
Another photo fron Southport Pier taken this winter
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@Pouhou: Thanks Pouhou!
@Lotte: Thanks Lotte!
@Viewfinder: Hi Viewfinder.....No, I haven't tried HDR yet. I process each shot individually depending on how I feel about it. With this one I satuarated the blue channel a little to give the sky a bit more punch. I tend to expose for the highlights when I take the photo and bring the shadows up later in photoshop which helps a lot.
Also, I usually add some Local Contrast Enhancement. Looking back on some of my older images I realise now that I've been overdoing it on some of the colour shots as it can leave halos around objects and banding of the Jpegs so it's something I'm trying to be a bit more subtle about.
I got a cheap Cokin ND Grad filter recently for landscape photos (not used on this shot) and that's great for helping skies without having to worry about photoshop artefacts.
@Lorraine: Thanks very much Lorraine!
@Jeff: Thanks Jeff....that's very kind of you!
@Stefan Thaler: Thanks very much Stefan!
@tom: Hi Tom.....thanks very much!
@Nataly: It's a great photo taken at just the right time of day when the lights on the Pier are turned out and the clouds turning pink with the setting sun.....lovely!
You are very kind with your comments as I still feel like a beginner myself half of the time.....at least I constantly get surprises both good and bad with the results that come out of my camera.
I like your own choice of camera by the way.....very classy!
Here's another photo of this Pier that I took a while ago with my compact Fuji F31 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6534522&size=lg
The photo should be here on my portfolio page as well but the Aminus link addresses are'nt stable enough for me to use.....I've posted photo links in the past using an AM3 address and the next day it will link into a different photo.
NIKON D40
1/100 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
15 mm (35mm equiv.)