foothills

Late last month we went to Hay-on-Wye to celebrate our 176^thanniversary.

On the way back, with the light looking quite promising, we stopped off to take this image of the foothills of the Brecon Beacons.  I used my polarising filter to help saturate the autumn colours, already looking quite lovely in the late afternoon sun, and as the scene was heavily back lit shooting into the setting sun, a 4-stop graduated filter to hold the details in the sky back and stop them burning out.

Although this filter is supposed to be colour neutral, it does give a slight magenta cast, but to be honest at sunset I don't mind this colour "shift" at all.

Finally, I initially thought the yellow tape on the fence posts to be distracting.  But I decided against cloning it out, leaving the image exactly as shot.

Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon 16mm f1.4
1/9th of a second at f8, ISO 200
tripod, self-timer release

Don’t miss next week’s bumper Christmas special post (a day early on Sunday the 23^rd); I’ll be sharing all the images from my “Landscape Photography by Car” project.