This is a three shot vertorama of Blea Tarn, on National Trust land in the Langdales. It's another shot from my rainy day up in the Lake District over Christmas. Having driven up from Great Langdale I spent three or four hours up at the tarn, watching the light scroll across the landscape.
Assaulted by rain, sleet and hail, I had a heavy duty sandwich bag taped around my lens hood and back over the whole body and tripod. All good fun.
Two hours in there was a brief break in the rain, and a couple of minutes patchy golden light, then a sudden grey slide into darkness. This is from that moment. Originally I was set up just for the Langdales and the tarn, but when the colours appeared higher in the sky, I thought I'd have a go at a vertorama. That was created manually, first blending two exposures of the sky by hand, then cutting out the distant shore and dropping in the lake. Finally a manual "perspective" adjustment hopefully did the job of making the water look natural. The hardest thing was holding back thereafter - the colours are pretty much as shot.
If you want to see some proper vertoramas, I'd suggest you check out Peter Ribbeck's incredible photostream. He's a classy chap and his landscape photography is relentlessly breathtaking.
Hope everyone is having an amazing week so far!
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Hans van Reenen 4 months ago | reply
Beautiful lighting.
nina's clicks 4 months ago | reply
Beautiful work, love the light!
Kia & Zeno 4 months ago | reply
Really superb :)
Clive C 4 months ago | reply
Dramatic sky and light. Nicely done.
alanj2007 (off until next week) 4 months ago | reply
What a beautiful scene. I love the light and dramatic sky.
SedatPhotography 4 months ago | reply
great shot
Far & Away (On Assigment in Angola, mostly Off) 4 months ago | reply
Great job, I like it !!
wish you will have a wonderfull time today !!
காவியம் Kaaviyam Photography 4 months ago | reply
WOW! Aweosme view....love that spot light!! Great landscape capture...with those dark clouds this picture looks so dramatic!!
teo58- 4 months ago | reply
Wonderful light!
Steve-h 4 months ago | reply
gorgeous light and composition !!
Vincent_Ting 4 months ago | reply
The rocks in FG and rays run through clouds composed a awesome image.
ph.p.ph. 4 months ago | reply
This is stunning, superb composition and focus, love the tones an amazing work,so very well done.
Paolo
MadonnaJ 4 months ago | reply
Brilliant, superb, excellent shot !
No words could describe this beauty.
You have done very well.
green-dinosaur 4 months ago | reply
Lovely manipulation. The light is breathtaking. I think you were right to leave the colours as shot, there is a delicacy about them which is very appealing.
hamletdk@yahoo.dk 4 months ago | reply
Beautiful light and focus, very nice photowork! You have a very fine fotostream
Izakigur 4 months ago | reply
Excellent, the way it should had be !
gtpete63 3 months ago | reply
the threating sky andthat exceptional bit of light over the central mountin in the BG is surreal.
Great work.
Perhaps a slightly longer exposure would have just been enough to soften the water texture, none the less this great work.
You are a tough little bugger to put up with that crappy weather.
SolsticeSol 3 months ago | reply
Just beautiful, that dreamy dramatic sky just pulls the senses
right in. I love love love the magical light in this.
A most wonderful moment and image.. :)
May your Saturday shine!
tchebytchev 3 months ago | reply
full of ambiance, great :)
PT Photo 2 months ago | reply
Love the dark clouds and the nice tones. Nice verto!