I’m Daniel Long and I hope you enjoy my photos!
All tagged Loch Photography
A wonderful morning exploring Glen Affric looking to capture the vibrant colours of autumn in the landscape. From the sunburst yellows of birch trees, to the layering of colours created by bracken. The beautiful valley of Glen Affric does not disappoint in the variety of images to be had.
After a fraught morning of lost opportunities, I finally make it to where I intend to spend the day filming vlogs. I was planning on doing some landscape photography in the mountains enshrouded by fog and low clouds to create some ethereal and interesting landscape photography images. The results were more than I could expect and I had an amazing session of photography!
Arriving at Loch an Eilean there was a tonne of people out enjoying the evening, I wasn’t deterred from my planned Landscape Photography. It was a spectacular evening full of golden light cast across the landscape and vibrant pink and orange colours in the sky. The first 2 images I captured were complicated images to process: an HDR and a Panorama. But the best images came from the setting sun!
Had a bit of a bad start to the morning with a very flat sunrise image but following the colours the golden light that lit the landscape was stunning! Loch Insh gave me 3 golden landscapes, illuminating the forests on the banks of the loch. But my favourite image was from Loch Alvie, the church and reflections in the golden light was perfect!
Another wet and dreary day in Scotland meant that I could enjoy exploring around the East Coast of Loch Ness. The heavy clouds creating an interesting view across the loch, but proving difficult conditions as the day went on. So I decided to show how I process my images, give an insight into how I like to do things, and print the resulting image!
During Lockdown I discovered this little loch not too far from home. It was spring and the lilies were in full bloom. I knew then that I wanted to photograph this lily loch during a colourful sunrise. Fast forward a while and I return to the loch in the autumn to finally photograph it with a beautiful sunrise.
Whenever I go to photograph red grouse, I see these rocky outcrops and hills and I’ve always wondered whether they would be good for landscape photography? Curiosity finally got the better of me and an evening walk was in order. The weather was changing so much that it brought the landscape to life and I had to go handheld to photograph the changing conditions. An excellent day of photography!
A quiet and calming exploration of a forest with several lochs inspired me to try various different landscape photography techniques and styles. Painterly reflections, black and white intimate abstract reflection, ICM photography of the forest, and a classic viewpoint composition. A great day of Landscape Photography!
Daniel talks about the struggles that he has been feeling trying to get the perfect photography, and building pressure on himself to produce the most amazing photos. This feeling of pressure leads to problems being creative and actually enjoying the photography. So he is going to try a new technique for his photography moving forward…
Finally a calm day with no wind or rain, perfect conditions for photographing reflections on a small loch near by in the Cairngorms National Park. Daniel explores a small loch in this vlog episode during which he has to create an HDR image by combining several exposures together in post processing.
