Last to Post? Scottish POTN meet

Well, you've all taken some great shots, so here's my efforts. Not up to the standard of Les, Mike or Steve but here goes....

All taken using 5D

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Love the first one, great comp, and well controlled whites.

That small fall was a real find, I wish I'd explored it more, but you have done it justice.

Perhaps I would make the black borders a little narrower, they are on the verge of dominating, especially on the smaller image sizes?

You're too modest, Ruairidh! #1 and #3 especially are top notch shots.

I think you may just have to crop the dodgy bit off the bottom of #1 - not sure what it is - the only thing it is vaguely like is the edge of a badly positioned ND grad filter.

I agree with Les about the thickness of the borders.

ruairidh wrote in post #2173382
Well, you've all taken some great shots, so here's my efforts. Not up to the standard of Les, Mike or Steve but here goes....

All taken using 5D

1.

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f/22 1sec @ 105mm ISO 100 (70-200mm f/2.8 IS L)
Not sure what's happening at the bottom of this one

2.

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f/7.1 0.4sec @ 28mm ISO 200 (24-105mm f/4 IS L)
Thin this is the same stream as Les' earlier one. All that great scenery, big water and we find the smallest, most insignificant stream, but like this one.

3.

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f/9 0.05sec @ 45mm ISO 400 (24-105mm F/4 IS L) - oops must remember to check my ISO setting

Ordered a 18x12 print of this one already.

Oh and just one for fun.....how many POTN members can fit on a cliff?

Just notice Dimitri in the bottom right corner. How did you get down there?


CC&C welcome by all.

ha ha ha , with great difficulty,those rocks were darn slipery.

Some stunning colours you`ve got here mate,very nice captures.

Nice ones Ruairidh, and I see that I'm the top of the photographer pile in the last shot. It is a bit of a shame we never actually got a group photo that day.

Love all these shots, lots of detail and the white of the water is nicely exposed, good ones

Beautiful pictures!

Nice shots Ruairidh, like them all.

No4 is priceless, what must sane people think of us!!! ??

Lesmac wrote in post #2173402
Love the first one, great comp, and well controlled whites.

That small fall was a real find, I wish I'd explored it more, but you have done it justice.

Perhaps I would make the black borders a little narrower, they are on the verge of dominating, especially on the smaller image sizes?

Cheers Les, means a lot coming from a master like yourself

Mike Bell wrote in post #2173455
I think you may just have to crop the dodgy bit off the bottom of #1 - not sure what it is - the only thing it is vaguely like is the edge of a badly positioned ND grad filter.

Took that one with the 70-200 and I don't recall ever using the Grad with that lens (although that is what I thought it looked like as well).

Frank_Hollahan wrote in post #2174361
Love all these shots, lots of detail and the white of the water is nicely exposed, good ones

ags007 wrote in post #2174888
Beautiful pictures!

zebedee wrote in post #2174909
Nice shots Ruairidh, like them all.

No4 is priceless, what must sane people think of us!!! ??

Cheers for the positive feedback everyone. Means a lot coming from members of this forum.

Dave, there were some really iffy locations round those 'falls'. No one told me that to join a POTN meet you had to have grade A climbing skills

All really nice shots, just need to get yourself some prettier models to do that location justice! j/k

i love them all ruaridh although autumn gold is my favourite

could you touch up the last one to hide my bald spot a bit more

only kidding

mark

These are excellent quality shots Rory.
I don't remember spotting your 5d?!!!

Portrait orientation shots are always difficult to do justice in a web browser but I would try and make them a little larger in future and cut the black borders down a little.

#1 is particularly impressive considering the lighting we encountered.

Steve,

Having seen you using your angle view finder, think that's my next purchase !!

The versions posted up head are cut down in size. Larger versions are available by clickin on the images (sorry if I teaching my granny here...).

It seems to be a limit of flikr to reduce the file size to around 1024 pixels though.

These are the first pictures I've tried framing so just getting the feel for boarder/picture ratio (any recommendations with respect to percentage size values).

Thanks for all the constructive feedback. I might even come back again for the fourth meet (if you promise not to loose me this time.... )

Great shots buddy

That last shot.........it looks like I'm trying to give some advice out, Having seen quite a few group shots I think we should be renamed the POTN monkees

rudgej wrote in post #2173897
....... It is a bit of a shame we never actually got a group photo that day.

That's because you all kept wandering off!

beano wrote in post #2175760
.... just need to get yourself some prettier models to do that location justice! j/k

You have made a very good point, Beano!

Buggbairn wrote in post #2176423
.....I think we should be renamed the POTN monkees