Whitby Boat

It's been a while since my last post so I'll try to get back on track with some shots from the east coast. This one was taken in the small harbour village of Staithes, about 5 minutes north of Whitby. It was a fairly overcast day and I had done a lot of landscapes that morning so I was more concentrating on shots with no horizons in them. As the tide was way out I got near the boats to try and get some detailed shots, the lighting is not the most dramatic so I added a vignette in photoshop and pushed up the reds slightly. The exif info shows how low the light was, ISO 800, f2.8 1/60 sec at 24mm. As I'd been lugging the tripod round all morning I'd left it in the car so the aperture had to be wide open and the ISO quite high to get a decent shutter speed to handhold, I get nervous with anything under 1/50, although I read about a guy who claims to be able to handhold at 1/10 in a helicopter and still get sharp photos! Anyway in this instance I think the wide aperture just nicely blurs the top and bottom of the shot.