So for this month I have some photos from my honeymoon to share. First up is the Ngorogoro Crater; this is a simply astounding place. It is a 250sqkm volcanic caldera formed when a huge volcano exploded. It's located in northern Tanzania and the floor of the crater lies at about 1800m making it free from nasty mosquito borne diseases and relatively cool. This shot was taken from the Ngorogoro Sopa Lodge on the eastern rim of the crater looking to the west at sunset.
I used my orange tinted sunset filter to give the rose tint to the sky, although truth be known I think it is slightly overdone, however conditions for a red sky weren't great so it had to be forced. The image was shot at ISO200, f13 at 1/10s with my 10-20mm lens set at 17mm. To get such a low shutter speed I rested the camera on a wall and used the delay timer to make sure pressing the release button didn't cause any vibration; for the same reason I also locked up the mirror.
Post has seen me straighten the image and crop to make the top of the forest and the clouds on the right hand edge lie on the line of thirds. I also tweaked the raw settings to sharpen the image and reduce the noise slightly (there was very little shot noise anyway due to the low ISO) and played with the shadows and highlight sliders to bring up the detail in the shadows and reduce the overexposure of the sky and clouds.
If I was shooting this again I would use a tripod and ideally wait for a day more conducive to red skies but alas I had neither my tripod nor time to do either so I am, in a way 'stuck' with what I have.
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