Barns Ness

I love this place, its very strange/quirky. I've started angling my

photography more towards capturing how somewhere "feels" for me more

than just the composition. Any thoughts on this photo are welcomed.

I'm not familiar with this location, but I do love lighthouses, they seem to have certain qualities and values just not present in other subjects. You say that you are concentrating on how a locations "feels" rather than just composition. In this case I will state how it feels to me. It feels quite cold and barren, exisiting in a harsh environment, but the lighhouse is strong and solid, and overlooks the surroundings like an ever vigilant sentinal unwavering in it's duties. I could go on to give some tips on how to take the shot and retain crisp detail in the foreground grasses, but I'm guessing your happy with the long exposure, and the prevailing mood of the image.

Nice atmospheric shot.

Regards

Alf

It's interesting you mentioned that you're taking an approach to capture how a place "feels".  You don't mention your feelings but to me I get a sense of lonliness.  I like the Alf describes the feeling conveyed to him also.  But to me, I see darkness and a lonliness, the darkness comes from the atmosphere.  It's in the dark cloudy sky and the windswept grass.  The lonliness comes from the deserted look of the place.

PDE

Thanks for the comments. Lonliness and desolate are two words which I feel describe this location. To the far right and the back of this location is a nuclear power station and right behind where I took the shot is a cement works, which creates this strange mood about the place.

Happy to take advice about sharpening the shot as I will likely return soon. For this particular image I felt the clouds moving in the sky added to the feel of what I was trying to achieve, maybe an ND grad could have aided in getting the best of both worlds in to the shot. :o)

Cheers guys!

If you want to have "the best of both worlds", a sharp foreground, whilst retaining the long exposure, there is only one way to achieve this in my experience. Make sure you have a tripod, compose your shot, adjust your camera settings for a fast shutter speed, take the shot. Then without moving the camera use your ND filter, adjust the settings to a smaller aperture and take the longer exposure. With a shot like this it should be relatively easy to blend them as layers in photo shop thus attaining the required results. This method may also serve to lighten the foreground slightly showing a bit more detail. Hope this helps.

Regards

Alf