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.
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6 comments:

  1. JoJoJanuary 15, 2011 at 10:10 AM

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

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  2. RedPatJanuary 15, 2011 at 11:46 AM

    Super shot and a wonderful location -beautiful!

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  3. Dean LewisJanuary 15, 2011 at 12:59 PM

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

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  4. AndyJanuary 16, 2011 at 3:10 AM

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

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  5. CanarybirdJanuary 16, 2011 at 11:47 AM

    Well done Benjamin! I also love the porthole effect.

    Sharon

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  6. meJanuary 16, 2011 at 1:17 PM

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

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