Sunset on the Tamar, Windermere, Northern Tasmania.
When I ticked over 1 Million views four months back I decided to re-process the first shot I posted to Flickr. I had better processing tools and nine months more experience, and I'm sure the exercise showed great improvement. Perfection is never something we will achieve, but we should always aim to be better today than we were yesterday.
Yesterday I didn't wish to distract from my two postings about some issues we are all dealing with in social media. So I didn't put this photograph up.
"Sunset on the Tamar" was one of a series of shots utilising the Gobe 10-stop ND filter. The one I posted earlier is linked below. But this is not a re-processing, because it is actually the same scene but a very different shot. The one below was taken when there was still quite a lot of light around, and this one was the very last shot in camera for that day.
When I came to processing it initially (as I mentioned before I now have better processing tools), I simply gave up this shot. I felt it was too dark and I didn't have the experience or skill in digital processing (specifically the use of luminosity layers) to get the most out of the RAW file. But this time around I can give you this late sunset shot, trying to be as naturalistic as I can in my processing.
My original posting of the same scene, but an earlier shot:
www.flickr.com/photos/183221334@N02/48759486107/
I think that one holds up very well.
Sunset on the Tamar, Windermere, Northern Tasmania.
When I ticked over 1 Million views four months back I decided to re-process the first shot I posted to Flickr. I had better processing tools and nine months more experience, and I'm sure the exercise showed great improvement. Perfection is never something we will achieve, but we should always aim to be better today than we were yesterday.
Yesterday I didn't wish to distract from my two postings about some issues we are all dealing with in social media. So I didn't put this photograph up.
"Sunset on the Tamar" was one of a series of shots utilising the Gobe 10-stop ND filter. The one I posted earlier is linked below. But this is not a re-processing, because it is actually the same scene but a very different shot. The one below was taken when there was still quite a lot of light around, and this one was the very last shot in camera for that day.
When I came to processing it initially (as I mentioned before I now have better processing tools), I simply gave up this shot. I felt it was too dark and I didn't have the experience or skill in digital processing (specifically the use of luminosity layers) to get the most out of the RAW file. But this time around I can give you this late sunset shot, trying to be as naturalistic as I can in my processing.
My original posting of the same scene, but an earlier shot:
www.flickr.com/photos/183221334@N02/48759486107/
I think that one holds up very well.