McGregNi

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A cracking shot Peter. Lovely clean colour tones and nice focus differentiation between subject, foreground & background. Why bother with any PP? Well, personally, I'd prefer an exposure increase. You got a good shutter speed with your settings, so you may have been limited at time of shooting, but in PP you can boost the exposure a stop or so with no significant loss of quality. I think yo ...

Comment by McGregNi on 25/10/2012 - 14:32


Really nice shot David, I love the delicate muted sunlight on the foreground objects - guess there wasn't much light there at all? Sky tones are perfect too. Maybe you could try another approach and re-shoot again on a Manfrotto? :wink: (sorry, hard to resist):D

Comment by McGregNi on 13/10/2012 - 15:52


Thanks David, you are whetting my appetite for my own visit South West later this month. I hope to return with plenty of K7 shots from Devon. It's the fall of light in this one that's so lovely - if only you didn't have that barbed wire you could have got in nice and low down to that small grassy mound, but you've done a great job from the position you have.

Comment by McGregNi on 30/07/2012 - 19:22


This is fantastic! What a compositional opportunity. You've balanced the sky and ground nicely - did you use an ND grad or is done in PP? And you've found that all important foreground with the grass, so I think it is fine. One thing (hope you don't mind)- like most shots taken at this time of day in sunshine, the horizon line has taken on a colour cast, which is probably unnatural. I have f ...

Comment by McGregNi on 30/07/2012 - 19:09


I love this - just the kind of scene that stops me in my tracks also! Did you handhold? Looks like your feet must have been in the water. Nice distribution of rocks across the foreground and well placed rocks in the background too. The polariser has revealed under the water beautifully, but I'm surprised that the the sky is not more saturated. Did you do any saturation or vibrance adjustmen ...

Comment by McGregNi on 29/07/2012 - 21:27


I love this too! The filter effects increase the contrast between the different segments, giving that 3d feel. Could I ask what the focal length was (I'm thinking of buying a 14mm prime in order to try & take shots like this). Just a thought on post processing - the wb setting has affected the clouds, giving them a tobacco tinge. Is there a way of removing this colour to make just the clouds ...

Comment by McGregNi on 25/07/2012 - 23:43


Glad we can't see all those people! Its special to see the reflections in this stretch of water, and the exposure between the top and bottom half is nicely balanced.

Comment by McGregNi on 25/07/2012 - 19:20


I love the 'big sky'. We just can't see it well enough on this website, but I think the definition in the forground of this shot must be great. Isn't it hard with these kind of scenes to pull the clouds down enough? We always get the darker parts going deep grey -I've tried this with levels and can't get right. Could this be an ideal shot for an HDR?

Comment by McGregNi on 24/07/2012 - 23:49


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