Evening Light, Buttermere, England

Your View – Commended

On a camera club evening visit to Buttermere in August 2016 I decided to shoot a scene I had taken many times before. On this occasion, because it was quite windy, I wanted to show the clouds streaking across the sky but found that the 90-second exposure made the grasses and the tree too blurred for my liking. I therefore added a second image at 0.5sec, which produced only a little movement in the grasses and virtually no tree movement. The low diagonal evening sun added lovely subtle light to the classic scene. Canon EOS 6D, 16-35mm. Two frames (sky/background 90secs at f/11, ISO 50), and (foreground 0.5sec at f/8, ISO 400), two frames blended in Photoshop