I Avenged 1999: Photographing Cornwall’s 95% Solar Eclipse
I Avenged 1999: Photographing Cornwall’s 95% Solar Eclipse
At Wheal Uny, the evening did not suddenly become night.
Instead, the light became wrong.
The sky remained blue, the Sun was still high above the western horizon and the landscape around me was clearly visible. Yet everything appeared subdued, as though an enormous pair of sunglasses had been placed over Cornwall.
After twenty-seven years, I was finally watching a solar eclipse beneath clear Cornish skies.
Fast or Slow Shutter Speed for Seascapes?
Fast or Slow Shutter Speed for Seascapes?
One of the most creative choices you can make in seascape photography is your shutter speed.
It is easy to think of shutter speed as just another camera setting, but in reality, it does much more than control exposure. It changes the way movement looks in the frame, and that completely changes the feel of the final image.
The same scene, in the same light, can look completely different depending on whether you use a fast shutter speed or a slow one.