Ian Bramham's Photoblog
Wastwater
Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 23 February 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
The latest in a series that I'm doing on the English Lake District.
This is the view over Wastwater.
The summit of Great Gable, shrouded in cloud at the end of the lake, is flanked by Yewbarrow to the left and Lingmell to the right.
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@MAGDA: Thanks Magda!
Mike from Lichfield, United Kingdom
Excellent photo, I'd have no problems hanging this one on my wall.
23 Feb 2009 6:40am
@Mike: Thanks for that Mike!
Marie LC from Voiron, France
Excellent shot. Composition, calm, colours are perfect. Love it !
23 Feb 2009 6:44am
@Marie LC: Thanks Marie....I was pleasantly surprised at how well the colours came out in this photo considering it was winter and it had just started raining.
Suzanne from Huntington Bch, California, United States
Exceptionally beautiful. I especially like the soft colors and low camera angle with excellent DOF.
23 Feb 2009 8:30am
@Suzanne: Thanks Suzanne!
Philip from Joburg, South Africa
Nice Shot Ian you took this from a great angle ! excellent tones.
23 Feb 2009 9:05am
@Philip: Thanks Philip....Wastwater is a very photogenic place!
@Anouk: Thanks Anouk!
Stu from Kyoto, Japan
This is divine. Definitely worthy of a postcard. Love your white frame, it really adds to the impact somehow. Splendid all round.
23 Feb 2009 11:32am
@Stu: Thanks Stu!
Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada
Golden brown glow of this dreamy waterscape is to live for....;)
23 Feb 2009 12:00pm
@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine....living for it sounds a lot better than dying for it.
Polydactyle from Canada
Beautiful landscape! Excellent natural colors and light. We want to be there...
23 Feb 2009 12:33pm
@Polydactyle: Thanks Polydactyle!
Cheryl from Texas, United States
appears this area is in drought? georgous image ..very nice compositon
23 Feb 2009 12:37pm
@Cheryl: Hi Cheryl....I thought at first that you were joking about the drought with all that water in the photo :-) ...but I guess you are referring to the brown rather parched looking colours. That's just the normal winter colours of the hills around here. I guess it must be all the heather and bracken.
hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong
Wonderful perspective and composition, as always... but I like the tonality of this one in particular! Beautiful work, Ian!
23 Feb 2009 2:40pm
613photo from Dallas, United States
Such a gorgeous countryside. Great photo of it too. I love the soft light from the overcast. Color and detail is great. And it's not a boring overcast...that's a great sky.
23 Feb 2009 3:12pm
JoeB from Brampton, Canada
Very pleasing, specially with the clouds sitting on top of the mountains.
23 Feb 2009 4:30pm
Michael Paulison from United States
A perfect in every way, gallery-ready image. This is one of the most perfect photos I've ever seen. Well done!
23 Feb 2009 5:54pm
Rui from Leiria, Portugal
Great perspective. This is truly amazing. Magnificent brown colors and details.
23 Feb 2009 6:17pm
MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany
What a wonderful landscape, I could wander around there for days!
23 Feb 2009 6:44pm
Anna.C from LA ROCHELLE, France
excellent composition and angle of view on this beautiful landscape ! love the colours !
23 Feb 2009 7:38pm
Ted from South Wales, United Kingdom
remember what I said about when you do colour... well, when you do, you do it very, very well!
Looks like you had a perfect day out?
23 Feb 2009 9:42pm
Virgil from Richmond, United States
the colors and composition are very good in this one. :-)
23 Feb 2009 11:19pm
DarkElf from Perth, Australia
beautiful view! as always superb composition and great sharpness and detail throughout the photo!
24 Feb 2009 4:54am
Reiner from Brensbach, Germany
The landscape is impressive and I like the many different brown tones.
24 Feb 2009 9:47am
Mike from Lichfield, United Kingdom
I keep coming back to this photo, I'm so impressed with it. This morning I've been looking through your photos right from the very beginning and have seen how you've progressed. The difference over the last 18 months is quite staggering and shows just what can be achieved when you put your heart and soul into it. You really are an inspiration for me to get out more with my camera and strive to improve my shots. I've tried your technique of slightly underexposing my shots to retain detail in the sky and then lifting up the shadows and it works well so long as it's not too underexposed as it can introduce a lot of noise. My last photo I uploaded on here was taken using this technique and I'm pleased with the result so I thank you for your help. If it's OK with you I may be picking your brains a lot more over the coming months........ PS don't let your head swell too much over my singing your praises :)
24 Feb 2009 11:28am
@Mike: Thanks Mike....No, there's no danger of my head swelling too much as there are too many brilliant photographers out there for that although I'm definitely feeling less frustrated with my photography these days and more at peace with it which is a real bonus.
For this shot I actually used a cheap 2 stop neutral density graduated filter over the lens to help lower the dynamic range that the camera had to deal with - they make a huge difference for this kind of landscape photography.
With digital cameras the bulk of the data is held in the highlights end of the histogram so the other thing I always do is use the camera's histogram as a guide and expose to just touch the edge of the right hand side of the graph (but don't clip the highlights!)....in post processing I then adjust exposure back so that it looks the way I want it. It basically optimises the signal to noise ratio and gives better IQ in my Nikon RAW files.
Here's a tutorial from the 'Luminous Landscapes' web site just in case you haven't tried it yet: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml
It's important to work on your photos in RAW and 16 bit mode for as long as you can to maximise IQ. These days I use Nikon's own software 'Capture NX2' to open the RAW file and work on it. If I need to use Photoshop then I import it as a 16 bit Tif file and only save as a Jpeg for web resizing.
Ian
Laurie from New Jersey, United States
This is a beautiful place. I love the way the clouds are hanging low and obscuring the tops of the mountain. Wonderful composition.
24 Feb 2009 4:12pm
jelb from France
Bonsoir,
Wonderfu shot..Great composition...Great processing..bravo!
24 Feb 2009 8:26pm
ladyhawk from North Walsham, United Kingdom
Hi, I am new to this site but I saw your photograph and thought it was very very good. I can spend ages just looking at it. A very tranquil picture and the composition is fabulous.
6 Jul 2009 1:57pm
Nikon D40
1/50 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
28 mm (35mm equiv.)