Photographing The Angel

Its always very difficult photographing a location that has been done so many times before but I also see it as a challenge.
Myself and a fellow photographer decided to give the Angel of The North a try as neither of us had ever attempted to photograph this mammoth north east icon.

The wind was quite high so the clouds were moving at quite a speed above us, so I decided a long exposure would help drag the sky out and create more drama in the shot, I also didn't want to include any distracting foreground I just wanted the Angel to dominate the frame without any reference of size.

The timing was the main problem as Angel of the North attracts a lot of attention from tourists and locals so it can get quite busy. Finding a space of time to take an exposure without someone walking though the frame was the fist challenge. The second challenge was getting the exposure time correct so I got the exact cloud motion I wanted. Once I had worked out the best exposure time I waited for the best clouds and the tourists to clear and 19 seconds later I had my shot.

For people who are interested see the camera settings below.

EXIF: 24mm | ISO: 100 |19s @ f/11 | B&W 10 Stop Filter + Heliopan CP

Lens: Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 AF-S ED Camera: Nikon D700

Take a look at my Flickr page for more recent work.

Cheers,

Reed

Back to it

Well it's that time of year when we return back to work and try to get motivated for the year ahead. I did manage to get out as much as possible over the christmas break, but sometimes the thought of heading out at 6am with a temperature of -5 and on roads that had not been gritted made me want to stay in bed!

Above are a few of the images taken over the christmas break with the new camera + lenses.

there are some more examples on my Flickr page.

Happy New Year!

Reed

Out with the old in with the new

Its been an expensive old christmas but not buying presents for other people buying for myself! I decided to sell all my not so old canon equipment and buy into Nikons FX range. The Canon 5d Mkii was a nice bit of kit but it was constantly pis**ing me off with slow focus and noisy images and I knew there was a better bit of kit out there which could help me get better results.

so I have gone with the following line up,

Nikon D700

Nikon 20mm f/2.8 AF

Nikon 35mm f/2 AFD

Nikon 50mm f/1.4 G

Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 G AF-s ED

I will get the Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 AF-s ED in the new year when the bank balance has returned to normal, Wait whats normal?

Please take a look at my Flickr page to see some of my recent work using my new equipment.

Also don't forget to have a great Christmas & New year!

Cheers,

Reed

Gala Front Cover Image *Published*

So my Image got published, I am really happy with the way it looks and much to my surprise there were over 2o thousand copies printed! That must be a personal record for me.

This week I was at the Sunderland Empire Theatre taking some production promo shots for Orbital Sound who have been touring the sound support for The Sound Of Music, I had a guided tour and I have to say I was very impressed at the attention to detail in the sound design,

You can have sneaky peak at some of the photos here

As the weekend approaches I have my fingers crossed for the sky's to clear and some good weather to grace the North East, hopefully I will get out and do some serous landscape photography as I have some new equipment to try out and lots of ideas spinning around in my head.

Until the next post bye.

Reed

My first post

Hello I thought I would give this Blog a go, at least while my web site is under construction.

It's been quite a busy week; getting out with the camera for 3 sunrises & 3 sunsets! I was also down in Durham taking photos of the Gala Theatre for the front cover of spring 2010 event listings brochure, while there I also did some photographs of the GTSS performance of Footloose in the main auditorium.

Please keep an eye on my blog, I will try and keep it updated with whatever projects I am working on. I will post information about my 2010 exhibition as soon as I have the dates. in the meantime please feel free to take a look though my photostream on Flickr.

I am currently back out on tour for my last leg of the build your own cathedral tour with the Karine Polwart Trio, last night we were in Cambridge where the band were filmed by Spiral Earth, so that should be available to view shortly. Anyway, I better dash as I have a soundcheck to complete in Marlborough.

Catch you soon,

Reed.