So, following on from Part 1, I knew that to take advantage of all these lovely places I was visiting and to improve my long exposure photography, something had to change.
I’d come to the conclusion that it was my filter, so on to eBay and purchase a new darker Cokin filter.
I’d researched some places on Dartmoor to photo and thought I’d give it all another go.
Things didn’t start too bad but definitely didn’t end well. I’ll explain why…
I was right about the place it was amazing!
So I set-up and took some photos. Sun was in the wrong place causing glare and flare! So moved around the stream finding better locations.
Secondly this was the first time I’d used my tripod and the moors and I hadn’t realised just how heavy it was to carry! 2.7kgs, that’s a lot when you have a lot of gear too. Carrying that to locations and up and down steep paths and sides of hills was tricky and it just got heavier in time.
I put all that aside and walked along the lovely river taking photos as a went. All on the view finder the images looked a lot better, not blown out, no orange tint, just a little darker, which is good.
I explored all along the stream, photographing the rapids and waterfalls. Brilliant, 150 photos of this lovely location. I’ll have some lovely photos. How wrong I was!
I had 150 photos that were destined to go no further than the bin! I was worse of than before!
They had strange lines on them, blurred edges, rainbow coloured blobs. The so called filter was definitely not photographic quality and probably nothing more than a bit of plastic. The photos went in the computer bin and the filter quickly followed to the bin aswell.
So, lesson again learnt, you get what you pay for. Time to find something decent and give it all another go.
If you want to now how this turned out, Read part 3!