Outdoor Photography

66 Outdoor Photography February 2018

Lars Van De Goor

Below Speulder Revisited

Speulder Forest, Netherlands

This was the winning image for the Hasselblad

Masters Award in 2016. The stubborn last leaves

of a beech form a perfect contrast with the fog in

the background. Like with many of my images, if you

just happened to pass by, you probably wouldn’t have

noticed it. The path was situated at a lower point,

which resulted in an interesting angle. Using an

aperture of f/2.8 made a beautiful shallow depth

of fi eld. I emphasised the blurry background in

post-production and made some colour changes.

Nikon D800 with 70-200mm f/2.8 lens at 100mm,

ISO 800, 1/400sec at f/2.8, handheld

Jonathan Chritchley

Left La Nord

Hossegor, France

I do a lot of work with waves and live in an area in

France that is very well known for them – it’s a world-

renowned surfi ng break. I shot this particular image

in the morning with a 600mm lens, in an area that

probably has the best waves. This one was around 70m

out, and the plume on top of the wave shows it was

created by a light, off shore wind. Those always create

the best waves; the wind just holds the wave up. The

light was stunning. There were no clouds, but there was

a slight sea mist diff using the light, and it caused this

lovely, silvery light on the water that I always love. This

was one of about 20 shots, and I just happened to get

the wave in the right place, with a nice balance of light.

Nikon D810 with 600mm f/4 lens, ISO 250, 1/1250sec at f/6.3

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