CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

A lens with a fast aperture like Fujifilm's superb XF56mm allows me to be very creative with the extremely shallow depth of field the very wide f1.2 aperture produces.  To illustrate the difference between f1.2 and f16 I took two shots of the 1881 East Coast Fishing Disaster memorial at the top of the track down to Cove Harbour. The shot above was taken at the maximum f1.2, with the focus on the figure of the child nearest the camera.  As you can see the rest of the figures are thrown out of focus. The next shot is taken at the smallest aperture available on the 56mm, and that is f16.  The small aperture extends the depth of field to include most of the figures, with the background visible to the viewer.  I did a blog on the memorial in February, which includes links to the story behind the disaster that left many widows and orphans on that fateful day on the 18 October 1881.   CLICK HERE  to read the blog. --------------------------...

This morning I decided to get up and catch the sunrise down at Cove Harbour, which is located a few miles down the coast from Dunbar and is an oasis of tranquility.  After two weeks of travel and work in Japan and Portugal, Cove was the ideal place to unwind for a couple of hours before heading back to the office to prepare for the next FIA WEC event in China, which I fly out to on Sunday for eight days. Once a busy part of the east coast fishing industry, Cove Harbour is now used by a few small fishing boats that catch crabs and lobsters. All of the buildings associated with the harbour are listed and the harbour is owned by Cove Harbour Conservation Ltd.   With its old world feel and old building Cove is the ideal location for filming and has been used for major films, TV shows and fashion shoots.  With it's close proximity to Edinburgh, Cove is an ideal location for international companies to use. The shots on this page were taken on the Fujifilm X-T1 and the...