Competition FH Photo Comp #14

[TdC]

As suggested by Tom, this is the official photo competition thread.

Subject

The topic is landscape As chosen by Big G winner of compo #13

Deadline

29th July, 21:00

Prize

Picking the next comps subject.

Rules

* The photo must be your own
* No text that isn't part of the original photo
* No merging of more than one photo, however panoramas are now allowed.
* Keep photos to a sensible size. It shouldn't be tiny, and viewers shouldn't have to scroll.
* Max of three entries. Multiple entries of the same shot from different angles etc not allowed. If you are unhappy with one of your entries, clearly point out which one and the mod will remove it. Keep this within reason please.
* Entries must be within the CoC (no cock, no flange)
* Allowed 'shopping : Rotating (finished image must be cropped to a rectangle), cropping, resizing, red-eye removal, lens correction (only to remove lens distortion, chromatic abberation and light falloff, etc.), non-selective image adjustments (changing levels throughout full image, blur, sharpen, noise reduction etc), gradient masks (linear only) for exposure correction

Previous subjects were:
apathy,the night,reflection,heritage,city,if you go down to the woods today,neglect,water,landmarks,transport, up close,summer

 

[Zenith.UK]

Gruline Sunset
Taken at Gruline, Isle of Mull. The sun is setting over Loch Na Keal between Eorsa on the left and Uva on the right.
Image cropped from original 3.2MP camera image.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...4628,-6.078186&spn=0.092724,0.264702&t=p&z=12

 

[tris-]

Submitting this one again and will take some more as I learn from the other post.

Spoiler

 

[strangely brown]

The view at the top of my parents' road in Italy...

I took this with my Dad's Nikon D50 from the top of their road.

 

[milou]

Keswick, Lake District.

The best vantage point was right in front but that entailed tripod shadows. The light's a little muted as this was the last of the sun breaking through the cloud cover beyond the hills way over to my right.

[1/25 sec @ f/16 - 17mm polariser and maybe 0.6 ND grad - can't remember]

 

[nath]

Fucking hell milou - that's an amazing pic.

 

[TdC]

did you flash the tree in or is that pure natural light mate? regardless, that's an awesome pic!

 

[milou]

No flash (as I don't have one!). My photo pal and I waited for an hour or so for the light to break through. There was substantial cloud cover to my right and the sun was setting fast behind the hills.

Location

 

[old.user4556]

Superb photo Milou! I remember that from flicking through your photos - the light is perfect, what sort of time of the morning was that? Up here in Skirtland, the golden "sidelight" is about 5:30am just now, and I just can't be bothered at the mo .

Edit: just read you said "sunset"

 

[old.user4556]

#1 - Turnberry Lighthouse

Ooosht I think this is in vain, Milou's pic is awesome, but I'll start with this anyway.

 

[DaGaffer]

View toward Port Roestan County Antrim (this is the bay just to the right of the Giant's Causeway).

 

[old.user4556]

Like that Gaff, thought about trying that in a high contrast B&W sort of way?

 

[Tom]

Well the weather was incredibly shit today, which was annoying especially as I went out just to get some pics. So here is an incredibly shit shot.

 

[Tom]

And here's one I did earlier:

 

[itcheh]

Damn you guys are good ...

 

[old.user4556]

#2 - Sunflower sunset

Saint Cevet, France

 

[TdC]

wow that's awesome. looks almost uber polarised, or recoloured.

 

[Madmaxx]

Thats a sweet pic Big G !

 

[old.user4556]

wow that's awesome. looks almost uber polarised, or recoloured.

Cheers, it has two stacked ND grads to balance out the exposure, the light was very pinky/purple which has given the dirt a weird hue.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

No offence Big G, but that 2nd image makes me want to vomit. Not a fan of that style, personally.

Might post an entry or two a bit later once I've had a rifle through things.

 

[old.user4556]

No worries, each to their own

 

[Tom]

Its nicely framed. What's the focal length on that?

I'm constantly held back by the shitty 18-55mm lens I have. If work picks up, I may well get one of these:

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM - Canon UK

 

[TdC]

Mr G if you have a 1920x1200 crop of that, I'd be pleased to have it as a background sirrah!

 

[old.user4556]

What's the focal length on that?

It's 17mm.

My main workhorse lens for landscapes and "walkabout" is my 17mm-70mm which is a damn site improvement over my old kit lens: much sharper, better colour/contrast and hugely better build quality. Also has SDM which is Pentax's silent autofocus thingy jiggy.

Have you had a look at the Sigma 10mm-20mm? I was having a little look at that today as a consideration for a wider landscaping lens, seems to be pretty good. My 10mm-17mm is specifically a fish-eye, so it has stupid barrel distortion, but doesn't work so well for landscapes.

 

[Edmond]

How did you get all the sunflowers to all turn and face the camera at the same time??

 

[old.user4556]

Sunflowers always face east, with the sun setting in the west. There were huge fields of them in France.

WikiAnswers - Why sunflowers face east

 

[Ch3tan]

Mr G if you have a 1920x1200 crop of that, I'd be pleased to have it as a background sirrah!

same

 

[Ch3tan]

Keswick, Lake District.

The best vantage point was right in front but that entailed tripod shadows. The light's a little muted as this was the last of the sun breaking through the cloud cover beyond the hills way over to my right.

[1/25 sec @ f/16 - 17mm polariser and maybe 0.6 ND grad - can't remember]

also if you have a larger res version of this pic you would not mind sharing as a desktop wallpaper it would be nice

 

[Dark Orb Choir]

using that as my desktop on my lappy at home, nice picture Milou

 

[old.user4556]

Mr G if you have a 1920x1200 crop of that, I'd be pleased to have it as a background sirrah!

I do indeed, I have it ready, can you suggest a free hosty thingy that I can upload it to in TIFF format? Or will photobucket jpeg do the trick?