Verve

"The sun stands still for no one, constantly changing shadows, lighting and the general atmosphere... You have little time to meditate and contemplate your subject... you must quickly decide your course of action, and with verve and emotion, capture the essence of your subject."

Sidney Hermel

Golden hour evening sunlight, in early spring, bathes the hills above Merrivale and Walkhampton Common below. Snow dusts some of the higher ground in the distance.

Leedon Tor, Ingra Tor. King’s Tor, Pew Tor, Heckwood Tor and Vixen Tor can be seen in the near distance.

Cox Tor, Staple Tor, Great Mis Tor and Little Mis Tor lie in the far distance.

Location: lower slopes of Sharpitor, Dartmoor National Park, Devon.
Ordnance Survey Grid Reference = SX 556 708



Pentax K-x
Pentax18-55mm SMC/ DAL lens
Hoya circular polarizer
(hand-held)
ISO-200
f/8
(1/45 second)
Spot metering

Psuedo-HDR created from ‘split-RAW’ processing to produce -1.66, 0, +1.66ev equivalents as 16-bit TIFFs, then processed in Photomatix Pro 3.

Finished using Lightroom and Photoshop