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Watching over you
© John Parminter
This wee rock seems to have it's own personal guardian keeping an eye on it!

All the paraphenalia bolted to my lens enabled a 2 minute exposure which was the intention.
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Peter Olexa 2 years ago
Nice photo :)

carried in Cruzine: http://www.cruzine.com/2010/08/19/waterscapes/
Ian Munro 2 years ago
One of my fav's John.
Loris Arcostanzo 3 years ago
Beautyful one!
Flash 3 years ago
A beautiful, silent scene - excellent!
Semir 3 years ago
Beautiful one John

/Semir
asghar besharati 3 years ago
beautiful!
Andre du Plessis 3 years ago
Hi john. You did so well with the tones. Such challenging light here, but mastered so sensitively. Excellent work.
John Parminter  Thanks Andre, this was actually very easy to process as it came out of the camera in mono and all I had to do was a very small levels adjustment.

JP
Andre du Plessis  Yeah, yeah.....:) No need to be humble John - you are masterful with tonal awareness, as your work constantly proves.
In that case I'll have one of those cameras as well!

I recently saw work in a French Foto Magl where the B&W photographer shoots excusively in mono camera setting, and he moots this method. I, and probably most mono workers on OE, first process the colour image, and then convert - all in our own ways, as this is supposed to be the best way to retain and achieve quality. Well, judging by this image like might become a bit easier, don't you think. Maybe I should dig up that instruction manual.
John Parminter  I had to shoot in mono setting Andre as the 10 stop filter I use isn't colour neutral and leaves a horrible IR polluted red tinge and having been forced to shoot in mono I'm beginning to think for my purposes it may be the way I should approach my mono images. The reason being that when I shoot in colour and convert to mono in PP I always play too much with the conversion settings until it looks cr*p, this way if I shoot in mono I have only one choice and I'm finding that I can better work with the tones from that starting point, I do however ensure I get a full range of tones in histogram as if I was shooting in colour with the possibility of overexposing ever so slightly to make sure the highlights go right up to the right edge on the histogram.

JP
WK Chew 3 years ago
Very beautiful and well done
Paolo Giudici 3 years ago
Wow! Bellissima
John Parminter  thanks P
Dare Turnsek 3 years ago
Compliments, Master of landscapes:)
John Parminter  Steady Dare, I'm no master please, it's only a hobby after all.
:)
JP
Dare Turnsek  :) not my fault, if you led your hobby almost to perfection ;)
JBA 3 years ago
Nice and moody JP. The lighthouse is leaning in a touch but I can forgive you ;-)
John Parminter  Aye Jon but I can forgive them for building it wonky...
Phyllis Clarke 3 years ago
Lovely capture John. I think you are enjoying mono now..well it is always a treat to see the British Isles through your lens. My best, Phyllis
John Parminter  A little secret Phyllis, I'm forced to shoot these in Black & White in camera as the 10 stop filter I use is not colour neutral and allows IR pollution in which ruins the colours.
Although, my intention is to shoot these types in mono anyway as I believe they suit it and luckily I have to do very little except a small contrast increase in PP.
JP
Brin 3 years ago
Excellent work!
Sven Fennema 3 years ago
Aaah one of my screening favs, glad it make it, wonderful mood bomb! You strike me again John
John Parminter  I put my latest attempts down to the 1X factor Sven, I'm learning to be a bit more inventive and creative which I might not have been if I weren't influenced by the inspirational photos I see here.
Cheers,
JP
Vlad Dumitrescu 3 years ago
another great mono, my friend!
Congrats! :o)
mm767cap 3 years ago
Wow John... This is just wonderful. The exposure is so perfect, and its an epic comp.
A simple beauty. Congratulations.
ollie 3 years ago
lovely image john ,your shots look way better on this site :-)
doro rapp 3 years ago
really special, love the shine of the water and all the whateveritis looking out from it :)
John Parminter  The whateveritis is black seaweed Doro, the water was only about a foot deep so you can it underneath and on top of the water.

Thanks alot.
JP
Alexander Spernes 3 years ago
This got this excellent shiny metal quality a like so much! Very good! Something I could have hanging on my wall for sure!
John Parminter  cheers, I like the shiny metal analogy Alexander
Luc 3 years ago
John, this is one of the rare pictures where one plus one equals three. The 2 main objects form something bigger, larger, tell more then they do when being single.
Very good work, i almost typed drop the color work all together but no, just keep doing what you do: make great pictures! Congrats!!!!!!

Luc
John Parminter  Cheers, quite enjoying my little foray into the world of B&W
Colmar Wocke 3 years ago
John,

Superb Black and White - lovely smoothness and sharpness at the same time.

Colmar
John Parminter  Thanks Colmar
Codrin Lupei 3 years ago
A very beautiful image, loved it in screening! Well done, John!
John Parminter  thanks Codrin
Marek Wilczura 3 years ago
you did it again! I mean the BW seascape in the gallery ...;-)
this one minimal compo has the sam strength as the previous one
congrats!
John Parminter  Cheers Marek
johnpainter 3 years ago
A beauty, John. I think I'm becoming jealous of your living arrangements--isn't there anything ugly over in your neck of the woods?
John Parminter  Plenty John, I just don't photograph it....
Andrew Thatcher 3 years ago
Your going to have stop this B&W lark right now ;)
John Parminter  I know, I'm the one most surprised Andrew, dunno whats coming over me?

:-)
I would be amazing to live in that lighthouse!
A great shot John...
John Parminter  Alas Kaveh, non of the UK lighthouses are manned any more with them all automated quite a while ago. It would be relatively easy to live in this one as it is only a stones throw from the beach and accessible at low tides as in the case here.

JP
Ricky Siegers 3 years ago
Silence and peacefull John...beautiful
Uzay 3 years ago
John, this is a very good work, i especially liked the tones of the surface.
Amazing this one John, Im a BIG fan of your work!!
/Wulff
Gary McParland 3 years ago
This is great John, Voted for it in screening. Lovely little lighthouse

Gary
John Parminter  Cheers Gary, I was pleasantly surprised when I turened up at it and found that it stood isolated from the beach.

John
KPK 3 years ago
Excellent!
gerard sexton 3 years ago
Stark & sparse but just right the stillness sort of sits as a juxtaposition to the lighthouse if you get my drift!
John Parminter  I get your drift Gerard, infact my intention was for the lighthouse to be solely guarding against the wee rock. The lighthouse really warns against a sandy and shallow headland.

Fab place BTW
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Equipment
D300, Sigma 17-70 @24mm, 10 stop ND, 0.9 Hitech ND grad and polariser
Location
Rattray Head, N.E Scotland.
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LIGHTHOUSE, WATER, LANDSCAPE, CALM
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Category
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