Clear Blue Skies in Cambridge

Amazingly clear day in Cambridge yesterday after a frosty start. King's Chapel was at its best with windows colours projected all round the building. Still experimenting with the panorama facility in Lightroom!

Cambridge HDR with FX100

 I am still trying to decide if the in-camera HDR on the sony FX100 is worth using - it certainly does a good job on high contrast scenes but I am not convinced it is better than doing HDR from a single RAW file. Three separate exposure images recombined with HDR Pro would probably give better result but this is not an option when a tripod cannot be used as in Cambridge Colleges. The left-hand images are the best adjustments from a single image (jpeg), righthand are the HDR output from the camera. I need to do a raw image as well as the in-camera HDR.

Kings College Cambridge

Images taken with the 24mm Shift lens showing the quality of image possible with this lens. It is a difficult lens to use off a tripod as it is manual focus and exposure.

Cambridge Winter Light

Beautiful winter light in Cambridge today - the low angle of the sun is just right to illuminate Trinity College and the interior and exterior of Kings.

King's College

I have visited Kings College a great many times taking visitors round the building and yet there are always corners or views that I missed on a previous visit.

I was attracted by the very varied 'furniture' that had been left in one corner of the Chapel.

The old glass on an inner window has beautiful soft colours echoed in the roof on the rather dull day on Tuesday.

Finally an image of quiet contemplation in a side chapel.

Kings College

A few infrared photos of King's College Chapel taken with the 'plastic' 1.8 50mm lens - seems to be the best one for the digital infrared as doesn't give a 'hot spot'