Vatican City God rays

Monday March 3, 2008 - 10:10 pm (2 years ago)
church, god rays, italy, photoblog, rome, saint peter's, vatican
Saint Peter's, Vatican City, Rome, San Pietro, Città del Vaticano, Roma, God rays, Crepuscular rays, europe 2007
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL, 72 mm, 1/2500 sec at f/16 (taken Tuesday September 4, 2007 - 5:56 pm, 2 comments)

If you’re going to photograph God rays (Crepuscular rays), the best place to find them is above Saint Peter’s, pointing directly at the Vatican City, right?

Taken from the roof of Castel Sant’Angelo.

A bit disappointed that I’d forgotten to switch from ISO1600 back to something more useful. We’d been inside the castle, so obviously the higher sensitivity was needed but it’s still annoying; I seemed to do this quite a bit and it’s really an annoying design “feature” of the 350D that it doesn’t show you the ISO setting.

A few steps to the right might have had the God rays pointing directly at the church but I don’t think it really matters. Some great symbolism here, I think.

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One Response to “Vatican City God rays”

Thanks for reminding me to re-set my ISO. 30D doesn’t tell you either.
MrHoot on March 4th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

2 flickr comments on “Vatican City God rays”

I like how the sun is shining through the clouds, this sunbeam looks awesome!
The World Through My Eyes
itzlae on March 3rd 2008 at 9:42 pm




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courge poivrée on March 6th 2008 at 7:03 am

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