Banburgh & Lindisfarne (Member meet)

[Bearface]

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Great stuff Tim. That hut looked great when you showed me on your screen. Now it looks bloody fantastic

Thanks. It's amazin' what a bit of contrast and a vignette can do, innit..?

[Bearface]

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I'm interested to know if you actually stopped on the causeway and got out of the car to take the shot of the 'rescue refuge' ........

Oh yeah, we stopped and got out...

The causeway was bathed in that lovely, early morning light and the er, refuge (I knew what is was, of course.....the "hut-on-stilts" description notwithstanding... ) looked almost surreal against the bleak sandy desert and that dramatic sky. I'm not sure the other two were quite as enthusiastic, but in fairness they got out and showed willing

...or did you just slow right down and take the shot from inside the car and through the open window?

Nope - such things are forbidden.............unless of course you happen to see a familiar vehicle lurking in the dunes as you drive past. Was it you and Gert, or just a mirage..?

It must be cold, horrible and frightening to be caught out by the tide and have to spend several hours in that hut.

Yup, especially if your transport home happens to be engulfed by six feet of seawater and silt...

[Pol]

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Nope - such things are forbidden.............unless of course you happen to see a familiar vehicle lurking in the dunes as you drive past. Was it you and Gert, or just a mirage..?

We wuzz sussed wild camping.

Pol

[Martin]

[StuartR]

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Dear Confused of Colchester

You are right to be confused, I am too However what I do know is that the gallery Exif reader is not always accurate and I have noticed that it often doesn't handle focal lengths and sensor size too well

The shot was definately taken at 17mm 22.1mm 35mm equiv. It was F13 @60th

Bear on mind that most camera settings seen in Exif data should not always be taken as the ones to get the result you see. Most shots you see in this gallery have been given an exposure which allows for post processing and therefore were often taken around -1EV at least. This is one reason why I was experimenting with ND Grads, but even then I have often altered the exposure in the Raw converter, LR in this case. Perhaps the most telling camera setting is the aperture though as in my case it often tells what I felt would give me enough depth of field for the shot with the particular lens I was using.

It is all confusing though innit

The -1EV part is. If I understand you correctly, you are deliberately underexposing your images?

[Stephen]

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The -1EV part is. If I understand you correctly, you are deliberately underexposing your images?

Absolutely Stuart. Unless you do the skies are often burnt out. Exposing for the sky amounts to the same thing. My personal MO is to use the wheel on the Canon Eos range to underexpose. There are times of course when I may overexpose, but for different reasons

[Tom]

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These look great fellas.........nice work. TBH, I haven't slept now for 24 hours, so I've only processed the following shot, which was taken at Bamburgh at around 4.30am today. It's time for bed now...

Hope you had a good snooze.
This is the one that I keep coming back to. That diamond shaped foreground rock with the very strong light keeps dragging my eyes down from the castle.
I read it two ways;
A great shot of the rocks with a lovely background
A lovely castle with a brilliant foreground.
I try to read it as one but the strength of that rock is magnetic.
But there is a great shot there of the rock on its own.

One way or the other I can't loose.

[Bearface]

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Absolutely Stuart. Unless you do the skies are often burnt out. Exposing for the sky amounts to the same thing. My personal MO is to use the wheel on the Canon Eos range to underexpose. There are times of course when I may overexpose, but for different reasons

I do exactly the same, especially when shooting high DR scenes with strong skies.

[Bearface]

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Hope you had a good snooze.
This is the one that I keep coming back to. That diamond shaped foreground rock with the very strong light keeps dragging my eyes down from the castle.
I read it two ways;
A great shot of the rocks with a lovely background
A lovely castle with a brilliant foreground.
I try to read it as one but the strength of that rock is magnetic.
But there is a great shot there of the rock on its own.

One way or the other I can't loose.

Thanks very much!

Haven't had a proper night's sleep since, actually

This is one of my favourites too; I'm really pleased to hear that you like it

[StuartR]

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I do exactly the same, especially when shooting high DR scenes with strong skies.

I shot some pics earlier this week with what I guess you would call a "strong sky" and here's an example of what NOT to do.

Shoot into the sun, leave the camera on "P"rogram, leave the ISO on 400(!) and forget to include some foreground interest . I was really having an off day . It was actually the deep blue sky and fluffy white clouds that attracted me in the first place and, despite shooting RAW, this was the best I could drag out of the abysmal white sky in the original.

Think I'll weld the camera on "M"anual for a few months....

I'll try to remember to take on-board what you and Stephen said about underexposing in future....

[coupekid]

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These are my last two for now......the rest I'll have a look at when I have some more time. Another of the morning (4.30am) shots of Banburgh Castle, and another of the hut-on-stilts which is on the causeway at Lindisfarne.

Love this one Tim!

Guys, I just want to say how much I have enjoyed all your images!

I really hope this is a sign of things to come.

This has been one of favourite threads for a while, and all in all, judging by the images seen here, it was a highly succesful meet. Well done chaps!

Oh and one other thing. I think the rules of DPNow meets should always state that a group photo is always the first shot

[Andrew Thatcher]

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Tim having trouble working out what Fstop to use F11 or Fu

Stephen has a Tim moment see Here

[Jocelyn Walker]

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How amazing its been to come back from an absence of a couple of wks away from civilization & computers, to absolutely fantasmagorical shots of Lindisfarne etc, which to me is an amazing place! Thanks to all 3 of you for sharing these superb shots!

[Stephen]

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Stephen has a Tim moment see Here

Nice one Andrew, you are right it is not unlike the one I took that you linked too. However just to clarify what was really happening Here is the result of the trek out on the mudflats from the causeway over to Lindisfarne.

I actually struggled somewhat to control the highlights, even after underexposing and compensating a little in the raw conversion.