Swanage Old Pier

[Stan]

The old pier at Swanage is an iconic shot done to death by most landscape photographers and I have shot it on many occasions but never quite got the right light

Yesterday I was shooting to get the "milky" water using my variable ND filter and having rotated it to minimum setting to pre focus, I forgot to rotate it back with the result that my shot was nearly 3 stops overexposed and normally just fit for the bin.........but I thought I would see if I could do something with it...worth while or not

stan

6.2 sec, f20, ISO 100

[Parsen66]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

It's a nice shot Stan and what a subject to capture. Unfortunately it has suffered from being well over though. Perhaps it needs some more contrast?

[Stan]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

Cheers Alan

Just a quick edit in ACR - contrast +60, highlights -3-, whites -30 and shadows +4

Stan

[Tigger]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

the edit works well Stan - whats the red thing on the post? my eyes just keep drifting straight to that

[Parsen66]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

Cheers Alan

Just a quick edit in ACR - contrast +60, highlights -3-, whites -30 and shadows +4

Stan

Much better Stan. Has loads more punch now. Nice job

[Stan]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

Cheers guys

whats the red thing on the post?

its a rusted metal plate holding the crossbeam to the upright - there is a similar one at the other end but there you can only see the bolt ends

stan

[@imagesBV]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

nice recovery Stan!

[Stan]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

thanks for looking Brian

stan

[Bill53]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

I thought the first image looked OK but the edit makes a great difference.

Bill.

[ASK3L]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

What Bill said, more depth, spot on

[Stan]

Re: Swanage Old Pier

Cheers guys

stan