A few days ago I started this blog and said I would post up some of the photos I had taken for one of the 'H' Photography assignments. We have actually had two assignments to date, one simply looking at Depth of Field and Motion,(see the top photos below) and then we had the first of our Assessments - interpreting 'Ruraltopia' through two different genres of photography with three images for each genre (see the lower photos). I chose the Architecture and Pictorialist genres for this assessment. I used black & white for the architecture because I felt it reflected the buildings more precisely and more in keeping with their age. For the pictorialist style I went for a sepia tone with lots of grain and a soft focus. The idea of pictorialism is to illustrate photography as an art form as opposed to a precise scientific device, hence the detail is less clear and they have obviously been adapted by 'the hand of man'.
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So, after a long day dealing with frustrating office stuff while the sun was shining outside I managed to catch a few minutes while in Kyle to pop up to the viewpoint at the Plock of Kyle. I had missed the best of the day's light but managed a couple of shots towards Skye & the Cuilllins and north towards the Applecross Hills. The late sun had lit up the hills at the Bealach very nicely. I also took a couple of B&W film shots using the old Lubitel 166U but the focus isn't working entirely properly so I hope they come out OK, only time will tell, which I guess adds some intrigue to photography using film. Having got used to digital though I have to say t s nice to see the results there and then.
These are my best bird photos taken over the past couple of years. They are mostly a little bit out of focus, being taken at extreme zoom range usually, but some are pretty decent. I think the robin, the goldfinch, the grey wagtail and the corn bunting are my favourites.
A crisp cold day today with a hard frost and slippery roads but we had a lovely walk on the beach at Ashaig on Skye. I got a few photos which I have generally converted to black & white, mainly because there was not much colour in the landscape today anyway and the B&W kind of emphasised the contrast a bit better. The light was fantastic this afternoon over at Plockton, looking south from the old salmon trap at Dubh-Aird. I tried this in black and white as well but felt the colour just emphasised the sky a bit better. The image below is looking the other way, north towards the Beallach nam Ba. These old salmon traps were designed to trap salmon when the tide receded leaving them high and dry to be collected by the fishermen.
I also got a lovely shot from the end of the aerodrome looking south, which is now the image at the top of this page. This was the view from the bottom of the garden below our house two mornings ago, obviously it was the calm before the storm given what arrived afterwards. Over the next couple of days I will post a few images I have taken for the Higher Photography course, first assignment, focusing on architecture and the pictorialist genres using subjects from around the Balmacara estate where I work as Property manager for the National Trust for Scotland.
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AuthorI am an amateur photographer who is also a Chartered Geographer with his own part-time consultancy business and I work as an estate manager for a national conservation charity in Scotland. I am based in Lochalsh, Wester Ross, Scotland, just next to the Isle of Skye. SalesIf you like my photos and are interested in purchasing prints, whether framed, mounted or otherwise please click here.
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