This is a spot in dovedale a couple of miles up from the car part at the south end (between Thorpe and Ilam) where the valley gets so high sided the path temporarily moves to a wooden walkway above the stream.
I include this picture not because it’s one I think is fantastic (although I do quite like it), but to illustrate a cheeky way to save a photograph that you like but that is ruined by some exposure problem. Even in a HDR, the sky was way too blown out here - the picture looks terrible in colour. So, I converted it to greyscale, twiddled with the contrast a bit until it looked nice, and added a faint colour cast. I do tend to much prefer colour pictures, but sometimes a black and white picture can work, and if you want to save a broken colour image, it’s worth considering. See this image that I did the same thing to.
Sometimes, cheats prosper 
Technical info: ISO 100, f/22, 20 second exposure, tripod.
Posted in landscape.
Tagged with dovedale, greyscale, hdr, path, sky.
One from my recent holiday in Saint Ives, Cornwall. I got my feet a bit wet when taking this one, but I think it was worth it.
Technical info: iso 100, f/32, tripod, 3 shot HDR processed in photomatix pro
Posted in hdr, landscape, skies.
Tagged with bay, beach, cornwall, hdr, photomatix, porthmeor, saint ives, sea, sky, sunset.
I took this a few weeks ago when walking around Loughborough. Normally we go somewhere more interesting, as the landscape around here is a little flat and dull… but it was a nice day and sometimes it’s nice to reacquaint yourself.
Saw this tree sitting on its own on a hill, and knew it was worth a shot. Fired off a few bracketed shots, trying to find an interesting foreground, and initially thought I’d failed… but later I came back to this shot and realised it had potential.
I think the colours have worked out really well on this one, and I like the nice clean composition.
Some vaguely technical info: HDR, 3 bracketed images (AEB), iso 100, f/11, canon 450d, handheld, combined in photomatix pro.
Posted in hdr, landscape, skies.
Tagged with blue, clouds, grass, green, hdr, loughborough, photo, photograph, photography, sky, tree.
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