Pics from Dollar Glen

greengiant · 3 Apr 2007 at 20:16

Made the most of todays good weather in east central Scotland and took my K100D for a walk up Dollar Glen. I was hoping to do some nice waterfall shots, but it was too bright even with ND4 + circular polariser, so I mainly concentrated on landscapes!

Glen of Sorrow a the top of Dollar Glen: (18-55mm kit lens + circ polariser)

Wee waterfall: (18-55 + ND4 + circ polariser)

Castle Campbell overlooking Dollar: (18-55 + polariser)

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Brian

Colin_da_Killer · 3 Apr 2007 at 21:17

On the last one it seems the bottom half is polarised and not the top half... :confused:

I like the waterfall picture.

themask70 · 4 Apr 2007 at 00:21

Im not too keen on the colours on the first one, could do with some PS tweeks, but apart from that nice composition on all of them.

alexisonfire · 4 Apr 2007 at 00:43

I like no.1, the river leads you nicely into the photo, but i agree with mask, needed some colour tweaking.

I always find it easier to give my opinions on how a photo could be improved, by editing it myself. Hope you don't mind but i had a play.

Original for comparison

greengiant · 4 Apr 2007 at 18:23

alexisonfire said:
I always find it easier to give my opinions on how a photo could be improved, by editing it myself. Hope you don't mind but i had a play.

Hi, this looks much better! Could you give a quick rundown on what you did? PP isn't my strong point yet.

thanks in advance

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Brian

alexisonfire · 4 Apr 2007 at 18:30

greengiant said:
Hi, this looks much better! Could you give a quick rundown on what you did? PP isn't my strong point yet.

thanks in advance

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Brian

Do you use photoshop or paintshop pro?

greengiant · 4 Apr 2007 at 18:32

alexisonfire said:
Do you use photoshop or paintshop pro?

Gimp 2.2!

But if you could list the basic steps for photoshop I'm sure I could adapt them to gimp.

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Brian

alexisonfire · 4 Apr 2007 at 18:43

greengiant said:
Gimp 2.2! But if you could list the basic steps for photoshop I'm sure I could adapt them to gimp.

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Brian

I use paintshop pro! Basically, i used the selective tool to change the levels, contrast and saturation on different parts of the photo. Started with the sky, then distant hills, and then nearest. Sharpened the image and then gave it a border.

greengiant · 4 Apr 2007 at 19:10

Thanks for that! I'll give that a try in gimp.

Another image from yesterday's trip:

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Brian