My Passion

Photography is my hobby, I love it to bits. And living up here in the Lake District it would be no surprise that my forte is landscapes. Here's a few of my shots, I'll probably add a few more at some stage










Hope you enjoy these photo's.

Steve...

 

Not bad.......................lol

Fantastic pics matey

 

Fantastic photos Steve.We were up there last year and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.:thumb: Brings back many memories but our piccy's are not a patch on yours.

 

soom great photo`s there steve what camera & lense are you using?

 

Very impressive pics steve.

You have a very impressive place on your doorstep.

 

Well, Steve R I am speechless and anyone on GC reading this now is coughing.

They are STUNNING ... may I paint them? ... I do dabble a bit with painting ... look at my signature ...

I am in love with the first one ... and not just because it has a connection with me.... Well, I love them all .....

 

Fabulous pictures Steve!

 

Steve - utterly beautiful and totally professional.

Buttermere has a very close place in my heart - I love the little church of St James there. The first time that Mr Cookie and I went away together we did a tour of that part of the lakes and it was a perfect day. The church has very personal private reasons for being so memorable for us.

Your photography is a delight. Please show us much more.

Kath

 

Beautiful scenery , photo`s are fantastic , well done to you

 

Gobsmacked what fantastic pictures Steve R brought back some memories, stayed in the youth hostel in buttermere trod the whole of the lake district it doesn't get better than this well done.:thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

I now use a Canon 400D (since last Autumn, prior to that I had the 300D) and three lenses, the standard kit lens (18-55MM which is my workhorse) a Sigma 10-20MM which is a great wide angle lens and a Canon 28-135MM IS.. I also have a Canon 75-300 which is waiting to be sent away for repair although I fear this one cant be.

Lady of Leisure - Yes of course you can paint them, permision granted. Its nice that you ask as so many on the net just take for their own ends, where a simple "May I" often gets the reply "of course you can".

Thank you all for the comments, I really appreciate them. I'll find a few more to post for you now.

Steve...

 

Four more I have found for you to enjoy, if you've never visited Cumbria...you should really!

Steve...

 

Steve,brilliant again.I hope you have a book out of these because they are fantastic.:thumb:

Now this is a rude question but are your photo's touched up in anyway in Photoshop etc or are they as taken without anything added or taken away? I just take mine as seen though I only have a Fugi Finepix S5700 nothing too fancy and no extra lens.

 

Editing photo's ican be a touchy subject to some, I believe in "Less is more"

When I made the switch from film to digital, and joined photo forums I was quite shocked by the ammount of editing that can and does occur..I questioned this at the time and I got pretty much the same answers everywhere, and that was the top photographers have always edited their photos. Even in the good old film days nice blue skies where spliced into mediocre photo's to make them stunning.

Darkroom techniques where developed (no pun intended) that did various things including sharpening and masking. Slide film chemicals where used on normal film for different "looks" and vice versa.Now with digital all kinds of things can be done and as a photoshop user of many years (on the graphic/artwork side) I can do most of them or at least have a good understanding of where to start.

But for my photographs I like them to reflect my memory of that day and prefer to get things right "in camera". As an example, many people crop (cut down) their photo when its put on the computer, I like to make sure when I'm taking the picture that what I see through the viewfinder will be the photo without any need to crop, but as you can see above in the Castlerigg photo..it is cropped so I do ocassionaly edit my photo's in that respect.

Another common thing with digital cameras is one of ozone or atmosphere, there are fine particulates in the air between your camera and the subject you intend to photograph, this shows up as a "greyness" on your final photo, setting your camera correctly can alleviate this mostly but sometimes a very small tweak in an editing programme such as photoshop or Paint shop pro can help remove this and clarify your photo for you.

So to answer your question do I edit or embelish, the answer is yes, but sparingly and on the odd photo here and there. If I add here that out of maybe 200 shots from a day, maybe 2 or 3 will finally be seen outside of my pc, the rest are archived or binned, if I edited as many photographers do..I could multiply the ammount of "keepers" by 10 or more, but life is too short for that.

Steve...

 

Much respect Steve.

You are absolutely right about touching up in the 'olden days'! I had completely forgotton/never cosidered that aspect of film photography before, but remember whilst at Art College, doing some photography (must have been in the first year foundation course) that there were all kind of jiggery pokery going on!! It all seemed quite complicated to me - but I do remember tearing small holes into bits of paper to expose a particular detail in the pic for a second or two longer etc!

Now, it's just far more accessible, and probably over used. I am with you; that it is lots more interesting and takes skill and a certain 'eye' to capture a moment as well as you can at the time of taking (though if it gives folks pleasure to tinker about afterwards, hold nothing against them.)

More!!!