Swanage Groyne

[Carl Hall]

A long exposure of a wooden groyne on the beach at Swanage.

Nagaoka 4x5 field camera with 150mm f/5.6 Rodenstock Sironar.

Three minute exposure at f/16. Taken with B+W ND110 ten stop ND filter. Small amount of front tilt was used. The original 1/30 exposure became 30 seconds with the ND filter, then 150 seconds with reciprocity, and 180 seconds once I'd added 30 more for luck

Expired Delta 100 developed in HC-100 (B) for 6 minutes. Scanned on Epson V550. Image cropped and adjusted in LR5.


Swanage Groyne by Carl Hall, on Flickr

 

[D_M_J]

Excellent Carl! Spot on composition and exposure.

 

[martin henson]

This is a personal thing but its to do with texture, this technically is very good, but is it water, is it mist, is it cloud, it lacks that detail for me the top right is very bright as well , to bright IMHO.

 

[Diz]

A really good photo Carl, like it a lot. I have been playing with a Big Stopper on and off for the last couple of months. This is the sort of image I would be looking to achieve. I was initially using Foma 100 due to the long exposure times. But was getting more preferable images with FP4. Possibly the Foma/Big Stopper was to much, so might try with something smaller, a 3 or 6 stop maybe.
But all in all, a great photo which wouldn't look out of place on the wall.
Cheers
Diz

 

[Garry Macdonald]

Very nice Carl. I can see where Martin is coming from, but I quite like it myself! I love your approach to exposure!

Garry