Lewis and Harris

[tigerburnie]

IMG_3319 by R MAURINS, on Flickr
Blackhouse village(test posting.

[Tigger]

Re: Lewis and Harris

it does seem a little flat ? also my eyes are pulled straight to that blue thing so that would have to go

otherwise its a nice shot.... better after a tad of TLC

[tigerburnie]

Re: Lewis and Harris

Cheers Tigger, this was just to test my problems loading from flickr(now sorted as edge on windows 10 does not work, was a doddle logging through my Bt account)Apart from a bit of cropping there's no editing at all. Taken in the summer with my 550d, will probably wait until the new body arrives before posting any more.

[Tigger]

Re: Lewis and Harris

arh understand ;o)

[tigerburnie]

Re: Lewis and Harris

IMG_3381 by R MAURINS, on Flickr
This is taken inside a blackhouse again with the 550d. I like the composition of this, no editing again.

[Parsen66]

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The second image is great. The light hitting the pot is perfect. Wouldn't say that needs much work at all apart from pushing the clarity to make it pop

[Tigger]

Re: Lewis and Harris

The second image is great. The light hitting the pot is perfect. Wouldn't say that needs much work at all apart from pushing the clarity to make it pop

quality image ... I agree with Alan but you could have a lot of fun with that image if you were to let rip and play around in your editor ;o)

[tigerburnie]

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You guys will have to recommend an idiot proof editing product for me.

[Tigger]

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You guys will have to recommend an idiot proof editing product for me.

Parsan66 is pretty good ;o)

try Lightroom easy to use with bags of features

[Parsen66]

Re: Lewis and Harris

Parsan66 is pretty good ;o)

Yeh at a price!

Another vote for Lightroom from me.

[Cyberman]

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I really like the way you captured the light in that second image, superb.

[planetc]

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Last one is quite atmospheric, but the chain needs to hang vertical in my opinion. I know you are only playing, but it doesn't hurt to take what you can from it.

[tigerburnie]

Re: Lewis and Harris

Thanks for the comments lads, will bear them in mind, my wife loves taking seascapes and often gets the horizon on a slope, we rarely use a tripod just go round zapping away. The idea is I hope to move from auto snapping to taking some more considered photographs when I go full frame.

[Tigger]

Re: Lewis and Harris

I very rarely use a tripod other than low light or long exposures and always need to tweak the horizon or upright, but it takes one click and its sorted... Invest in a good editor

[AlexR!]

Re: Lewis and Harris

Tigerburnie, that second image gets another from me, given no processing. Obviously taken in really difficult lighting conditions, it is about as good as you could get for a single shot out of camera, and well done for getting it at 1/6 sec if handheld. When you do get some software, and then start shooting in RAW, I think you'll be amazed at what you could do with a shot like this in terms of just selectively reducing the highlights and pulling detail from the shadows. Plus, as Tigger says, your days of sloping horizons are over.
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