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Hi Tyler,

I use Lee filters (www.leefilters.com).

Adam.

The second shot of mine from this remarkable NZ beach.

Thanks for looking.

Adam.

Hi Tyler,

I used ND grads. I virtually always use ND Grads. Have never blended an exposure in my life. Personally I like to get it right at the picture taking stage.

thanks,

Adam.

Thanks Tyler for your comments. I will bet my camera on the fact that 95% of the anonymous low raters on this site are all by people trying to sabotage shots. Its a fact, pure and simple. I try not to let it bother me. What bothers me (and Ive said this before so wont go into detail again) is how Photo.net facilite this kind of activity by allowing anominity to the low raters.

But its just something that you have to get used to.

Thanks again,

Adam.

Not the most original of compositions, but one that you simply have to

take when conditions are good. And skies dont get much better than this!

Thanks for looking.

Adam.

Thanks Younes for your comment.

I completely agree with you about the space on the left. Unfortunately I had to do it exactly this way because there is another (broken) boulder just off the frame. To include it would have messed up the composition so I shot as close to the edge of this boulder as possible.

Thanks,

Adam.

Thanks for your comments all. Yes, Michel I used an ND grad filter. I usually always do.

Here is a question - how come the low voters always vote anonomously? Isnt it about time Photo.net took this anonomous thing away - doesnt it just encourage people to mark down a picture to spoil its ratings?

Adam.

Moeraki Boulders in New Zealands South Island.

thanks for looking,

Adam.

Comments appreciated.

Thanks for looking,

Adam.

The ever wonderful Milford Sound in NZ. Comments appreciated.

Thanks for looking.

Adam.

Thanks for your comments all. ND Grad filter used. I do not use hdr.

Adam.

Gillespies beach, the final resting places of so many giant pieces of

driftwood.

thanks for looking,

Adam.

Thanks all for your comments. Dave, Its just south of Punakaiki.

thanks,

Adam.

New Zealands wild and rugged west coast.

Thanks for looking,

Adam.

Taken last week in New Zealand on the most incredible beach. Comments

appreciated.

Adam.

Milford Sound as darkness descended. Comments appreciated.

Thanks,

Adam.

Take a couple of days ago on the UK Dorset coast.

Thanks for looking,

Adam.

Thanks Piotr for your input. However, I have to say I think I will stick with the original version.

Adam.

Taken on a marvellous morning at Patricia Lake in Canada. As the sun

glowed on more and more of the mountain I was desperately moving up

and down the lakeside, visiting and revisiting all the foreground

objects I had earmarked to photograph. This submerged tree route was

my favourite of the lot.

Thanks for viewing.

Adam.

Taken a couple of days ago on Stanage Edge in Derbyshire. This was my

first visit to the Peak District National Park. As I was up there on

business I didnt get to see anywhere other than a couple of brief

visits to Stanage Edge. But what a fantastic location.

It had been extremely foggy all day. I was initially dismayed as I

wanted to catch a great sunset from the top of the rocky outcrop. But

as I drove towards it the fog kept visibility really poor and so gave

me little chance of any good light. But I decided to perservere and to

my surprise the fog actually makes this image. It simplifies the

background, accentuates the colour in the sky, weakens the sun

sufficiently so I could photograph directly into it and gives the shot

a sense of mystery.

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your honest critique.

I know exactly what you are saying and I also dont like over use of filters. But in this situation my hand really was forced to stack the grads. The light levels were so different between the brighter parts of the sky and land that with a lesser grad the image would have had massive white blobs. The biggest problem was the light on the left and reflection on the sea. I was left with two choices - either burn out the sky massively or stack the grads and put up with the negatives. I chose (and would always choose) to stack the grads as I would much prefer this to blotchy white burnt out skies.

Its not the perfect solution, but its making the best of the situation. Usually I wouldnt have such a problem, and also I would not face directly into such bright light. But as you can appreciate the scene was so wonderful that I just had to do the best I could to capture it.

An added problem is the columns sticking up into the sky. I was trying to be careful not to bring the grads too far down which would result in the pinnacles turning completely black. Thats why you can see the sky much brighter on the left - the grads would have been positioned diagonally from the left.

Hope this helps to explain my thought process better. I think maybe HDR is the only solution to such an exposure range. I have so far resisted HDR but I think the time will come soon when I should learn this technique.

Thanks again for your comments,

Adam.

Hi Karl,

Its from a RAW file, so it could never come out of the camera this way. Ive added contrast and saturation, as you need with all RAW's. But if you mean has it been manipulated digitally, then no it hasnt.

Thanks very much,

Adam.

Thanks for your comments all.

Roel, I call it the Lost World because it looks exactly like that to me - a Lost Prehistoric World. Its so unlike any other place in the UK - such an astounding strange landscape. To me 'Lost World' sums that up perfectly.

What name would you suggest?

Adam.

An old shot now, but reprocessed today. This is the remarkable

scenery on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

Adam.

Hi Jon-Michael,

Thanks very much for your kind comment. To answer your question yes this was shot early morning, straight after (a not very good) sunrise.

Adam.