fine art

I’ve written before about an image made by Andreas Gursky that fetched millions when it was sold.  The picture was an extremely plain mix of grass, water and grey sky.  Not a lot to it for me but then I didn’t pay a fortune for it.

One thing the image did do for me though was to provide inspiration.  I thought I could make something not necessarily more valuable but certainly more aesthetically pleasing while still being very simple in its form.

This image was taken way back at the turn of the New Year, and I had largely forgotten about it until I stumbled across Andreas’s image once more recently.  It’s my classic and oft used three layered composition, this time consisting of just grey colours in the sea and pre-dawn sky at Dunraven Bay in the Vale of Glamorgan.  Oh, and lots and lots of negative space.

Get your wallets out….

Nikon D800, Nikkor 16-35 f4.0 lens at 24mm

2 seconds at f11, ISO 100

tripod, remote shutter release