more pics !

[fergusd]

I kinda like it, taken with a camera and a lens whilst out walking locally in Stirlingshire, Ochil hills in the distance and Stirling/Dunblane visible . . . glorious day.



Fd

[poah]

Fab sky.

[Lambochick]

How do people manage such rich colours in their photos? Mine seem wishy washy by comparison.

[fergusd]

Ref colours : the sky is so important because if it's burned out the picture is wasted . . . in this I used a 0.6 stop ND Grad filter on the sky (as you can see the clouds are not 100% white) . . . this also ensures that the general exposure is pretty much spot on over the whole frame and hence you get nicer colours because everything is properly exposed . . .

Other than that it's basically a raw conversion and crop . . .

Fd

[up-the-dubs]

Lambochick said:

How do people manage such rich colours in their photos? Mine seem wishy washy by comparison.

Photoshop, auto adjusting of levels for the basics, after that there is much more technical stuff that requires quite a bit of skill .

Edit: As FergusD has just illustrated with his post .


>> Edited by up-the-dubs on Sunday 23 April 22:15

[_dobbo_]

fergusd said:

taken with a camera and a lens Fd

What were the chances of that

I like it fergus, great colours.



>> Edited by _dobbo_ on Monday 24th April 09:30

[fergusd]

matt gravy said:

This shot looks way over saturated and contrasty to me. Maybe that is an issue of personal taste.

I agree, now that I'm at work on a different monitor . . . the sky looks blown out in places which it certainly isn't on my home monitor . . .

Fd

[UKBob]

_dobbo_ said:

fergusd said: taken with a camera and a lens Fd What were the chances of that

Made me laugh out loud that did

Very nice photo, really like the colours, nice shot!

[V6GTO]

I like it...once I put my RayBans on

Martin.

[dcw@pr]

looks good to me - maybe a tad oversaturated

[poah]

Lambochick said:

How do people manage such rich colours in their photos? Mine seem wishy washy by comparison.

I use a plugin called velvia vision. works a treat for a lot of images not just landscape

[V6GTO]

poah said:

Lambochick said: How do people manage such rich colours in their photos? Mine seem wishy washy by comparison. I use a plugin called velvia vision. works a treat for a lot of images not just landscape

Why not just use Levels/saturation/contrast/unsharp Mask in PS?

Martin.