Today's photography - another stab at landscapes!!

[Mad Dave]

Hi All,

One of my main failings is landscape photography - on the whole i'm a bit crap at it. So, today I set myself the challenge of capturing some images worth uploading to the web, whatever the weather - then I looked out of the window. The sky was grey, featureless and the light was pretty poor. Nevertheless, I walked off, ND Grad filter in hand, to see what I could come up with - and here are the results...

The first 4 images in this album:
<a href="http://www.davidhambly.co.uk/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Nature">www.davidhambly.co.uk/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Nature</a>

The first image in this album:
www.davidhambly.co.uk/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=wildlife

I'm not sure this shot is really anywhere near good enough to be uploaded to be honest, but I rather like it for some reason!

Im not sure if my shots are getting better or worse, but I think i'm gradually learning to get better shots in poor conditions, if that makes any sense!?

Any comments?

Dave


>>> Edited by Mad Dave on Monday 10th January 00:39

>>> Edited by Mad Dave on Monday 10th January 00:41

[CVP]

Dave

I like number 5 in your first album "Heaven's Gate" - lovely composition and you've got the clouds really nicely captured too.

Chris

[joust]

Had a play with Heaven's Gate as I really like the composition.

Firstly did an "autocontrast"
Then added +1 on the blue channel
Then colour corrected to white on the clouds
Then changed the levels to stretch the middle and darken down the foreground.

Like it more?




J

[Mad Dave]

Hmm, I think you're going in the right direction, but I think you may have gone a bit over the top, especially on the blue! I agree that the original needs work though - it lacks any depth and looks a bit crap, now that I look at it again.

I spent 30seconds running an 'Auto Levels' on it in PS7 - I think this is a happy medium between both extremes?





Dave

PS Thanks for spending some time on it!

[joust]

Mad Dave said:

Hmm, I think you're going in the right direction, but I think you may have gone a bit over the top, especially on the blue! I agree that the original needs work though - it lacks any depth and looks a bit crap, now that I look at it again. PS Thanks for spending some time on it!

I was just making the point . As I wasn't there I've no idea what it actually looked like.

J

[Mad Dave]

LOL, Fair point! Whats the actual look got to do with anything?

TBH it looked very drab and grey on the day - totally crap really. The photos look much nicer