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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on February 09, 2016, 19:17:21
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Well, perhaps not, but we are pretty much surrounded by hills and mountains.
In the main "Scotland Event" thread, the talk has turned to hiking - hill-walking - and as it was a very fine day today (9Feb2016) I got out and made a few new images of some of the mountains under discussion.
1. The central section of the Tarmachan Ridge, shot from my garden.
2. Beinn Ghlas - the highest summit, Ben Lawers - is hidden behind the B. Ghlas ridge.
3. Meall nan Tarmachan/Meall Garbh south ridge - the usual access route on to the main ridge.
4. Killlin (not very good picture - sorry).
6. The tail of Ben Lawers south ridge
7. The intrepid mountaineer (Sally) takes a rest.
8. Rainbow over Meall nan Tarmachan. The rainbow was being created by sunshine penetrating a heavy shower of very fine powder snow, a little of which came my way. It's my first time to
see a rainbow caused by snow.
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I like the one with the town in it. Must be cold there.
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how high is that place? we always talk about "highlands"...
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Very nice! I visited once as a student. To much of the trip was wasted because of the high density of distilleries :o
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Wow, great scenery!
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Thanks for your comments, guys.
how high is that place? we always talk about "highlands"...
Frank - Killin is only 115m above sea-level. The highlands as in "Scottish Highlands" presumably referred to the mountains themselves originally.
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Fascinating scenery, Dave! The town seems to be safe even if the river would be overflooded.
The last one is an added bonus. Should we call it a "snowbow"?
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Fantastic landscapes. I like especially nr 4 a lot with the different natural layers from water to sky.
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Thanks, Akira and John.
This, btw, is how I do my mountaineering these days -
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#4 my personal favourite as well
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Thank you, Fons.
One evening shot, of Meall Garbh, from our garden again (with the 400/5.6 ED AIS at f11, uncropped).
The trees do actually lean like that, btw, because of the prevailing (west) wind.
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A nice series, Dave. Thanks for posting. I actually like #4, complete with power transmission lines. The power authorities always manage to find the most scenic areas to string them!
What a great setting - I can think of worse places for one's retirement!
The hills and mountains look to be a bit challenging for a mid-winter hike, but nowhere near as challenging as your winter climb of Kita-Dake!
Looking forward to seeing it all in three months' time.
Mike.
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Very nice images!
It looks as though these hills are hikable with snowshoes and poles this time of the year.
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Very nice images of your surroundings!
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Thanks for your kind comments, Mike, Simsurace and Erik. Having good light after weeks of rain and darkness certainly makes a difference.
Another fine day and I've been out snapping - this time to Glen Lochay, a long twisting, narrow valley which heads north and west from Killin. Both were shot with the 400/5.6 ED AIS.
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Dave, where can I start... you are a lucky man, living where you live.
What a day was yesterday... it looked near perfect for hiking, although by the look of the last image, a bit windy on top.
The photos are phenomenal. My favourites are # 4, 8, 10 and 12
I particularly like the glancing light in the last two I mentioned.
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Thanks, Simone. The coldness of the wind this morning, in the upper valley, was brutal; it would have been much worse on the tops.
A last look at the Tarmachans, this time from the south, across Loch Tay.
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Absolutely finally - the other mountain-range above Killin to the north. This is Ben Lawers and the Glen Lyon hills, from Beinn Ghlas.
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Absolutely finally - the other mountain-range above Killin to the north. This is Ben Lawers and the Glen Lyon hills, from Beinn Ghlas.
Wonderful, although IMHO you have been a bit heavy-handed in the post processing.
The micro-contrast has been ramped up a bit too much for me, I see some halos.
Please do not be shy, give us more...
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Beautiful landscape ! Thanks ;)
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Wonderful, although IMHO you have been a bit heavy-handed in the post processing.
The micro-contrast has been ramped up a bit too much for me, I see some halos.
This is a 2-frame stitch from film-scans which always look different to digital capture, however I've examined at 100% the original file from which this jpeg was made and there's not a halo in sight. But there is an area in the mid-foreground which has gone rather "blocky" in the process of chopping the file from 10,000 pixels long to 1200, followed by a little sharpening. Is this the area you were talking about? It certainly doesn't look right on a monitor but looks ok on a print, which is what I mostly aim for nowadays, in PP. There has been some artifacting though, and I may soften that area just a touch, to minimise the effect.
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Love the grandiose feelings of the images in the post #16. I see hardly any hint of the size of the mountain, and my sense of scale is at a loss, which creates an interesting effect.
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Thank you, Erik and Akira.
Akira - the Scottish mountains are nor very high - up to 1400m. The highest in this image, Ben Lawers, is 1214m, and the shaded valley-floor on the left is at around 450m. so the height gain, up to the summit of B. Lawers is ~760m.
Please do not be shy, give us more...
Ok, I've been tempted but be careful - I have thousands of images of these hills . . .
1. The Ben Lawers range from Sron a' Chlachain ("Village Hill").
2. Tarmachan and Lawers ranges from Sron a' Chlachain.
3. Meall Corranaich from mid-height on Beinn Ghlas.
4. The Tarmachans ridge path in summer.
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Thank you, Erik and Akira.
Akira - the Scottish mountains are nor very high - up to 1400m. The highest in this image, Ben Lawers, is 1214m, and the shaded valley-floor on the left is at around 450m. so the height gain, up to the summit of B. Lawers is ~760m.
Ok, I've been tempted but be careful - I have thousands of images of these hills . . .
1. The Tarmachans ridge path in summer.
2. The Ben Lawers range from Sron a' Chlachain ("Village Hill").
3. Meall Corranaich from mid-height on Beinn Ghlas.
4. Tarmachan and Lawers ranges from Sron a' Chlachain.
Oooohhh! (clapping hands).
The more I see, the more I love it.
Plus - it has to be said - a very competent photographer has been at work. Blooming excellent!
I have again a strange feeling about some of the images.
The summer view has some of the high-microcontrast effects I noticed before with the snowy pano - which in the small version on my screen shows a halo at high contrast edges, most notably in the shadow/sunlight transition in the mid-foreground left hand side.
My guess is that the summer view is again a scan from film, as possibly the third in this series, as they have similarly strange micro-contrast characteristics.
As you say, it may well be that this is far less evident in full resolution file and even more on print.
The last instead is so crisp that I would be surprised it has not been taken with one of your high MP FX cameras.
I very much envy you...
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Simone - you are right about those two images being from scans - they are very different from digital capture ( even tho' they are, of course, digitised by scanning), and they need different processing. The two scans and the pp on those were done a long time ago and I think I know a lot more now. Since viewing them on the forum I went back and tweaked the colour
of one of them, so they are now in positions 1 and 4. - of both the scans, now in positions 3 and 4.
I was never very happy with those two scans, and I still have very mixed feelings about their appearance, but I included them because they show different aspects of our hills.
The other one you asked about was shot with a D300 (12mpixel) and makes an impeccable 22" print.
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The last image stands out, crisp and clear, the sun, very low and to the side helps bring out depth - Super ;)
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Thanks, Erik, you're a pal.
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Dave, thanks for the detailed info on the landscape. I enjoy your additional images, too. Please don't hesitate to post!
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I love Scotland.
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Dave, thank you so much for tempting my patience :)
Another 3 months to go...
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Many thanks, Gary, Akira and Jakov - stay cool, J. - the time will pass already too quickly. When you're my age, anyway. :-\ :)
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My broadband suddenly went down just then but came back on very quickly - anyway here is Killin main street at rush hour. ;)
Tarmachan Hills beyond.
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Fabulous images, Dave !
I enjoyed each of them. 8)
the last one (Killin) gives us an idea what your environment looks like (perhaps without the snow when we meet, though.)
Can't wait... :)
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Dave, do we need to pay congestion charges in Killin :)
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These are great! I never realized Scotland had landscapes like that. It looks like mountains that are much taller than 1200m. I would have guess 5000m or more.
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Thanks for your kind comments, Jakov, hotrod and rosko.
Dave, do we need to pay congestion charges in Killin :)
Jakov - yes, and I am the official collector, £20 per day, cash only. 8)
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I like the "rush hour" concept of that little town. Pretty dramatic congestion of the streets :D
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Priceless ;)
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What a lovely town. The images in this thread makes me wish I had lived a little closer to this gathering.
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Looking forward to our meeting very much. Thank you for the images!
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Killin just does not know what is going to hit it in May.
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Killin me softly...