Sunday 13 February 2011

Bodyboarding Shoots

Weather in Cornwall has been pretty awful last few weeks, so my free time has consisted of hitting the coast in the search of waves and good riding.

Last weekend I visited one of my favourite beaches, which is a semi secrete spot on the north coast of Cornwall. This spot produces some quality waves when you get deep low pressure storms coming right over Cornwall accompanies with south west winds. Managed to get good waves both Saturday and Sunday.

This weekend I travelled to the same spot again, waves where bigger then last weekend but not quite as clean. A few photography highlights from both weekends.

Olly Medland
Ocean Wave
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Wednesday 2 February 2011

Night Photography

I'v been been fascinated for some time with the night sky and astronomy, long before I even embarked on photography. Something fascinating about looking at the night sky and is surprising how much you can see when you know where to look. I'm now looking at capturing this through my camera.

I have recently found two photographers that have given me some inspiration and techniques into what is possible with night photography.

The first is a photographer with the screen name of Dangerous Dave, you can view his flickr webpage here to see his work. He captures deep space images through a telescope and some of the sights he captures are quite amazing . Another photographer I'v been looking at is Ben Canales and you can see his work here , he captures images using a SLR camera and lenses in a landscape style.

I have now started a project which I will do for the rest of the winter on clear nights capturing the night sky and seeing what star scape's I can achieve. Below are a few example from the project so far.

Bodmin Moor at night.
Bodmin Moor. Travelled to the Moors last weekend with my friend Mairead, she's quite familiar with this part of the Moors and offered to drive me hear. She showed me this cool location where you have all these rocks piled on top of one another, not quite sure how they formed but there make for a fascinating foreground for the star scapes.

Half Moon.
The moon from my back garden taken with my Canon 400mm mounted on a tripod.