Dale.
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I'll be honest, it's a bit of a nemesis to me, in all my attempts, I have never taken an image of Bauchaille Etive Mor that I am proud of. Never. There are so many wonderful, dramatic and wow images of it but sadly for me, none of them are mine. Mine of it often remind me of cartoons.
Everytime I go there and take images, I get them home and load them into LR and my heart sinks, I almost feel nauseous, everytime.
I'm posting a typical image from a few weeks ago, a new spot that I've not tried before although I havedone further up river. The images looked fairly decent on the back of tha camera and I couldn't wait to get them home. This one is a fairly quick edit and isn't that far removed from what was in camera. There's something about it that isn't right though,
could be, in order of likelyhood.....
1, the light and the wrong time of day thing, the sun was high although it wasn't high noon. The sun was still behind high, lumpy clouds, with small breaks in them.
2, the above and then my bad processing of it,
3, I don't like to blame my tools, but could there actually be something with my camera? ( unlikely, as I took an image later in the day that was full of colour and contrast, SOC )
4, or is it just The Bauchaille, maybe it only really works in certain conditions, far removed from what I got?
5, I'm just not good enough to get the best from it.
I make the effort, I don't just turn up, this was taken during a period of no sleep for 41 hours, it was midge infested and after a decent drive. Despite that, I know it's still possible to be at a location at the wrong time and I think that's probably what this (and my other attempts) are but I'm always happy to hear and listen to opinions.
Bear in mind, this is a very quick edit and more could be gotten from it in more skillful hands than mine I'm sure, but you get the idea.
thanks.
Everytime I go there and take images, I get them home and load them into LR and my heart sinks, I almost feel nauseous, everytime.
I'm posting a typical image from a few weeks ago, a new spot that I've not tried before although I havedone further up river. The images looked fairly decent on the back of tha camera and I couldn't wait to get them home. This one is a fairly quick edit and isn't that far removed from what was in camera. There's something about it that isn't right though,
could be, in order of likelyhood.....
1, the light and the wrong time of day thing, the sun was high although it wasn't high noon. The sun was still behind high, lumpy clouds, with small breaks in them.
2, the above and then my bad processing of it,
3, I don't like to blame my tools, but could there actually be something with my camera? ( unlikely, as I took an image later in the day that was full of colour and contrast, SOC )
4, or is it just The Bauchaille, maybe it only really works in certain conditions, far removed from what I got?
5, I'm just not good enough to get the best from it.
I make the effort, I don't just turn up, this was taken during a period of no sleep for 41 hours, it was midge infested and after a decent drive. Despite that, I know it's still possible to be at a location at the wrong time and I think that's probably what this (and my other attempts) are but I'm always happy to hear and listen to opinions.
Bear in mind, this is a very quick edit and more could be gotten from it in more skillful hands than mine I'm sure, but you get the idea.
thanks.