looking south

A few weeks back I drove to one of my favourite places for taking pictures in the upper Swansea Valley.

I had an image in mind of layers of rolling hills, shot with a 90mm (equivalent) telephoto lens to “compress” the landscape.  I set my camera up and fired off a test shot just to check I’d got the composition nailed before dialling in the precise settings I wanted to make the image.  I then fired off a couple more images and toddled off back home to load them onto my computer.

And do you know, the best image of the lot was the test one!  It used the same settings I’d used earlier for shooting some video at home, so the ISO was much higher than I’d normally use for a landscape photograph.  But my new camera is so good at handling high ISO that there is no “noise” in the image at all.

What is there though, are lovely, pale almost painterly colours and those layers I was hoping to see.

I just wish the sheep, hiding behind the grass, had walked into shot.  But I guess you can’t have it all.

Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon 60mm f2.4 lens
1/40th of a second at f11, ISO 800
tripod, self-timer release