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Late Afternoon Light

12/11/2017

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Kintail from above Auchtertyre (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens at 35mm, ISO 200, 1/13 sec at f/22, Handheld)
It is unusual to get out with the camera at first light and then again at the end of the day, on the same day.  However, today I managed it. Late this afternoon I headed out with Aileen for a drive in search of some shots.  First we headed up the North road at Auchtertyre and I took a couple of shots from the viewpoint half way up the hill.  The above shot is looking east towards Kintail and the following shot is looking west towards Kirkton and Skye.
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Kirkton & Skye from above Auchtertyre (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens at 35mm, ISO 200, 1/13 sec at f/22, Handheld)
We then headed past Achmore towards Loch Carron where the sleaty rain started but with some great sunshine behind from the west.  The result was this fantastic rainbow over Loch Carron.  Sadly the rain was a bit heavy and it was almost impossible to keep the lens clear of raindrops resulting in a fair few smudges.  I tried my best clone these out in Lightroom but this is something I have never quite mastered.  Still it was impressive so I have included it here.
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Rainbow over Loch Carron (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens at 17mm, ISO 200, 1/8 sec at f/22, Handheld)
From there it was back to Kyle and over the Skye Bridge, stopping briefly for the shot below.
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Sunset & Clouds from the Skye Bridge (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens at 17mm, ISO 400, 1/20 sec at f/22, Handheld)
It had not been our intention to go all the way to Broadford but the light was turning really excellent in that direction so I encouraged Aileen to head further west to Ashaig where I got these two final images.  After that, our reward was hot chocolate at Cafe Sia and then home.  A lovely way to spend the last of the afternoon.
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Late Evening Sun on Beinn na Cailliach and Ashaig Cemetry (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens at 35mm, ISO 640, 1/10 sec at f/22, Handheld)
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The Setting Sun from Ashaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens at 17mm, ISO 640, 1/6 sec at f/22, Handheld)
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Early Morning on Sleat

12/11/2017

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The Cuillins from Tokavaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Sigma DG 70-300mm APO Lens at 100mm, ISO 100, 1/40 sec at f/14, Tripod, Panorama of 5 images)
This morning was an early start with Eilish and Isabel, aiming to be on the west side of the Sleat Peninsula for sunrise at 8am.  The forecast was for it to be cloudy but clearing for 9am and was pretty accurate, although there was a bit more cloud and some serious wintery squalls, including a fair bit of sleat.  Initially it did not look great with poor light abd wet cold weatehr at Ord so we headed on to Tarskavaig where things improved.  We ended up heading back to Ord as the weather got better and better with some lovely light illuminating the Cuillins.  The conditions were pretty testing though with extremely bright light in the sky and on the hills while the foreground was generally in shade and pretty dim.  As a result, for the above shot I applied a digital ND Grad filter in Lightroom and lightened up the foreground a little to try and get something more like the real view.

The following shots required a similar amount of adjustment to try and recover detail in the dark areas and limit the exposure in the brighter bits.  All, in all, considering I did not use any actual filters on the camera, I think they came out reasonably well.
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The Cuillins from Tarskavaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens at 85mm, ISO 400, 1/200 sec at f/10, Handheld, HDR procerss from 3 images)
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Cuillin Ridge from Tarskavaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Sigma 70-300mm DG APO Lens at 214mm, ISO 100, 1/250sec at f/14, Handheld)
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Blabheinn from Tarskavaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Sigma 70-300mm DG APO Lens at 214mm, ISO 100, 1/250sec at f/14, Handheld)
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Cuillin Ridge from Tarskavaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Sigma 70-300mm DG APO Lens at 300mm, ISO 400, 1/800sec at f/10, Handheld)
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The Cuillins of Rum from Tarskavaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Sigma 70-300mm DG APO Lens at 214mm, ISO 400, 1/800 sec at f/10, Handheld)
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Tokavaig Burn (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 17-35mmf/2.8 L Lens at 17mm, ISO 200, 0.6 sec at f/22, Tripod)
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Snow Storm & Rainbow on Beinn Eighe

10/11/2017

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Snow Storm & Rainbow on Beinn Eighe (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens at 24mm, ISO 400, 1/40 sec at f/11, Handheld)
This morning brought our first snow of the winter, really more like sleat than snow, but at times the road was a bit white.  I got this lucky shot from the Kinlochewe to Torridon road on my way to a meeting this morning.  I just happened to see an interesting spot of light to the right of the view and stopped to try a shot or two.  Meanwhile the storm closed in on the mountain and the bright spot got larger and brighter finally resulting in this rather spectacular double rainbow.  It really did get this dark, despite being 10 am.
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Some Shots from my Recent Trip to Canna

7/11/2017

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Canna & Sanday with Rum in the Background (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Panasonic G Vario 14-42mm Lens at 36mm, ISO 400, 1/640 sec at f/8 Handheld)
This first group of shots were taken on Canna on Sunday evening, the calm before the storm.  The late evening light was extremely good with the wonderful terrain of Canna lit up looking east towards Rum and the sun setting beyond Hyskeir Lighthouse.
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Basalt Coastline on Canna (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Panasonic G Vario 14-42mm Lens at 42mm, ISO 200, 1/60 sec at f/14, Tripod)
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Setting Sun Beyond Hyskeir from Canna (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Panasonic G Vario 14-42mm Lens at 36mm, ISO 200, 1/640 sec at f/14, Tripod)
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Setting Sun & Hyskeir Lighthouse from Canna (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Panasonic G Vario 100-300 mm Lens at 150mm, ISO 160, 1/200 sec at f/14, Tripod)
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Loch Nevis (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Panasonic G Vario 100-300mm lens at 100mm, ISO 1600, 1/640 sec at f/6.3, Handheld)
This shot was actually taken from the Mallaig to Armadale ferry on my way home this evening.  The light was really good with a setting sun behind Eigg as the following couple of shots illustrate.
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Sunset Behind Eigg (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Panasonic G Vario 14-42mm Lens at 28mm, ISO 200, 1/60 sec at f/13, Handheld)
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Sunset Behind Eigg (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Panasonic G Vario 14-42mm Lens at 42mm, ISO 200, 1/60 sec at f/13, Handheld)
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Slioch

3/11/2017

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Slioch (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, G Vario 14-42mm Lens at 36mm, ISO 160, 1/100 sec at f/11, Tripod)
Yesterday I had to take a trip to Gairloch and was frtunate to have a little bit of time on the way home to get this shot of Slioch which was beautifully lit up by the early afternoon sunshine.  The sky was a bit uninteresting being almost entirely blue but the few clouds did add a little to the scene.  I set this up with the Scots pine tree in the foreground to add interest and colour contrast.  There are some wonderful ancient Caledonian pinewoods along the shores of Loch Maree and these trees are a few of the outliers.

I took a shot with a bigger zoom to try and catch the detail of the mountainn but to be honest I felt it was a bit flat in colour.  I conerted this one to black & white using Nik's Silver Efex Pro software and I think it works a bit better.
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Slioch (B&W), (Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, Olympus M.40-150 Lens at 58mm, ISO 160, 1/200 sec at f/11, Tripod)
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