Profile

My name is Scott Rae, and I'm a landscape photographer born and bred in the town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, I have been fascinated by photography since borrowing my step-dad's Nikon film camera as a teenager

I first gained an appreciation of the beautiful landscapes around Peebles whilst studying geography at school, spending a great deal of time exploring the hills and valleys around Peeblesshire. Eventually my job took me away from Peebles, moving briefly to Fife and spending a brief 6 month spell in the Falkland Islands before moving to Berkshire for 10 years and then to Devon. After 20 years down south, I've now returned back to the wonderful countryside of Peebles.

Throughout this time, I have continued to enjoy taking photographs of the varied landscapes around me and I've refined and expanded my skills and technique.

After being persuaded that photos don't belong on a computer hard drive but should be displayed and enjoyed (insert other emotions here too!), I've finally decided to display my work - I hope you enjoy it!

I primarily use Nikon cameras (as I have done since I was a teenager!) and I currently use a Nikon D7100 for full colour work, and an infrared converted D90 for my infrared work. My wide range of lenses allows me to capture most things, and I've invested in Lee Filters in the last few months, which will increasingly feature in my photography.

I shoot in RAW mode, which basically provides a raw, unprocessed, full resolution image as the camera sees it, rather than let the camera process it into a JPG image. That means I take full control of the post-processing, turning what can be a flat, lifeless RAW image into something with depth and colour. I'll write a blog on post processing at some point in the future - it's an important (and overlooked, or even over-criticised) aspect of photography!

I've particularly come to enjoy digital infrared photography, originally taking long exposures using filters, I finally committed to IR in 2013 when I had my camera permenantly converted. Infrared photographs have a distinctive character, with bright foliage and dark skies, to which I think I add my own unique take