Goritsy revisited.

Goritsy, the last point of my quirky trip on October 5^th. Well, I should daresay, on one hand weather condition were the best for landscape shooting – mild light, shades, semi-transparent clouds, but on the other one an Arctic anticyclone covered the entire Vologda province, hence a cold near a large river was terrible. According to my camera time data it took just 25 minutes to make the entire series, but eventually that cost me dear – quite predictably I caught cold. Despite my car heater making its best all the way back, after a week everything resulted in a high temperature. Nonetheless, that was a success. Taking the last minutes of a day in lighting conditions like that is a rare luck.

By the way, the next night my mother mocked at me. As a person hailing from Ivanovo province she knows perfectly well what that means getting cold on a large river. 

Oil and canvas. A view from the shore dam. 

The standard kit lens AF-S Nikkor 24-85 mm 1:3,5-4,5G SWM VR ED. F11, 1/15s, CPL filter. Nothing extraordinary, this lens works well, but zoom is always zoom. 

The nunnery entrance. 

Cold weather, cold colours.  

Praising myself. My old good Nikkor AIS keeps on making its best and never disappoints.

F16, 1/10s, CPL. Nikkor AIS 28 mm, 1:2.

Let's add some red ochre.

No, of course, it didn’t look like that in any way, Corel and fantasy are suitable tools to be used in cases like that. F11, 1/10s, filters are unrecognizable. Typically it’s easy to discern them, but here this task is challenging.

Adding red ochre again. 

Nikkor AIS, f11, 1/6s.  

Resurrection cathedral. Nikkor AIS, f11, 1/10s, CPL.

Now feel the difference. Nikkor AIS, f11, 1/13s, skylight L1A. 

Evening light. Resurrection cathedral. CPL.

The same, another version.

Skylight filter found its application here.

The day is over. As usual try feeling the difference between skylight L1A and CPL filters. The old Nikkor AIS is everywhere.

F11, 1/8s, skylight L1A.

F11, 1/6s, CPL. 

North-westerly wind over Sheksna.

Nikkor AIS, f16, 1/8s, CPL.

Panoramic view of Sheksna.

F11, 1/20s, standard lens. I seem to have got completely frozen by the moment, since my old fix wasn’t used for this panorama. 

Panorama from a hill.

Ochre-like sunrise.

Heavily shopped (to make it more correct, it was Corel, not Photoshop), of course. Clear weather is unfavourable to landscape photography, the only option it leaves us is applying several tricks with optics and software.

Waiting. f13, 1/3s, CPL + gradient blue.

Just before the sunrise. f13, 1/4s, CPL + what? I don't remember, it looks like gradient grey. The next one was taken with a skylight as sky looks more violet.

Glimmering light.  f13, 1/4s, CPL + skylight L1A. A violet spot on the top is the skylight filter's effect. I hope, it will work better with a full-frame camera, so everything will be taken again next winter. 

First sunrays. f14, 1/2s, CPL + gradient grey.

Day has begun.  

An adjacent spot, here shooting conditions are obvious to have been extreme. Too bright and totally empty sky. f14, 1/8s, CPL + gradient grey.

Pink sunrise.

Actually that didn't look so pink as here, filters, especially skylight produce this effect.
f11, 1/5s, CPL + gradient grey.

f11, 1/2s, CPL+skylight L1A.

 f13, 1/3s, CPL + gradient blue.

Umber-like dawn.

Let's make like that. A couple of filters and a bit of skills.

f11, 1/3s, CPL + gradient grey.

 f11, 1/3s, CPL + slylight L1A.

 f11, 1/5s, CPL + gradient grey.

The latter one is obviously gloomy. Quite correct, like everything here.

Relics of an ancient civilization.

Years ago this area seems to have been populated by homo sapiens sapiens.