[PIC_THREAD] Landscapes, Architecture, Seascapes

shaggyd said:
Pen Y Fan? Nice pano shot. Did you walk to the other peak and tick-off two mountains in 5 mins?
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Yup. We went up to Corn Du (on the left of the picture) and then across to Pen y Fan (the right), wifes asthma was giving her grief though so we came back down after that. I enjoyed walking up it more than going down. Nice walk though and the views were amazing.
 
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Saturday, straight from camera.

South Sister approach form the plateau at 6800ft.
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North sister in the foreground, Mt Jefferson behind, with a distant mount Hood (90 mies away). To the north mount Adams was visible faintly (150 miles) and to the mt McLoughlin at 120miles giving a visibility in excess of 270 miles!
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Skiing the Clark glacier
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Very jealous of all the snow, it seems ages since I was in France.

Not been up to much, the weather has been far too rubbish for trips out, I was in London for work for a week at the beginning of the month and at least then it was nice and sunny. I've only gone through a few, my docklands trip was a mediocre sunset so that won't go up.

Two vertical stitched shots, by far the nicest sunset of the week, the clouds only appeared 10 minutes before sunset.


Shard At Dusk

Another two stitched together, I didn't do too many daytime long exposures as there were no clouds most of the time.


Tower Bridge

And a night shot of the bridge opening, had to stack multiple exposures otherwise the lights would have been too faint, would have been better 30 minutes after sunset because I could have done a single shot but it wasn't scheduled to open then. For reference it takes roughly 1 minute for the bridge to open.


Tower Bridge Lifting Open
 
Cheers James, I was there for 6 hours trying to get that haha.

Never been to Barnsley, not how I imagined it to look like, you got some nice light there.

I've been out 3 days in a row to this windmill, waited 4+ hours for it to clear whilst sat in the car, I said a thankyou to the weather gods for not screwing me over again.

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Chesterton Windmill by James Hastie, on Flickr
 
James J said:
Bruce those shots are stunning mate, especially the last one.

DP, whats going on with the artifacts? Have you used some sort of compression software on the files mate? Also, the snow isn't white on my screen and has a slight blue cast to it.
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I was using my Olympus EPM2 and some settings somewhere gave all the photos a deep green tint but for the life of me I couldn't figure out what setting were responsible when hiking. Even when I got home I spent 30 minutes and gave, wasn't anything obvious like WB or Tint, jpeg option etc. Was beginning to think I had screwed the sensor but a reset luckily resolved the issue.

Anyway, I was left with a bunch of very green photos. I didn't have time to process the RAWs so did an auto WB on the ipad which got a ballpark value but relatively blue. The artifacts are probably a combination of causes - I shoot this little camera in RAW + jpeg and have the jpegs for uploading to Flickr/FB/etc. because I can transfer them to my ipad wireless form the camera which is cool. To save space the jpegs have a lower size and quality set on camera (with intention of using the RAWs for proper work). I then transfer them at a lower resolution and the software then rencodes the jpeg to lower quality again. Correcting the color cast further introduced artifacts. The photos were then uploaded to flickr which also re-encodes the jpegs.

On the ipad the photos looked reasonably but on a computer screen they are pretty bad. Hoping the RAW is not affected by the color cast.
 
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