Church at Letwell

Beautiful shot and POV

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Kind regards Maria

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I like the contrast in colour and tone, David.

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Best wishes,

Andrew

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Me too - it looks lovely. Did you have to colour correct the Hi-Tech ND grad to get back to a grey sky?

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Andy

As has been said pour moi aussi!

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Delightful picture.

Best Wishes
Andy

Nice and delicate

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PPG

Me too

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Malc

Hi Andy, I usually reduce both cyan and blue in the sky, more so the higher the strength of the ND Grad filter. This was 0.9, so more reduction in these tones. However, I also do this sometimes without a filter being used, I don't think the Hitechs are bad at all in this regard and the cast is so easy to remove. I do prefer a natural grey tone in the sky and always try to make it as close to what my eye saw as I possibly can.

Regards
David

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Nicola's Apartments, Kassiopi, Corfu

Some cameras, some lenses, some bits 'n' bobs

Nice contrasts!

This one grabbed me as I was flicking through the gallery..then I saw it was David again. Had to be! Nice composition. You've handled those yellows well - they can be overpowering.

Sorry if I've asked this before but I often see you use grad filters. Any reason you choose to do it this way, rather than post process from bracketed exposures as I tend to do (mostly through laziness)? I can see there may be pros and cons but I imagine the end results would look much the same.

I do this because I like to get the shot 'right' in camera. If it is right in the first instance it gives so much more scope for processing - nothing needs to be forced and the end result is, I believe, more natural and easier on the eye. I try to avoid blown highlights and unrecoverable shadows at all costs, to the extent that I delete any images (no matter how good) that have any blown highlights or unrecoverable shadows. This is a rule I have always applied and it seems to work for me.

Regards
David

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Nicola's Apartments, Kassiopi, Corfu

Some cameras, some lenses, some bits 'n' bobs

Thanks David. I think that's a good approach. It certainly seems to work for you and I do admire your landscapes. A while back I found them a bit more contrasty than I would dare, but not so now. Perhaps you're easing off on the contrast. More likely my taste has developed!