Some more snowy landscapes - South Lanarkshire

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Some more images shot over the last few weeks while we had a bit of snow in South Lanarkshire.
Mavic 2 Pro…

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JCP_bothwell_castle 04
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and some from my Nikon Z6…
Douglas Castle, South Lanarkshire 02
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Douglas, South Lanarkshire 02
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Love the pictures do you only use the mavic pro. Do the new reg restrict you or do you only fly in country spaces.

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I’ve a Mavic 2 Pro and I’ve got my A2 C of C cert. Hoping to get a Mini 2 soon too. I’ve been out locally recently, but I prefer getting away to open country when I can. I think the new regs are great as I can now fly in urban areas. It’s keeping 50m away from people that’s the hard part.

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Fantastic John, love number 2 :heart_eyes: if I could get away with drone pictures on my walls I’d definitely be going through your albums.

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You either have a knack for taking a good landscape or not think you have a knack

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Some beauties there John. Well done.

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Awesome set of shots again John! No.2 and 3 of the drone shots and No.7 and 9 are just stunning mate :heart_eyes:

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Cheers Steve :+1: I don’t get away with drone photos on my walls either :joy:

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Cheers John :+1:

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Cheers Steve :+1:

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Cheers Steve :+1: i think you’ve pretty much picked my favourites too.

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Absolutely stunning once again, John. That 3rd drone shot is amazing, mate.

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Wow… beautiful shots mate… I want to print the 3rd one out as Xmas cards for next year (I won’t, but I wanna), it’s gorgeous!

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Cheers Chris :+1:

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Cheers Jay :+1: It’s one of my favourite spots (Bothwell Castle) and handily only 5 minutes from my house.

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Wonderful pictures yet again John :slight_smile: :+1:

Can I ask, the sun rays on the second picture (and some of the pics in your last set of wintery wonder). Are they as shot with some editing to make them pop. They’re superb!

What’s your trick? … asking for a friend who always seems to end up with a blown-out patch of white on these things :slight_smile:

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Cheers Joe :+1:
The suns rays in the first lot were done by shooting straight in to the sun then taking 9 images, varying the aperture from f11 to about f4 then merging them via HDR in LR. I went from exposing for the sun to exposing for the dark shadows on the ground, hence the 9 photos.
In the second photo above, it’s a mix of the suns rays (the sun was just creeping over the tree line) and flare. All I’ve done to make them pop is boost the colours in LR. I did have to create two images of this in LR and blend them using layers as I wanted to bring out the detail in the foreground without losing the detail in the top third of the image. Hope this makes sense :grinning:

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Makes perfect sense, yes. And thanks for the mini lesson. I feel very lazy now just letting it get on with the 5-shot AEB. I guess you gets out what you puts in :wink:

Now I just need the sun to come back :cloud_with_rain:

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tomorrow :+1:

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Beautiful Pics.
New to drone flying and awaiting lockdown to be lifted.
Flying is off at the mo for myself, reason and hopefully on Thursday I get me new knee, could do with two but hey ho I can wait.
Johnnyboy

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