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A photo of a sunset against a clear horizon is always a 'no-brainer' as far as I'm concerned, but after you've seen a few dozen (hundred?) of them they all start looking the same.
For this particular sunset photo I was standing on the summit of the Great Orme at Llandudno on the North Wales coast, looking west out to sea past the island of Anglesey, and I was mighty glad to see this ship slowly steaming past in just the right spot to turn this image from just another sunset photo into something with a bit more meaning and emotion to it.
I wasn't alone. I was surrounded by a good crowd of day drippers all busy shooting away on tiny compacts and mobiles.
I looked kind of out of place as I set up my Canon 5D with 400mm lens on my tripod, dwarfing the day trippers' cameras and garnering a few ribald but good natured comments along the way.
I know that small cameras are the coming thing, but in a situation like this, give me a big piece of glass and a full frame sensor any day!
Filename - sunset ship 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Exposure - 1/20sec @ f13, ISO100
Location - Irish Sea off Llandudno
This image - 800x640px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera shake
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