A Beautiful Fall Day

This tranquil scene is about a mile from our cottage.

Sky a bit bright, might use a ND grad next time. Good shot though.

Thanks for your comment but I'm don't know what you are telling me. Is that a camera setting or PS terminology. Excuse my ignorance but I'm new at this and I have the simplest of cameras, the point & shoot kind.

a beautiful view 6/6

I love the colors and the textures in this shot. Maybe crop the sky down to the top of the trees on the left since it lacks alot of interst.

I made some changes and thought you might want to see how things worked out.

A great big thanks to you!

Hi Kim, I dont know the specifics of your A20 if it has threads on it for filters but the ND is a filter for the lens. It is darker and lets less light thru so you can get a longer exposure in daylight scenes. Works real good for moving water shots. I use an 8x ND but you may just need a 4X (I know... more decisions- ugggh) Did you use a polarizer filter?

Thanks Leann for the answer to my question. You see my camera is in the beginner range and I cannot attach filters to it. It's like a digital Instamatic. I am starting to take notes on what I should get next but I don't want anything too complicated. Nothing like trying to figure out settings while your picture gets away!

 

This particular image is the real this. I added a bit of saturation to it but not all that much. That was a lucky shot that time, eh?

Oh yeah it is a nice shot thats for sure. I was wondering aboutyour camera because a polarizer filter may have played up the tree in the water more..its a great lead in to the reflection.

Kim - first of all, a beautiful fall scene you've got here. but i want to clarify the filter issue. as Marc suggested, a ND grad (or graduated neutral density filter), would have helped this shot. Leann was only partially right - a neutral density filter, one that holds the same amount of light back across the whole filter is helpful in obtaining long exposures. however, this would not have helped this scene. Marc was referring to a GRADUATED neutral density filter, one that is dark across a portion of the filter but clear elsewhere. ND grads come in varying degrees of darkness (ie. you can get them to hold back 1 stop of light up to as many as 5 or so) and with different transitions (ie. some have an abrupt change from light to dark - a hard edge, whereas some have a gentle transition - a soft edge). these filters help immensely in landscape photography where one often has to deal with a sky that is much brighter than the foreground. the filters help bring the exposure of each more in line with each other, allowing for a more pleasing overall exposure. ND grads are particularly useful in capturing reflections, such as your shot here. because the sky is a bit light in this one, perhaps a one-stop ND grad (with the transition placed along the horizon) would have held back just enough light to darken the sky sufficiently. there is alot more info on these useful filters on this site and elsewhere on the web. hope this helps.

Kim, beautiful colors and composition. I would crop off the bottom abit more to remove those white sticks on the foreground and also darken it for 1/3 - 1/2 step. Still a very attractive photo though.

Beautiful composition & colours. Nice work.

I didn't say a full ND filter would help on this shot but that a circular polarizer may. I use the ND for moving water shots. First You need a camera that you can attach filters to or an adapter. There has to be somebody who has figured out a way to attach filters to your style camera.

Leanne, Andrew and Jerry for my first lesson on filters. I will add this to the list of criteria when deciding on a new camera.

 

Cherlyn, appreciate your nice comment.

Hello Kim

 

So much has already been said about this photograph, so I will keep it brief- BEAUTIFUL!

 

7/7

 

Regards, Nick.

A very nice landscape, with lovely colors