Framedlight

After Christmas, at the beginning of the year we visited the north east and stayed on a very nice, small campsite outside Whitby. On our first day we went to the honeypot locations (at least for photographers) of Saltwick Bay and Saltburn. There was no nice sunrise, the tide was far out at Saltwick bay which meant it was at least accessible,Salt and the weather was drab. I decided to dust off my Mamiya 645 film camera and loaded it with Tri-X. I have two lenses, a 24mm and a 50mm, 35mm equivalent. I used the 24mm equivalent most of the time. When I got home a processed the negatives myself and scanned them using an Epson V750 scanner. The rest of the processing was done digitally. The first pictures are from Saltwick bay and the latter ones from Saltburn. I had problems in Saltburn as it was raining and the tripod legs kept sinking into the sand. A shame because a really nice one of the pier was slightly blurred because of unintentional camera movement. Still, it has been done before...

After the tide had forced us off Saltwick Bay we drove north to Saltburn to photograph the pier. The tide was almost up to the very top of the beach which was good and the sea was fairly rough as well which made for good long exposure shots. I was finding that exposures of around a second showed some movement in the sea but longer exposures of 15 seconds or more smoothed it out. The scene was interrupted by a couple of horses being ridden along. I was not really set up to take them but have done so anyway! I had new boots on (Meindl Toronto) which stood up really well to the soaking they received. Again there are some coloured pictures and then monochrome. The pier really suits monochrome but I love the muted colours that long exposures give. The pictures with the horses I have only shown in black and white as one of the riders had on a high vis yellow jacket.