Glen Affric - GRD IV

[Blow-in]

A day off and good weather. Some GRD IV shots in Glen Affric, Highland, Scotland.

More details of Glen Affric here: http://www.nnr-scotland.org.uk/glen-aff ... d-culture/

Richard

 

[Genster]

Wow, wonderful photos

 

[Gab]

Very nice work, indeed.

 

[thelps]

For a moment I thought Glen Affric was a person - how uneducated I am
Good set here, I feel the landscape looks similar to the Australian bushland to me but they are a world apart.

 

[Gab]

For a moment I thought Glen Affric was a person...

Tim maybe you get confused with Ben Affleck the actor... :lol:

 

[thelps]

For a moment I thought Glen Affric was a person...

Tim maybe you get confused with Ben Affleck the actor... :lol:

That's very funny!! LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Blow-in]

For a moment I thought Glen Affric was a person - how uneducated I am
Good set here, I feel the landscape looks similar to the Australian bushland to me but they are a world apart.

Hi Tim,

Not a bad name for a Scottish actor...his uncle is just a few miles away (the Great Glen - Scotland's own rift valley)! It's early spring here so there is a lot of 'greening' still to happen which will make it a little less bush like although it's been so dry there have been over 20 bush fires in the Highlands this week.

Thanks everyone for the comments. It was a very bright day and I found judging the exposure quite difficult despite the much vaunted GRD IV LCD - not really a criticism of the screen which is very good but still not good enough in that light to really know how well exposed the shots were...having looked at the screen I opened-up the exposure and shot again to find out when I was home that the first shots were better. Perhaps a case for using exposure bracketing.

Richard

 

[quester]

It was a very bright day and I found judging the exposure quite difficult ...
Richard

Well, you were sometimes shooting both very shaded and bright areas together - a challenge for any scenery shot like this. I don't know if it's possible to use a graduated filter on the GRD, but this might help. I have given up getting a proper exposure in conditions like this with my PX, and just try to keep either the shade or the brightness to a small percent of the frame...

Interesting to read about this spectacular Reserve - is that one of the "granny" pines that Mollie and Maisie are standing next to?

 

[Blow-in]

It was a very bright day and I found judging the exposure quite difficult ...
Richard

Well, you were sometimes shooting both very shaded and bright areas together - a challenge for any scenery shot like this. I don't know if it's possible to use a graduated filter on the GRD, but this might help. I have given up getting a proper exposure in conditions like this with my PX, and just try to keep either the shade or the brightness to a small percent of the frame...

Interesting to read about this spectacular Reserve - is that one of the "granny" pines that Mollie and Maisie are standing next to?

Thanks for the comments. Yes, dark shade and brilliant sun lit areas are a bit of a challenge....for me anyway... I'm thinking about your useful suggestion of using a graduated filter. It is possibly on the GRD with the GH-2 adapter that takes 43 mm filters....in a separate thread there has been a bit of a discussion on protecting the lens and one suggestion that I quite like is to use the GH-2 and a lens hood so I may go down that route.

I'm glad that I've whetted your interest in Glen Affric - if only as a return for the interest your PX pictures have stimulated in me for 'your' desert home. Yes, the twisted branch next to M & M is a Scots Pine (and a granny). Most plantations you see of Scots Pine are 'commercial' growth and the trees are packed together and rather look like vertical pine poles. In nature they are much more spread out and take on interesting shapes and walking in them is always a pleasure. Glen Affric is far from a mono-culture and also has a lot of silver birch which stretch right across the north of Europe to the Russian Steppes...the birch are not in leaf yet....one little known fact is that you can make a dry white wine from birch sap.

I've attached another granny shot.

Richard

 

[quester]

Impressive trees!

...one little known fact is that you can make a dry white wine from birch sap.

Interesting how all over the world certain trees have been tapped to produce alcoholic beverages... I suppose that this is similar to collecting sap from maple trees, only fermented...?
There is also something like this done with the sap of certain palms (including some date palms) - the sap is collected, allowed to ferment naturally, or distilled, and you get an alcoholic drink called "laqbi" or "toddy" :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_wine

 

[Fairly]

beautiful scenery, great photos!

 

[Athena]

Beautiful shots indeed! Well done . You live in a very lovely part of the world, that's for sure. Bet the dogs love it there too .