When you don't get the picture...

[GetCarter]

...like this morning.

Knew there was no way I could capture the scene in front of me, so I gave up and just watched. This was the best of a bad bunch... It's ok, but boy does it miss by a mile what I was looking at!

07.00 above Loweswater & Crummock, Cumbria

[pic]http://www.stevecarter.com/above-the-clouds.jpg[/pic]

[shadytree]

Is that Carbon monoxide drifting up the Lakes ?

[Hughesie2]

shadytree said:

Is that Carbon monoxide drifting up the Lakes ?

sorry no that was me, i'd just let one rip

[GetCarter]

I had the V8 twin turbo ticking over in the pub car park.

[shadytree]

GetCarter said:

I had the V8 twin turbo ticking over in the pub car park.

[rustybin]

Oh to have stuff like that in my 'bad bunches'.




..Don't know why but that sounds very oooerrr!

[LongQ]

Well, if you really feel that it is soooo dreadful, it looks like a classic subject for Contrast Blending.

www.erik-krause.de/index.htm?./blending/

Did you have a tripod with you?

[GetCarter]

LongQ said:

Well, if you really feel that it is soooo dreadful, it looks like a classic subject for Contrast Blending. www.erik-krause.de/index.htm?./blending/ Did you have a tripod with you?

Stupidly, no. I went out early in another direction to get shots of light through trees - then thought I'd take a hike up the fell to look down on the mist (It's a bit of a bloody hike too). It was not just that the light conditions were about as tricky as one could get... it was that no matter how good the pic, it was never going to do the view justice. It was so bright up there, and bracketing produced plenty that I could digitally blend (I was perched on a dry stone wall)... but I kinda' decided to spend time looking through the Mk 1 eyeball, and not the lens. A camera was never going to capture that particular scene. (IMHO)

[V6GTO]

GetCarter said:

I had the V8 twin turbo ticking over in the pub car park.

Better get those valve seats looking at Steve

Martin.

[LongQ]

GetCarter said:

... but I kinda' decided to spend time looking through the Mk 1 eyeball, and not the lens. A camera was never going to capture that particular scene. (IMHO)

'Tis a wonderful thing, Mk1 eyeball, though sadly the capabilities decrease with passing years I find. Or is it too much staring at screens?

I understand what you mean - there are times when the brain can post-process much better than even Photoshop can manage.

And the memorable moment is all the better for it being in memory, for often, years later, looking at the remains of a print, it seems less remarkable than memory suggests. Or so I find.

[speedychrissie]

i had a similar moment in south africa (amazing for photos) a few years back. we were in the drakensberg mountains watching the most amazing sunset i have ever (and probably ever will) seen. i knew there was no point in even reaching for my camera because:

a) the light levels were so low that there was no way my camera was going to capture it.

b) it was so amazing that i very much doubt even the best camera could possibly do it justice.

chris