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Two images from Loch Ba on Rannoch Moor yesterday.

All of Sundays images are lost due to a faulty memory card but luckily I had the long lens on the other body and took these on the way back from the Buachaille Yesterday (also lost these too).

Went with a cinematic 2.85:1 letter box crop with this.

_DSC0099 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

left it on 3:2 for this one - I am much keener on the 1st image though.

_DSC0084 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr
 
Sorry to hear about the cards Steve. Same happened to me last February but I got them back.

I like both images but the 1st is my favourite. It's a smashing place to be on the way home as the iconic images usually have the light/sun in the wrong place by that time of day. Loch Ba is often overlooked.

Keeping my fingers crossed for this weekend, hopefully the weather and time gods will play ball. :)
 
I much prefer the composition of the second one but the foreground shadow is a distraction. The first one is cleaner but the composition doesn't do much for me and the sky just looks too yuck.

Pity about the dodgy card. Nothing recoverable at all?
 
ianmarsh said:
I much prefer the composition of the second one but the foreground shadow is a distraction. The first one is cleaner but the composition doesn't do much for me and the sky just looks too yuck.

Pity about the dodgy card. Nothing recoverable at all?
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Not so far, computer nor camera can read the card. It was the combination of fog and light that makes the sky a bit, er, yucky.
 
SFTPhotography said:
Not so far, computer nor camera can read the card. It was the combination of fog and light that makes the sky a bit, er, yucky.
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You take loads of top quality shots I'm sure you can afford to lose a few. I have so few good shooting experiences that after a fantastic day shooting in Italy I was petrified I'd lose the shots through a broken card/theft/accidental pressing of "format card - are you sure - yes - are you really sure - yes".

If there are important images on the card I was amazed at what the professional recovery services can get back (in my case from an accidentally reformatted hard drive after the IT crowd at work had an off day) . Not cheap, mind.
 
Sorry to hear about your card Steve, its always a real pain, I guess you have tried all the recovery programs? I have a few knocking around i think, if you need them, something I downloaded as i recall when i had an issue.
I guess we all know its a possibility but a nightmare when it happens.
Out of the two shots i'll take No1 but the composition doesn't float my boat though, other than a nice winter scene. I think i would have either cropped or shot the three trees, marching in on the right. The one on the background, middle and foreground.
 
Doh! I'd be livid if it was me. It's not something you probably think of happening, until it happens to you. Luckily my new camera can shoot to 2 memory cards at once so that covers me but if it was my old camera I would have been screwed.

Going back to your images, I like the 2nd one more but I'd prefer it cropped slightly off the bottom and right so that trees were more in the corner. They make a nice triangler shape that get smaller as they go into the frame and really draw your eye into the scene.

PS - I'm rather gutted as here we have rain, rain, more rain, floods etc and you have snow, hoar frost ..... ! Seems so unfair!
 
jerry12953 said:
Great conditions! Nice pics too! The new crop doesn't really make that much difference to me. If anything i prefer the original.

I think the reflections could have been better though.;)
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The reflections got killed by a memory card that went rogue. 19F94D94-B908-4912-A05C-44878EC58C96.jpg

I took this for Facebook but before I could download the images of it.

I've found a data recovery place so it may not die the death
 
SFTPhotography said:
The reflections got killed by a memory card that went rogue. View attachment 90516

I took this for Facebook but before I could download the images of it.

I've found a data recovery place so it may not die the death
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Good luck with that Steve. Nightmare scenario...........
 
The second (and third) is an excellent shot, very nice line of trees that takes your eye round and round the scene. I'm quite fussy about my shades of blue in the sky too and this is just right!

Hope you recover your other images.
 
Steve, these are beautiful!!
Sorry to hear about the cards...that's heartbreaking; but man, these images are lovely.
You know I love your work, but seriously, these made me say "Oh" out loud when I opened the thread. :)
 
Stuart Mc said:
Nice work Steve nice and subtle, prefer the uncropped version of no.2 as the best one - up there in a week hopefully that snow is going nowhere fast
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That snow is nearly gone.

It's half way up if that makes sense

Two days later. It's getting milder and the rains coming in. I fear you won't get much snow unless the weather changes back again

A sneak preview of what's to come. The day I took this image here all the snow was off them trees and moorland

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Buachaille Etive Mòr, one of my favourite places. In my younger day I climbed Buachaille Etive Mòr (The Big Shepherd of Glencoe) when I was training to take school kids climbing. I done my first few lead climbs on there. Nice photo's with the hoar frost.
 
jerry12953 said:
I hope you get your pictures back, steve. It looks like it will be worth it.

jerry
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It alas doesn't look like I will. I sent the card off to a data specialist called fields recovery.

They said the chip itself was damaged and they said to recovery with no guarantee of success would be £200-£400.

The good news is I've been out this week (workshop and personal) so have a few to replace the lost ones. The not so good news is imho they're not as good
 
Two excellent shots there, Steve. I think the crop of the second improves it, but both are good.

Interesting to see that what are essentially monochrome shots do not have to be black and white.

Dave
 
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