Early Morning on Sleat

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.

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)

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)

Blabheinn from Tarskavaig (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Sigma 70-300mm DG APO Lens at 214mm, ISO 100, 1/250sec at f/14, Handheld)

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)

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)

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)