Cambridge Night-time Photography

 Some images taken on my walk back to the car on Wednesday - most officially night-time photography i.e. more than an hour after sunset when all light has left the sky except the moonlight, which was strong at full moon. Exposures 10sec f14 to 40secs f4 for last King's College shot. (No denoise or sharpening applied)

Wood Carving in King's College Chapel

The bright low winter sunshine lit the choir stalls and choirscreen with coloured  light through the stained glass windows and allowed detail to be recorded that is impossible in dull light.
A few notes here from English Heritage on dates etc. The Chapel was built between 1446 and 1515, and the glass was added between 1515 and 1531.  The building is an outstanding example of the craftsmanship of the period. The fan-vault of the roof was designed and built by John Wastell, master-mason 1512-15. The timber roof was built by Martin Prentice and Richard Russel 1508-15; it is of 24 bays.  The windows form one of the finest and most complete sets of late medieval stained glass in Europe. The Organ is by Renee Harris, 1688. Screen of magnificent oak carving, 1533-36 with the central doors of 1636. Choir stalls of oak, 1533-6. The Chapel was paved with marble 1702 and Portland stone 1775.

 

Cambridge Autumn Colours Fungi and Kings Chapel

A few images from a cold cloudy day in Cambridge with Debbie trying to work out all the controls on her camera.It was very dull light so very difficult to keep the shutterspeed high enough inside King's College at an acceptable ISO. There was a very impressive clump of Pholiota squarrosa.

Cambridge, Workshop in King's Chapel and Streets

Yesterday, we ran a workshop in Cambridge to get to Know Your Camera with various exercises and projects. A lot of time was spent in my group getting to grips with the use of aperture  and shutterspeed priority modes to get the image you want rather then the automatic mode. The projects reinforced this with Differential focus as one topic, Intentional Camera Movement as another. I also spent time taking groups into King's Chapel  - an excellent location to practise low light photography, images for stitched panoramas and photographing stained glass. 

Perfect October Day in Cambridge

Beautiful sunny day in Cambridge yesterday and lots of visitors took to the river. Very few clouds around but late in the afternoon there were some great textured high clouds with areas of opalescence. Certainly a day that shows off the interiors of King's and Trinity chapels very well.