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Yesterday I spoke about using telephoto lenses and how they can be used for landscapes.  This got me thinking about zooms and prime lenses and how I do tend to reach for a prime lens over a zoom for most of my work.  There is nothing wrong with the Fujinon zooms, they are as good in the quality stakes as the prime lenses I own, but the primes are by their nature smaller and have a faster aperture. The three primes I tend to use are the Fujinon 35mm f1.4 (top image), Fujinon 18mm f2 (second image above) and the Fujinon 56mm f1.2 (third image below).  All three images were taken from the same position at Skateraw Harbour showing Torness Power Station lit up last night. All of the images were shot at 30 second at f11 on the Fujifilm X-T1, which was attached to the Manfrotto 190 tripod.   To demonstrate that zoom lenses are as good as primes here is a shot taken on the Fujinon 10-24mm f4 at 10mm.  The other lens is the Fujinon 55-200mm wh...

This is one of those images where luck played a big part, being in the right place at the right time.  The clouds were pushing across East Lothian at a fair rate of knots and as I watched the sun started to hit the top of the clouds above Torness Power Station.  I managed to grab a few images before the light changed again.   This shot is actually two images stitched together to form a panoramic image.  Shots taken on my Nikon D800 with a 50mm f1.4 lens.  The exposure was 1/200 @ f11 with the ISO at 400. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

A little bit further down the coast to the east of Dunbar is Torness power station.  You can walk around the seaward side of the facility on the John Muir Way.  It certainly isn't the most beautiful spot in this part of the world but it is a highly visible landmark on this part of the East Lothian coast. Torness nuclear power station was the last of the United Kingdom's second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned. Construction of this facility began in 1980 for the then South of Scotland Electricity Board (SSEB) and it was commissioned in 1988. For more information on Torness Power Station CLICK HERE Image taken on Fujifilm Finepix X100 and 23mm f2 lens ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps supp...