Watch out for that rain!
I am now working on my Scotland holiday pictures taken early June this year. I stayed in a self catering lodge in Torridon in the Wester Ross region, which is in the north west area. The weather was not like a lot of pictures you see of Scotland in the summer, bright and sunny every day, there were several storms and a fair bit of rain interspersed with some bright spells. The storms & rain did not stop me and I hope as I go through the pictures to have captured some moody scenes and that all important light.
The following shot typifies the weather, bright & sunny one minute and the next …. watch out for that next deluge of rain. The picture is of the view looking towards the Isle of Skye whilst on a walk in Toscaig, which is situated on the Applecross peninsula.
This is the first picture (to be processed and scanned) that has been taken with my new landscape lens, the Zuiko Olympus OM 24mm F2. Aperture used, F11.
When I take landscapes I will normally take 3 shots, bracketing either by 1/3 or 2/3rd stops either way. This time I bracketed by increments of 1/3. The shot above was taken with the recommended exposure setting set by the camera. For the shot below I experimented with exposure fusion. This is done by taking all 3 images and fusing them together to lift both the highlights and shadows of the scene. This is different to tone mapping commonly used for HDR.
I still cannot decide which of these I like. Its worth noting that with the latter there is more detail in the shadow, this is particularly evident at the left hand base of the stone.
Film: Fuji Velvia 50
