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Two Windmills
Duration: 1 Day
Training fee: £135
What's included: refreshments, tutorial, lunch, all day shoot
with 1:1 help and a welcome pack
Outline:
A strategically placed Windmill can really set your landscapes
alight and produce a superb shot which you will treasure for
years to come. We have handpicked two of England's finest
Mills with their individual characteristics and situations giving
rise to two completely different images.
Lacey Green with its beautifully painted smock (the body)
really sets this windmill apart from all others and as it was
painted only last year in June giving its body a wonderful lustrous
sheen. It stands on the escarpment of the Chiltern hills and was
restored in 1971 by the members of the Chilterns Society. Its
wooden internal machinery dates from around 1650 making it the
oldest smock windmill in the country.
It was moved to the present site from Chesham in 1821 due to the
lack of wind at the former site. It now catches the full force of
the wind as far away as Swindon, 80 miles away. Its fabulous
fantail saves having to turn the mill into the wind. It has been
derelict since 1915 but reopened in 1983. After 60 years of
inactivity it's now able to grind flour once again.
Pitstone Windmill is thought to have been built in 1627 as this
date is carved on its framework making it the earliest date to be
found on any windmill in the British Isles. It gets its name as the
superstructure is held through a post arising from ground level.
For hundreds of years grain from the two adjoining villages was
ground at the mill. In 1902 it was virtually destroyed through a
gale but restored immaculately in 1963. It featured in
'The Champions' in 1968. Today it's still in fabulous condition and
stands in a ploughed field and can be reached by a small path.
This event will show you professional compositional tips and hints
that will help you to take your landscape photography to a much
higher level in these two superb locations. It will demonstrate the
TASS principle of composition developed over 20 years by the author.
Advanced techniques with hyperfocal distance and depth of field will
also be explained in a very straightforward way so you can take
advantage of creating images with enormous depth of field, so
essential in landscape photography.
You will also see how to easily determine the brightness range and
take meter readings using spot or partial metering patterns to ensure
that both the sky, windmill and foreground come out just as the
eye sees it.
For the situations where the contrast is just too great we'll explore
the techniques of high dynamic range (HDR) photography which will
enable you to capture detail in the deepest shadows and the brightest
highlights. Software will be provided on the course so if you are can
bring a laptop we'll be able to show you in the field exactly how to do it.
Advice will also be given on equipment including lenses along with
using professional warm-ups, polarisers and grads for you to try.
An ideal event for all those who wish to develop their landscape skills.
Contact Details:
Address: 9 Booker Avenue, Bradwell Common, Milton Keynes. MK13 8AY
Tel: 01908 240460
Fax: 01908 240460
Email: david@photodirect.plus.com
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