Neville Prosser Blog » Landscapes

FROM LLANLLUGAN TO CARNO

Neville — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:13:33 +0000

This was the view yesterday afternoon on top of the mountain before we drove down to Carno after a pint in the local. While shooting this image the farmer popped over to see what we were up to, he didn’t mind us being there so we spent a good 20 minutes talking.

MID WALES WITH MY BROTHER

Neville — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:30:18 +0000

What have I been up to these last few day’s? Well here’s a few shots I have managed to squeeze of on my countryside rambles with my brother Glyn. Glyn lives in a small 200 year old cottage in the beautiful green Mid Wales mountains. So I haven’t done much photography more of talking and walking. The images below are of Minllyn, Waen Oer and En-Rout to Cader Idris.

CATHERINE HILL BAY

Neville — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:07:52 +0000

I popped up to Catherine hill Bay this morning, it was windy, cold and very grey, but I’m a Pro, so I had to shoot something. Climbing all over the rocks, but not getting too close to the edge as the swell was coming up a little to high at times, the rocks had this bright coloured lichen stuff all over the place and with the low grey cloud cover it made sense to photograph it as the colour became more saturated. It wasn’t a day for grand panoramas, but a more detailed landscape image, where, what was in the landscape is more important than what the place looked like. I will go back sometime to shoot more images as there was plenty of possibilities. Thanks Adam for telling me about this place.

A RIVER SOMEWHERE

Neville — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:48:18 +0000

It’s been a long time since I’ve stood by a river, to photograph or just look at. This is the river Wye in Mid-Wales on a very cold winter morning. I was there with my dad, we had climbed over the fence and walked down the bank a little so that I could get a good position to look back up the flow of the river. The sun was in a perfect position. I was using a Pentax 67 loaded with Fuji 100 iso Velvia, I have no idea what the exposure was, quite frankly I dont care, I just like the image. Wales has some great rivers, because it rains a lot, the best weather for the photographer who wants to capture landscape images with all that the landscape has to offer. there’s an old welsh saying. God made Wales first, and with what beauty he had left he made the rest of the world. I am biased.

LONG JETTY

Neville — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:13:23 +0000

I shot the jetty at Long Jetty this afternoon. I haven’t shot much for myself in the last couple of weeks so after a day in front of the computer and booking a wedding today with a real nice couple, I thought, treat yourself to a picture Nev. This was shot on the D3 @ 100iso with the 24-70mm at 24mm, a natural density 81EF .6 to hold the sky and warm the scene up a little further.

BLUE SKY DREAMING

Neville — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:03:10 +0000

Because it’s been raining and I had to cancel a shoot, how about I cheer everybody up and show you what our summer is going to be like. This is the road into Purnululu National Park about 110 km north of the town of Halls Creek and 250 km south of Kununurra in the north east of Western Australia. A landscape of beehive-shaped sandstone formations, deep chasms with palm trees. Traveling on this type of road for a few hours is dusty work.

TERRIGAL DAWN

Neville — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:38:32 +0000

Terrigal used to be the home to a community of fishermen and timber fellers. Today the town is better known for it’s sandy beaches and cosmopolitan cafe’s, boutiques , night clubs and accommodation. The morning of this image the people of Terrigal were awoken by the waft of salt sea spray to the start of their day. Not a bad way to get things moving.

SAME SCENE DIFFERENT IMAGE

Neville — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:09:24 +0000

I have been going through some of my RAW images, looking at files I may have passed over the first time around and, I have just processed two more from this series I shot back in March, when the weather was a little warmer. All photographed from the same spot, but moving the camera a little and waiting for different swells in he ocean. Thats one thing I find fascinating about the landscape its always moving. The trouble is, I dont know which I prefer. Sometimes I lean to the darker versions, I feel there is more drama in the image, but then again some people prefer a more open lighter photograph. They were captured on a Nikon D700 fitted with a 20mm Nikkor, at 4 and 2 second’s.

BIRDIE BEACH

Neville — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:31:01 +0000

I arrived really early, to early in fact, at Birdie beach this morning. It was so dark, no moon, that I had to use my torch to find my way along the beach, but when I got to where I thought I wanted to be it was still so dark that I made my way back to the car just to get out of the wind and wait for some light in the sky before trying to cross the rock’s. I didn’t want to become another statistic. I came back with about 5 images these are just two. Shot on the D700 with a Nikkor 20mm f2.8 and a 0.6 ND Grad filter.

YOU CHOOSE

Neville — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:41:07 +0000

Morning or afternoon. What’s the best time to photograph the landscape? Well it’s all up to what you want the picture to be and when does the light paint the best picture. These two images are of Toowoon Bay NSW Central Coast, the first was photographed just after the sun had set behind the headland, creating this cool looking image, the second was photographed just as the sun broke the horizon line over the ocean creating a warm image, two day’s after the first. In this case both images work quite well, so it’s just down to the viewer and the feeling each image gives you. Both images were captured on A Nikon D700 mounted to a tripod a 24-70mm was used for the evening shot and a 20mm for the morning image. The preset light balance on the camera was set to cloudy. Back in the studio the RAW file images were processed in Nikons Capture NX, but I think that’s about to change, more on that later. It’s very important to shoot in RAW, especially if you want the best image quality your equipment can give you.