The service Center in Slough used to be to the left of the main entrance, but the last time I took something in to be fixed it was booked in by the nice lady at main reception.

I agree with Dan, leave it as it is and it screams out "cool villa balcony on a halcyon day!"

Thanks for all the positives. The colour is (almost) real, most of the shots were taken using a circular polariser, except#4 and #6 which were taken with my sigma 12-24 lens which is too wide for my cokin filters, the others were taken with th 16-45mm DA all on the K10D. And in Silkypix they were processed with "Memory Color 1" & Natural Fine Sharpening.

I'll amend the descriptions to include the relevant info, Clarky.

Rarely have I experienced such good weather in the Lakes, and never in October! With the light I was in Hog Heaven! Think I have the Chocolate Box market covered now

A few more from last week in Wasdale.

Ritson's Force:-


1/125 @ F11, ISO100



1/6 @ F11, ISO100

Mosedale, looking up to Looking Stead


1/60 @ F11, ISO100

Mosedale, the ridge from Looking Stead to Pillar *


1/60 @ F11, ISO100



1/60 @ F11, ISO100

Where Moses Trod (the path to Sty Head) *


1/15 @ F22, ISO100

Great Gable


1/13 @ F22, ISO100



1/13 @ F22, ISO100

* Using Sigma 12-24mm DG EX
others using Pentax 16-45mm DA

I especially like shots #3 and #4. Love the peace and quiet at Tarn Hows. Looks like we were both stomping around the area the same week!

Gosh thanks people

Dan, the main "complaint" I have about HDR is that it tends to produce slightly* unnatural effects, because, well it is unnatural!

*well to look at some HDR images it can produce very unnatural images!

Dan,

Yes as I have found through researching better ways of joining pictures together taking more shots each covering a smaller area seems the way to go, especially as the software does do a very impressive job of aligning the images.

I have an excuse to return to that viewpoint, though whether I get the same light and weather is another matter!

Shot #1? Perfect light (on the mountains). Maybe I should have cropped out most of the foreground.

Thanks for the appreciative comments.

The "problem" with the right-hand end of #2 was probably due a combination of the low angle of the sun (6PM on October 6th), a bit of low cloud and a slight change in angle of the rock face. The whole field of view is about seven miles. I also had a circular polarising filter on and I now realise this can be a bad idea for stitching panoramas together as you get graduation effects across each frame which can be hard to remove. I've been trying various tools (Autostitch, PanoTools, PTGUi, enblende ect) to see if any of them an do a better job of equalising the whole image.

If you put the following co-ordinates into google earth you'll see the vantage point. 54°26'32.80"N 3°19'17.96"W. It's a nice flat spot on top of a rocky outcrop, plenty enough space for a tripod and only a short walk from Greendale (where there is a handy space for parking the car!)

...ought to be wet and horrible, but it wasn't!




This was an HDR picture from three shots combined in Photomatix




This is the result of four images joined in Autostitch. (Sorry about the scrolling!)

Dan,

I assumed you were crawling through the undergrowth somewhere!