I recently visited Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ‘Time Machine’ exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London.
It featured his amazing Seascapes. So beautifully serene and calming were they, I wanted to jump right in.
This inspired me to post about a mini-project I created during the pandemic years beside my home.
They are a bit melancholic but they reflect what was a pretty bleak time. The project is in two parts – moonlit and sunlit.
I have always been interested by the dawn light just before sunrise. Moonlight is a fascinating light that I had never explored before.
So it led to this unusual series of photographs I called ‘Half light’, reflecting both the subject matter and the human world around that time.
With the moon roughly half lit by the sun, so in a ‘quarter’ phase, it worked well with both the project’s title and it’s theme.
However, what I love most about the photographs above is the beautiful moonlight reflection on the surface of the sea.
Like a path always leading towards the moon, known as a moonwake (or mångata (moon street) in Swedish). The water is so very calm and calming.
The sun lit photographs, both the two above and all below, I find are a little more dramatic.
Perhaps due to the rougher seas, the more dynamic angles or just that there is more visible.
Anyway, it is certainly a very different take on seashore and seascape photography.
For all the photographs I used my trusty Canon 5d ii and beautiful 50mm L 1.2 lens.
I find that you don’t necessarily need to use wide angle lenses to do ‘scapes (a commonly held belief).
The exposures were quite long, anything up to 30 secs. This enabled a low ISO and thereby minimal noise.
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