
Early morning mist on the River Crake on the edge of the English Lake District.....not a bad view from that house is it!
There's another view of the river here: http://ianbramham.aminus3.com/image/2008-06-02.html
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@Marie Le Corre: Thanks Marie!
@eddy: Thanks Eddy!
@Klaus: Thanks Klaus!
@Anthony Lambert: Hi Anthony....it looks like an amazing place to live doesn't it!
@jkjond: Hi John....thanks for that. I guess this place can't be more than 1/2 an hour from your place can it?
@Lorraine: Thanks very much Lorraine!
@Mike: Mike.....this particular shot was very early in the morning so the light was very gentle so no danger of the sky blowing out.
I believe you use a DSLR (Canon 30D)? My tip would be to use the LCD so that blown highlights blink warnings at you if you've overexposed the shot. At least that's what I do with my Nikon D40....I then adjust exposure downwards using the LCD in histogram mode until there is no highlight clipping but there's still a full range of tones across the full width of the histogram.
Don't worry about the LCD image getting too dark as photoshop is great at bringing back detail in shadow areas (much more effective than for any blown highlights). The shadow/highlights photoshop tool can work wonders as long as you haven't blwn the highlights.
To summarise Mike, expose for the brightest part of the scene but make sure your histogram is using as much of it's width as possible without blowing the highlights (right hand side of the graph)
I hope that helps but email me if you are still having trouble and I'll try and help further if I can.
Ian
NIKON D40
1/320 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
202 mm (35mm equiv.)