Scotney Castle

[David Porter]

The latest in a series on National Trust properties in the South East of England. This one has a few more PTE "tweeks". Comments would be appreciated.

Mickp

PC - My link

MAC - My link

[Ken Cox]

MICK

NICE composition

ran smooth

ken

[Nikonos]

The latest in a series on National Trust properties in the South East of England. This one has a few more PTE "tweeks". Comments would be appreciated.

Mickp

PC - My link

MAC - My link

A nice selection of images Mick. Also it was good to see some interiors for a change - this must be due to the recent relaxation of the strict rules that the NT has imposed in the past. It can be difficult to get the balance of room lighting and the outside world anywhere near perfect without using a tripod (for multiple exposure), or extensive use of supplementary lighting. At one time in my career I did interior (and exterior) photographic work for the NT and it involved a lot of setting up of large format cameras, flash strobes etc. and the use of Polaroid to get a 'natural' look without the use of flash being obvious.

Incidentally, I particularly liked the end sequence with the window apertures showing different views.

I thought that some of the images looked to have burn-out highlights (the stonework of the castle in particular). I'm not sure whether you shot JPEG or not, but with RAW files you could have mostly corrected this. Some of the images looked a bit on the light side as well on my (calibrated) monitor.

Thanks for sharing your hard work!

Regards - Malcolm

[colin hill]

Mick,

A very good presentation. Also liked the window effect. Your last slide was superb.

Thank you for sharing and your efforts.

Colin

[deskjet1uk]

Hello Mick,

I really liked the photography in this presentation, a good mix and the presentation allowed the viewer to get inside the castle and grounds.

Well done

Ralph

[trailertrash]

What a great way to spend a few hours Mick. Excellent images and well produced.

[David Porter]

Thanks very much for your comments. I'll have a look at the blown out areas in the raw images and see if I can improve them.

Mickp.

[rmstevens]

Hi Mick,

Enjoyed the sequence. I took your advice and I too recently visited Scotney

and enjoyed the new freedom to photograph the interiors. Pleased with the

results at ISO 800. Some I took two pictures - one with exposure from the

window and used layers/layer mask to combine.

For burnt out highlights, I make much use of Photoshop - Image - Adjustments -

Shadow/Highlight. Also good for getting details in shadows.

Regards, Roger.

[David Porter]

Hi Mick,

Enjoyed the sequence. I took your advice and I too recently visited Scotney

and enjoyed the new freedom to photograph the interiors. Pleased with the

results at ISO 800. Some I took two pictures - one with exposure from the

window and used layers/layer mask to combine.

For burnt out highlights, I make much use of Photoshop - Image - Adjustments -

Shadow/Highlight. Also good for getting details in shadows.

Regards, Roger.

Hi Roger,

I did use Highlights/shadow but more to bring out detail in the dark areas which was more of a problem, I thought, than the highlights. Not sure I understand your "two pictures" technique but I found I was using upto ISO 1200 and was still thankful I had Image stabilised lens. I will do more NT properties in September when kids are back at school.

Mickp

[rmstevens]

Hi Mick,

I took two pictures from the same viewpoint - one with correct room exposure

the other with spot meter reading taken of the window ie room under exposed.

In PS, using layer mask, added the correctly exposed window to the room interior.

Look forward to your next NT venture.

Regards, Roger