The Lake District

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• Uhu (4440)
• [2007-07-05 1:12]
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It's a great photo, somehow looking at it I get the feeling that everything is deserted here and this building situated somewhere near the end of the world, so to say. Low rock at the backside is especially good here.

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• Signal-Womb (9856)
• [2007-07-05 1:19]
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Hi Ian, lovely composition on this. The sky is a little blown on the left losing saturation and details. I would use a ND grad filter to balance the light. Regards Steve..

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• ben4321 (9507)
• [2007-07-05 1:25]
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The panoramic crop works well, but when you're giving such weight to the sky in an image, you really need to expose for it correctly. Here, the sky is quite over-exposed, which is a shame because I can see that the colours of the morning sky were very attractive. Using an ND grad to reduce the brightness of the sky in relation to the land would have been the best option. You could also have metered from the sky, lightening the resulting darkened landscape in PP. You can always recover shadow detail, but over-exposure is much more difficult, if not impossible to correct at the editing stage.
I'd also have preferred it if you had managed to keep the barn straight in the frame rather than the tilt to the left that you have at the moment.
Great light though!

Cheers,
Ben

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• ls7902 (4381)
• [2007-07-05 4:29]
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Hello Ian,
I don't know if the sky is overexposed at the shooting level. If it is it's not very serious. Sometimes it happens at the processing stage ... I know it happens to some of mine. I take extra care not to overexpose the sky when I shoot. I then lighten up the shadow area with editing software. Most of the time this works well for me. I'll try a workshop to bring back some details. This is a nice photo. I love the atmosphere. Regards. Latiff.