Unless you're capturing huge waves crashing against the headland or of people struggling to put one foot infront of the other, it's extremely difficult to fully depict fierce conditions in which you might be working. Take these images, for example. Storm Francis was hitting southern England throughout yesterday and yet these images look as though there was nothing more than a gentle breeze!
To say it was windy would be an enormous understatement. As I walked along the seawall, it was so strong (I'm guessing gusts in excess of 60mph) I had trouble even moving! With dramatic lighting ahead, swaying grasses and old rotting barges stuck in the mud I was glad to have brought along my camera. I looked at the tripod, decided it was useless even attempting placing the camera upon it, and dumped it on the path where it stayed for the next hour or so. I attached the 18-35mm onto the Nikon D850 and reasoning that a sharp image taken at a higher-than-I-would-have-liked ISO was better than a blurry one at a low ISO I set it to 800 which, with a Lee 0.9 ND medium grad, gave me an exposure of 1/500 sec. f/8. Today, as I look at the files, I need not have worried about the high ISO for the D850 is an amazing camera that handles high ISOs with aplomb.
