Achill long xp

[veryspecialguests]

July 14, 2011 at 1:53 am

Taken tonight in Achill, Mayo. Haven’t posted anything on here for a while so thought I’d throw it up.

[snaphappy]

July 14, 2011 at 7:37 am

Lovely composition and foreground is gorgeous but there is a big whole in sky that looks blown out. Don’t know if this is recoverable from the raw file but as it stands this really rakes from anotherwise great image.

[RASMITH32]

July 14, 2011 at 8:02 am

Beautiful image,Almost lunar in its feel. I would definitely consider a sky repacement. I think it would be well worth a go.

[veryspecialguests]

July 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Thanks for the reply’s. I just had a look at the raw and the sky isn’t burned out so it went wrong somewhere in the editing. Think I’ll do a sky replacement the manual way anyhow… go back when there is better light! The sky and generally lack of interesting light is letting the image down no doubt about it, on the right track though!

[RASMITH32]

July 14, 2011 at 2:04 pm

A square crop just above the peak looks good!

[veryspecialguests]

July 14, 2011 at 10:21 pm

RASMITH32 wrote:

A square crop just above the peak looks good!

Not a bad idea.. gets rid of the sky anyhow!

[insertnamehere]

July 16, 2011 at 8:55 pm

Very nice in square crop. Dramatic scenery!

[alpaca]

July 16, 2011 at 8:58 pm

ye looks really good with the crop!

[Noely F]

July 16, 2011 at 10:18 pm

Cosmic is the word :D works really well in this format!

[Rob]

July 17, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Lovely, particularly the cropped version…

[veryspecialguests]

July 19, 2011 at 4:24 pm

Thanks for the reply’s folks, square crop seems to be the way to go.

[jungle]

July 19, 2011 at 5:11 pm

great shot, I really like it

[mcmartin]

July 20, 2011 at 12:33 am

nice looking place…
the sky is definitely overblown… and foreground could be bit brighter… have you consider 3stop soft nd grad cokin filer? that would hold back the highlights in the sky and give you more light in the foreground… if you are using nd filer directly on your lense just get proper size ring and slide holder on it and slide a nd grad filer to cover the sky… should help.

[veryspecialguests]

July 21, 2011 at 6:32 pm

mcmartin wrote:

have you consider 3stop soft nd grad cokin filer? that would hold back the highlights in the sky and give you more light in the foreground

Thanks for the reply! Yes I have considered it, it would most definitely make a big difference. Unfortunately the my filter collection at the moment consists of one fader nd filter. Which only fits my old 18-55 kit lens …

I would love to start building up my collection soon, the financial strappings of student life are all that’s holding me back. Filters really very usefull, and fun to experiment with I would imagine.

[mcmartin]

July 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm

try ebay and look for step-up rings… if the filter is big enough with step up rings you will be able too use one filter on different lenses…