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Baxter Bradford

St Oswald's Bay

A dawn visit to Dorset over Xmas and this bay is immediately to the East of the rather better known Durdle Door. Allowing cliff top shooting of either bay and also The spectacular cliffs of Swyre and Bat's Head to the West.

The dawn was looking more threatening than spectacular. I shot this in B+W first (still unprocessed), then as here on RTP with an 85C filter to reduce effect of the Tungsten film and then Velvia where it all went a fairly ugly red/magenta!

I find myself using this RTP64 with an 85C more often and indeed Fuji Professional (UK) are running a feature on me using this film in the next edition of their 'Connect' magazine.
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Location
St Oswald's Bay, Dorset
Equipment Used
Ebony SU45 90mm lens with front drop.
Exposure
9s at f11
Film & Developer
Fuji RTP64
Paper & Developer
Transparency scan
Lens Filter
85c warm-up and staggered 0.6 and 0.45 hard ND grads
Samuel B
Nice photo. I like the way the shape of the clouds is similar to the shape of the bay. Colours are nice too.
 
roteague
Great image Baxter, I love the smoothness of the water, and the color of the sky. I was thinking about ordering a box myself, looks like I will go ahead.
 
Baxter Bradford
Thanks for the comments. Robert you really need a strong warm up to prevent it looking too extreme, but the longer range/lower contrast of the film is great. In this shot, there is detail in all of the cliffs on the transparency.

The Velvia 50 version can be seen here. http://www.baxterbradford.com/galleries/Jan%2006/pages/stoswaldsbayrvp.html

Quite a difference and a long way to what was really in the sky on that day.
 
Looks so peaceful. There's something about the dark clouds just down at the horizon and then drifting forward that mystifies this for me. I suppose I'm accustomed to clouds high in the sky for such photographs? I think the tones and low clouds give it a "smooth" feel.
 
Sanjay Sen
I don't know which one I like more - probably this one over the other. As usual, this is a lovely image.

And congratulations on being featured in 'Connect' magazine!
 
Baxter Bradford
Thankyou again for the positive comments.

I am surprised that the velvia version hasn't been criticised more. I am not at all keen on it! Will get cracking on the B+W processing as the longer exposure (1 min on HP5 as opposed to 9s here) should have produced some interesting movement in the sky and flattened the sea off even more.
 

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