Caption:
An Angel on a Medieval Ceiling
Description:
An angel painted on the medieval ceiling of Saint Peter’s Church in Thanet, Kent, England.
Saint Peters is a village which is part of the town of Broadstairs
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Photo Comments:
I rarely use on camera flash and I’m particularly dubious about the flash equipment built into so many DSLRs these days.
I do understand that they have their uses.
However, the nave of this church was dark and I wanted to highlight the craftsmanship and the colour of the ceiling paintings.
For this I decided to use a 75-300mm IS Canon zoom on my Canon D5 Mark 11.
One of the features (or lack of) with this camera is that it doesn’t have a built in flash.
I used my Canon Speedlight 430x in the hotshoe.
I used manual setting for exposure and set the flashlight to its manual setting also.
The reasons for this were to:
- use a shutterspeed that was as fast as possible with the flash synchronisation.
- produce the maximum output from the flashlight so that I could choose an aperture around the “sweetspot” of the lens.
One other thing I took care over was to shoot at a slight angle so as to avoid a hotspot reflection from the flash.
As the surface of the painting was flat and not too shiny I was reasonably satisfied with the result.
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