As prom­ised, here is one of my other sub­mis­sions for the photo com­pet­i­tion.

This was put in for the “Dublin/​Ireland” cat­egory. It shows the river Sneem down in County Kerry and I shot it last year on my second trip around the Ring of Kerry.

Apart from the heavy cross-​processing effect and the strong vign­ette (both to juice the pic­utre up a bit, it was a fairly over­cast, grey day), the par­tic­u­lar­ity of this shot was its expos­ure — 1.3 seconds is rather long for a day­light scene and the ISO /​aper­ture val­ues used.

I wanted to expose longer than usual so that the water is rendered dream-​like and smooth, almost kitschy. This was achieved using a neut­ral dens­ity fil­ter (ND 1.8 in this case). Such a fil­ter basic­ally just reduces the bright­ness of whatever you pho­to­graphy, (ideally) without affect­ing the col­ours. The fil­ter I used takes 6 ƒ-stops of light away, so that I could expose 2⁶ = 64 times longer than without the fil­ter.

Hope you like it! I’ll be away for a few days again over Easter, so all the best to you and see you back soon!