STUNNING SEASCAPES

APPRENTICE

NAME: ADRIAN STILLWELL

CAMERA: CANON 5DS, 5D MK III

55 YEAR old Adrian is ex-bomb squad, turned IT Manager. Back in his army days he spent many months clearing mines between Sherringham to Blakeney Point along the Norfolk coast. Having been able to get to know this coastline like the back of his hand he frequently revisits it to shoot (a bit different from what he was doing before!) seascapes and has asked for us to help him improve his Canon photography.

CANON PRO

NAME: ANDREW JAMES

CAMERA: CANON 5D MARK III

WITH MORE than 20 years working on photo magazines, Andrew now runs online photo learning site www.foto-buzz.com as well as tutoring on landscape workshops on the Norfolk coast. His Canon images have won prestigious photographic awards and he’s also a regular contributor for our sister mag, Digital Camera. We met up with him at Wells-next-the-Sea to shoot some of his favourite seaside spots in the area. www.andrewjamesmedia.co.uk

ANDREW’S COMMENT

I met with Adrian in Wells-next-the-Sea for sunrise, which isn’t too early in winter at 7am. Even though the weather was forecast to be cloudy we did get a good sunrise. We also chose a day where the tide times worked with us, so we could try some long exposures on the beach blurring the water. The beach huts are the most iconic landmark at Wells, but it was hard to shoot them with the sun rising behind them. I saw these tyre tracks in the sand and thought they’d work as lead-in lines. To get around the tricky lighting, I shot a bracket of exposures to create a high-dynamic-range image full of deep shadow tones in the shaded areas, as well