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That's a lovely selection of landscapes Robert...well done. It's hard to have an outright favourite. I think it's 5 & 6 for me.
The only one that doesn't quite match up is the last one where the light has deserted you. I also think cropping it tighter on left and sky gives the tree greater dominance. Just a personal preference.
Thanks for commenting Eric, I do like your edit, I had been trying preserve the bushes left and right to provide depth and framing but I feel your way is better, incidentally you can just make out the road in the bottom left corner and again a little further up. That is the beginning of the Wrynose Pass.
The light had gone. This is a screen shot of the Lightroom display showing how much recovery had taken place and the histogram for the longest exposure, 1/25th sec. I find it amazing that such a nice picture can be wrung from such a dark exposure, albeit at the cost of a little contrast. Checking the exposure time, it's almost half last five, but daylight saving was on so make that half past four! 4:27 in a deepish valley is pretty dim. The D800 continues to amaze me.
This an untouched NEF straight out of the camera. I guess I should never have attempted it but I was so taken with the visual contrast that I saw, I thought I might make something of it. Thinking now, I should have walked along the footpath and taken the picture jamming the camera on the wall. Maybe a good place for stars or star trails...
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