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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Below Beacon Hill 2

Messing around with multiple screw-on filters can cause vignetting - those black areas in the corners of the above photo. If I want to use the photo I will usually just crop it so these don't show. However, after looking at this photo a number of times I decided not to crop the vignetting because in this case I like the effect. It might just be nostalgia. When I was very young and had serious wanderlust, those far away places with the strange sounding names were always, in imagination, viewed through a ship's porthole. Imagine waking up in the morning and looking through that magic circle to see the pyramids of Giza in the hot desert sunlight or Chimborazo rising in the mist. That wonderful circular frame still seems to me like the mind's eye.

6 comments:

JoJo said...

I, too, immediately thought of looking through a port hole! I love this effect too. Fantastic picture.

RedPat said...

Super shot and a wonderful location -beautiful!

Dean Lewis said...

How different this shot would be without the tiny figures and freighter in the distance to give it proportion and depth.

Andy said...

It looks like a place that I would expect to see Captain Jack Sparrow.

Canarybird said...

Well done Benjamin! I also love the porthole effect.

Sharon

me said...

GORGEOUS image ***** i can hear the mermaid calling in this one!