Up on the Downs

Spent the evening up on the Dunstable Downs with a few of the members of Imagez camera club. All looked good as I set off, no rain, sun, blue sky. In fact I was only slightly late arriving on site.

I'd gone to try and force my brain to think wide angle, and so started out with the Canon 17-40mm lens, and a 2 stop graduated ND filter. Even more on message I finished the evening on a 14mm lens. Still think the sunset looked better through someone elses 70-200 at 200mm though. Reviewing the pictures earlier and I found that the 2stop graduated ND filter was a bit too good on the sky, nice blue sky but the foreground looks strange in comparison. Also the paragliders were a bit dark where the ND had got them in the sky.

It seems that a lot of photographers whose work I'm enjoying in recent months have either completely mastered the use of wide angle - without making it look so obvious, or must shoot from some crazy distance with a longer lens. I guess I'm still in the close-crop-is-best group, and specifically the crop as much as possible in camera section.


Some pictures.

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