Buchaille Etive Mor, colour or B&W

[SFTPhotography]

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_DSC0939 by stephentaylor4@hotmail.com, on Flickr

Yeah, I know we see this composition a lot, but I like it and these are mine and its better to have your own

 

[sbowler579]

Color version for me. very nice.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Cheers pal, over done and ran into a chap here. Never knew other togs were so socialable...LOL

 

[reheat module]

B&W for me. Lots of lovely tones, plus I didn't notice your shadow on the rock until it leapt out at me in the colour one.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Its the problem with low suns, good light, lots of shadows, including yer own!!!!

 

[AlfyB]

B&W for me to. If possible, I think I'd try to lift the shadows at the bottom a bit and darken the sky.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Shadows are lifted quite a bit, I used ND grads too but any more lifting and it will get noisy

 

[Kevin O'Brian]

B&W conversion works well Steve great location, on my list to visit someday.

 

[the ghost]

B&W for me
could you try to darken the central section burn it a tad I may give a bit more depth to the picture

 

[Peter_Hartland]

As it stands the B&W for me also but think the colour has more to offer, try warming up the tones slightly

 

[SFTPhotography]

B&W for me
could you try to darken the central section burn it a tad I may give a bit more depth to the picture

Will do. I stacked two filters, so I could darken the middle bit then the top and expose to bring a little shadow detail out. I can play around a bit with it pp wise

 

[rookie]

Another for the B&W

 

[chivers67]

Sky looks better in B&W more detail.

Prefer the trees in the colour shot though

 

[Les McLean]

Neither for me Steve, light is not right for this iconic location, obviously too bright, and that band of shadow detracts, stream highlights blown.

You are capable of first class landscapes, but these are not up there with your best.

 

[Maccers]

I feel the B&W works very well, the aspect I noticed the most was the shadows at the bottom of the frame gave the image a lot of depth.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Neither for me Steve, light is not right for this iconic location, obviously too bright, and that band of shadow detracts, stream highlights blown.

You are capable of first class landscapes, but these are not up there with your best.

Fair play mate.

I'll rock up earlier next time

 

[arclight]

Steve, I think your viewpoint is not all that great. The Birch trees are blocking out too much of the mountain. Buachaille Etive Mor has become a very hard subject now. It has been photographed to death ten times over and unless something rather different can be captured it has ceased to be eye catching.
All the best.

 

[kendo1]

B&W for me.
Why were you standing?
I can often be seen, or not, lying down to avoid shadows.

 

[SFTPhotography]

B&W for me.
Why were you standing?
I can often be seen, or not, lying down to avoid shadows.

Self timer then run out of the way, tripod shadow can be caught.

Positioning myself so the tripod isn't cast as a shadow was really tricky

 

[kendo1]

Self timer then run out of the way, tripod shadow can be caught.

Positioning myself so the tripod isn't cast as a shadow was really tricky

Aahhh.

 

[kendo1]

How about covering the tripod with a coat to make it look like a rock shadow?

 

[SFTPhotography]

How about covering the tripod with a coat to make it look like a rock shadow?

That actually is quite useful.

I use aperature 3 and colour efx for my editing. Long story short, cloning out isn't much of an option, the clone brush in aperature is terrible and you can see marks etc when you use it.