Kissed By A Rose

Earth Shadow over the Blackmount prior to sunrise on a winter morning

at Rannoch Moor, Glencoe, Scotland.

The image has wonderful appeal Ian. Exposed perfectly with outstanding detail. Great atmosphere, one can feel the early  morning cold. Beautiful.

Very impressive scenery and outstanding tonality Ian,a wonderful piece of work,6 from me,happy new year

Very good tonality and light. Best wishes. Evgeni

Ian, I realized immediately that I recognized the spot, having seen other images from this location. Wonderful light and composition. I see that you took this at f/22. Do you have no problems with diffraction at small apertures with the 55-100mm or the 45mm f/4 ? I do not have the zoom, but noticed some image degradation with my 45 mm f/4 lens when shooting f/16 and certainly at f/22. Best regards. Peter

Hi Peter, Nothing noticeable at all with the 55-100 lens but the smallest aperture on that is f/32 where there is a very marginal evidence of softening.  The thing is that the physical aperture is still relatively large compared with the 35mm equivalent of f/22 so since the physical size of the aperture is large the diffraction is low.  With large format the use of f/45 and even f/64 is not particularly unusual and these are still blisteringly sharp.  The other thing is that it is better to have it universally slightly soft from front to back than differentially soft due to inadequate depth of field.

Fantastic colors and great composition (7)

Very nice winter image!

Wonderful scene with nice composition and beautiful pastel colors!

Such color. Very well done.

Ian this is a cracking image very well done. 

I tried a similar shot some time ago but it is nowhere near as good as yours.