This week I have been out in the landscape searching for Autumn Impressions. After the success of last week, I decided to continue with using intentional camera movement to emphasise what I see as the essence of this beautiful season in Skye. As I took the long walk around Skinidin, where I had captured my images to date, I was struck by the strong contrasts of colour in the heather – particularly vivid greens and pinks and blues. So, I returned, armed with a new 70-200mm lens, and worked with slow shutter speeds. I have a series of images I intend to show over the next few weeks as I start my PhD studies.
I have worked on these images in Lightroom - using cropping, enhancement of the tonal range, some converted to black and white and the use of different aspect ratios. As I work on this project I am becoming more experimental in my work and the images more abstract as I continue my search for the ephemeral hiddenness of Skye.
Autumn Impressions 2-1 - Alison Price, September 2020
Autumn Impressions 2-2 - Alison Price, September 2020
Autumn Impressions 2-3 - Alison Price, September 2020
Autumn Impressions 2-4 - Alison Price, September 2020
Autumn Impressions 2-5 - Alison Price, September 2020
It has been difficult choosing my favourite in this collection. But my Image of the Week is chosen for the vivid colour palette and the sense of depth created by the movement of heather and grasses.
IMAGE OF THE WEEK - Autumn Impressions 2-6 - Alison Price, September 2020
Again, would be grateful for your comments.
Alison Price
My name is Alison Price and for the past ten years I have travelled the world photographing wildlife, including Alaska, Antarctica, Borneo, Botswana, the Canadian Arctic, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Skye now well into autumn and plenty of opportunities for colourful images. Yours are particularly attractive because of the relative absence of warmer colours.
For me, autumn in Skye has two phases – firstly the heather and other late summer flowers, and then the more traditional autumnal colours of the trees.
My favourite is 2.5 : I love the graceful, translucent, delicate whorls / spirals and the inclusion of a stem asymmetrically traversing the foreground. The stronger bursts of colour are engaging but not overpowering and the white streaks are fewer and are assimilated into the overall piece, not dominant. 2.6 is a very close second . Oddly 2.4 also brings to mind urban high rise buildings perhaps seen through the rain; I very much like the surprise element.
2.5 was a close second in my judgement and I liked the slightly more subtle colours of this image.
Love the coloured images a time when the colour really adds an intensity to the image which is lacking in mono.