Scottish Highlands

[Burnhole]

A recent trip to the Highlands of Scotland on a photography course with the excellent Billy Currie. Here I'm using exposure bracketing rather than my usual use of grad filters.

[LennyBloke]

Superb images - I love the muted colours in the second shot, and the first one has a great tonal range and beautiful smoothing effect in the clouds

When you say exposure bracketing, do you mean shooting several exposures with "normal" +n, -n, +n.5, -n.5, etc. ?

[Burnhole]

Thanks - yes - normal (0), -2, +2 and then HDR merge in Lightroom. I had some trouble on location in M mode when doing auto bracketing with the aperture getting changed - whioch is certainly not what I was after. So I reverted to manual bracketing on the tripod until we were back in WiFi area to have a quick look online to see that it was a setting of the green button. Working manually did have it's advantages as on one occasion 0,-2,+2 wasn't enough and I needed 0, -2.7 & +2.7. With a 3 bracket the max movement from 0 is 2.0 - once I had the aperture fixed with the green button setting I soon discovered that a 5 bracket could extend beyond the +-2 constraint of the 3 bracket. The benefit of the auto bracketing (aside from not having to touch the camera) is that the shots are taken in tidy groups - which LR can then recognise as a stack based on shooting time.

[Derek897]

First one works really well for me. As lennybloke said, great tonal range.
Good shooting.

[Mannesty]

Love 'em. Hope you called the coastguard coz somebody walked into the sea and didn't walk out again

[ronniemac]

Such fine photographs, both of them.

[MrB]

With a 3 bracket the max movement from 0 is 2.0 - once I had the aperture fixed with the green button setting I soon discovered that a 5 bracket could extend beyond the +-2 constraint of the 3 bracket.

It does seem odd that we are only allowed up to +/- 2 EV when bracketing 3 shots, when the camera's own 3-shot HDR mode can be set up to +/-3 EV.

I agree with others here - lovely images.

Cheers.
Philip

[Burnhole]

Thanks all

[Smeggypants]

Love the first shot. Loads of depth, and the addition of the boots is a nice touch.

[MattEmmett]

Particularly nice image with a gulf between them in terms of variation of theme. Makes me want to see a lot more from this set. (I hope there is more?)

[Burnhole]

More to come Matt

[starless]

Nice shots, and the bothy one on the other thread.

Looking forward to seeing some more.

I have just booked a holiday in Scotland for May.