North
There are few things more frustrating than travelling a very long way, finding what may have been the only composition you haven't seen a thousand times beforehand and then not realising your results are flawed until you load them onto your laptop several days later in the full knowledge that it may be some years, if indeed ever that you stand at the self same scene again.
Thus it was here. We'd been on an extracurricular and successful whale watching trip out of Husavik on Iceland's north coast, somewhere around the 66th degree of latitude. As we rolled out of what we agreed was a rather delightful small town we happened upon this lone building at the outskirts, set appealingly against the backdrop of snow fringed mountains across the sound. Criminally, I left my tripod in the camper van and went handheld, something I only very rarely do, and the results belie a degree of camera shake. Lesson learned.
I did decide however that I should hold onto a couple of the RAW files and I've just started a 30 day trial of a product by Topaz which promised to airbrush my misdemeanours. It's not perfect, but it's better and I really loved the composition, so I'm going to quietly beg that you indulge me on this one.
Incidentally, has anyone else tried the Topaz programme or do you just shoot your images properly in the first place? I've tried it on a couple of other images and unlike this one, it saves them as black rectangles. Which isn't inspiring me with much confidence that it's going to be a wise investment.
North
There are few things more frustrating than travelling a very long way, finding what may have been the only composition you haven't seen a thousand times beforehand and then not realising your results are flawed until you load them onto your laptop several days later in the full knowledge that it may be some years, if indeed ever that you stand at the self same scene again.
Thus it was here. We'd been on an extracurricular and successful whale watching trip out of Husavik on Iceland's north coast, somewhere around the 66th degree of latitude. As we rolled out of what we agreed was a rather delightful small town we happened upon this lone building at the outskirts, set appealingly against the backdrop of snow fringed mountains across the sound. Criminally, I left my tripod in the camper van and went handheld, something I only very rarely do, and the results belie a degree of camera shake. Lesson learned.
I did decide however that I should hold onto a couple of the RAW files and I've just started a 30 day trial of a product by Topaz which promised to airbrush my misdemeanours. It's not perfect, but it's better and I really loved the composition, so I'm going to quietly beg that you indulge me on this one.
Incidentally, has anyone else tried the Topaz programme or do you just shoot your images properly in the first place? I've tried it on a couple of other images and unlike this one, it saves them as black rectangles. Which isn't inspiring me with much confidence that it's going to be a wise investment.