sunset

finished university quite late today and as I was walking down to my car noticed the sunset was pretty damn awesome... fortunately I had my camera handy as I had been photographing some of my work so went for a drive along riverside and took some snaps

 I have photographed riverside from roughly this location plenty times and every time I am drawn to taking pictures of the rows of street lights, this time was especially effective as the sunlight is reflected in the glass of each post.

 The one below is my favourite of this bunch, I love how the rays of sunlight beam down over the bonnet of my car and the shadow cast from the light shining underneath makes the foreground so much more interesting.

this panorama was strung together from  6 individual photos, for this to work I had to lock the exposure ever photograph so the final image looks seamless.

I didn't use much equipment for these shots, just my canon 1000d, standard lens and also my ultra wide angle sigma 10-20mm lens i use most of the time. I didn't need a tripod as the camera was pointing at the sun the shutter speeds were very fast even though the light was dying. No camera or external flash was used, it is just purely taken using the light provided naturally, my favourite way of photographing sun sets/rises, landscapes and urban areas.