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This is Coniston Water, fifth largest lake in England and home to many famous (and infamous) world water speed record attempts.
Walking around the lakeshore looking for attractive compositions to photograph, I came across this stand of trees, already stripped of their leaves and standing stark against the darkening sky.
Because so much of the frame was dark, I had to reduce the exposure by 2 stops from that indicated by my Nikon's metering system in order to retain some detail in the sky. But that wasn't a problem, as I was anticipating the trees and hills being rendered as a pure sillhouette anyway.
When I came to process this image I found that, despite the heavy under exposure, there was still a small amount of detail still retained in the trees and hills.
Amazing - that would never have happened with Velvia!
Filename - lake trees 06.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @18mm
Exposure - 1/1000sec @ f11, ISO200
Location - Coniston Water, Lake District
This image - 800x640px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - -2 stop exposure compensation used to retain detail in the clouds
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