Nov 20, 2011, 12:01
This was taken in the westering light of Saturday afternoon.
You've heard me mention a few things about the landscape around here in the River Severn Vale: the alluvial plain of the Severn sits with the river between scarps of limestone and sandstone. The lie of the land is essentially as it has been since the last ice age; neolithic, bronze age and iron age barrows, graves still surmount most hills, visibly nowadays attesting to the presence of a great many settled peoples since around 3800 B.C.
Before the Egyptian pyramid-builders threw up vast mausolea at Giza, migratory peoples from Spain and eastern europe had settled here and were constructing stone circles and field systems.
This shot is taken from Uley Bury, which is such a place: an iron-age hillfort of at least 2 millennia old which itself sits on bronze age bits and pieces of another 1800 years before that.
We're facing southwest here, with Cam Long Down's conical hill standing against the River Severn, behind which is the Forest of Dean which gives out onto south Wales. Were I to get into a boat in the stretch of water in front of us, I'd be sailing down the Bristol Channel..and if I kept in a straight line would hit North America.
I took this handheld at ISO 100(or was it 200?) with an aperture of f8-ish, metering off the green grass to give 18% grey reflectivity and focus-recomposing. The 1Ds2's sensor has retained sky detail that has been burned back in. I've used all 12 zones in monochrome here, taking my white point at the water in the Severn, my 100% blacks as the shadow area on the right.
I processed in low-contrast, colour, 16-bit tiff, adding saturation and warming the colour temperature up to about 5500 degrees: I did this si that when I applied "red filtration", this would lighten the fields as they were yellow-green. Bearing in mind the colour wheel(of which we're all familiar of course! ), had I left the firlds green, they would have darkened as green is the opposite side of the colour wheel to red, and I'd have had to use green filtration(which would have failed to capture the detail in the sky as well.)
You've heard me mention a few things about the landscape around here in the River Severn Vale: the alluvial plain of the Severn sits with the river between scarps of limestone and sandstone. The lie of the land is essentially as it has been since the last ice age; neolithic, bronze age and iron age barrows, graves still surmount most hills, visibly nowadays attesting to the presence of a great many settled peoples since around 3800 B.C.
Before the Egyptian pyramid-builders threw up vast mausolea at Giza, migratory peoples from Spain and eastern europe had settled here and were constructing stone circles and field systems.
This shot is taken from Uley Bury, which is such a place: an iron-age hillfort of at least 2 millennia old which itself sits on bronze age bits and pieces of another 1800 years before that.
We're facing southwest here, with Cam Long Down's conical hill standing against the River Severn, behind which is the Forest of Dean which gives out onto south Wales. Were I to get into a boat in the stretch of water in front of us, I'd be sailing down the Bristol Channel..and if I kept in a straight line would hit North America.
I took this handheld at ISO 100(or was it 200?) with an aperture of f8-ish, metering off the green grass to give 18% grey reflectivity and focus-recomposing. The 1Ds2's sensor has retained sky detail that has been burned back in. I've used all 12 zones in monochrome here, taking my white point at the water in the Severn, my 100% blacks as the shadow area on the right.
I processed in low-contrast, colour, 16-bit tiff, adding saturation and warming the colour temperature up to about 5500 degrees: I did this si that when I applied "red filtration", this would lighten the fields as they were yellow-green. Bearing in mind the colour wheel(of which we're all familiar of course! ), had I left the firlds green, they would have darkened as green is the opposite side of the colour wheel to red, and I'd have had to use green filtration(which would have failed to capture the detail in the sky as well.)
All my stuff is here: www.doverow.com
(Just click on the TOP RIGHT buttons to take you to my Image Galleries or Music Rooms!)
My band TRASHVILLE, in which I'm lead guitarist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6mU6qaNx08