{"id":9519,"date":"2017-03-03T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:21:12","slug":"wet-workshop-malham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wet-workshop-malham\/%20","title":{"rendered":"A Wet Workshop at Malham"},"content":{"rendered":"

January’s Malham Workshop 2017<\/h1>\n

We always run a landscape workshop at Malham in January fo those who’ve got a new camera for Xmas and want to learn how to take great countryside shots in the best area of the dales.<\/p>\n

It’s also pretty close to Leeds and Bradford, so not far to travel.<\/p>\n

This year we had pretty grim weather, not raining all the time, but a lot of grey skies and the occasional shower.<\/p>\n

A Slight Deviation<\/h1>\n

So\u00a0when it’s grey and wet, you need a Plan B destination, for this one it was the stunning Scalebar Force, about 8 miles from Malham in the Settle direction.<\/p>\n

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Here I firstly taught the group about manual exposure – how using spot metering and a hand, can get the right exposure for most scenes! They’d never seen the technique before, so that was great.<\/p>\n

Then we descended to the waterfall and got the shots you see here. These were my demo shots – just to show them a few ideas. I’ve got about 1000 shots of this waterfall…. so just packed the camera away and helped each delegate individually.<\/p>\n

They’re all taken on the 5D Mark 4 with a 16-35F4 L and polariser<\/p>\n

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Here is a detail shot of the far side of the waterfall – used a longer lens to get this.<\/p>\n

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Road to Malham<\/h1>\n

After Scalebar, we headed over the Kirkby Malham road, stopping to get a few shots of the highland cattle by the road.<\/p>\n

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Just before Malham itself we stopped by the roadside to go over the metering methods again, and show them a few composition ideas. Here we have lead lines from the bottom left walls – they lead the eye to the cliff which is off centre (kinda the rule of thirds<\/a>. This was taken with the 70-200mm lens.<\/p>\n

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Next we headed down to Gordale Scar – a few hadn’t seen this before, so it definitely got a WOW as we entered!<\/p>\n

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Above the main waterfall<\/a> is this hole – always looks great with the stream pouring thorugh<\/p>\n

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On the way back to the cars, we got a few shots of the greens in the stream – you can see just how grey it was, note that this has been processed a LOT to get that sky detail… and has suffered a lot with halos on the sky line.<\/p>\n

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Next down to the lovely Janet’s Foss – this is around 15 feet tall and very pretty.<\/p>\n

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At the end, we were going to the famous tree on Malham Rakes, but the weather up there was horrendous – I did ask the group if they wanted to do it – but it was a resounding “no chance”. For once, I think it wasn’t worth it – the weather would have soaked the cameras and all the photos would have water<\/a> spots on them.<\/p>\n

Last Blast of Light<\/h1>\n

On the way back down from the Rakes, we got 10 minutes of warm light – really diffused through all the clouds and distant rain. We pulled over and got a few shots – all with Long Lenses.<\/p>\n

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