Local landscape shots

[chardy100]

Here are four pics taken today while in between dodging downpours on my mountain bike:


kitcliffe res by chardy1000, on Flickr


kitcliffe res 2 by chardy1000, on Flickr


Ogden res 2 by chardy1000, on Flickr


Ogden res by chardy1000, on Flickr

Comments & criticism welcome, still learning.

[APOY1998]

Re: Local landscape shots

Hi Colin,
Nice Landscape shots with good compositions. Obviously they could be made special with nice warm evening lighting. I am not a landscape photographer but perhaps a grad ND filter would have helped in shots 2/3 to keep the skys darker, I am sure further comments could confirm this.

Personally I would get closer to a foreground element yet still aiming to use it for 1/3rd of the frame.

Graham.

[chardy100]

Re: Local landscape shots

Hi Graham
Thanks for your comments and advice, I'll have to get myself a couple of grad ND filters.

[@imagesBV]

Re: Local landscape shots

you might be able to recover some sky detail using software - aperture or such like has a highlights control - or selectively use a burn brush over the sky area...4 is not completely blown out white.

[chardy100]

Re: Local landscape shots

you might be able to recover some sky detail using software - aperture or such like has a highlights control - or selectively use a burn brush over the sky area...4 is not completely blown out white.

Hi Brian

I shot them in raw and I did recover what I could in ACR with the recovery slider, I've never tried using the burn brush, thanks for the advice.
It's a place I pass through almost weekly, so I think I need to either wait for better lighting or start to carry some filters.
Thanks for looking