Corfe Castle at sunrise, captured bank holiday just gone.
Having got to Corfe with the car park fuller than usual presumably cars full of photographers heading for the hill. And on passing a fair few lights on the hill. Deciding to be different or wanting a different perspective than the usual I have seen headed for the common where as it happened I was alone amongst some superb mist which at times was so thick nothing else could be seen. As I arrived very early that morning had the time to setup and think things though more, this image was captured a couple of minutes before 6.00am around 20 minutes before sunrise where the sky turned to a sky of many shades of pastel colours.
Having been here on many occasions never have I been able to get this type of image for me this is what I enjoy about early mornings in Dorset and being a solitude photographer on a hill surrounded by mist was so peaceful.
Having to revert to my backup camera for the last week as the new lens for my new camera had stopped focussing on the first day of my weeks holiday and not having another lens to fit. Having seen the weather reports the night before and hopeful the mist would be even better than a couple of days before decided to use the one camera that got me so interested in photography in the first place and has captured more mist and foggy mornings than any other.
No filters used here this like a few other of my images that morning forgot the adjustments needed for fog and mist as a few of my images were under exposed by around a stop and a bit and noise levels were high which is one of the drawbacks of this camera plus a dirty sensor didn't help . Using a double processing technique recovery in Light room combined with Photoshop as a smart object helped, with the finishing processing in Light room.
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My first visit here this year and got some early morning mist.
Majority of photographers would climb high up on the hill to capture Corfe and surrounding town no different this morning plenty waiting for sunrise which is what I started off doing and on my way up noticing the curtain of fog surrounding the bottom of the castle with the trees silhouetted, still I climbed up and then waited and then decided to climb back down to this position for me this was what I was looking for, and around 15 minutes later the sky turned into some nice shades of pastel colours.
The mist lower down the hill to me had the most impact at the time I arrived and for what I was looking for on this visit if I had been their much earlier then it may have been a different story...
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Taken on the second day where there was substantial fog, waited 1.5 hours for the mist to subside not quite the desired effect of a curtain of fog around the base of the ruined castle but just goes to show the difference in conditions 2 days in a row.
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Ruined castle on a hill taken as the sun was rising with fog in the distance.
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Corfe Castle at dawn.
Finding Corfe common a great location for mystical images another of Corfe Castle captured before sunrise probably still 12 minutes or so before actual sunrise and at times the whole castle would be shrouded in mist. This image I deciding to do as a black and white and making use of negative space created by the mist and you can probably just make out cloud textures.
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