Loch Lomond
This shot nearly didn’t happen, I almost went to the coast, but fancied trying Loch Lomond. I find it hard to compose good shots at Loch Lomond, partly because the shore is so civilised – there’s the A82 on one side, and a bunch of vilages and a road on the other. I’ll need to spend some more time there to find good spots.
Composition wise, I wanted somewhere looking along the loch, with some foreground. This is harder to find than you’d think at Firkin Point, which is where this was made.
The land on the left of the shot is the north end of Ben Lomond, due to it being quite late in the day, the shadow was getting higher and higher up the hill with every shot I made, it wasn’t long before it was completely blacked out.
Shooting this was a tad precarious, the rocks were slippy and occasionally a load of big waves would come from nowhere and blast us, and I’d be having to hang onto the tripod for dear life. Maybe Nessie is having a holiday.
I’m going to have to try and shoot more horizontal shots. I’ve worked out that I must spend half my time trying to find foreground, so I kinda start a shot by looking at the ground in front of me, then gradually looking up to see a shot that works. Need to amend that!
Canon Eos 5D, 24mm TS-E with about a degree and a half of tilt. ISO50, f16 for 6 seconds with a polariser, and a 0.9 and 0.6 soft grads. (I used f16 to slow the exposure, with the ts-e I could shoot this scene at a wider aperature and the sharpness would be the same from front to back)
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Jim Robertson
Really nice result Lewis. I know exactly what mean about foregrounds. E.g. Great beaches here but foregrounds are few and far between. Like the light on the tops.
FailingMemory
You are lucky with hat TSE. If I had had it I would have made that rock the centre of interest in a horizontal shot with the top quarter of sky missing. I can only dream as I cannot get there. Thanks for showing us Loch Lomond again.
Lewis Golbourn replied
Cheers guys.
I do have a shot like you described – it doesn’t work for me just now, but I may post it at some stage if I change my feelings on it, which I stand a good chance of – too much water with no interest to the right of the shot (the water was a tad deep to get the rock more central than the left third in the horizontal version).