennis Head

Long Exposure Black and White in Cornwall

Here is some more Cornwall Photography. This time Pendennis Head, Falmouth. I wanted to add another dimension to this photograph… Time.

Clouds were perfect for this type of photo. Lots of breaks with vivid white edges, yet the underside of the cloud looked dark and heavy.

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Falmouth Docks a black and white picture

Pictures of Cornwall

Due to sickness my child portraiture session was cancelled today. However I decided I am going to get off my butt and bring you more Pictures of Cornwall, bringing you my version of Cornwall photography.

The day was superb for photographing outdoors. There was wonderful light, great cloud formations, rainbows, distant showers and squalls. The added bonus was the wind was light, so I didn’t have to panic when it came to taking long exposures (camera shake due to the wind being my fear). The last light I had like this was here Porthleven Harbour

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Poldhu Cove, Cornwall

Cornish Landscape photo

So many options for photography in Cornwall, yet I seem to be going back to places I know and love. I guess it stems from understanding what will be available to photograph in the conditions I have, combined with little time just to get out and take photos of subjects I like. I have written here – Caerthillian Cove located on The Lizard in Cornwall about building your knowledge about an area.

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Porthleven mono surf

Levey is pumping

That’s what I heard! I had no car and had to wait for while to get use of one. I wanted to get some Cornwall photography surf shots, but things were against me. You get some great images from this location. Here are some Porthleven surf competition photographs from November 09.

Anyway, after a few hours I was able to get in the car, camera, lenses, memory cards,  cleaning cloth and a drink. Oh, need fuel……

Well I arrived, and Porthleven was looking good. The best of the swell had passed in the morning, yet it was still working well. Great sets pushing through and lots of surfers to photograph.

I headed to some rocks to get as close as possible to the surfing, keeping one eye on the surge around the rocks and started to shoot. There were lots of other photographers at the cliff top, enjoying their craft.

Light was not great to start with. Plenty to capture the action, but it made the scene very flat. The low light was not really an issue for me, I had already made my mind up that I wanted some slow shutter speed images, trying to add more dimension into my photographs. Keeping the surfer as sharp as possible was the challenge, yet having motion in the wave. I caught a few nice ones.

This is were digital-media works best, you can fire off lots of photo’s until you get the one you are happiest with! (there is always room for improvement). Below is a thumb nail gallery of the surf photos I took on Tuesday 9th February 2010, click an image to see it larger, let me know what you think…