The Photoshoppery of Dunluce

amcinroy

Quite a night this evening. Beautiful and varied colours in every direction.

Before Peasant get's his knickers in a twist, I would just point out that I actually had to use photoshop to reduce the saturation in a couple of these.

More or less straight out of camera.

Fenster

Well done, 'tis like a faerie castle.

Ninja_scrotum

Deadly photos! Did you use any filters??

shepthedog

Andy, just start a fan club and be done with it!!! Quality shots as always... Perfect

Overdraft

Stunning! Camera and lens??

ttcomet

Love all the shots. The water in the second one looks amazing.

michelleans

Absolutely stunning shots, love the first

Dink

All beautiful Andy! Very envious!

quilmore

did you actually have to reduce saturation on them???
cracking shots!

yes, please, feed our curiosity, let us know how you took them and what were you using

Duchovny

Ohhh its a pity you are presenting us with a Digital image rather then photography :P


Great shots btw...

latchiko

Fantastic images as always. Looks like you got some great light on the night too.

peasant

Great shots!

Picture number two obviously had a fairly long exposure to make the water look like it does.

How did you manage that without overcooking the bright (in comparison) sunset?

Any sunset shots I'ver ever taken, Ive always metered against the bright sun and then moved the sun at the edge of the picture.

This usually results in lovely (not to say kitsch) colours, but very little detail in the dark foreground.

If I on the other hand meter the darker foreground, the bright sun over-exposes on large sections of the image.

Duchovny

peasant wrote: »

Great shots!

Picture number two obviously had a fairly long exposure to make the water look like it does.

How did you manage that without overcooking the bright (in comparison) sunset?

Any sunset shots I'ver ever taken, Ive always metered against the bright sun and then moved the sun at the edge of the picture.

This usually results in lovely (not to say kitsch) colours, but very little detail in the dark foreground.

If I on the other hand meter the darker foreground, the bright sun over-exposes on large sections of the image.

I don't know how he did but usualy a ND filter can do that easly...

amcinroy

Thank you very much folks,

I'm out every Thursday from March until Octobr but I'm lucky if I get one night a year like this. The colour was just superb.

I'm using a Pentax K10D and used a Pentax 14mm prime lens for all four of these shots. This lens is very sharp and resistant to flare while shooting into the sun. To balance the exposures I used graduated ND filters (2 stop and 3 stop) sometimes together and sometimes and different angles. Where the 2nd needs to be held at a different angle I usually just hand hold it in front of the camera. I also used a straight 3 stop ND filter in some of these to slow down the exposures even further. I'm not a big fan of polarisers and rarely use them.

But without doubt, the key to these photographs was planning. I had visualised what these images should look like last year and waited for the sun to swing round to about 290 degrees. I knew that the castle would be in silhoette but thats the effect I was after. I have other previsualised shots planned for midsummer when the sun swings round past 310 degrees.

Eirebear

amcinroy wrote: »

Thank you very much folks,

I'm out every Thursday from March until Octobr but I'm lucky if I get one night a year like this. The colour was just superb.

I'm using a Pentax K10D and used a Pentax 14mm prime lens for all four of these shots. This lens is very sharp and resistant to flare while shooting into the sun. To balance the exposures I used graduated ND filters (2 stop and 3 stop) sometimes together and sometimes and different angles. Where the 2nd needs to be held at a different angle I usually just hand hold it in front of the camera. I also used a straight 3 stop ND filter in some of these to slow down the exposures even further. I'm not a big fan of polarisers and rarely use them.

But without doubt, the key to these photographs was planning. I had visualised what these images should look like last year and waited for the sun to swing round to about 290 degrees. I knew that the castle would be in silhoette but thats the effect I was after. I have other previsualised shots planned for midsummer when the sun swings round past 310 degrees.

Great stuff as usual Andy, and thanks for the further info.

Its nice to know you dont live in a cave too!

peasant

Thanks for the explanation !