A View Worth Climbing For Photo

Photographer’s Note

The view from Orrest Head towards the northwest fells across Lake Windermere. The day was sunny and bright, but a bit hazy hence the lack of contrast in the blue sky and clouds. I wish it had been better, but was glad of the sun at any rate. Any suggestions how to eliminate the haziness would be appreciated. I tried adjusting color levels and contrast but the rest of the image suffered. I liked the stone wall dividing the green fields below, rolling down to the lake.

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cclaudiu (0) 2006-11-08 17:02

For a sunny day you could chose a smaller aperture to obtain a deeper field. Also you obtain a deeper blue sky.

g1210 (415) 2006-11-08 17:02

Hi Christopher,

Lovely landscape shot of a great place, you've managed to get a lot of scenery into this frame.
With regards to the over-exposed sky in the background - i also suffer from this a lot with my photographs.
I have had a few tips from members of TE on attempting to overcome this problem but I tend to think it is the limitations of my SONY W30 digital camera (that's my excuse anyway).
If you do find a solution, I would be grateful for any advice.
regards,

Neil...

gerbil (231) 2006-11-08 17:06

Hi, beautiful scenery. i was curious if i could do something about the haze. Not very successfull i have to admit. Last thing i tried was "Color Enhancement" in Uleads Photo-Impact.
Might be interesting, so i´ll set it in a workshop. Hope you like it.
Werner
P.S. Basically i have set the exposure correction of my Panasonic Lumix cam on minus 1/3rd or even minus 2/3rd. I´m used to this from analogue photography and this ususally gives me a more intensive blue sky, too.

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Clochette (8076) 2006-11-08 17:32

Hi Christopher
As a matter of fact, that's a pity for the sky. Not so easy to capture high differences with light. But the lower part of the pic is wonderful. I love these landscapes from England, with the low stone walls on the green grass.

jwmunro (6251) 2006-11-08 18:06

Hello Chris -

Nice image captured a very good time of the day. The use of side was also a good choice. There is little, IMO, that can be done with the haze. There are a few techniques that would help but the best technique would be to wait for the last hour of the day and use the scattering of the low light by the haze to enhance the image.

You could try a circular polarizer - since this is side light it should help a bit. Another technique is working with the extremes in an image like this. Part of the problem is that your sensor can not handle the dark-light extremes so a graduated neutral density filter could be used to stop down the sky while maintaining exposure in the shadows/foreground.

Another PS trick would be to select the sky and use curves to tone it down and saturate the colors.

Thanks for sharing

John