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Gold Hill - Shaftesbury, Dorset. This scene is famous as the location
for the 'Hovis' commercials, now some decades old!
I visited it on a photography course and we spent some time
photographing it. I found that it wasn't a very easy subject; the sun
was illuminating the left hand side of the road nicely, but on the
right hand side there was a notably ugly wall which I found I needed
to minimise in the image. I tried a lot of shots, and when I found I'd
got the road right the attractive sky that was visible when we started
had moved on!
I ended up doing lots of editing to get the elements together and
nicely lit. I opted for concentrating on the buildings and darkening
the background; I manage to rescue the sky, this has been darkened
quite a bit. The worst thing was the bush on the RH side of the photo;
this took ages to crop and manipulate so that the sky and not white
space could be seen through the branches! So it's kept me well out of
mischief for the last three days. I hope it's worth the trouble.
I lightened it slightly in Picknik on loading.
Incidentally this is edited with the 'PhotoStudio' program that came
with my camera. I never see any references to anyone working with it;
but it can be made to give reasonable results (I think), and it is
free!
Nov 8th 2008 Thanks for all your kind comments.
I forgot to geotag it, but now it's on the map, so you can see where
Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, and Dorset actually are in the World!
*nacnud*, grah44, Tailer's Family - journeying!, Gary Shield, and 335 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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bobchin1941 30 months ago | reply
Excellent.
Great Photo! - seen In Images Of England
Images Of England
paulwynn-mackenzie.co.uk 27 months ago | reply
Nice shot, I live 2 minutes walk from here, Tout Hill if you know it :D
Lemmo2009 22 months ago | reply
Lovely image of a lovely place, really must pay a visit.
Wind_Dancer 20 months ago | reply
Gorgeous!