CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

Yesterday was the first opportunity for over a month to grab a sunset shot here in Dunbar.  I have been in Austria, France, Germany and on the West Coast of Scotland and when I have been home the weather has not been kind. As the clock was approaching 45 minutes before sunset I grabbed the camera bag and tripod and headed out to the beach below Winterfield Golf Club.  With the tide out the rock pools left at the edge of shore line provided a perfect mirror for the fiery sky as the sun sank lower in the west out of sight behind North Berwick Law. I set one of my Fujifilm X-T1s on the Manfrotto tripod with the Fujinon 10-24mm f4 fitted to it.  I fitted the XF50-140mm f2.8 to the other X-T1 to capture some long telephoto shots of the clouds and the fiery seascape. Here are the results from last nights sunset over Belhaven Bay in East Lothian. All images taken on the Fujifilm X-T1 + XF50-140mm f2.8 or X10-24mm f4 lenses ----------------...

A walk at low tide had me heading down to the beach at Winterfield to get a shot of the Club House through the gap between the cliff and the short stack of rock.  This beach is only accessible at low tide as the sea comes right up to the base of the cliffs. I decided to use one lens on the Fujifilm X-T1 and that choice was the superb Fujinon 14mm f2.8.  This wide angle lens has been getting a lot more use of late even though I have the 10-24mm f4 ultra wide zoom in the camera bag.  There is something quite special about this wide prime lens and I find  the 21mm equivalent field of view to be spot on for my landscape work. A well as sweeping landscapes the 14mm is also good for getting down low and filling the frame with some foreground interest.   The images were converted to mono in post processing but I took the picture with a black and white image in mind.  I prefer to see the images in colour in the viewfinder and convert the image in...

This is the club house at Winterfield Golf Club which is situated across the road from where I live in Dunbar.  The sand and stony beach below the golf course is one of our favourite places to walk and beach comb for sea glass and other items . The shot was taken on the Fujifilm X-T1 and Fujinon XF35mm f1.4R lens and converted to mono in Silver Efex Pro2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook  page and click 'like'