Last week, I shared some recent images I’d taken during bad weather on a mountain in the Lake District. As I haven’t been able to get out to do any photography this week either, I thought I would try to process more of the images.
This was a worthwhile exercise.
I say this because I learnt an important lesson by doing so. As last week’s post mentioned, I have become used to restricting my landscape photography to good conditions. But it’s not only my photography that’s suffered because of this; my editing has also suffered. I’ve become used to editing a certain image style and didn’t know how to handle the bad weather landscape images I had captured.
And the same can be said for my creative vision.
That was also restricted, which is why I couldn’t see the potential winners. Here are a couple more images from the shoot I did.
Here you can see the rain rolling in across the mountains, with a small chink of light on the horizon. It created a wonderful glow, and I felt the scene would benefit from a cool tone.
I shot it handheld using the Fuji XT5 and a Fuji 16-80 lens at 30mm. It’s a 1/50 second exposure at f/9.0 and ISO125. I also used a soft 4-stop ND Grad filter on the sky.
This shot is from the same location as above but turned 45 degrees to the right. The cloud was moving so fast that the light was constantly changing. Fantastic.
This is using the same camera and lens but at 16mm. It’s a 1/80 second handheld exposure (a tripod would have blown over) at f/8.0 and ISO400. I had to increase the ISO to be sure of capturing a steady shot. I also used the soft 4-stop ND Grad filter on the sky.
Colour Management Webinar 2
In addition to editing more bad weather landscape photos, I also delivered my second colour management webinar for Datacolor this week. Datacolor has now uploaded it to their YouTube channel, where you can watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUDQtKwAnGE&t=471s. Although I demonstrate DxO PhotoLab, you can apply the information to printing with any software.
I hope you like this week’s images, and have a great weekend.
The Lightweight Photographer 
The second image is fantastic. One can feel the dynamic action of light and wind, yet all the colors are revealed in a very cohesive way that renders depth and balance. This is really an “action” picture and the “star” is Mother Nature making a definitive statement!
Thanks John. I’m glad you like it.