Another image from our holiday in Cornwall earlier in the year. I’ve always loved the rich dark colours of this shot and the gentle ripples in the water, which looks almost like black treacle.
The sun was low in the sky to my right when this was taken, casting a warm glow across the harbour.
This was the first sunset I ever really paid attention to – and the first one I witnessed with my camera. I hadn’t previously been aware of just how much the light changes before and after the sun goes down and being there was accidental – I had actually gone to take pictures of some boats I had noticed there earlier in the week.
I’d just taken delivery of some new filters – a light blue grad and a light tobacco grad, both Kood – and was keen to try them out. After getting the shots I wanted I started to wander back to the car when I noticed that the sun had finally disappeared from view and there was a slight ripple moving across the otherwise still reservoir.
I used both filters here – the tobacco one at the bottom and the blue one at the top. Technically I should have included some foreground but the colours in this were pleasing enough for me to not mind its exclusion.
Technical details:- 0.125 sec (1/8s), f/8.0, 21 mm
