ian cameron

What fantastic light and superb use of available water to throw colour in to the base of the picture.

Cascade reflecting the blue light of a clear sky and the Spring

foilage illuminated by early morning light. 2 seconds at F22

Pure romance the light was magnificent and the scene a step back in

history.

Close your eyes and wish you were here. The whole picture is a wash

of colour without a subject but I still love it.

I was mesmerised by the gorgeous colours in the pre-dawn sky and the

cold blue light reflected in the black barnacle encrusted rocks.

Hope you enjoy.

For a few seconds a shaft of golden sunlight ripped through the dark

clouds and was gone.

I know it's a busy picture but I felt the changing phases of the

bracken moving backwards in time toward the birch wood illustrated

the passage of Autumn really beautifully

Er!! Blimey Nick. I still prefer the above transparency on the light box. The rhodedendrons green went haywire when I downloaded it. Even so the original slide does have knock your eyes out green.

Hackles are those small hairs at the back of your neck. Glad you like the picture. By the way it's worth me mentioning that this is not digitally altered I did use an 80B filter on camera to accentuate the chill. The sun staining the mist magenta was a definite bonus.

Pre-dawn mist rising over lake Coniston illuminated by a pink

sunrise. A magical experience.

I love pattern pictures anyway. This is tremendous and the additional interest for me is the impefection of the pattern namely the first row of fence posts petering out half way along.

I think that this shot is pure magic. I believe the dull day works to the photographers advantage. I like the dark top to the picture and the magical winding road devoid of cars. If only that brown field had been green too. A word with the farmer perhaps!!

This is Dunottar Castle again I am particularly eager to canvas

peoples opinions as to whether they prefer this black and white split

toned version or the previously downloaded colour version. I have my

own personal preferences.

This is a favourite castle of mine but I wonder do you think the

colour or black and white picture has greater impact. I will down

load the black and white version tomrrow I would be very pleased to

here your opinions and any reasons you can give.

There is just one camera position that yields this shot, seperating

the trees and excluding the sky. The pre dawn light on a perfectly

still frosty morning gave rise to this fantastic reflection of the

scree slopes.

Totally stunning. I've seen this shot/viewpoint before but never ever as staggeringly beautiful as this version.

Once again thank you for all your comments all opinions and ideas are greatly appreciated. The sun set about 15 to 20 minutes earlier than the depicted shot. The amount of sky lit up was phenomenal and I was able to use quite a wide angle lens and still fill the frame with colour. Consequently the polariser had some effect on the blue sections of sky and a marginal effect on the water reflection even though the sun set almost in front of me. I metered from both the reflection in the water and the matching area in the sky (a dusky orange, perceived mid tone),I found approx 2 stops difference between sky / reflection hence the 0.6ND hard grad filter across the horizon. I am not convinced a square format would have added anything to the composition.

Firstly with regards to photoshop. Frankly I am unskilled in its use. I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to mess about with the sky even if I wanted too, which I don't. The slide on the light box and the picture on the screen match as accurately as I can get it. The clouds are moving generally towards me and right, the surreal effect is due to the two minute exposure forced on me by the 5 stops of ND grad filter I used to try and hold detail in land and sky. The blue area in the sky was left in partly to show that the colours are not over exaggerated and partly because the haybales have picked up a slight blue cast in the shadows from this area of sky and I felt it was important for the viewer to be aware of where that cast came from. The orange sky has been reflected and picked up by the straw in the field. The exposure was two minutes at F16. I only got time for two shots thereafter the firey sky subsided.

I had to work blooming hard to hold the detail in both the land and

the sky using 5 stops of ND grad filter. What I hadn't anticipated

was the surreal movement of the clouds twisting wave like through the

sky in this two minute exposure. Hope you think it was worth the

effort.

I have the slide sitting on my light box beside me. To the best I am able the colours on the slide matches that on the screen. I used a polariser and Velvia film. Although the shadows render very blue (same as on the original slide) I personally prefer that to diluting the sky colour with a warm up filter

I was intrigued by the clouds forming little accent marks around the

birch tree as if it was shouting ""look at me""

I think this either is, or is close to being the best landscape picture I have ever seen. As a landscape lover myself, I wish I had taken it and I love every square mm/pixel. My jealousy and admiration knows no bounds.

I never tire of shots of this quality even though the slot canyons have been a wee bit frequent. Fantastic

Thankyou for your comments. I try very hard to make the results match that of the slide. The reason is simple and two fold. Firstly I like to be faithful to nature as much as I can. Velvia seems to record the scene the way I remember it albeit with a little help from ND grad filters. Secondly I am unskilled in the use of Photoshop and suspect my attempts to alter, enhance, would be apalling and very noticeable.

A sunset of this brilliance proved irresistable. The beautiful calm

evening doubled its effectiveness. Hope you enjoy.