Clifford Tower at York Castle

edge100

Canon 10D
EF 17-40 F4L
f/8

schmoo

Nice! Moody and colorful.

Scott_Quier

- I would love to produce something like this!

Ummmm, is the tower actually slanted, or do we have some camera tilt going on here?

edge100

Scott_Quier wrote:

- I would love to produce something like this!

Ummmm, is the tower actually slanted, or do we have some camera tilt going on here?

The tower is slightly slanted, yes, but I think what you're seeing is a bit of an illusion. I've taken the picture from slightly off-centre of the tower, and the tower is built slightly on the other side of the hill. There is also plain, ordinary lens distortion going on here; could have fixed in PS, but got lazy.

Thanks.

Marc Muench

edge100 wrote:

Canon 10D
EF 17-40 F4L
f/8

Well done bravo

Now that is a sky and the exposure on the castle and grass is nice as well, could be a 2 image HDR?

edge100

Marc Muench wrote:

Well done bravo

Now that is a sky and the exposure on the castle and grass is nice as well, could be a 2 image HDR?

Thanks.

Incidentally, you caught me; it is a psuedo-HDR from a single RAW.

After posting an HDR here last week and having a few people tell me it didn't look "HDR-ish", I decided to post this one without that small detail, just to see if anyone would notice. I like HDR, but I tend not to like the cartoony images that sometimes arise from that technique. This is a little more subtle, I think.

swintonphoto

Lovely image. Great rich colors, but don't look too oversaturated.

edge100

Thanks to all for the comments. I really appreciate them.

Arvan

Good lord! this is a superb shot!

summerz

Wow that is awesome.

Awais Yaqub

Jaw dropping cool !!

i have heard 17-40L is not sharp beyond f4 is this true ?
this lens is on my futrue purchase list

edge100

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Jaw dropping cool !!

i have heard 17-40L is not sharp beyond f4 is this true ?
this lens is on my futrue purchase list

Thanks!

This lens is amazing. It is sharp at f/4 on a crop body (only slightly soft in the corners of a FF camera), and gets sharper from there. Virtually no CA to speak of. It stays on my 10D nearly all the time (except when I switch to the 70-200 F4L). I love it. Highly recommended.

davidryan

I love it-- the scene has been shot perfectly. It also has the mood I would typically associate with a castle/ruin. Well done.

gnooj

Very nice.

joshhuntnm

Wow. Rich colors!

waveneyman

Phew... very moody and it avoids all the ugly signs on the museum side
It's a good interpretation of this Tower's bloody history.
Oh yes... and my home town so thanks for the memories
cheers

waveney

LensCap

I just keep looking at it waiting on the warriors to come charging out from around the castle!

Stormy1

Very nice, it has an eerie sureal look to it, really cool

djspinner2k

edge100 wrote:

Thanks.

Incidentally, you caught me; it is a psuedo-HDR from a single RAW.

After posting an HDR here last week and having a few people tell me it didn't look "HDR-ish", I decided to post this one without that small detail, just to see if anyone would notice. I like HDR, but I tend not to like the cartoony images that sometimes arise from that technique. This is a little more subtle, I think.

What is HDR?

schmoo

djspinner2k wrote:

What is HDR?

High Dynamic Range.

Search is your friend