Swingboats
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Baxter Bradford

Swingboats

I have been using restricted focus for a number of B+W shots of UK landmarks. Following a visit to the Kandinsky exhibition at the Tate, I resolved to have a go with colour images and thought that colour neg film was the way to go.

I felt that it needed to have small patches of bold colour to work best and reckoned that the seaside was a place for this.

So here is my first attempt on Velvia, the Pro160S neg not having been processed yet. I have had to lighten up in the scan, since the push I gave was too conservative and only exposed 2 sheets of E6.
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Location
Weymouth, Dorset
Equipment Used
Ebony SU45 210 Nikkor lens and nearly every movement possible!
Exposure
1/4 at f5.6
Film & Developer
Velvia 50 pushed 1/2 stop
Paper & Developer
Transparency scan
Lens Filter
0.45 Hard ND grad diagonal for bottom LH corner and 0.9 in Top RH corner
I think this would have been a realy good shot had the apperture been closed a lot more, but this may not have been possible if the sand was shifting under the tripod. As thought, don't know if this would have helped, try putting coasters, or simmilar, under tripod feet
 
Baxter Bradford
Rob

The intention was to abstract by using focus creatively and thus the image has a narrow diagonal pof.

It seems to me that it is less easy to ignore out of focus bold colours than B+W tones; thus choice of subject and composition need perhaps more careful selection than I have been used to when using with B+W pictures.
 

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