The Castlerock Beach stitch up....

When a client requests a picture of Castlerock beach, in the middle of summer you'd think you'd be in with a fighting chance of getting something.

Monday: rain, Tuesday: rain, Wednesday: really bad rain, Thursday: rain, Friday: a window of opportunity.

So off we trott to the location, which is basically free reign to me. As long as it's Castlerock beach. At 6pm and the sun is still way up high and bleaching out colour like no one's business. Plus the other issue with Castlerock beach is that there is no real landmark, nothing to give a sense of location. It could be any beach in Northern Ireland.

So I decided to do a panoramic shot instead, start from the sea and work my way around. It's the one time in Photoshop when the photomerge tool performed perfectly. Only a small retouch on an overlapped cliff and a cloud movement.

I can't show you the picture yet :)

Onwards to the shops for supplies and then onwards to White Rocks. I was hoping that by 8:30pm it would be pretty deserted. No way.


Oh the manual white balance on the Fuji S5 means that you can push to 10,000K giving all these wonderful warm tones in the sunset that you'd need a miriacle for normally. You have an idea in your head and the S5 gives you all the options to do it, the days of near fighting with the light and the Nikon D50 are clearly over.

I'm off to do another Castlerock shot from the other end of the beach this time. The weather forecast for the next few days is rain :)