landscape Untitled

Location:

St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, UK

 

Year:

2006

 

Tech Specs:

- Camera: Canon EOS-20D DSLR

- Lens: EF-S 10-22 f3.5-4.5 USM

- Aperture: f16

- Shutter: 2 secs

- ISO: 100

- Filters: Hoya S-HMC PRO1 Circular Polarizer

 

Work in software:

I shot this shot in RAW & processed it using Phase Oneﾒs Capture One

& Adobeﾒs Photoshop programs. The processing involved white balance

adjustment, Dynamic Range blending (to darken the sky), contrast

enhancement & sharpening.

Excellent shot. Love the composition, especially how the shadow meets the bottom right corner. The shadow lines on the right side keep it interesting where normally it would be just a blank area where the eye would normally ignore. Was there a grad ND filter used on this shot? Do you every get any weird effects form your polarizer and this ultra wide lens?

Hi Will,

 

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I'd never contemplate using the polarizer on the 10-22 with clear sky, since the effect will only be pronounced in parts of the sky. When the sky is overcast (such as with the photo above), I can get away with it. In this shot I used the polarizer to improve the colour of the foreground rock & light-up sand.

 

And no, I did not use a ND grad as such. What I do is I shoot RAW, then make different exposures in Capture One & then I combine them in PS using a Gradient Mask. If the luminance difference between the foreground & the sky is big, I'll actually bracket & use the underexposed version for the sky. This method takes more storage space & more post processing time, but yields better results & saves me from having to buy into a filter system.

 

All the best

 

Luben

Agree with Will, it's an excellent shot. Excellent mixture of cold tones from the sky and water and warm tones from the rock, sand and stone structures in the bg. Those ripples in the right really help the composition and the same goes to the reflection in the middlegroung. Congratulations

Hi Luben

 

Very nice capture, great composition and exposure. I came across your web site the other day, and was going to leave a comment on it, but no need now!! I have to say a big thank you from a beginners point of view for the effort you have put into posting all your exposure details and ps techniques on it they are a great help. Also I think it has possibly the best series of links to other sites anywhere on the net (check it out Will if you havent already). Your Welsh waterfall pictures have inspired me to get out this weekend whether its raining or not, as I'm getting camera withdrawl symptoms with the weather in Wales at present!!