http://www.digitalcameraworld.com OCTOBER 2019 DIGITAL CAMERA^97
ABOVE
TOWARDS OSTEND, BELGIUM
The enthusiasm for super-saturated
colours may have diminished now,
but extreme saturation was popular
when digital photography arrived.
For me, if the viewer, using their
own personal criteria for judgement,
distrusts the colour rendition
in a landscape photograph,
then perhaps in some way the
relationship between viewer and
image is adversely affected.
I remember waking early that
morning and feeling that the light
would be flat with a low contrast –
not what I was hoping for. I was
seeking strong, autumnal directional
light that would work well for water
and ‘edge of canal bank’ reflections.
On arriving at the bank, however, I
found that the opposite was the case.
Despite the narrow colour palette,
I felt unsure as to whether something
so fundamentally subdued would
work, but I decided to loosen my fairly
deeply embedded parameters and
proceed. I am glad that I held fast
to my conviction, shaky though
it was at the time.SETTINGS
LENS 50mm
EXPOSURE 1/8 sec at f/22BEHIND THE
PHOTOGRAPH
Charlie’s latest book
goes on sale on 19
October, with 62 of his
favourite landscape
photographs featured
over 134 pages. Notes
accompanying every
image offer context and location information,
including camera setup and exposure settings.
£35 from http://www.charliewaite.com- Digital Camera readers can buy Behind the
Photograph for £29 – just add ‘DCM221’ before
checking out. Offer ends on 31 December 2019