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Stob Dearg (1022 m) II (50)
Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 885 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
OK - this is version 2 of Stob Dearg on Rannoch Moor. This version wass taken further down the burn (river) slightly closer to the mountain itself, away from the calm and refelctive water, and onto the shallows... though still standing in icy cold water.

I have decided that I will post my photos of this trip in the order they were taken, hence the same mountain twice, in a row.

In some ways I prefer this photo (jinxed it now) simply becuase there is more foreground detail and the river draws you straight to the amazing mountain rocks.

It was taken on the tripod (also in the water) at a low angle, with both the 0.9nd soft edge graduated ND filter and the 105mm cir polariser. Again it is almost a 180 degree picture taken at the full 10mm.

It was the first day I had used either the lens or the polarising filter in earnest so there are still some issues to be dealt with as I learn both the lens and the filter, like the extended blueness immediately above the mountain, but I did take a few later in the holiday with and without the cir pol filter and I much prefer those with despite the issues...

For info on the mountain, please see previous post. That way I won't bore you all silly again...

I have managed to loose my exif data on this occasion, so for those who like it, the extra info is here exposure compensation -0.7 EV, focal length 10mm.

This photo was created from 2 levels of brightness from the same original RAW image, just using layer masks to draw a little more detail out of the right hand side of the river bank. It was rather dark before hand.

The 'glare' on the river in the foreground is exactly that glare from the sun and I have been totally unable to edit it out satisfactorily, so if any of the editting wizards are able to perform magic, please feel free. I would love to know how.

Having seen it on screen, I am wondering if I should have reduced the overal brightness a touch? Or the previous post too dark?
Altered Image #2

Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 885 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
Photoshop CS
Edited by:regis Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 13 W: 7 N: 100] (396)
Emma - you may try to do some simple trick

- add Selective color layer
- work on Blues and Cyans
- move Black and other sliders right (almost to the maximum)
- add layer mask and mask the rest of the picture you don't want to change

It's not perfect method but it helps a bit. Sometimes you can't do much about it and polarisers don't work equally on such a wide field of view.

By the way - I've also added a bit of Cyan into the sky as the original colour looked a bit strange on my screen.

I didn't want to exaggerate with this glare reduction as it would look unnatural.

Hope it helps a bit

Piotr
Altered Image #1

Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 885 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
Photoshop Elements
Edited by:Evelynn Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2126 W: 756 N: 3277] (14396)
I have a hard time getting images to upload with the same saturation as I see in Photoshop when I save them...so I'm not sure if I darkened the flare enough or too much on others' monitors. Anyway Emma wanted to know if there was a way to remove the lens flare at lower right by the rock. I duplicated the image and on the layer below I used contrast until that flare looked correct...but all the rest of the image looked horrible. Then I went to the duplicated image and erased with a soft, low opacity brush until the flare blended with the rest of the image. It could be done with an adjustment layer also.

PS
Now that I have uploaded it I can see that it could have been a little darker on some of the flare area. The flare had disappeared entirely before upload. It is just a matter of fine tuning.