/*************************************************************************** * Create the object of Photo objects for gallery 109559 * ***************************************************************************/ if(!('photos' in window)){ window.photos = {}; } photos[1609808] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Autumn","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"1.\tAutumn: I wanted to make an image that captured the colours and the quality of light that occurs each autumn, if we are lucky. My original idea to capture a line of with late afternoon light streaming through golden and red leaves was a year in the making. I discovered this line of trees just after the leaves had fallen and those remaining had lost their colour. I noted the location, used a map and compass to plot where the sun would be in late October to early November the following year and planned to return. I made three visits on three consecutive days. Each of the days began with good quality light that promised to meet my needs, on the two abortive days as I travelled to the location, clouds gathered and by the time the sun would have been in the right place to make the image it was raining! The third day resulted in the quality of light I had hoped for and at around 3pm I made my image. It was captured on film (Fuji Velvia down rated to 32 iso to reduce the high contrast in the scene) using a Nikon camera and 70-300mm Sigma zoom lens. I used a Cokin 1 diffuser filter to add a more romantic feel to the final image. I planned to return the following year to make some similar images. On my return one year later I was horrified to discover that the local council had cut the trees down because they were diseased. ","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1609808,"height":330,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1609808.html","src":"Autumn.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1609804] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Broken Fence","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"2.\tBroken Fence: Thousands of people must walk past this fence between November and January each year to visit the seal breeding colony at Donna Nook Nature Reserve in Lincolnshire. I wonder how many have noticed it or considered it as a photographic opportunity on their way to the seals or in the rush to se the animals? I did just that on my way to the see and photograph the seals and got some very funny looks form those passing me as I was knelt next to my tripod with my camera trained on a piece of tatty old fence. I got some funny questions from fellow photographers as the passed by, “aren’t you doing the seals one asked” when I replied “that I would do later” he shrugged, hefted his large telephoto lens over his shoulder and walked away shaking his head. He never saw the potential for making what I think is a pleasing image, but perhaps he was not in the same mind set as me. I saw the potential, but knew that to make the most of the subject a different approach was needed – I visualised the final image as a lith print recoded on infrared film. I used a second hand battered old Olympus OM4 for infrared photography it was always loaded with Kodak high speed infrared and I had it in my bag that day. Sadly I dropped this camera into the sea from Flambrough Head, East Yorkshire and I still miss having it.
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We arrived on the Friday and I planned to be up and out at first light the following day – but it was dull and overcast, and later rained. It was not until the third day of the holiday that I got the light I wanted. I was up at around 4.30am, drove the 3 miles from my holiday cottage and was set up and ready to make my image by 5am. I had the most wonderful light, with a good interesting sky and no people around. My only desire was to create images of the castle that in years to come people won’t be able to date. If I had people in my picture the image would be dated by the fashions people were wearing. I don’t care if there are hundreds of similar images of the castle; I have always to photograph it.","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1609798,"height":318,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1609798.html","src":"Gathering_Storm_Bodium_Castle_August_2009.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1609815] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Sunrise, Sutton on Sea","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"12. Sunrise, Sutton-on-Sea, September 2006. This image means more to me than just about any other photograph I have made. This was the day that my mother was going to hospital to receive her test results having lost a lot o weight during the previous few months, I knew she would be given the diagnosis of cancer. I could not sleep and travelled to this beach about 15 miles from home to take some images. I found this piece of small wood (the last remnants of a sea defence groin), this small piece of wood that has withstood the ravages of the sea and the passing of time reminded me of the frailty of my mum and that she would not be able to withstand the passing of much more time. Wista 5x4 large format camera, 90mm lens, Fuji Velvia .6 ND grad. Exposure not recorded.","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1609815,"height":381,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1609815.html","src":"Dawn,-Sutton-on-Sea1.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1609806] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Gathering Storm WHITBY HARBOUR","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"4.\tGathering Storm, Whitby Harbour: Whitby is one of my favourite places, I find myself returning time and time again. Finding different images is difficult and rather than looking for different parts of the town to photograph, I try to convey the different moods of the place created by weather and light. The subject matter is ordinary to my mind, but I think it is worthy as an image because of the drama in the sky above the headland and abbey. I think that the image would be one of my finest if the weather was even more dramatic that day and had caused large waves to crash against the piers and harbour mouth, but you can’t have everything. Wista 5x4 camera, Schneider 180mm 5.6 lens, Fuji Velvia 50 ISO, Lee .9 Neutral Density (ND) (3 stop) Grad, Manfrotto tripod.","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1609806,"height":280,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1609806.html","src":"Gathering_Storm_Whitby_Harbour.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1619065] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Remains of Sea Defences","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"5.\tRemains of Sea Defences, Sutton-on-Sea: This stretch of beach must be one of the most interesting in Lincolnshire, within a 150 metres there are a number of interesting pieces of wood and the remains of a sunken boat (when uncovered by the tide) that superb photographic opportunities. This image was one of my first digital images. I was amazed at the quality and that the digital sensor is so much more forgiving than slide film with much greater latitude. Shooting RAW, I went back to the principals and techniques that I used to used to make a good quality black and white negative and applied this to my digital photography. The result was that I was able to keep detail in the shadows and dark wood and hold detail in the sky and rising sun with the use of .06 (2 stop) ND graduated filter. I was immediately impressed with the tonal range and overall quality captured on the digital sensor. Nikon D200 18-200mm lens ISO 100, Lee .6 ND grad. ","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1619065,"height":333,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1619065.html","src":"Remains_of_sea_defences_Sutton-on-Sea.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1525470] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Stormy morning, Mablethorpe ","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"6.\tStormy Morning Mablethorpe: My main goal in landscape photography is convey a sense of mood. This image, I feel, has worked well because all the effects you see were created in camera. I selected 1600 ISO disabled the noise reduction system on my Nikon D200, changed the white balance to enhance the overall magenta light that existed on this overcast stormy winter morning and simply made the image. The only post capture manipulation was in Photoshop using levels and curves. I cropped the image slightly to remove a dull upper part of the sky. The overall painterly effect is one of my favourites. It won’t do well in competitions, but then, I didn’t take for competition; I took, as I do all my photographs, for my own pleasure. Nikon D200 Nikon 18-200mm lens. ","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1525470,"height":336,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1525470.html","src":"Stormy_Morning_Mablethorpe.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1609794] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Sunrise, Humber Mouth","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"7.\tSunrise, Humber Mouth: Another one tool I use to create landscape images is to be on the edge of bad photographic weather departing as good photographic weather arrives. The result is often dramatic lighting and colour especially in the sky. This is certainly the case with this image, the predominant colour of the sunrise is red; being on the edge of a change in the weather added to the colour and drama of the sky and gave a warm red glow to the wet sand. All I had to do was put my camera on my tripod, use a .45 (1.5 stop) ND grad set the white balance to auto and release the shutter. Nikon D200 ISO 100, 18-200mm lens.","photographer":"TONY GASKINS","width":500,"id":1609794,"height":336,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1609794.html","src":"Sunrise_Humber_Mouth.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1619078] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"The Green Door","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"8.\tThe Green Door: I like to look for small details in the landscape, in this case the urban landscape. I regularly pass a derelict building about a mile away form where I live and have spent several hours photographic it. Before I made the photograph of the green door, I knew I wanted to capture the texture of the old wood, the peeling paint and the doorknob. I decided to make a high dynamic range (HDR) image in am attempt to portray the textures of the door. I put my camera on my tripod ensuring that the three separate images I wanted to expose at 2 stop intervals would be aligned correctly with each other. I then used the excellent Photomatix software to combine the 3 RAW images and tome map them to the degree I wanted. The end result is an image that has good texture, with the paint appearing to peel away from the surface of the print, giving it almost a 3-D quality. I got some very funny looks from people passing by, then realised I was kneeling behind my tripod with a camera pointing at an old, ruined door on a busy Saturday morning.","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1619078,"height":316,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1619078.html","src":"The_Green_Door.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1525474] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"The Stream, Hubbard's Hill, Louth","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"9.\tThe Stream, Hubbard’s Hills, Louth: I love black and white photography and perhaps need to produce more monochrome images. This is one of my favourite black and white images. It started life as a colour digital file, as all my photographs do since I abandoned film two years ago. It has been done thousands of time before, water flowing over stones in a river, but that did not matter to me. I came to Hubbard’s Hills on day trips as a child and have fond memories of the place. I know live nearby and make regular visits with my family. I look at this and it reminds me of my childhood, I also find it satisfying because it records the texture of the rocks and the flow of the water; these always fascinated me as a child. Looking back this is where my love of landscape photography began and because of this photograph will always be one of favourites. For those interested in technical details: Nikon D200 18-200mml lens, ISO 100 .9 (3 stop ND and .3 1stop ND filters) auto white balance. 3 seconds f18. The file was converted to black and white in Photoshop using the Channel Mixer and the shadows and mid tones adjusted with the Colour Balance command.","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1525474,"height":318,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1525474.html","src":"The_Stream_Hubbards_Hills.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1061555] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"The Weather Post","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"10.\tThe Weathered Post: Rimac Nature Reserve on the Lincolnshire Coast is another favourite location of mine. The post in the photograph seems to become weather beaten each month and I fear that it will soon be gone. I have photographed it in all kinds of light and weather conditions. I find this image made on an August afternoon at around 3pm the most satisfying I have made of the post.. This is because the approaching storm provided a moment of drama, provides a graphic illustration of the type of weather that will cause further decay of the wood and gave a wonderful quality of light. Nikon D200 Sigma 10-20mm lens ISO 100. Converted to black and white in Photoshop with the Channel Mixer and sepia and gold toned.","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1061555,"height":300,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1061555.html","src":"The_Weathered_Post.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1}); photos[1619097] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"Thornton Abbey (HDR)","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"11.\tThornton Abbey (HDR): This was once one of my favourite locations before English Heritage renovated it, began to charge for entry to the grounds and not just the Abbey and began to discourage photographers who use tripods. I made this image about two years ago when I began to experiment with high dynamic range (HDR) photography. I have attempted to photograph the gatehouse many times before and have always been disappointed with the results. The best light that illuminates the front of the gatehouse occurs in the afternoon, but causes a very dark shadow from the right which is distracting. Waiting until the evening eliminates the shadow but introduces another problem, the shadow of the photographer and tripod which is also distracting. Yes, this shadow can be cloned out but it is difficult. A HDR image can resolve the problem of the shadow of the wall through tone mapping using Photomatix. I have used this technique here and finally achieved the result I wanted, just before the restrictions on photographers were introduced at the site. Nikon D200 18-200mm lens ISO 100, 5 RAW images at. 1 stop intervals (0, +1 +2 –1 and –2 stops).","photographer":"Tony Gaskins","width":500,"id":1619097,"height":277,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_1619097.html","src":"Thornton_Abbey_HDR.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":109559,"gallery":1});