Surfer walking into the sea at Bamburgh beach

This is another shot of the surfer who featured in my blog post of 11th Sept last year - that time with Bamburgh Castle in the background. This time he's the main subject of the picture.

I've been reading up on Lightroom techniques today - now that I've got the hang of the basics I decided it's time to learn some more! So I've made quite a few changes to this image (crop, contrast adjustment via tone curve, clarity, blue saturation...) and I'm happy with the result.

Surfer on Bamburgh beach, Northumberland, with the castle in the background

I took this in August 2013, during a week's holiday at Seahouses, Northumberland. I hadn't been to Bamburgh beach before so went on a mission to scope it out for photographic opportunities. I didn't really expect to get any great shots as the sun was high in the sky and quite dazzling as it reflected off the sand and sea. I think this shot works well within those conditions though - everything is almost silhouetted. I was just lucky that the surfer was in the position he was at the point that I turned for the shot.

The only post-production changes I made were to crop the image from a 3:2 ratio to this size and to convert it from colour to monochrome (there was hardly any colour in it anyway due to the bright sun).