Rob’s Hot Shots: PEI Set 2 – A Little Less Simple

Posted by on Nov 27, 2011 in Equipment, Filters, Hot Shots, Landscapes, Musings, Prince Edward Island | 7 comments

Rob’s Hot Shots: PEI Set 2 – A Little Less Simple

I wonder how many thousands of tourists walk by North Rustico Beach in PEI National Park on a yearly basis? During high season, I suspect that 1000s of snapshots are taken on the beaches of the park, and you figure that North Rustico Beach, being right at one of the entrances of the park, would mean that many other photographers have captured these scences. Yet, a 15 minute Google Image and Flickr search yields no images even remotely similar to these two.

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Rob’s Hot Shots – PEI Set 1: Simplicity

Posted by on Oct 22, 2011 in Filters, Hot Shots, Landscapes, Prince Edward Island, Summer, Technique | 10 comments

Rob’s Hot Shots – PEI Set 1: Simplicity

During our June vacation in Prince Edward Island, we were greeted with rather foul weather for the first  6 days – heavy cloud cover, strong winds, drizzle and rain. The light was flat, and the beautiful colors of the PEI landscape were not to be seen… Typical Maritimes weather, but not in mid-June! This weather forced me to get a bit creative, and gave me a great opportunity to test out my latest filter: the Lee Big Stopper, a 10-stop (!!!) neutral density filter, which slows down exposures by a factor of about 1500.

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