You never know what type of sunset you will get at Aberavon, so the fun is just turning up and taking photographs of the sunset and seeing what happens. For me, I can never get enough of this beach, as it has the most beautiful sunsets in the area. Tonight was no exception, although I tackled it from the opposite side of the promenade that I usually take my photos from.
Tonight my gear was my trusty Fujifilm X-T20 with my Viltrox 23mm F/1.4 and Viltrox 85mm F/1.8 lenses. Along with this I also used my Huawei P30 Pro mobile for some photographs, although this blog entry will focus just on the camera photographs. One day I will do a side by side comparison of a shoot, photographed both with the camera and the mobile phone.
Photographs were shot in MGA Leica-Like film simulation (which can be found in the Fuji section of this website) and processed in Darktable, where they were simply straightened and cropped where needed. The couple of monochrome images were converted in Darktable and set to the Fuji Monochrome setting.
As always, please click on the photos to see them full screen, and you can also see full EXIF data.
I’m really impressed with the performance of the camera and lenses in the night time. Of the 200 photographs I took (I done a few panoramas which I will look at later, plus a few burst shots of joggers), only 3 of them suffered camera shake or missed focus. I am more than happy with that result!
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— I am always learning with my camera, and sometimes I push it too hard. I set a minimum shutter speed on my camera to 1/60th and a maximum ISO of 3200, and for 90% of the evening this worked perfectly, however with the 85mm lens on I could see I was sometimes having shake, so I have now adjusted the settings to 1/100 and maximum ISO of 6400. I’m more than happy with the limited noise these settings produced when pushed to that limit.
One Camera One Lens 
brilliant photos as ever.
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Thank you Martin. A different location tonight, but gave me a chance to get closer to Swansea city skyline.
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Such beautiful shots! I’ve always loved the beach! ❤
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Thank you, I am fortunate to live right next to the beach.
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You sure are. And you’re so welcome! 🙂
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Nice shots, I have to admit I never use an 85mm (and even 50mm) to take pictures other than portrait. Something that is still deeply ingrained from the analog era – Also partly because I love to work with wide angle and super wide angle. But this is proof that it is certainly possible, the results are very good.
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Thank you Marc. I used to be a lover of 10-20mm lens for landscapes, but over the years my lenses have got longer! Almost always use the 23mm with the 85mm these days over my wider lenses.
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