Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

Well Cornwall seems to have been mostly successful despite the weather. I experimented a fair bit with Pro160 (example below) and took more pictures in bright light than I would have.. I even took some pansy-girly flower shots!

The shot at the top is the one I thought would come out best and is one of my favourites. The colours have come out a lot nicer than the digital shot (and obviously the detail is immense). I have captured an ant posing somewhere in the shot though – see below..

The other shots I quite liked are below. The sunset and dusk shots of the Valerian work and prove again how resistant large format lenses are to lens flare (i’ve followed the first one up with an SLR equivalent). I’m quite proud of the Strangles shot.. I was after a brutal, harsh shot and was purposely working with small depth of field to create a little more tension.. The place I was standing must have only been created in the last few weeks as the rock was so clean it couldn’t even have been rained on. The salt rime was also very recent. I didn’t stay around too long.

My final shot is a work in progress of the magenta and turqoise stripes on the stretch of coast between Rock and Polzeath called Greenaway. I really wanted a rainy overcast day to make the most of this but all I got was a suntan

Finally, I’ve got an interesting (possibly) comparison of Pro160 and Provia. I took a shot during the sunset over the dunes with both and when I got back I tried to make the Pro160 have the same colour tones as the Provia. Here is the original Pro160, the provia and then my attempt to match the Pro160 with the Provia colours.