Glencoe

[sstein]

Had a trip up Glencoe way yesterday, heres some pics. Not that happy with them, some were ok.

This one I had to photoshop a bit, its had a sky filter on it, original sky looked dull.

F20, 1/60sec, 50mm

This one, i like but its a bit dull again!

F22, 1/40sec, 28mm

A church. Think i should have exposed for the building in this one? its came out a bit dark, but the sun was in front of me so thats probably why!

F22, 1/60sec, 28mm

And to keep it car related:


F9, 1/320sec, 28mm


F18, 1/100sec, 40mm

Tried to photoshop this one as well, I like the picture but find it a bit dark again. Suggestions?


Constructive critisicm more than welcome, do people use the landscape setting on the camera when shooting landscapes? does it make a big difference.

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Stuart

[imperialism2024]

I liked this one:


It seems to me better pre-PS. Giving it a reddish/yellowish tint makes it unrealistic given the reflected sun's angle... Even though I normally like that tint, it looks too artificial in this case, and the colors in the original came out nicely.

[graham@reading]

My eyes might be going funny but all of them save the Church one look wonky. Tilted to the left somewhat.

[mcgus]

I'm with imperialism on the PS'd version of the car. Prefer the first one. Also, your shots are wonky!

Just a thought - if you have PS have you tried playing with the curves feature to adjust the shots? That said, I quite like the first and second ones although there seems to be a bit more cloud than on Saturday??

this was my view of Glencoe on Saturday [pic] www.pbase.com/angusmac/image/63591052.jpg [pic]

and my missus [pic] www.pbase.com/angusmac/image/63591051.jpg [pic]

[mcgus]

grrrr

how DO i embed pics

[graham@reading]

take the spaces out between the two pic tags and the url and also put / before "pic" in the last one.

[sstein]

Taken on Sunday (not Saturday), I put in Yesterday into post because I posted it early Monday morning. It is stunning up there, the scale of the mountains is amazing. I'm going to have to go further up north when I have the time.

I never even noticed they were wonky, will fix that in PS. All my shots are like that!! I must naturaly hold the camera tilted, will have to watch for this in future lol.

mcgus - if you want to embed pics you have to put the "http://" part in the address as well.


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Stuart

[mcgus]

hooray! (i think.) hopefully this works Thanks guys and sorry for slight highjack Stuart but just wanted to revel in that fantastic weather at the weekend

[KB_S1]

Glencoe really is a great place for a drive/walk/beers/camp/drive.

No 2 must have been taken from almost the same point as this but, a slightly different angle.

[J111]

Do you have a UV filter, sstein ? If not, invest in one. It would cut away some of the haze.
And learn how to level your horizons !

[sstein]

J111 said:

Do you have a UV filter, sstein ? If not, invest in one. It would cut away some of the haze.
And learn how to level your horizons !

Those pics were taken with a skylight filter on. I take it this is not a UV filter? I also have a polarizer filter.

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Stuart

[J111]

sstein said:

Those pics were taken with a skylight filter on. I take it this is not a UV filter? I also have a polarizer filter.

Skylight filters are slightly pink. UV filters filter only the UV light.

www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/filter-UV.html

I personally find that Skylight filters make adjusting the colour balance of digital images difficult.

[imperialism2024]

J111 said:

sstein said:

Those pics were taken with a skylight filter on. I take it this is not a UV filter? I also have a polarizer filter.

Skylight filters are slightly pink. UV filters filter only the UV light.

www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/filter-UV.html

I personally find that Skylight filters make adjusting the colour balance of digital images difficult.

I also like using the "Auto Levels" tool in PS to cut through haze...