Monday 22 April 2019

16:9 mute swan

An evening walk by the River Wye produced this photograph of a mute swan swimming upstream across the gold-tinted water. I aimed for a composition with the sun at the top left and the swan at the bottom right, and had an idea that an image with a 16:9 ratio would suit the shot best. When my pocket camera, many years ago now, was a Lumix LX3, I could quickly select this ratio with an on-body switch. On the Sony RX100 that task requires paging through the on-screen menu - something that in this instance would have meant missing the shot.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100