Light on the hillside
After seeing the weather forecast for the days ahead was not very good I thought a trip out around sunset might be good, It had been lovely and cloudy all day and with the promise of rain the following evening I thought the light might be nice and contrasty.
I have been here many times before but not to this particular field, when I saw how the light was playing on the grasses and wild flowers I had my composition. Yes the sun is blown but without that brightness there would be no foreground light, so I set a narrow f22 to get the sunstar and took three images of varying brightness so that later I would have a choice of which one to use, I don`t use filters anymore preferring to blend if needed however this is a single image with the canon showing it`s dynamic range that is so workable.
The dark line you can see across the foreground vegetation is a shadow of a fence.
What I like about this spot is the view across the valley where there are many fields of differing shapes and textures, as the sun sank behind a cloud bank I walked back up the hill shooting more compositions as the sky turned into a lovely golden hour, more to come .
The Bostal road on the way to Steyning in Sussex.
Light on the hillside
After seeing the weather forecast for the days ahead was not very good I thought a trip out around sunset might be good, It had been lovely and cloudy all day and with the promise of rain the following evening I thought the light might be nice and contrasty.
I have been here many times before but not to this particular field, when I saw how the light was playing on the grasses and wild flowers I had my composition. Yes the sun is blown but without that brightness there would be no foreground light, so I set a narrow f22 to get the sunstar and took three images of varying brightness so that later I would have a choice of which one to use, I don`t use filters anymore preferring to blend if needed however this is a single image with the canon showing it`s dynamic range that is so workable.
The dark line you can see across the foreground vegetation is a shadow of a fence.
What I like about this spot is the view across the valley where there are many fields of differing shapes and textures, as the sun sank behind a cloud bank I walked back up the hill shooting more compositions as the sky turned into a lovely golden hour, more to come .
The Bostal road on the way to Steyning in Sussex.