Warm it up...

The ongoing succession of weather fronts off of the Atlantic are not without benefit - at least for a landscape photographer - as there are different atmospheric conditions on a daily basis. Yesterday; storm conditions - today; heavy showers followed by bands of blue sky.  In spite of all this there are only light winds, so it's back on the bike and a trip to Poole harbour, Dorset.

As I'm travelling light I have no filter kit with me, in particular a set of ND grey graduated filters, so for today's image I expose for the sky detail with the intention of correcting the shadows in the post-processing stage. Another trick I frequently use is to warm up the final result. It is a rule of thumb in publishing that a photo on a printed page has around 8 seconds to get the attention of the viewer before the page is turned and the image forgotten. This is particularly important in advertising where warm tones impart a more inviting impression to the viewer (check out those adverts in the Sunday paper magazines).
In the days of film an 81 series colour correction filter was the usual way to achieve this, but since the advent of digital camera the effect can be conveniently added after the fact.

12-24mm f/4G Nikkor. 1/500 second at f/11. ISO 400

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