This weekend I earned the prize for being the most dumb amateur photographer on the planet!
Saturday was a gorgeous day so I set off early on what was to be a 300 mile round car trip to the area of northern Italy known as the Southern Tyrol of High Adige where I was looking to take photos of the alpine villages in the area and of snow covered mountains. Due to a dramatic temperature increase the past 10 days I didn't find too much snow but I did take in some splendid scenery even if it looked mostly wintery brown in colour. Unfortunately though I've not much to show of my trip because I managed to leave home without my reading glasses,without which I can't see a **** thing on the camera screen! To compound the problem I'd been playing with the camera settings the previous evening and accidentally left the exposure overdrive setting set to 3 full stops of over exposure. As a result almost all of my shots were grossly overexposed with burnt out highlights.
After reviewing the results on Saturday evening and cursing myself for being so stupid I was in a half a mind to take another trip on Sunday to get some better shots but the weather closed in during the night and Sunday began cloudy with threats of rain.
I've partially rescued a few of the better shots via Photoshop which I've posted below. One of these is a view of the Dolomite mountains about 45 miles in the distance around the ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, site of the 1956 Winter Olympics. The shot was taken from a relatively high pass on the west side of the upper Adige valley. The Dolomites looked so impressive that I now know where my next trip will be taking me! Hopefully my next photos will be more spectacle-ar!
The photos shown are:
1. Looking west from the village of Tirolo showing the Tirol castle in the bottom of the valley

2. Wood carving outside a shop in Tirolo, carved from a tree truck and standing almost 6 ft tall

3 & 4. A frozen Lake Vernago and hamlet a few kms south of the Austrian border

Saturday was a gorgeous day so I set off early on what was to be a 300 mile round car trip to the area of northern Italy known as the Southern Tyrol of High Adige where I was looking to take photos of the alpine villages in the area and of snow covered mountains. Due to a dramatic temperature increase the past 10 days I didn't find too much snow but I did take in some splendid scenery even if it looked mostly wintery brown in colour. Unfortunately though I've not much to show of my trip because I managed to leave home without my reading glasses,without which I can't see a **** thing on the camera screen! To compound the problem I'd been playing with the camera settings the previous evening and accidentally left the exposure overdrive setting set to 3 full stops of over exposure. As a result almost all of my shots were grossly overexposed with burnt out highlights.
After reviewing the results on Saturday evening and cursing myself for being so stupid I was in a half a mind to take another trip on Sunday to get some better shots but the weather closed in during the night and Sunday began cloudy with threats of rain.
I've partially rescued a few of the better shots via Photoshop which I've posted below. One of these is a view of the Dolomite mountains about 45 miles in the distance around the ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, site of the 1956 Winter Olympics. The shot was taken from a relatively high pass on the west side of the upper Adige valley. The Dolomites looked so impressive that I now know where my next trip will be taking me! Hopefully my next photos will be more spectacle-ar!
The photos shown are:
1. Looking west from the village of Tirolo showing the Tirol castle in the bottom of the valley

2. Wood carving outside a shop in Tirolo, carved from a tree truck and standing almost 6 ft tall

3 & 4. A frozen Lake Vernago and hamlet a few kms south of the Austrian border


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