First snow of the year

[Daisy M]

[IMG_9824 (2) by David Miller, on Flickr

[Lepus]

Re: First snow of the year

That`s Stunning Daisy .

[Daisy M]

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Thank you fallow, taken from my house today, it has it advantages living miles from anywhere. Dave

[Nathaniel]

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Nice shot. The snow shows up well.

[enneo]

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Nice image.

[Daisy M]

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Thank you Derek & Nat.

[paulr5604]

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Very Nice. Scotland is on my list of places to do a photography tour maybe when my girls are a bit older and can look after themselves

[tesarver]

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Well taken. +

Tom

[ST-EOS]

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Nice scene to wake up to David, I've spent quite a few enjoyable weeks holidaying in your neck of the woods.

This looks even better viewed large on Flickr

I notice from the Exif on Flickr that you made the image with an aperture of f29 which has allowed a sensor dust bunny to become noticeable. I would have gone for something between f11 and f16, with f16 as my aperture of choice for a scene like this. I would probably have chosen to focus on the tallest pine approx a third of the way in to the scene to capture a good depth of field.

Knowing your position on post processing of digital images I was reluctant to make a processing suggestion. But this image is one where the exposure is great for the light areas (sky and snow). But the tree line needs a lift of the shadows or a levels adjustment to lighten the forested area. I've tried a quick edit and it brings out more detail and to my eye a light dusting of snow on the pine branches.

[Daisy M]

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Peter would you put your adjusted image on here so I could see it, thanks for the comments all.

[Stan]

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Yes needs a lift in the shadows. The range from light to dark is too great for the camera to cope with so you either need to shoot two images, one for the bright areas and one for the shadows and blend them or get the highlights right in camera and lift the shadows in postbprocessing

[Bill53]

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Stunning view, well taken.

Bill.

[ST-EOS]

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Peter would you put your adjusted image on here so I could see it, thanks for the comments all.

Sorry I didn't save it but I'll give it another go in the morning if that's OK


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[Dave61]

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Lovely shot David

[ST-EOS]

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Peter would you put your adjusted image on here so I could see it, thanks for the comments all.

Here it is David, I took it in to Photoshop, added an adjustment layer (levels) and adjusted the midtones to open the shadows in the foreground. I also removed what I took to be some sensor dust. Finally gave it a small amount of sharpening. Hopefully you will be able to see the difference. I chose not to remove the power lines
But there's always a danger when working with small files that the processing may add some unwanted artefacts. As this is a direct upload from my PC it may lose some quality.

DaisyM-Edit.jpg