Some Holiday snaps

[kempez]

I went to the Peak District in the UK and it was really good. Got some great pics of the awesome scenary. Hopefully next year I can afford to go abroad

If anyone's seen "Pride and Prejudice" (only one reason to watch it - Keira Knightley ) then this is the house used as "Pemberley": home of Darcy. Its called chatsworth house.

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Nice light effect^

Big ass Valley I went up in a cable car to get to. Had a mine in there too

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And another walk we went on in a "Dale". Pretty good scenary

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[da_ging]

nice pics, havent been there myself for years not since a school trip , remember getting followed by a swarm of flies the whole time

hope you dont mind but that first 1 was doing my head in as the house is slanting to the left so i had to rotate it so i rotated it then added more chlorophyll to the plants and then i wondered if i could do owt with the sky and apparantly i can - which is new to me

[shiato storm]

I think there might be too much blue, and notice the halo effect ofer the trees in the back ground...try touching the contrast on the orginal...in PS you can select a colour shift by going image>adjustments>variations
...see how that works

kempez: whats the contrast setting in you camera when you took these? turning it right down often helps reduce a blown out sky.

[kempez]

I have to be honest its just a point and click 4mp digi-cam from Fuji-Film: its the fiance's so I did just that - point and click. Next time I take some I'll try that though shiato

[shiato storm]

fuji sensors are pretty good at the dynamic range so it should be possible to get the blue sky and a decent light on the ground...

[kempez]

Cool I'll have a go. The sky was pretty grey at times though so some shots are just what I saw. Still like the one with my fiance in it - that place was lush

[brammers]

Watch your exposure! Although these are hard scenes going from dark to very light... A lot of people think that they must must must frame with the sky, but why not try a few where you use the zoom (2 legged zoom is just as good!) to lose the sky?

I think exposing for the sky on the 5th shot works nicely, but I'm not so sure about it on the 3rd, you've lost a lot of detail in the trees. Not bad though overall!

[Flibb]

Have been pondering getting some filters to play with taking landscape shots. Bit of an article HERE about filters and digital cameras. Was thinking along the lines of a grad ND and a polarizer.

[shiato storm]

Nd grad and circular polarizer...thats the one's to look at for sure