Dorset Landscape Photography : A day on the Jurassic Coast
03rd February 2011
Dorset Landscape Photography
A day on the Jurassic Coast
With the sunrise moving further North now as we head into spring, it is the last few days of watching the sunrise along/over the beaches down here in Dorset, so I headed off to West Bay this morning to catch the last of it.
The sky was covered in broken clouds which were catching the light quite well, offering some great colours as I arrived, but the waves were breaking up the beach and the spray was covering everything. I took a few shots, but the spray-covered filters were not helping.
As the sun broke the horizon, it was hidden behind some low lying clouds/mist/fog which allowed me to shoot straight into it and capture it breaking over the cliffs of Burton Bradstock, while the sky was glowing orange around it.
Later in the day, with much broken cloud still around, I headed for Kimmeridge Bay which, with a low and rising tide, promised to give some interesting shots.
As I arrived, the clouds above were breaking but building on the horizon and the wind was picking up again. I setup looking out over Clavell's Pier, one of my favourite spots in Kimmeridge Bay, and waited to see what developed.
As the sun disappeared behind the clouds sitting on the horizon it all looked dull and rather grey, but after a few minutes some colour started building in the clouds above and the rays of the sun from below the horizon started breaking up into the sky, giving a fan pattern.
Using the Lee Big Stopper 10-stop filter, an exposure of 3 minutes gives a smoothing effect on the water whilst providing some movement in the clouds.
I wasn't sure about the colour version of this, so I converted it to black and white using Silver Efex Pro. Let me know which you prefer.
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A day on the Jurassic Coast
With the sunrise moving further North now as we head into spring, it is the last few days of watching the sunrise along/over the beaches down here in Dorset, so I headed off to West Bay this morning to catch the last of it.
The sky was covered in broken clouds which were catching the light quite well, offering some great colours as I arrived, but the waves were breaking up the beach and the spray was covering everything. I took a few shots, but the spray-covered filters were not helping.
As the sun broke the horizon, it was hidden behind some low lying clouds/mist/fog which allowed me to shoot straight into it and capture it breaking over the cliffs of Burton Bradstock, while the sky was glowing orange around it.
Later in the day, with much broken cloud still around, I headed for Kimmeridge Bay which, with a low and rising tide, promised to give some interesting shots.
As I arrived, the clouds above were breaking but building on the horizon and the wind was picking up again. I setup looking out over Clavell's Pier, one of my favourite spots in Kimmeridge Bay, and waited to see what developed.
As the sun disappeared behind the clouds sitting on the horizon it all looked dull and rather grey, but after a few minutes some colour started building in the clouds above and the rays of the sun from below the horizon started breaking up into the sky, giving a fan pattern.
Using the Lee Big Stopper 10-stop filter, an exposure of 3 minutes gives a smoothing effect on the water whilst providing some movement in the clouds.
I wasn't sure about the colour version of this, so I converted it to black and white using Silver Efex Pro. Let me know which you prefer.
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