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Nice one Neil--see what happens when you try
Very nice shot Neil, I like the light.
(24th March 2014)Neil, the picture is almost there. Had you pointed the camera down or zoomed in a little, excluding more of the bright sky, the bottom half of the picture, which has land and lake would have turned out lighter. Very bright skies can be a curse and many use a graduated filter which can really go a long way to solving the problem without having to resort to post production editing. I've already broken one of rules relating to comments, but your image has great potential and I like it.
A nicely laid out shot Neil, but very difficult to control exposure when you have highlights in foreground and background. The main subject is of course the landing stages with Derwent Isle and Catbells behind. Most cameras on auto would have achieved a similar result. As Rod suggests angling the camera down, or better still crouching down (that's why photographers have knees!!) would have given a better result for the piers etc, and give more foreground interest, but the sky would have blown out with no detail in the clouds. I agree with Rod again too regarding the use of a graduated filter over the sky to hold the exposure back, but these are not things that we all have in our pockets. Modern cameras have very sophisticated metering systems but still struggle when given such a wide contrast range.
Well Neil, pic no. 1 and a beautiful subject too. Not sure whether you use an SLR or compact but for me I would probably have ended up with a similar result as I do not have any filters anyway. Excluding most of the sky would have probably reduced the blown effect allowing one to concentrate on the main subject. \i have had a day today out with the camera and some of the skies have been a hassle.
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