Seven from this trip

Though I've taken over 200 I can show very few of them - most are very personal memories I've taken for the folk with whom I went .

This group were taken at the 'Cascades' above Cauteret in the Midi Pyrenees - it wasn't the best of days weatherwise rain and drizzle a good part of the time we were there but I managed these. All were taken with the K-x and the Tamron 18-250 lens

1) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2319.jpg[/IMG]

2) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2320.jpg[/IMG]

3) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2314.jpg[/IMG]

4) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2321.jpg[/IMG]

5)[IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2322.jpg[/IMG]

6) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2324.jpg[/IMG]

7) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2326.jpg[/IMG]

My pick would be the 3rd one, first would have been good with a bit more clarity, the others to me lack subject matter, cropped to tight.Just my thoughts

I'd never seen these falls before - the amount of water coming down was breathtaking, and exceedingly noisy . The rocks shown everywhere are HUGE .

I'd love to have another go there - these were rushed as the K-x is not WR and the rain was starting to come down AGAIN

And that's my pick also TT.

It's interesting to see the scale provided by the bench in the last one.

Impressive boulders! 1 and 7 for me too. The first 6 all need some sense of scale. Where's Milla Jovovich when you need her eh?

Someone use Photoshop please and put her on the bench

When I've an hour or so free I'll have another go in Aperture with these and see what I can do, particularly with #s 1 & 2. It was really hazy for them - possibly because of the amount of water coming from that top waterfall , it's possibly spray .

None of these by the way are cropped .

I was standing on a small wooden bridge [ and no there were no trolls under it - they'd have been washed away ] and the noise as all the separate water streams came together was incredible. The one from beside the Spa Hotel joined a little bit further down but was in sight .

Here you go

[IMG]http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy358/thoughton/TTMilla.jpg[/IMG]

Fair puts the size of the falls and rocks into perspective doesn't it ?

OK have had another go at 3 of them

1) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2319-1.jpg[/IMG]

2) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2320-1.jpg[/IMG]

4) [IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP2321-1.jpg[/IMG]


Now I'm having problems with the sky in #1 - any suggestions from Aperture Users ?

Also in #2 the hint of haze / water / whatever it is is till there can't see how I can deal with it in isolation

I'm still very much learning my way in Aperture

That's what I felt too Back to Aperture

It looks like you've whacked up the contrast in number 1. This will darken the dark bits, and brighten the bright bits. That's probably what's happened to your whitewater.

You could give this a try:

In Aperture watch the histogram as you move the Exposure slider, make sure nothing is clipped off the right hand side. Once that is in range, the whitewater should have some detail but possibly everything else will be quite dark. Now fiddle with the Brightness slider, this should brighten everything but without moving the right hand end of the histogram (so you don't overexpose the highlights again).

Once you get the bright parts looking good, you may need to compensate at the dark end by moving the 'Black Point' slider (this stretches out the left side of the histogram, without moving the right side).

I've got the bit between my teeth good and proper now

[IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP23191.jpg[/IMG]

That's much better!

Oh I'll get there eventually

I've a series of pictures of subterranean caves at Betharrham yet to start on - now they WILL be a challenge as flash could not be used