{"id":1450,"date":"2014-05-14T07:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T08:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2014-05-14T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T08:29:17","slug":"gurgling-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Gurgling Water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The challenge: to take a landscape photograph with evidence of movement – a dynamic landscape The technique is to put the camera on a tripod and use a very slow shutter speed to allow the movement of water, grass, leaves or even cars or people to blur. Easy, I thought, and left it to the very last minute.
\nBut not as easy as I thought. My first location was Cruden Bay. However the bright sunshine would not allow me to set a slow enough shutter speed. There was virtually no wind, the sand was sparking, there were hardly any waves and the tide was at it lowest. I came home without a single picture.
\nThe early morning sun today gave me a second attempt. I decided to revisit a couple of the sites I had used before, when researching the bridges over the Water of Cruden. The result is a set of atmospheric early morning (6.30 am) pictures in a little beech wood at Dudwick where the burn gurgles through the Den of Auldmaling, with the sun beginning to peep through the leaves. The light was low enough, and I managed to get the blurred water I was looking for.<\/p>\n

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From there it was on to the bridge at Mill of Auchleuchries. The sun was just in the right position and the water was sparkling – a big contrast to the moody beech wood I had just visited. The picture is all right, but not quite as sharp as I would have liked.<\/p>\n

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\nMaybe I will try the waves again on the shore, but for that I will have to wait for some more wind, and less sun. A photographer is never happy with the weather!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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