Whitstable harbour is famous for it's oysters more than its fishing fleet, had this been a week later there would have been thousands of people in the harbour as it is the annual Oyster festival. If you like Oysters, it is well worth a visit. Today, most oysters are pacific farmed oysters rather than the wild Whitstable oyster. The image is of a low tide at Whitstable harbour on the north Kent coast looking across towards the Isle of Sheppy. I had been waiting for a break in the cloud and was beginning to lose hope, then for a few minutes the sun found a small gap in the clouds and gave me this beautiful light.
I decided yo go with the three prime colours for this weeks challenge using flash gels, I tried firstly to create the image in just one shot using 3 flashes, but that didn't work, then I tried using the cameras multiple exposure setting, but again, that didn't work, so eventually I resorted to using Photoshop, so no extra credit this week. Because of the effect the flash has on the background, there was no obvious way to create a good selection for each figure without it looking unnatural, so I decided just to use a soft edged brush. My brother in law, as always was happy to model for me.
This is part of a living history display at the War and Peace show in the UK, a section of a trench with some machine gun rounds and a smoke flare. I managed 3 of the elements, earth, wood and metal
