The Inner Sound

Fantastic sense of scale; makes the Sound seem even bigger. Cracking part of Scotland with some of the best beaches & scenery in the world. Beats anything on the pompously named English Riviera with its fruit machines and fish & chip shops.

The tonal quality is also excellent & the slightly muted colours are very well recorded. Almost a graphic look to it, chopped into 3 distinct bands.

Its the people though that make this and youve done well to get them in such a formation and no one is chopped half in/half out'.

10/10

G2

By: fraser

my first attempt at shooting the moon!

Green halo is most likely caused by chromatic aberation of lens or extender.

Can be fixed in camera but only if you have won the lottery and can afford the very best optics.

However, most RAW processing programs, Canon Photo Pro, Lightroom, Photoshop etc can reduce this effect in post processing.

I think the colour you see is probably blue cos there's the same effect at the bottom of the moon in the red phase.

Great first effort.

G2

By: ickle_janie

Tonights moon.

Brightness of moon is surprisingly variable depending on phase, atmospheric conditions, distance from earth etc.

Assume a starting point of EV 14 and bracket around that.

EV14 = ISO 100, f11 & 1/125 sec

That should get you close toa decent exposure.

I'd chose f11 over your f5.6 which will help sharpen the image up a bit too.

G2

By: Kayleigh

Transient Light Loch Awe

Beautiful light & perfectly timed. Placment of tree canopy is perfect. I wonder about that sky though? Moody? Yes. Interesting enough? Not sure. Might I suggest taking half of the sky out and taking another look at what's left.

By doing so, you will have three horizontal elements approximately the same size, moving the eye left to right and back again.

I feel the energy of this powerful horizontal movement is then diluted by the mass of the sky at the top as if its fighting for vertical attention.

Curious to hear your opinion.

Still a cracking shot though.

By: hwatt

Treeze (Mono)

The sloping horizon actually adds a slight tension in relation to the tree on the left so "fixing" it would remove this sense which would make the image weaker not stronger.

And who says horizons always have to be straight anyway?

Millions of drunk Glaswegians on a Friday night are living proof that leaning over is usually better.

This is in my opinion your best shot ever. Absolute winner. The tonal range in the shadows and tree trunks is just sublime. Should be in a competition cos it would get placed for sure.

The reason that it got so few votes speaks volumes about the cronies haunting this website.

11 out of 10.

Call me if you need an agent.

G2

By: fraser

Lunar

Well, actually they can. Just not on the winter solstice.

By: hilly1

Bridge of Snow

Looks like there was at least 1cm of snow which brought the city to another embarrassing standstill.

No doubt though that Londoners conducted themselves with true Dunkirk spirit, bought teabags using coupons & whistled upbeat tunes such as the theme tune to Dad's Army as they marched to the nearest Starbucks where they shared anecdotal stories of WW2 & the Blitz while listening to Vera Lynn records over the tannoy.

By: rontear

The Guardian of the Glen

ok, I am particulalry fussy when it comes to geography. Rannoch Moor is not in the north of Scotland. It covers mostly Argyll & Lochaber. And Glencoe runs east west into the sea at Ballachulish which is on the west coast.

Northern Scotland can be assumed to be anywhere north of the Great Glen and extends for 400 km north of here until you fall off the pole facing edge of Shetland. Wester Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, etc are truly northern Scotland. And the loch is actually the river Coupall which freezes every winter.

A nice cliche to start with however. And where's the guy playing the bagpipes? I drove past him last week freezing his arse off in front of a bus load of birds from Thailand.

By: bill33

Ashness Bridge

Ansell Adams is an overrated American who shot a lot of rubbish but eventually found his form in Yosemite & on the Snake River. Then again, a blind person could shoot a decent image in Yosemite & Snake River.

Yes, he created the zone system but so what? It's not like he invented something really useful like Viagra.

Start with a book on B&W processing & printing. Get back to basics and understand tonal ranges & response before moving onto processing.

This is almost a surreal landscape shot by the way which I rather like.

By: KMRennie

The Forth

Beautiful metallic feel to this. The colours look very natural and the tonal range is sublime. I bet you cant see any of it this morning.

Down river in Stirling, the ice has bunched up like icebergs and clogged the whole river system.

Got slammed with about 6 inches of snow this morning despite what the crappy London biased BBC had forecasted. They are about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.

Once again, a cracking shot ...

By: Landlord

Winter's first glance

I find photographing trees in Scotland quite the challenge. We have such a scruffy central belt; hedges, street furniture, choppy woods, man made forests etc.

The challenge is to find clarity in the clutter & you can search for days & never find it.

I've concluded that its best then to shoot this type of landscape on misty/foggy days when much of the background just disappears.

e.g. I spotted a tree near the house that stands against a wood that's only decent at around 8:35am for 2 weeks in December so long as there's snow on the ground and a bit misty. Any other day, weather & its rubbish. Some things are only meant to be photographed in very rare conditions then.

G2

By: fraser

Birches

Timing for votes if that's the objective is key. Upload when the couch potatoes are glued to Eastenders will yield a poor return.

Best do it during adverts before Trevor McDonut does the ITV News or whatever he's called these days.

This is rather good. It looks likes it was painted with a free hand & the colours are muted but nicely saturated.

By: fraser

Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili

Cracking group set. Had 2 alfa's over the years and luv em.

Well done.

G2

By: fraser

f-15

Looks like the highlands ... any clarification on location?

Great timing and got the whole thing in shot & sharp too.

Nice one.

G2

By: skanner30

St Mary's Lighthouse

A complicated affair !

Interesting light. Was it not possible to inlcue a bit more foreground or was it just too cluttered?

By: howemick

Going Out

Wonderfully creative.

And toffs discharging their turds towards the working class rank & file across the water makes an unfortunate metaphor.

By: phillips

Raindrops...

In China, this is a middle management upgrade.

From an ox.

But only if you are sufficiently connected to party officials overseeing the expansion fo a salt mine.

A new tyre can be traded for a hairbrush.

By: Scottishlandscapes

Pink Sisters

This is an HDR image is it not?

Lovely sky but I just find that pushing the boundaries produces an unnatural look that doesnt sit well with your other high quality work.

Composition is nevertheless very good. Even majestic.

g2

By: JohnParminter

Horseshoe Bend

Ive flown over this about 100 times when I lived in Vegas & traveled all over this area.

You've captured the spirit of the place very well indeed.

Expsoure, colours, clarity exceptional.

And no craft on the water is a huge bonus.

Magnificant image.

11/10

G2

By: Weirdfish695

Loch Chon

You pick the hardest landscape subjects to photograph ... woods & forest are very difficult because they are invariably scruffy making it very hard to find singularity & separation of elements.

9/10

By: fraser

A STRANGE TALE OF A MOAT HOUSE AN ARMADILLO AND THE STRANGELY SHAPED SCIENCE CENTRE

Inspiring work ... must get down there & have a go myself.

The cool metallic colours are a perfect match for the hi-tec industrial.commerical landscape.

Well done,

G2

By: youmightlikethis

Gob y Diegen

Probably well known spot where you are from but I've never seen this before so gets a vote for originality.

And the comp/exposure/B&W is very good.

I almost feel a sense of claustraphobia when looking at this which I find quite unsettling. Not many pictures have that effect on me.

Except perhaps, tabloid shots of Britney Spear's gussett.

By: EdricCross

Early Morning, Loch Chon

Waterproof boots?

You're turning into a softy.

I can't tell you how many shots I've taken standing ankle, knee & even waste deep in some loch or river somewhere.

So I always take 2 extra pairs of everything in a rucksack cos I know I'm going to get wet.

On Sunday I walked right up to Castle Stalker which meant getting chest deep in sea water just so I could figure out that I didn't like the viewpoint.

As soon as I saw this I thought that this was a tough image to photograph until I read you used HDR which I dislike with a vengeance. But you have done a rather good job by not ending uup with an image that looks like it was drawn by Stan Lee.

It's probably one of the most natural HDR's I've seen. Pic aint bad either so 10/10.

By: fraser

Buachaille Etive Mor black and white

Where is this?

Just kiddin.

I've seen Britney Spears thong less often that this hill.

Im giving you a vote for having the nerve to post it.


G2

By: KMRennie

Down Glen Etive...

I dont know how you catch the dynamic range.

I used black cardboard cut outs (gobos) alot while exposing images in camera but shapes for these types of scenes are tough to get right.

On metallic paper this would look fantastic cos its has a chrome look to it already.

Might I suggest dabbling with a few sheets of Kodak Endura or Fuji Pearl.

The Pearl isn't cheap cos it has ground sea shells or silicates in it but luminesces under bright light. My most used paper at the moment.

Cracking image by the way.

G2

By: Scottishlandscapes

Sillouette 1

One of the most standout images Ive seen in ages.

Simple shot but very eyecatching thumbnail.

Great timing.

And Im a tat lover so has to get my vote.

By: lesxxx

Waiting for the perfect man

I thought it was a shot of someone who just completed a crash course on the Atkins diet.

By: jrb

Just Passing

A proper seascape - not one of those 2 minutes exposure gimmicks with a silly ND filter.

Delicately coloured & excellent exposure.

Clouds are just magical & finish this off.

I wish this were mine.

10/10

By: Stubill