Duddingston Loch

[Rob MacKillop]

Duddingston Loch by RobMacKillop, on Flickr​

Duddingston Loch can be viewed - as here - from Arthur's Seat, the long-dead volcano in the middle of Edinburgh. I used the X-E1 set to RAW files only. This caused a problem when I came to editing, as it is not recognised (unlike the X100) by Elements. So, I was forced to use Lightroom. Now, my brain just cannot cope with Lightroom's filing structure - it (my brain) completely freezes. But I felt I had to persist. Somehow I managed to navigate my way to opening the file in Elements, and from there to Nik Silver. And from there I saved it as a jpeg and a tif. I know I've screwed up the filing system, and will doubtless have hours of hair pulling as a consequence. Ach, weel...

I have a few more pics to sort through, but it has slowed me down a LOT. Another one next month

Anyway, I hope you like this image. We used to live one minute away from it when Rhona was a toddler, and I used to take her to feed the ducks in the loch. Good times.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Looks interesting,yes i like the image, love the sky and the frisky wind blown water.

I got fed up of LR having to import into it's own catalog. I much prefer Adobe bridge and Cs6. I think LR is a great bit of kit for the price, would not knock.

 

[Nihat Iyriboz]

Rob, it's otherworldly.

One might think that it was a clear and windy night with full moon.
And, you had Ilford Delta 3200 ASA film with the grain of Ilford PaF+ in your camera,
and also a silver bullet loaded to live.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Ha. Not quite. I maybe made it too dark, but I was impressed at the amount of detail that could still be seen. It was hand held as well, on a very windy day - so the OIS works really well with this 18-55mm lens.

 

[Lesley Jones]

Well worth messing up the filing system Rob

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Lesley. In the light of a new day, it looks a bit too dark..so here is a lighter version:


Duddingston Loch lighter by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

 

[Hamish Gill]

I like the slightly lighter one Rob, still has te mood, but has a lot more interest for me.

You can import using Lightroom to wherever you normally store your photos ...

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Hamish, that's what I'm doing now.

 

[Pete Askew]

It was worth the pain Rob and I'm pleased that you re-processed it slightly lighter.

I usually use LR as my primary system from where I choose the shots I will edit further. After giving them a rating of 4 (press 4 as you go through) I then filter them with the stars and start to edit using the sliders etc. Then I will right click the image and edit in either one of the Nik modules or PS. This creates a copy of the file. You can go back into that by opening the file in PS should you have kept layers etc.

I use the LR default year / month / day filing system in parallel to copies of the raw files.

Not sure if that helps at all.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes, that's what I've worked out, but instead of right-clicking I press cmd E, and that takes me to Elements, and from there I can access the Nik filters.

Thanks for all the other comments, Pete. That will teach you not to go away again...

 

[Pete Askew]

If you don't need to do any specific editing in Elements you could just go straight to Nik though - but I'm sure you know that and I also often layer the Nik effects etc.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Understood.

 

[Andy Boardman]

Thanks, Lesley. In the light of a new day, it looks a bit too dark..so here is a lighter version:


Duddingston Loch lighter by RobMacKillop, on Flickr[/QUOTE
Much prefer this version to the darker one, great job Rob , a cracking shot.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Andy. Much appreciated.

 

[Beth Carter]

i like the new edit. excellent tones and detail.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Beth. Part of me still likes the atmosphere of the dark one...

 

[Lee Webb]

The lighter version is much better!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Lee!