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St Mary's Sunset

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Posted by Rob Howard on December 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM
St Mary's Sunset
Canon EOS 1D MKII, 300mm f4 IS, 1.4x conv, 1/100, f22, ISO 400, RAW, RSE, CS2, -2 exp to stop sun blowing.


Hi All,

Took the advice of a few peeps on the forum, and had a good drive round my local area looking for landscapes. This shot of the Sun setting is behind St Mary's church (Great Henny), this church tower is featured in the BG of one of Thomas Gainsborough's paintings (Cornard Wood 1748). It has also featured in the news the last couple of years as the Tower is wooden framed with Cedar "tiles" this has attracted the Woodpeckers "drumming" for a mate!

All comments welcome

Regards

Rob

Posted by Andy Astbury on December 16, 2007 at 2:07 PM
Very atmospheric shot Rob :toast:

Be nice to have done a video timelapse of this sunset scene, and I can hear the sound of roosting corvids just looking at it :wink: :wavey:
Posted by John Chapman on December 16, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Nice moody Landscape Rob no nits from me. :toast:
John
Aberdeen
Posted by writepic on December 16, 2007 at 3:13 PM

have you done any time lapse stuff with your new gear andy?

nice lscape rob, would be even better if you had of driven another mile along the road and got the church steeple in front of the sun.
Posted by A.R.D on December 16, 2007 at 4:13 PM
Isn't Suffolk brilliant? (hmm...)

Not bad.

Regards

Posted by Andy Shepherd on December 16, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Hi Rob,

Very nice image , never thought to use my 300F4IS as a landscape lense , you've given me something to think about.

Regards

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Ian Andrews on December 17, 2007 at 3:40 AM
The compressed effect the lens gives works well here. Nice one.

Ian :smile:
Posted by eric weight on December 17, 2007 at 3:47 AM
I like that - very rural england. I like the composition as it is.
Posted by Mark Sisson on December 17, 2007 at 5:05 AM
I like these compressed sunset images - the church is the key element in a nice pic.

Mark
Posted by John Varley on December 17, 2007 at 5:02 PM
A landscape with plenty of atmosphere Rob. :toast:

Posted by Gavin Law on December 17, 2007 at 6:20 PM
Nice one Rob.
Posted by John MacTavish on December 18, 2007 at 3:41 AM
Capture this with when it's snow covered and sprinkle a little glitter on it and you've got next year's christmas cards sorted.
Nicely composed scene.

John :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Justin on December 19, 2007 at 12:57 PM
I think this works really well. One suggestion I feel would be worth trying would be to slightly darken the blacks/shadows a bit. :toast: