Cornwall
Cornwall is a picturesque county located in the South West of England, known for its stunning coastline, rugged cliffs, and charming fishing villages. It is a popular destination for photographers, offering a diverse range of landscapes and seascapes to capture. From the iconic St Michael's Mount to the dramatic cliffs of Land's End, there are plenty of photography locations to explore. The county is also home to picturesque harbours, such as St Ives and Mousehole, and beautiful beaches, including Porthcurno and Fistral.
Explore #2 - 18/07/17
The old engine houses of the Crown mine perched precariously on the cliff face, located near to the little village of Bottallack, South West Cornwall.
One of my favourite locations along the Cornish Coast, unless you were walking the coast path or came here deliberately you would never know these were here such is their position tucked away at the base of some high cliffs just above sea level, you can actually get into both of the engine houses via a little track alongside the cliff then by climbing down and old iron ladder set into the rock, I didn't bother on this occasion as I was just after better shots of the buildings since my last visit a few years ago.
With a bit of a breeze blowing along here you get a lot of movement in the waves against the cliffs, wanting to capture the detail in them I opted for a 3 stop filter / polarizer combo giving me a ideal speed of 2 seconds to capture the detailed wave movement in the sea, avoiding a longer expsoure that would render it flat.
The whole are along this stretch of coast is utterly amazing and would reccomend it to anyone who hasn't been down here, you can see why UNESCO have awarded it world heritage status.
Another one from the archives. I had a very productive trip to cornwall last year in may. Every evening another coastline and another sunset to shoot. Here's a shot of the Godrevy Lighthouse. This shot will also serve a bit as a preview of whats to come :-) in two weeks I'll visit one of the most spectacular coastlines in europe. I'm goin on a 1week trip to Portugal, the area east of Lisabon. Flickr and loc.alize.us already helped me scouting the area in advance and there'll be sooo much to shoot. hopefully I'm lucky with the weather.
Some notes about this shot. It's a dri from 3 bracketed exposures blended using enfuse GUI 2.1 and then in addition some hand-blending in photoshop. Then tonal adjustments, curves, slight color adjustments, saturation and dodge&burn with aid of luminance masks.
If you wonder why the lighthouse is not distorted, even though I was shooting wide angle, I selected the portion with the lighthouse and righted it, then I blended it with the original image. This way the lighthouse is straight but I didn't need to correct the whole image.
Hope you like it.
cheers
This is a free picture released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic. Feel free to use and share this picture but please give me credit linking my website or my Flickr account. More info about me on www.pixael.com. If you like my pictures please like my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/giuseppemilophoto) or follow me on Twitter (twitter.com/pixael_com) and Instagram (instagram.com/pixael). Thanks!
View of Enys Dodnan and Armed Knight, with Longships Lighthouse and Land's End Hotel in background.
Back to Holywell Bay with this shot. This was very tough to process. The dynamic range was quite huge and I had 3 bracketed exposures to work with. A lot of masking :-) But in the end I think it conveys some of the warmth of that wonderful evening.
cheers
Le dernier sunset de ma semaine de vacances en Cornouailles ... un endroit magique juste à coté du Cap Lizard , l'endroit le plus au sud de l'Angleterre ... tout ca avec une bonne stout que du bonheur !!!
Matériel utilisé pour la pose longue : Nisi V5 + CPL Nisi ND 64 Nisi GND Reverse
This one I shot an hour before sunset at Porth nanven. Why not wait till sunset you might ask.. Well I had not enough evenings to get in all the coasts I wanted so I had to do two Coasts this evening ;-) For sunset I went to the nearby Priest Cove which is also quite nice. But next time I get to Cornwall I will do a lengthly shoot at Porth Nanven for sure, and take more than 3 Pictures!! But It still came out quite good.
Here's the complete story behind this shot -> mibreit-photo.com/blog/?p=450
regards
A magical morning near Porthcurno in Cornwall. How I had longed for such a display of light during the days before where I wouldn't even have seen Logan Rock in the distance due to the coastal fog.
PS: I have released a new Start2Finish Tutorial where I show my complete post processing Workflow for this photos. You'll find more info on my homepage.
One more shot from the glorious County of Cornwall, this is Cargodna pumping engine house, of the former Wheal Owles Mine, there are no exact dates for when the mines were opened but it's thought that the mines here were certainly in use around the 1700's, these and other remains are all that is left of the vast tin and copper mining empire around these parts now. Although there is one saved as a working museum nearby at Geevor.
I came down to this stretch of coastline most nights on the recent visit, like they say, no sunset is ever the same... the sunset this evening was great but the afterglow was the best one of the trip with some gorgeous reds and purples producing just before dusk, in this case 10 secs being just enough to drag them out across the sky without losing too much sky detail.
A few people in the pub by where I was stopping couldn't understand why I'd get my stuff and vanish down here every night as I'd 'already done it', just being here watching it was good enough reason to me but when you add the possibility of new photo's into the equation it's a total no brainer isn't it? I guess you either 'get it' or you don't! I had the place entirely to myself each night too.
During our trip to cornwall we had lots of bad weather and thus very few opportunities for good photography during the day. Fortunately we had enough nice sunsets, as you can see in my last postings.
Here I tried to make the best out of the overhung sky and used my polarizer + ndx400 filter to get a 30 second exposure. The polarizer was turned, so that the reflections get through and the water got the same hue as the sky and the horizon nearly vanished. I wanted to reduce the scene this way.
Take a look at my blog for some behind the scenes stories of my cornwall trip -> blog.mibreit-photo.com
cheers
Last week I was visiting Cornwall again, the third time during May now.
But unfortunately it was also the first time I encountered coastal fog there. And it was quite annoying. During day the fog lifted a bit but for both sunset and sunrise the whole coast was shrouded in it. Not good light for the first six days.
In the end I photographed one good sunset and two good sunrises. This view above was taken on my last day when I went exploring the Bedruthan steps, which you can see in the distance. On my way back to the car as I looked back I saw how nicely the sun lit the landscape, so I set up for one final photo.
View of Armed Knight
From our last evening in Cornwall. St Michael's Mount was still on my list but the sunset was a little lame. This is still an hour before sunset but soon after the sun went hiding behind the low clouds in the west and there was no real sunset. But I liked the warm light here and the intenese green in the foreground. All in all good I was there early enough and at least catched some light during the golden hour.
What a releave this was, as I finally got to photograph a great sunrise during this years trip to Cornwall. The days before each morning when the alarm clock rang and I went out I couldn't see much more than 20 meters because of the dense coastal fog.
On this morning the fog cleared and I photographed this nice sunrise at Pednvounder Beach, which you can spot in the background.
The day before that remarcable sunset at Kynance Cove, which I showed you yesterday, I photographed this clear sunset at Godrevy. Although no clouds were in the sky the wave action provided some nice shooting opportunities, because the breaking waves nicely caught the light of the setting sun.
This is a free picture released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic. Feel free to use and share this picture but please give me credit linking my website or my Flickr account. More info about me on www.pixael.com
explore January 29, 2018
Lands End, Cornwall
Cornwall, England
A good friend of mine, seen here shooting the sunset, Botallack mine providing the interest, against the exploding sky here on the West coast of Cornwall, as far as sunset shooting goes this place is beyond great if the conditions are right, set up, wait, enjoy.,, there's another shot of this further down my stream, more intense colours further on into the sunset, I wanted to include this one though for the human interest, and the colours were slightly less intense, still, a very evocative image for me. Best viewed here
Here is the other version, more time has elapsed - www.flickr.com/photos/pete37038/7269490650/in/photostream... your thoughts ?
This is a free picture released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic. Feel free to use and share this picture but please give me credit linking my website or my Flickr account. More info about me on www.pixael.com
Ok normally I manage to get up early a lot more during vacation but this time the weather was just not good enough in the morning. This shot is from the only time I went out for a morning shoot and well I waited and waited for the sky to break up but instead this was the foreboding of the days rain coming . At least I manged to get some shots and I like the mood in this, already looking like rain :-)
cheers
It was about 4 years since I had been at this location, tucked away down a small lane lies this amazing beach at Porth Nanven in the Cot Valley, last time I was here the tide was right in and the light wasn't great so I was hoping for better this time around.
On the trip I only visited here once and the light certainly played ball this time, also the tide being out allowed for more of the beach features to be included this time and also for the sunlight to cascade over the sand and rocks, I managed a few differently composed shots from this location this evening, this one being one of my favourites, this is definitely one of those locations you could visit every night for a month and come away with something unique each time.
The islands in rear are known as 'The Brisons' and (although I honestly cant see it myself...), they are said to resemble General Charles de Gaulle lying on his back.
The Cornish Coast Path, and a long exposure image of the rugged rocky coastline near Lands End, Enys Dodnan with the natural sea arch looking out towards Longships Lighhouse.
Exposure: 61 seconds @ f16
View my most interesting shots on Flickriver here: www.flickriver.com/photos/pete37038/popular-interesting/.
Pebble beach at low tide.
J'étais obligé d'y passer non :)
Overlooking Pednvounder Beach from the clifftop footpath at sunset
Cornwall, England
View of Longships Lighthouse
Taken at high tide on a damp and overcast afternoon.
Hellooo there.. I'm back from my vacation in England with many pix and here's the first one :-)
I was shooting coastline sunsets in Cornwall every evening of my vacation no matter the weather or the conditions and got quite a nice set together. I hope to find the time to process more of them soon but for now enjoy the Kynance Cove! I hope you like it.
I have a longer story on this shot on my blog here -> mibreit-photo.com/blog/?p=423
Last week I was in Cornwall again. It had been four years since my last trip there, much too long. I just love the cornish coast and one week as usual was much too short to explore all the places I wanted to visit. Also the weather wasn't ideal for landscape photography but as four years ago Kynance Cove presented itself in best light when we visited.
What I noticed again while shooting the coast was that even if it looks spectacular it's not always easy to find the right spot for the photo. There's just too many opportunities and you need to plan in a lot time (at least one hour) before sunset to find the right spot. Here I was walking around a lot and looking at different vantage points until I found the right view for the evening.
Hope you like it!
Long exposure, captured from the Malakoff
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Cornwall!
Most notably Michael, Andrey Sulitskiy, Heike Rosenbaum, jim stephenw, Pete Rowbottom and Ludovic Lagadec.