Rufford Old Hall & Gardens

[Guest Yachtsman1]

The National Trust is holding a free weekend at various sites, so yesterday with a couple of friends we set off for Rufford Old Hall & gardens which was the nearest to us. As Sarah sat nav has sent us on some dodgy routes out of Southport I headed for Ormskirk which their web site said was the nearest town. As we neared Ormskirk we spotted a sign for Rufford & much to Sarah's relief started on her route, which said destination 9 miles, which was the same as when we left home. So the 9 miles turned into 16.

On arrival we made our way to the disabled car park, one of our party uses a zimmer on wheels to walk. The route into the hall was a mixture of gravel & cobbles, not zimmer friendly. Eventually after taking a few shots of the building & grounds we found the disabled entrance. We were met by an army of NT reps trying to sell us subscriptions & raffle tickets, the girls parted with some cash & we were then informed photography was only allowed in the grounds & Great Hall, B******S!

A bit about the property, started in the 15th century for the Lord Hesketh, whose ancester ran the F1 formula 1 team with James Hunt as principle driver. Built of wattle daub & stone, with the 17th century extension in brick. See the link for more info.

Mechanics, 22MB Mediafire download, 40 slides, 5m 18s run time, 16-9 aspect ratio. 1 music track. Cameras Nikon D90/40 & two 18-105 lenses.

The show isn't in mono, it's just there is a lot of black & white decoration.

Yachtsman1

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[rick235]

Hi,

The subject was fine but on my monitor the images seemed over exposed with the sky's burned out, i realize the weather can be quite crappy in the UK as i used to live in the UK but the pathways also seemed over exposed in some of the images.

Sorry for the negative comments but thought i should tell you what i observed on my monitor.

Rick.

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Hi Rick

There was a "light" drizzle when the outside shots were taken, with an overcast sky. The paths are a compressed reddish shale & in one particular shot I've checked looked light gray. I've had another go at that one but it's a case of six & two 3's. Modified shot attached. This was our first serious shoot for a while & afterwards found I had left my camera at 200 ISO, normally for these conditions I usually set it at 400.

Thanks for looking.

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1.

[rick235]

Hi Eric,

Thank you, the attached image is so much better.

Once again thank you for taking the trouble to improve the image.

Rick.