After work...

Crokey

We've had some unseasonal rain this week, so yesterday and today I decided to pop down to the Nakdong River which runs along the outskirts of Daegu in South Korea. It's only about a 15 min cycle from my work which is convenient as it was after sunset and my bicycle's light is on the way out! Let me know what you think, C&C is always appreciated.

Crokey

Just realized while packing my camera bag that I left my lens hood on the river bank, doh!

theprincereturns

Colin - those are lovely. I really liked #3 in particular. It looks like a cross betwene water, fog, and ice. Just curious if you are using any ND filters for these shots?

NorthernFocus

Some interesting shots of moving water.

kdog

Excellent set, Colin. I'm digging the blue post-sunset water shots.

Crokey

theprincereturns wrote: »

Colin - those are lovely. I really liked #3 in particular. It looks like a cross betwene water, fog, and ice. Just curious if you are using any ND filters for these shots?

Cheers Lucas. The long exposures(up to 30seconds) blurred the water into a glassy surface. I don't actually own an ND but one is certainly on my wish list. It was late enough in the evening that the polariszer added the extra stop and a bit. That's how I left the lens hood of my 80-200 behind! The hood is so deep that I cant reach in to screw the polarizer in place and I guess, in my haste to set up before all light was gone, I put it down somewhere! Typical:D

Crokey

Some interesting shots of moving water.

Thanks Dan, I don't often get to photograph moving water and that area is the only someway aesthetic place I can get to easily so I don't want to spoil the experience by over doing it! Just to busy these days to do much travelling unfortunately.

Excellent set, Colin. I'm digging the blue post-sunset water shots.

Glad you like it kdog. I recently bought a beautiful book by a scottish landscape photographer called Bruce Percy who often shoots during the blue hour and looks for simplistic compositions. Figured I could give something similar a try...think I might need a bit more work to reach Bruce's level

Crokey

Crokey wrote: »

Just realized while packing my camera bag that I left my lens hood on the river bank, doh!

Guess what I just found among the grasses on the river bank!:D

ghinson

The water ones are nice. Looking at these, I wonder if they need to be warmed up a bit. I feel this way more about #s 1 and 2 then #5. But I could be wrong. The cool color temp certainly relays a feel in the water pics.

PappyRoot

Colin,

I love these!! I especially like them as it brought back memories. I was stationed at Osan AB, South Korea twice. Once for 6 months in 1985. Then for a year 1988-1989. The Korean people are some of my favorite people. Thank you so much for sharing these with us and bringing a wonderful memory back to this old man. And please, please keep them coming.

Love and Prayers

Darryl

Crokey

ghinson wrote: »

The water ones are nice. Looking at these, I wonder if they need to be warmed up a bit. I feel this way more about #s 1 and 2 then #5. But I could be wrong. The cool color temp certainly relays a feel in the water pics.

Cheers Greg, I always enjoy photographing water. It might have something to do with growing up in Ireland where it rains 300days a year a pours the rest! Regarding the color temp, I'm kind of experimenting with the blue-hour these days and I'm finding it very hard to be objective about setting it warm. In a few months perhaps, when sitting out in the freezing cold at 7 in the evening becomes fighting off heat-stroke and swarms of mosquitoes at 10 at night, I might look back on these photos and decide you were right and add some warmth to them

Crokey

PappyRoot wrote: »

Colin,

I love these!! I especially like them as it brought back memories. I was stationed at Osan AB, South Korea twice. Once for 6 months in 1985. Then for a year 1988-1989. The Korean people are some of my favorite people. Thank you so much for sharing these with us and bringing a wonderful memory back to this old man. And please, please keep them coming.

Love and Prayers

Darryl

Thank you so much Darryl, I'm glad they made you a little nostalgic. Korea must have been a very different place back then. They've been very busy since you left concreting over anything that looks green or doe-eyed! I'm only joking, there's still plenty of mountain left and recently there has been a push to protect more and more of the countryside from aggressive development and a concerted effort to clean up areas which had become illegal dump sites. They should have it nice and pretty for you should you ever feel the urge to come back to The Land of the Morning Calm(and Midnight Capers!).