View from Corfe Castle

This was a 3-shot HDR taken on the Fuji X-Pro1 with the 18-55 mounted. I used a warm-up filter and a neutral grad on the sky. I cropped to panoramic format as the foreground was a bit dull!

FUJIFILM X-Pro1, f/8 @ 22.3 mm, ISO 200, No Flash

Coral Bay Sunset

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/8 @ 21 mm, 30s, ISO 100

 

Sulgrave Manor

I recently took the bold step and swapped by Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L for the a Zeiss 21mm ZF. ZF means the Nikon version, so I attach it to my cameras with an adaptor.

This lens is very crisp corner to corner (the Canon zoom, whilst excellent, does soften at the edge of the frame somewhat). I love the colours and the rendering. I can't wait to use it at the coast during the summer!

This shot was about f/11 IIRC (the ZF lens doesn't report the aperture to a Canon camera) and I used 0.9 Soft Grad from Lee Filters to darken the sky.

Grandfather's Balls & vertical correction

There is a family connection with my wife's relations here! Great Grandfather Gribble on Nan's side of the family cast the cannon balls on the Drake Memorial. They have always been known as 'Grandfather's balls'.

I also had another go at yesterday's shot, correcting the verticals using LR5.

Plymouth Hoe

Well - this is my first play with the Lee filter's 'Big Stopper' - I also added a hard grad to balance the sky. Ideally I could have done with a longer exposure to blur the water more, but I think the shot works.

Straight out of camera it was rather blue, so I used Nik's Colour Efex to keep the top blue while neutralising the bottom.