I just had to share these pics...
Glorious sunset
Taken with an Olympus C-4040Zoom, curves tweaked slightly in Photoshop to bring it back to the way the eye saw it, and that's it. Colours as close as I can gauge to what we saw (and the OH agrees).
Sunset
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Martin
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what's the pointy bit with something on top? - burial mound or something?
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Stonehead
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The hill in the background of a couple of pictures is Dunnideer. The arch on top is the remains of a castle dating from the 1200s, but the hill itself was the site of a hill fort about 2000 years ago.
The view between the trees towards Dunnideer, also shows the remains of the Stonehead Circle (to the right of the photo). These are two flankers and a huge recumbent.
Oh, and people have been known to dance naked around the stones!
The view between the trees towards Dunnideer, also shows the remains of the Stonehead Circle (to the right of the photo). These are two flankers and a huge recumbent.
Oh, and people have been known to dance naked around the stones!
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Fab piccies Stoney - I love Dunnideer and always try to take pics when we are in the area.
The colours are spot on... we were driving back from Banff yesterday - after stopping to buy some buffalo beef and see the water buffalo - now they are amazing beasts and I was itching to take photos... did take but from inside a moving car so they don't do it justice.
The colours are spot on... we were driving back from Banff yesterday - after stopping to buy some buffalo beef and see the water buffalo - now they are amazing beasts and I was itching to take photos... did take but from inside a moving car so they don't do it justice.
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For the technically minded, I should have added that with the colours changing so fast, I couldn't bracket the exposure.
So I went with a shutter speed of 1/40, an aperture of f2.3 (f1.8 for the people pics), and ISO equivalent of 200. The focal length was mainly 17.5mm. I pattern metered on the brightest part of the sky, then held that while framing the photo I wanted. The camera tends to under-expose slightly even when using its built in histogram, so I have to over-expose slightly to compensate. That captures the detail even if the colours don't look quite right to the eye when imported to the computer. Tweaking the curves to adjust the tonal values then brings out the correct colours.
So I went with a shutter speed of 1/40, an aperture of f2.3 (f1.8 for the people pics), and ISO equivalent of 200. The focal length was mainly 17.5mm. I pattern metered on the brightest part of the sky, then held that while framing the photo I wanted. The camera tends to under-expose slightly even when using its built in histogram, so I have to over-expose slightly to compensate. That captures the detail even if the colours don't look quite right to the eye when imported to the computer. Tweaking the curves to adjust the tonal values then brings out the correct colours.