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The Shambles, York at Night

The Shambles, York at Night
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cameraNEX-5

settings Aperture f/14.0 ISO 200 Shutter 8/1 

upload_dateSep, 2014

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7 Comments |
janland PRO+
 
janland November 26, 2014
Wonderful capture! Congrats!
Michael_Shake
 
Michael_Shake November 26, 2014
Stunning work, love the light and everything about it!
snowdon PRO
 
snowdon November 26, 2014
Congratulations on winning Finalist in F Stoppers. Great work
OlyveBlayze
 
OlyveBlayze November 27, 2014
DREAMY.
snaphappy58
 
snaphappy58 November 29, 2014
Love this
Rosemaryswan
 
Rosemaryswan December 03, 2014
very cool. Congrats
Dunner
 
Dunner December 08, 2014
Congrats! Great perspective and depth, combined w color saturation and cool lighting I feel like I am standing right there. Superb photo.

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken in The Shambles in York. The Shambles is a very old street in York, England, which has some overhanging timber-framed buildings, some of which date back to the fourteenth century. It was once known as The Great Flesh Shambles, probably from the Anglo-Saxon Fleshammels (literally 'flesh-shelves'), the word for the shelves that butchers used to display their meat on. There were in the 1870's about 25 butchers but none remain today.

Time

This photo was taken in the evening, once it was dark as I was walking around the City for night shots.

Lighting

I didn't use any flash for this photo but instead mounted my camera on a gorilla tripod so that the camera would be as low to the ground as possible. I used a slow shutter speed of 8 seconds to achieve this result.

Equipment

I used a Sony Nex-5 with a Sony F3.5-5.6/18-55 lens on a Gorilla tripod.

Inspiration

I was taking an online photography course to improve my photography skills and this shot was one of the photographs (a night shot) I need to complete my final assignment.

Editing

I used Photoshop Elements to crop and adjust the image to my liking.

In my camera bag

As this photo was taken several years ago the equipment I have in my bag has changed over the years. Today I would carry my Sony A7M2 with 2 lenses, namely my Zeiss FE 4/24-70 lens and my Sony FE 3.5-6.3/24-240 lens. When this photo was taken I would have been carrying my Sony Nex-5 Camera with my Sony F 3.5-5.6/18-55 lens.

Feedback

To take this shot I had to make sure that my camera would not be knocked by people walking down the Shambles. As it is a very historic place it is a place tourists want to visit and I had to make sure no one walked into my camera. My other advice would be to take many shots at different apertures to get the effect you wish to achieve.

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