Pentewan Landscape

[Julian de'Courcy]

Looked out the window towards Pentewan late afternoon, the sky was starting to break so popped down there. The High pressure which hits the low when it approaches the the western approaches and land meets sea gives for some ok skies sometimes. My attempt anyway at B+W/ sepia landscapes.
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[Paul Lange]

OK? I think it is great Julian. Wonderful contrast between the ground and the sky in many ways.

 

[Pete Askew]

Fabulous again. So a DP2 and a DP3 Eh! Wise decision!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

OK? I think it is great Julian. Wonderful contrast between the ground and the sky in many ways.

Thank you Paul. I would have liked the land not to be quite so uniform. i maywell look again at other pics I took . I tried various exposures.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Fabulous again. So a DP2 and a DP3 Eh! Wise decision!

Thanks Pete. That maybe the plan. I know I aught to hold off from the Dp2 and find how the Dp3 is a few months down the road. To easy to convince oneself that it is a good decision, where new toys are concerned.
Yet a Dp2 and Dp3 fit in a tiny bag, which is very handy. Then of course they would miss their little brother the Dp1 That would be a 28mm a 40 something mm and a 75mm. , it is Christmas after all Nah must wait and see.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

REALLY IMPRESSIVE! Really. Best clouds I've seen for a long while. Great cameras. Damn fine photographer. A good match.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

The tiny trees on the horizon give it a great sense of scale Julian - and the dark vs light cloud gives the sky a lot of depth as well - very nice

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

REALLY IMPRESSIVE! Really. Best clouds I've seen for a long while. Great cameras. Damn fine photographer. A good match.

Thanks Rob so kind. A few clouds your way occasionally I'd imagine? Not sure about fine photographer just a bit of luck I think. Thanks again.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

The tiny trees on the horizon give it a great sense of scale Julian - and the dark vs light cloud gives the sky a lot of depth as well - very nice

Thanks Chris. yes I like the trees on the left particularly, a couple of them look like match stick men. I think it works because the trees are way above me, aprox. 90 meters and half a mile away. The angle seems to work well at this spot with the sun setting behind the cloud itself.

 

[Keith Hollister]

Quite nice, Julian. Fantastic sky

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Thank you Keith, sadly the sky was far more interesting than my skill of capturing it

 

[Brian Moore]

The large sepia dabs in the sky are an interesting touch, Julian. Beautiful image overall.

 

[Peter McCullough]

Very very nice Julian. Lovely composition! The sky is superb, did you use any filters for the sky etc..?

Top notch Sir

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

The large sepia dabs in the sky are an interesting touch, Julian. Beautiful image overall.

Thanks Brian, yes it was a slight touch which came through, in areas.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Very very nice Julian. Lovely composition! The sky is superb, did you use any filters for the sky etc..?

Top notch Sir

Thanks Peter. I did not in these. i have a small set of Lee filters, a .3 / .6 and .9 which i aught to use more but often find I basically cannot be bothered. I no I aught to.
I did use the Grad filter in Cs6 though. It is not greatly effectif as the DP3 files cannot be recognised by Adobe raw, so I import the Tiff into Camera raw and event in atTiff was able to move the exopsure a bit without it breaking up
. I supose I could have used LR and there Garduation filter but I have not imported anyhting into Lightroom for while to work with.

 

[Lesley Jones]

Truly wonderful Julian. I envy your opportunities to get out and about, but then there is the skill to turn those images into works of art

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Lesley sadly my opportunities are not as easy as it may appear.. Fortunately this spot always has good light, is so close to home and has been a source of a large amount of my
landscapes. Most of what I do is not far from home and I do not actually spend a long time out. Many thank you's for the kind comments it is appreciated. Still seeing your image of the back lane, with the ivy
hanging. A superb image.

 

[Beth Carter]

amazing sky.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

amazing sky.

Thank you Beth.