South Downs 1:1

A very enjoyable day yesterday was spent holding a one to one.  We met at Alfriston then headed off in my car to several locations centered around the Cuckmere valley.  The location was chosen as it gives a range of opportunities to illustrate techniques within a relatively small area.  Total time spent from one location to another never exceeded 10 minutes.  The picture below was taken to illustrate how to ’anchor’ the image.  To give it foreground interest where your eye then leads through the frame to the distant cliffs.  Without the rock it would have been rather uninteresting of just the beach, pebbles and cliffs.  I then processed it in black and white since in colour I felt it was too monotone whereas in monochrome it brought out the textures and contrast of the chalk and seaweed.

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