Christmas in Berwick

A.N.Other · 26 Dec 2009 at 17:52

Well it's Christmas, so I'm up visiting some of the family in Berwick-upon-Tweed. We had some nice snow up here - first white Christmas I can remember in a long time - and I went out to get some pictures

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As an aside, I've been very busy this last month, so I didn't get around to doing my Nov competition marking until yesterday. Apologies. There shouldn't be too long a wait now.

v0dk4 · 26 Dec 2009 at 17:57

Crackin shots m8... Really missed having a camera when I was up visiting the folks before christmas. You've captured the feel of the town at this time of year really well

Stu

Derek W · 26 Dec 2009 at 18:22

loving the colour in the second and third images.

A.N.Other · 27 Dec 2009 at 16:30

Thanks guys. Yup I was quite pleased with the two colour shots here. They were both long exposures with some stacked filters. I bought them a while ago but I hadn't had the chance to try them out properly until now.

Derek W · 27 Dec 2009 at 16:58

A.N.Other said:
Thanks guys. Yup I was quite pleased with the two colour shots here. They were both long exposures with some stacked filters. I bought them a while ago but I hadn't had the chance to try them out properly until now.

you should enter one into this months comp

A.N.Other · 27 Dec 2009 at 17:41

Derek W said:
you should enter one into this months comp

Hehe yeah i wonder what I'd give myself

Derek W · 28 Dec 2009 at 22:23

A.N.Other said:
Thanks guys. Yup I was quite pleased with the two colour shots here. They were both long exposures with some stacked filters. I bought them a while ago but I hadn't had the chance to try them out properly until now.

Something i wanted to ask, when you say you stacked the filters, which ones did you use? I've seen a few landscape / sunsets with that strong colouring and wondered if it was just stacked grad filters with some photoshop tweaking for the colours or were there any colour filters in there as well?

The_Abyss · 28 Dec 2009 at 22:39

I really like the first one, but I'm not sure that it works in black and white, as the snow isn't immediately obvious to me. Can we see a colour version of the same (even though it looks like quite a drab day)?

A.N.Other · 28 Dec 2009 at 23:02

Derek W said:
Something i wanted to ask, when you say you stacked the filters, which ones did you use? I've seen a few landscape / sunsets with that strong colouring and wondered if it was just stacked grad filters with some photoshop tweaking for the colours or were there any colour filters in there as well?

I've got 3 HiTech (Formatt) filters - a 1.2 ND, a soft grad 0.9 ND and a soft grad 0.3 ND. Those shots were taken at about f/20 with all three filters together (stacked) to the greatest light reduction.

The filters do add quite a colour cast - a warm one in the case of these - but different filters have different casts. Those colour images are relatively true-to-life, but I had to increase the blue saturation a fair amount. As general processing, they've had some contrast and shadow tweaks too.

A.N.Other · 28 Dec 2009 at 23:09

The_Abyss said:
I really like the first one, but I'm not sure that it works in black and white, as the snow isn't immediately obvious to me. Can we see a colour version of the same (even though it looks like quite a drab day)?

Thanks. I haven't got it immediately available, but I'll post it up when I can