Well, a page or two ago I promised a pics, well - have three versions
The worst thing is v1 isn't even the SOOC, that was much darker and washed out so a bit of work was needed, so I came up with this (BTW sorry for the large size, its a pano so needed it)
Ullswater panoramic by
John Norton, on Flickr
Then I threw it up for a crit both here and with some friends - nothing here (edit - just got one
), but my mates gave a couple of suggestions.
- I found the two layers of cloud neither of which are level to be confusing to the eye and possibly the foreground to be a bit dark.
- Black and white that baby.
So, for the first version I brought up the foreground and lightened some of the darker clouds to remove that two cloud level feel.
Ullswater panoramic - Adam Redo by
John Norton, on Flickr
Then for the B&W I took the the colour redo and plugged it onto Silver Efex Pro, applied dark sepia global with the addition of applying Acros film simulation then using a control point brought the central area back up - I did try pure B&W but the sepia worked better for me.
Ullswater panoramic - B&W by
John Norton, on Flickr
For me the B&W(ish) version works best but I really would have loved a colour version that popped enough.
Oh and if anything were to get me to buy the X-T2 it would be Acros after that (and if the continuous AF was usable)