Local countryside with the ultrawide

Apologies for the title, getting poetic in my old age

Comments and criticism welcome! The last one is much more heavily processed than my norm, would be interested to see if it looks too fake.


Rapeseed path



To the horizon



The avenue



Church row

Nice set Tim.

Particularly like 1 & 4, the perspective of number 4 really appeals to me, and the pathway leading off into the distance in 1 makes for an interesting shot. Lovely blue skies in all too! Haven't seen much of that up by me for a while!

What lens did you use out of interest?

nice. I particularly like the straightness in the 3rd image. Out of interest, were you useing filters (if so, what?) for these.

And to answer your original query I don't think number 4 looks too fake at all.

Super stuff, Tim, particularly the first three. Lovely wide open vistas: you exploit the capabilities of this lens (not always easy to do!)

Regards,

Andrew

Thanks folks!

These were all with the Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6. I have a circular polariser pretty much permanently attached to the lens, but forgot to turn it to the correct angle for number 2 (hence the pale sky!).

Edit: and now I see all 4 side by side, looks like I overcooked the sky in number 3 in PP

Where was 3 taken? Excellent set.

I'd clone out the bright orange spot in the middle of the second one (bit of emergency fencing, perhaps?).

I'll admit I don't really like the converging verticals in the last one, but that is just me (and I am infamous for it! )

K.

Thanks Emma, thanks Kris.

These were all taken within 5 miles of Saffron Walden. The third one in particular was a private lane leading to a farmhouse near the village of Sewards End.

I'd forgotten about the orange bit of fencing! Well spotted Kris, will clone out a.s.a.p. Also I had already partially corrected the verticals in number four, any more and I'd lose the left side of the thatched roof which I wanted to keep.

Lovely set of pics1&3 does it for me

1 & 3 for me also Tim, the fourth probably needed a bit of extra work given that the sun was hiding from you at the time?

Thanks iBerg, yes the cottages were all in shadow, I'm having problems brightening it any more without introducing a bucket load of noise (plenty of that already!).

Tim, the 'Church Row' shot works and is a very nicely balanced picture. Maybe a step back would have given the scene a little more room to breathe, no?
With respect, I feel that you may have taken the picture at the wrong time though, the sunlight looks like it has been lost behind a cloud, and as a result the scene looks flat.

Just my tuppence.

Thanks Pauly! Yes that was why that one has had so much PP - to try and rescue the flat and dimly lit cottages. I'm still not satisfied but cannot make it much brighter (the cottages are already close to +2 stops exposure in PP).

Unfortunately I have been trying to take that photo for a couple of years now, but every time I drive past (several times a week) there is a huge ugly Range Rover parked on the corner in the bottom right. But last week I drove past and it wasn't there! So i screeched to a stop and rushed over to take a few photos. I only had a few minutes, and I was still late for my next appointment

That's cool that your not satisfied with it, Tim.
Did you take note of the time when that Land Rover wasn't there, it may matter? It's certainly worth persisting with in recording this scene at it's best, though.