There is a small river near where we live, which I have been trying to get a picture of for ages. The river is in a dip in the ground (as they often are, being rivers) which takes a while for the rising sun to reach into, but if you leave it too late then the sun is too high and the light too flat. Today I finally got there at the right time, in the right weather for some interesting light.
I put a graduated neutral density filter (cokin nd8 grad) across the horizon, to stop down the sky a little, and a cokin 81b orange filter to warm up the light generally. I used aperture priority f8, which gave me a 1/13 shutter speed. My tripod held it steady in the gusts of wind we have here at the moment.
I shot a few frames as the light changed, and then headed off.
This is the best of the bunch:
Forum rules affect the overall impression (not mentioning the c-word ;) ), but my real question, is what do you think of the changes in the following:
Here I have used photoshop to burn in the sky a little, burn in the wall in the foreground, clone out the wire mesh for a little more berries, clone out the shadow on the left hand side. What do you think of the overall effect, is it too heavy handed or would I have gotten away with not showing you the original?
Just wondering...........
Steve
Looks like a painting or something outa a movie! Beautiful!
