Avebury

Toby Webster

Toby Webster

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A too brief visit on Tuesday whilst driving home from Bristol, I passed reluctantly by Barbury Castle and Hackpen Hill up on the ridgeway with mountains of fabulously dramatic stormclouds towering behind them to be rewarded by the most beautiful light at Avebury as the Chandra deluge passed by on each side, miraculously sparing the henge until after I got back to my car. My 120 film camera loaded with HP5 jammed after 2 shots, and fearing that going back to the car to sort it out would cost me the light, I took recourse to my phone.

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Huawei P20 Pro with Leica Monochrome Sensor

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The first set have it for me Toby, the light and luminosity is beautiful in those images. Having said that I do like the l last one as well though.
 
The first three and the last one stand out for me but it's a nice set overall Toby, particularly in terms of the light.
 
The last time I was at Avebury must have been when the sculptor was just finishing off!

Joking of course, but it has to be at least 50 years ago. There were too many folk milling about to even consider trying to get anything decent. Sadly that was in the days when I was in the Army and was posted away shortly afterwards.

On 1 & 2 The rendition of the stones is just about the most difficult thing to capture with the light tones so easily bleached out and the others make a well balanced set- Nice.
 
Standing stones are hard to make interesting in my opinion but I really like the first of the first set

Also love the first and last ( so I think, because they show up twice in succession on my phone - it’s confusing!) of the second set
 
Thanks all.

Simon, I always post full size + thumbnail so that they can be seen in sequence against a dark background, but on phones they both come up the same size.
 
They are a nice set,Toby. I do think in some of your images, not all, the grass sometimes looks a little too dark, I suppose it's a personal choice though,.
 
Martin Henson said:
They are a nice set,Toby. I do think in some of your images, not all, the grass sometimes looks a little too dark, I suppose it's a personal choice though,.
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Interesting, that caught me a bit by surprise. Most of my photos are either B&W film or taken, like these, on the dedicated monochrome sensor of my phone, so no colour sliders to adjust the tone. When I use a DSLR and convert I'll either run the yellow slider (which will adjust the grass tone) up or down according to the individual photograph. I do tend to darken the immediate foreground slightly to give depth, but generally it's the tonal values of the film or phone sensor that are in charge.

I sometimes used to use a light yellow filter on my 120 to pull the greens up, but I haven't used it for quite a while.
 
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