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Nature includes wildlife, plants, and landscapes - excluding manipulated images or those with man-made subjects.
Found 46 entries tagged with "nature", displaying entries 41..46.
In 2007 I went on a trip to Yorkshire, and took a photo of the River Wharfe, near Grassington.
It was ok, but I've not really been entirely happy with the image, and I decided to have a go at re-processing from the same digital negative. Advances in software alone can often make this a worthwhile activity, but in this case my own improved processing skills along with a more refined ability to determine what isn't right about an image also came into play.
It may not be an image that'll win any awards, but I'm satisfied with the degree of improvement I was able to make, and more importantly that I didn't simply settle for being just a bit better than before - fixing the crop and exposure took it a long way - but for each revision I looked at it and kept asking myself "Am I happy with this? How could it be improved?" and made quite a few tweaks before I could say there's nothing more to add, nothing more to take away.
The Needles is a rock formation on the western tip of the Isle of White. As a tourist attraction it's a busy place at peak times - but not so much on a late November evening.
This image came from three bracketed ±2 shots at f/8, combined using Luminance HDR before being taken into Paint Shop Pro X for some quick cloning.
The exhibition ended last night, and it was a good show this year, with a lot of excellent photos on display.
I did reasonably well - whilst I didn't win any of the trophies, two of my images received certificates of merit, plus I received a panel certificate for my "Elemental Views" panel.
This was a set of extra-wide landscapes with ratios between 4:1 and 8:1 - showing that it is not necessary to stick to the 4:3 or 3:2 standard that comes out of the camera, and photographers should instead consider what shape suits the image best.
Both my print panel and digital set of images are now available to view online:
For the next week, I'll be staying in York, wandering around and taking photographs of whatever I find up here.
Each evening I updated this post with what happened that day, and show a quick selection of the photos I've taken.
