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Sally Port


Sally Port
Photo Information
Copyright: Roger Shipp (swashway) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 130 W: 0 N: 66] (302)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-04-19
Categories: Transportation, Architecture, Decisive Moment
Camera: Canon EOS 30D, 17-85 mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM, Hoya HMC 67mm Pro1 UV(0)
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/250 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-21 3:41
Viewed: 744
Points: 24
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
HMS Severn sets sail from Portsmouth Naval Base, the home of the Royal Navy.

This was taken at Old Portsmouth, The view is through one of the ‘Sally ports’ built into the defensive walls. Known as the 18 Gun Battery, King Henry VIII first established a battery here in 1545. The majority of the current structure dates from the 1800’s.
A ‘sally port’ is an opening in fortifications from which defenders may make a sally. Sally is from Latin (salire) and means ‘to leap’ and Port (Portus) is ‘door’.
Close by a plaque reads, “The Old Sally Port, From this place naval heroes innumerable have embarked to fight their country’s battles. Near this spot Catharine of Braganza landed in state May 14th 1662 previous to her marriage with Charles II at the Domus Dei a week later.

The current HMS Severn is the tenth Royal Navy ship to bear this name, she belongs to the River Class of Offshore Patrol Vessels. Her main roll is for fishery protection duties around the coasts of Britain.
The first RN ship to bear the name Severn was a fourth rate 2 decked ship of 50 guns launched in 1693, I can’t help feeling how much better that would have looked in this image.

Some PP in Photoshop CS, Curves, saturation and resize.
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To docdexter: Frameswashway 1 04-21 10:22
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Good sharpness and metering in this shot, interesting approach with the framing of the fortification.
Thank you for sharing it!
Rew

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  • lion Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 598 W: 66 N: 31] (5814)
  • [2007-04-21 5:59]
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Hi,
I liek your idea.
Very interesting

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  • jawa Gold Star Critiquer [C: 1372 W: 0 N: 1] (12003)
  • [2007-04-21 8:05]
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HI Roger
very nice comp.
There are very good deep in this photo.
Have nice weekend.
Gr Jos

Hi there!
I love this idea, of creating a frame in your shot for viewing something else.
Lovely composition, nice crisp detail and good colours.
Well done!

bonsoir Roger
excellente photo, belle netteté
bien vu le bateau par ouverture fortifiée
bravo

jojo

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  • BenF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 299 W: 0 N: 341] (3049)
  • [2007-04-21 15:38]
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Beautiful shot Rogewr,
I like the frame with in a frame effect that you have created.
Well done,
BEn

Hi Roger,
I missed this on the thumbnails but it is the sort of shot that I like. I like your p.o.v. It frames the subject well besides having interest in its own right. There is lovely detail on the archway. Well done!
Kind regards, Bev :-)

hey roger, excellent framing for this particular shot, we need to know this is were the guns were aiming from and you captured ut perfectly, great exposure for such an image, your work is great1 thanks scott

ships, walls, sea.... fine composition. thank you, roger, well done.

Hi Roger, and when you decide to do some framing you do it in a big way. What a fantasticly framed picture of HMS Severn.
Love it,
TFS
Els
:)follow
WAUW

Hi Roger, nice shot of the Severn, well framed by the hotwalls.
Thanks for sharing.
Mick.

Guauuu¡¡Roger¡¡I am charmed with this photo, seem to be surrealistic, as if out Dalí's picture, you have had a great idea, disconcert muchísmo, but simultaneously it pleases. Very well, you follows this way, that should demolish your imagination.

A greeting, Sara.

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