CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

While photographing near to Kinlochewe at the end of February I spotted a group of silver birch trees with beautiful markings on the bark and also drops of water hanging from the branches. I took the X-T1 out of the bag and fitted the XF56mm f1.2 lens with the 16mm extension tube to increase the magnification. I then grabbed some shots of the trees before heading back to the car.

This was an image I captured while taking landscape shots between Kinlochewe and Torrid in the Highlands of Scotland.  I spotted the lone tree on the ridge and saw a cloud being highlighted by the sunlight drifting quite quickly into the shot.  The dark snow clouds provided a very nice contrasty scene.   With the Fujifilm X-Pro2 fitted with the XF50-140mm f2.8 I only had to wait a few minutes for the cloud to be in the perfect position to capture this image. The final picture was cropped slightly to improve the composition and was converted to mono in Silver EFEX Pro2 after a few tweaks to the contrast and clarity in Photoshop. The exposure was 1/850s @ f11 ISO200 with the focal length at 140mm (210mm equivalent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping...

Snow on the mountains and stormy weather in the Highlands of Scotland always make for a dramatic combination.  We headed north on Saturday to cover the aptly named Snowman Rally, round 1 of the Scottish Rally Championship, and because of the snow on the A9, the main route north to Inverness we decided to head straight to the final stage of the day. Because we arrived early for the stage we headed off toward Torridon to capture some landscape images before heading back to Strathpeffer. The storm clouds were coming across the mountains in waves, so we had to dodge the sleet and rain, which meant is was a typical Scottish day weather wise! Using the Fujifilm X-Pro2 and the 50-140mm I captured a set of landscape images which suited a mono conversion in post production using Silver EFEX Pro2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISIT...