Curbar Edge, Peak District, UK

toberstobers Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
edited February 10, 2008 in Landscapes
What a lovely place. Stumbled upon it by accident whilst looking for a place to stop to make a phone call. I waited a while for the sun to drop down and was very fortunate with the sky.

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Taken as 5 bracketed shots on a 1Dmk3 with a Sigma 10-20 at 15mm (vignettes from 10-14mm) at f16, then merged using layers & masks in Photoshop.

C&C welcome as I'm a bit new to this merging stuff.

Cheers!

Tobers

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  • gavingavin Registered Users Posts: 411 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2008
    This is beautiful!! great exposure blending :D
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  • tonichelletonichelle Registered Users Posts: 144 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2008
    um, WOW.
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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2008
    Tobers, lovely!

    I like the composition a lot. I think your exposure blending is quite good. The only areas that look iffy to me are the left and right horizon edges because they look unusually bright and misty. It could have been the way it was, but it looks like dramatically different areas of bright and dark right below where the ground meets the sky.

    Great work! I think what keep the merging looking real is the fact that you retained good shadows in the rocks. thumb.gif
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  • toberstobers Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2008
    Thanks for that - I'll take another look at the blend there and see if I can darken it down a tad.
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