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Some of you have probably stood at the same place, taking a very similar picture and for those who don't know the area, this is Buachaille Etive Mor, possibly the most known mountain in Scotland.

I must say now that I have been using Canon for years and currently the 5D II but any time I tried to capture this kind of back light, I failed.

What was left???

A very interesting article about this picture in my blog.

http://dvattika.com/blog/archives/283

 
Nice image. Negative film is cool and forgiving.

I'm surprised you couldn't pull this off (or something very close to this) using the same technique and bracketing with the 5D MkII, then playing around in software later. Easy for me to say. ;-)
 
Huntthelight said:
Some of you have probably stood at the same place, taking a very similar picture and for those who don't know the area, this is Buachaille Etive Mor, possibly the most known mountain in Scotland.

I must say now that I have been using Canon for years and currently the 5D II but any time I tried to capture this kind of back light, I failed.

What was left???

A very interesting article about this picture in my blog.

http://dvattika.com/blog/archives/283

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Why not just put the neutral density grad on your 5D Mk11 if you don't want to use Photoshop? I am old school and cut my teeth on film and it is still nice to see "good pictures" but I wouldn't go back myself.

Did you crop the picture? Fixed lens? Composition is tricky on this one.....
 
retlaw 7 said:
Why not just put the neutral density grad on your 5D Mk11 if you don't want to use Photoshop?
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A GND filter would have yielded a darker face of the hill. This is not a situation where a GND would be helpful because of the triangular hill in the middle of the composition at the upper end.
 
RedFox88 said:
retlaw 7 said:
Why not just put the neutral density grad on your 5D Mk11 if you don't want to use Photoshop?
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A GND filter would have yielded a darker face of the hill. This is not a situation where a GND would be helpful because of the triangular hill in the middle of the composition at the upper end.
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Spot on. Have tried it many times in the past and RedFox88 is right.
 
Huntthelight said:
RedFox88 said:
retlaw 7 said:
Why not just put the neutral density grad on your 5D Mk11 if you don't want to use Photoshop?
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A GND filter would have yielded a darker face of the hill. This is not a situation where a GND would be helpful because of the triangular hill in the middle of the composition at the upper end.
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Spot on. Have tried it many times in the past and RedFox88 is right.
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It looks as if that is the case...albeit subtle...the foreground does look lighter than I would have expected from a straight shot.
 
I've shot a lot of negative film in my time. On one occasion on the Breton coast I metered accurately with Fuji 200 colour print film (predecessor to Superia) and then shot the same high contrast shot with -1, -2, and -3, +1, +2 and +3 stops. Just to see how they would print. They were all fine. I was amazed! You certainly can't over-expose in digital and get away with it.
 
Beautiful spot and beautiful photo. It's funny but I've seen countless images of this exact spot, either on the web or in some of the European Photo rags I read...but I guess you don't exactly have the variety of mountains to shoot like we do in beautiful British Columbia!
 
Ross Murphy said:
Sure you could have used a GND on that image, I do that all the time, not cutting your image, dont get me wrong, its a winner, I think people write GND's off to quick.

Ross

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http://rossmurphy.zenfolio.com/
http://imagesinlightnw.blogspot.com/
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I don't want to be taken the wrong way, I don't shoot landscapes without my nd filters. Its just that some times, it is extremely hard to do a scene justice even with them, hence I shoot digital AND film.
 
Ross Murphy said:
Sure you could have used a GND on that image, I do that all the time, not cutting your image, dont get me wrong, its a winner, I think people write GND's off to quick.

Ross





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Image's In Light

http://imagesinlightnw.blogspot.com/
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Hey Ross that's a nice shot and good way to deal with the "mirror" image.... they can sometimes look quite flat and lack depth.

I love your landscape shape of this view...

I do everything in Photoshop now..it's so easy to control a density issue with layers... the complicated bit is being there early or late........
 
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