Original I?

Eilean Donan Castle, Loch Duich, Dornie, Scotland

 

Can you get anything like an original composition at a honeypot location? Well I'd normally say 'No' but I did a search on the castle on Flickr and a quick Google search and I only found one shot of one of these rings and it was used differently in the shot. I'll tentatively say then that this is at least a very rare composition.

 

Both on my way to Skye and coming back there was no interesting light so I decided to try to shoot it from the parking area for the community centre. On the return trip I spotted these rusty mooring rings on the slipway and thought they would make an unusual foreground element for the castle. The image is compiled from 7 focus stacked images to try to get it all pin sharp. Probably overkill but better safe that sorry.

 

I should declare that I've taken a duplicate of the image, slightly enlarged the castle and blended the two together so in effect a focal length blend. I was trying to use the distortion effect of the 15-35mm to do this but found I needed to lose too much of the sky for it to work.

 

I'll leave it up to you as the viewer to decide whether it's 'permitted' or not? As I've declared it and it's basically 2 duplicate images blended I feel it is no different to blending water or focus stacking but if you fell differently then that's your right.

 

Thanks for viewing.

 

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