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| After sunset, Elie Ness Lighthouse, East Neuk |
6th May 2013, Elie Ness Lighthouse, East Neuk
After a day in St Andrews, supper at The Fish Inn, Elie, and a very short drive to Ruby Bay I made my way around to the lighthouse and waited for sunset. Sunset proved to be better further along the coast but in the blue hour the lamps of Elie Ness lighthouse were lit and Ruby Bay reflects the last of the sunset colour. On a Spring high tide Elie Ness can become a very temporary island, hence the bridge which takes the path across a very narrow inlet.
Technical Info:
Taken with a Canon EOS 5D mkII
Zeiss Distagon T* 21/2.8 ZE lens
EXIF: ISO-125 / 20 sec / f/11
Lee filters: 0.6 Soft GND
RAW File converted to TIFF in Canon DPP, developed in Adobe PSE9
The field is a few minutes’
drive from my home in Cairneyhill. Not only is it planted with wheat, which provides the foreground interest, but it’s advantage
over other local fields is that it’s on a small hill and gives views across to
the north-west where the sun sets at this time of the year. It’s a place I can get to if the sky suddenly
develops some colour around sunset. A lay-by at the entrance to the field provided
easy parking. The channels
created by the tractors make natural lead-in lines and break up the continuous
swathes of green whilst adding shadow areas too. Tonight I left the house at
9:35pm, got parked up at 9:40pm, was set up in the field by 9:50pm, spent 30
mins photographing the sunset and gloaming light following sunset and was back
home for 10:35pm. Pretty good mini-session I'd say. 
