The weather finally broke and the sun came out to play -- a few shots from around Lac Bonlieu and the Cascades de Herisson.

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H there :)

lovely pics especially the ones of the running water :D

Autum's just arriving over there now. Would probably have been about right planning the trip for end of October eh? Ho hum...

Here in the Peak's the colour is starting to change rapidly! Still very warm in the daytime for the time of year, but chilly nights leading to fog and mist. Down south where I've been working mid-week it's still very green!!

Nice stuff Alwyn, really nice! Well done!

But one word, check ya sensor , looks like ya might have a bit of the grubby stuff on there.

Paul

Yes the drive up to the mountains was incredible -- I jumped out of the car a couple of times to try and grab some shots where the sun was breaking through the clouds and highlighting just one or two stands of trees but I missed every time. It was a beautiful day but I'm never doing the Herisson's run again as it really knackered me -- going down to the Grand Saut and the Eventail was very steep and slippery and coming back up again with my tripod and mini trekker loaded with gear was very, very difficult (probably the most difficult thing I've done in 20 years) and something I swear I'll never do again. There must be an easier trail to follow to see the Eventail and Grand Saut waterfalls as I was at the top of them rather than shooting them from the bottom so if I can find that particular trail...anyway, I'd forgotten to take any water with me so there were at least 10 stops on the way back up to get my breath and drink from the river. Deliverance anyone? :)

And yes, the trip planning for end of October would have been spot on :( Oh well, there's always next year but I think I'll do one more run up to the Jura before winter sets in and try and bag a few more shots as the leaves haven't went as yellow and red as I'd like so a couple of weeks and it should be just right.

Paul, thanks mate. I think the crap got into the camera as I changed lenses quite a lot in less than ideal surroundings! Time to swipe it again before the next outing :)

:notworthy

superb shots :thumb:

beautiful :)

Nice pics there Mr Frenchie :thumb:

Been looking at your pictures for a while now and you seem to have a certain style . I reckon I could recognize them a mile way . Is that a concious thing or something you just pick up with years of experiance ? plus you always seem to get the exposure spot on .:notworthy

Thank you kind sir! :) Style? I suppose if I were to analyse the way I take pictures I would say I look at things in a certain way and photograph them in the same way so I guess that counts as a style. I tend to stick by the composition rules and was very conscious that I was breaking the rule of thirds in the second picture but I really like how it turned out. As for the exposure, that comes from years of trial and error using film (and £££ in processing costs before I started to do my own b/w stuff) but now with digital it's so easy just to look at the histograms just to double check what I'm seeing on the LCD display to know whether or not it's right according to what I'm try to achieve.

Yes I supposed you had to learn the hard(and expensive ) way when using film .. I just used the green setting ;) I think shooting RAW makes you lazy as well with exposure settings, I seem to be always thinking "oh well I just adjust it in Rawshooter when I get home" A habit I really need to get out of.
I guess we are all spoilt these days with all this modern technology that none of us can resist buying :D

Top pics Alwyn :thumb:

Yup I think we were right planning for the end of October, I've just got back from working a nightshift in Wales. The leaves are turning but not quite there yet, very misty too so not many shots. :(

I've got a long weekend next weekend off so may see if I can get to the Lake District as I'm sure Ullswater, Grassmere and Buttermere will look fantastic :D

It was a beautiful day but I'm never doing the Herisson's run again as it really knackered me -- going down to the Grand Saut and the Eventail was very steep and slippery and coming back up again with my tripod and mini trekker loaded with gear was very, very difficult (probably the most difficult thing I've done in 20 years) and something I swear I'll never do again. There must be an easier trail to follow to see the Eventail and Grand Saut waterfalls as I was at the top of them rather than shooting them from the bottom so if I can find that particular trail...anyway, I'd forgotten to take any water with me so there were at least 10 stops on the way back up to get my breath and drink from the river. Deliverance anyone? :)

:eek: Surely not! :( You will have to tell us which way you went, I think I've still got the leaflet somewhere with the routes marked, although it's not up to Landranger standard ;)

If we ever get to Wales on one of these trips I've got an excellent waterfall to visit, bit of a treck but good pathways and easier on the way down ;) I'll stick up a pic later if it's worked.

I went in from the starting point where I last visited -- the Saut Giraud and walked down from there. Going down was easy enough if a little bit treacherous with all the slippery leaves, rocks and steps but coming back up again was a real challenge...I kept thinking "I'm a fat ******* and this is my fault"...I encountered some french people on the way back up as I was sat there gasping for breath and I just mumbled at them "plus jamais" (never again). It took me about 45 minutes to do the whole trail but double that to get back up again. There has to be a better way!!!

Oh and by the way, my legs are still aching several days after the event!!!

I think the 2 car option might be needed, leave one at the bottom and start from the top ;)

Blooming long way though!

I think the 2 car option might be needed, leave one at the bottom and start from the top ;)

Blooming long way though!

I think that's the only way you'd get me to go there again! I didn't go to the bottom of the Grand Saut and the grotte as I was done for already so I didn't get any shots of the 60m fall. That's something I'm starting to regret...

The weather was rotten yesterday but today turned out nice so I took the scoob up the twisties in the Jura and had a bit of a play...it just loved the cooler air and the roads. I went up to the Lac de Vouglans which is an enormous 35km long lake and I took a panorama. Pity Photoshop is so weak at stiching the pics together and I've left autostich in work so I'll have another go at that. Most of these pics were taken at the side of the road. I think my TomTom is trying to kill me as it kept telling me to turn left into the ravines as I drove along! Anyway, here's what the Jura is looking like today.

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As you can see a lot of the trees have already lost their leaves but there's still a decent amount of colour around.

Looks good :thumb: That 3rd one especially!

Last weekend here wasn't quite so colourfull here but there is a frost tonight so should be some colour by this weekend :)

Autostitch comes up with the goods BIG time. All 4 pano shots have been stitched together and I can't see the join. Well done those chaps! :)

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Seamless stitching, but looks awfully soft compared to the others - heavy jpg compression, or normal results?

Heavy jpg compression both from the autostitch program and photoshop to get it to a manageable size for the web :(

Did you set Autostitch to a 100% stitch? It's hidden in the options, the phots come out very soft unless you do that.

Geezer

I didn't compress in autostitch either...had a cuppa while it it did its thing rendering tho ;)
Left compression till saving for web in CS2

Had another play and set Autostitch to 100% and then I raised the saturation which seems to have given it the an over-sharpened impression. Also reduced the width to be a bit more friendly.

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