Been tied up all day and evening so no time for photography but on my way home from a meeting I noticed that there were still 5 minutes left before the floodlights illuminating the Abbey would be turned off... taraa - photo of the day! SOOC learning point - I should have positioned the Abbey a little lower in the frame but apart from that, pleasingly little noise for ISO 12800
You know Richard, I think this is a masterpiece! The three layers alternating darkness and light and the crisp profile of the abbey, Just wonderful. Not to mention the magnificence on a black background. Fav
the solid black framing of the lit abbey works so well. Interesting that you want the Abbey to be lower - it is pretty marginal but I see, when obscuring the bottom of the frame, that you are, of course right. It would have been even better.
@gamelee Thanks Lee - yes I would have cropped the bottom some and a bit on the left hand side for symmetry. It's difficult to do in camera with a 50mm lens as you have to tilt the camera upwards to lower the abbey in the frame and then you get converging verticals.
Ian