Back to the Lake District

TwoSaints · 24 Apr 2009 at 10:22

I always find myself going over to the lake district to take photos, love the place, thought I'd share my last set as I've not posted any up for a while.

1. Pier about half way around Derwent Water from Keswick

2. Same Pier from a different angle

3. Boats resting by a Pier at Keswick Launch

4. Cool looking tree also near Keswick

5. More boats lined up at Keswick Launch

Ciphon · 24 Apr 2009 at 10:25

Really nice shots, love all of 'em! I'll have to head there one day, looks like a pretty cool place.

kiteloopy · 24 Apr 2009 at 10:26

like them all! nice 1

Inquisitor · 24 Apr 2009 at 11:13

2 would be better if you could do something about the hazy background (and perhaps burn the jetty a little), and I think 5 has excessive vignetting. Otherwise they're all good

TwoSaints · 24 Apr 2009 at 15:30

Ciphon said:
Really nice shots, love all of 'em! I'll have to head there one day, looks like a pretty cool place.

kiteloopy said:
like them all! nice 1

Thanks guys

Ciphon - I can't reccomend it enough, the whole area is wonderful.

Inquisitor said:
2 would be better if you could do something about the hazy background (and perhaps burn the jetty a little), and I think 5 has excessive vignetting. Otherwise they're all good

I can see what you mean, might have a play around with another shot, I've about 20 from the same position on the pier.
The vignetting is intentional to draw the eyes to the boats as I thought the background and foreground was quite distracting, maybe went a bit overboard (no pun intended

) with it!

Inquisitor · 25 Apr 2009 at 00:26

Jonny_no2 said:
I can see what you mean, might have a play around with another shot, I've about 20 from the same position on the pier.
The vignetting is intentional to draw the eyes to the boats as I thought the background and foreground was quite distracting, maybe went a bit overboard (no pun intended ) with it!

I think if you want to keep the vignetting, then you should push it out a little and perhaps make it slightly stronger to compensate. I think it encroaches too much on the subject at the moment, without drawing the eye away from the edges. Bumping the light tones up a bit might help too. The vignetting is spot on with 4 though

I might just be being picky, but I think 1 could do with a bit of tonal adjustment too; maybe bring the midtones down a little? Looks a bit flat at the moment to me.

Don't mean to be overly critical – they're all lovely shots! Makes me want to go back there :cool:

Yarde · 25 Apr 2009 at 09:49

I love number 2!

Personally love any shot with a pier stretching out into water