Small town Christmas Eve

rt2photo

Christmas Eve - I took 30mins away from the bedlam of the family, and setup my tripod and camera at the edge of the road in 22f temperatures - I wanted to get a really nice shot of my towns green, with their lit up bandstand and the local church, before it got too dark. I'd already been foiled a couple of times, both by bad weather, and once I got setup then realized I'd left my CF card back in the reader at home!

So, I was very happy to finally get there, and get this shot, especially with it being Christmas Eve


Templeton Common on Christmas Eve by paulcjones, on Flickr

Tracker

perfect time of day lighting & great scene selection.

(nitpicks) Think a little more "head" room would help. Not sure if you were cropping out uglies on either side, but I think that would help, also if you coud give them a little room to breathe. Lens distortion correction on the steeple would be nice, too

rt2photo

Tracker wrote: »

perfect time of day lighting & great scene selection.

(nitpicks) Think a little more "head" room would help. Not sure if you were cropping out uglies on either side, but I think that would help, also if you coud give them a little room to breathe. Lens distortion correction on the steeple would be nice, too

Unfortunately thats pretty much the full frame - I was shooting with a 28mm prime on a 7D, and if I backed up any further, I'd be in traffic! I did take some with more space above the bandstand, but it cropped the lit up hedges a little oddly, and I wanted to make sure they were included too

I'll play with some lens correction when I'm home tonight and see if I can't straighten it up a bit - thanks for the feedback!

kdog

Very nice scene, although wider would have been even better. Sometimes one does have to play in traffic to get the shot.