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Loch Tulla Reflections in Summer (82)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 922 W: 99 N: 1396]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (4799) | Back from my holiday now and returning to the realities of work! The only thing that can be said about it is that it has come as a very big shock to the system. The Orkney Islands are well worth a very long visit... next time...
This was the first (real) day of my holiday and the day I met Niek (SunToucher). I had met up with him in Glencoe and was giving him a guided tour of the areas around Glencoe and Rannoch Moor which I know so very well. This is the spot where within a couple of hundred meters of dropping off my husband, we stopped for a wonderful reflection on Loch Tulla.
The main mountain in the background is Stob Ghabhar (slightly to the right of center) whose name translates into Peak of the Goats. I haven't seen any wild goats on it, but parts of it are very steep and as a child I saw an avalanche on it...
Much to Niek's disappointment we were literally just off the single track road here. He had thought that a lot of these photos were further from civilisation that they actually are - mainly because I don't include any manmade structures in my photos becuase I hate them...
I have resisted the urge to 'straighten' the peaks in the reflection with their originals becuase the moment I straighten one of them, the rest get even worse. I think this is becuase I was at 17mm, so I decided to leave it be on this photo.
The photo has been 'editted' a touch in that I was too lazy to get my ND grad filter out of the car and clean it off, but the picture is taken using my 105mm B&W circular polarising filter. I have then created a second version of the photo from the RAW image that is slightly brighter, and then used a mask filter to combine the 2. If the image is a little too dark it is becuase lightening it overexposes the clouds in the sky (as opposed to the reflection) - guess I should have gone back to the car!
Hopefully Niek will do one of his HDR images on one of his versions and make more of it than I have been able to. I still need to play with the software more before I can produce acceptable results. Niek's photo can be found here.
PS - the 'dots' at the bottom of the photo are leaf litter floating on the surface of the loch and not sensor or lens dirt... |
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