This is Whitby Abbey, a 7th century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine Abbey. It sits dramatically on a cliff high above the sea on the east coat of England, and the sunrise illuminated it beautifully. The abbey fell into disuse in 1538 when King Henry VIII confiscated and dissolved all the English monasteries during the Reformation when Catholicism was outlawed. My settings were 1/125, f/8, and 640 ISO, and I used a 24-105mm lens set to 60mm. It’s important to use daylight white balance for outdoor photography especially at sunrise and sunset. If you use AWB, as many people do, the golden colors of a low angled sun will be ‘corrected’, i.e. diluted. The warm tones will become bland, neutral shades of color and will look to be honest, boring. You can bring back the golden lighting in ACR or Lightroom, but the images on your LCD will look disappointing at the time of shooting.
0 Comments