Another landscape image for the final week of B&W February/Flash-of-Red 2015. This is a country lane on the outskirts of Paimpont, photographed during an afternoon out with the walking group that Mrs S and I belong to. This was taken with the little Sony RX100iii which continues to impress me.
Gorgeous line of the fence Richard. Nice gradient in the sky too and I think you managed to get all that without nasty high contrast edges. Excellent technique. Fav.
Wow! Those lines are so powerful! Was the sun setting? I can't get my head around the ISO500 and the way the light looks. It just seems like the shot was taken a few hours before sunset...
@whimsicalgrateful Thanks Marta - as the Exif data shows, the shot was taken at 16h10 almost 3 hours before sunset and you can see from the shadows that the sun was shining, albeit slightly occluded. The ISO 500? Well the winter sun is not that strong, especially towards the end of the afternoon.
@vignouse Thank you. I am on the other side of the planet and can't quite remember how things work up North :). And wow, the sun sets around 7pm in winter? It'll be dark around 530pm here in Winter...
@whimsicalgrateful Because France is a large country there is more than one hour's variation in real time from east to west so the tmeczone for the whole country is an average. Where I live, clock time is about 55 minutes ahead of real time so actual sunset time is really 18h00 - it's already advanced about 30 minutes this year.
@vignouse Been there, done that, too! I always remind myself that it will be worth it when I get a look at the shot! I've let go of dignity many times, even in busy public places, to get a shot I want. Unless someone tells me to stop it, I will continue!
I looked at your aperture/shutter/iso. Tell me, did you use a filter of any type?
Ian