#overcast light

Development of my Practice - Stepping Outside of my Comfort Zone

I don't usually shoot in shot light, on an overcast day. Usually, when the sun is high in the sky, contrast, deep shadows and extremely bright highlights, is when I choose to shoot. Although, I've recently discovered what a challenge sunlight poses, both in practice out in the field and during post.

Without realising before, I'm trying to consider how to expose for equal amount of detail in the shadows and highlights, most of the time I'm in a position of either exposing for the shadows or the highlights, whichever, I usually loose detail in the foreground or little areas of detail, which is just as difficult as trying to rescue some of blown out highlights from complete oblivion.

Following a bit of research, I decided to venture out and photograph on an overcast day, using a tri-pod, live-view, exposure compensation and the blur-focus method, the result of this much slower, considered process towards my landscape photography practice is the image above.

soft mornings

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According a recent find from the Woodland Trust, only 7% (out of 13%) of total woodland land in the UK is deemed to be 'fairly good ecological condition.

Thank you for being patient as I edited the most recent shoot for The Forgotten Wilderness. Below are a couple of shots from the final edit, three bracketed exposures (1 shot exposed correctly, 1 underexposed by 1 stop and another underexposed by 1 stop) merged together in Lightroom to create an HDR image. Please, I'd appreciate it if you'd share this post to aid in raising awareness of a forest which is overlooked by Harlow Council.

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