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Elgol (1)

The Cuillin from Elgol, Isle of Skye.

Long exposure using the NDx1000 filter (40 secs)

This is one of the iconic views in the United Kingdom, which accounts for the fact that it is generally crawling with photographers of all shapes, sizes and levels of expertise .. inevitably getting in each others way!

On Friday evening (watch this space for the results), I saw something which appealed to my warped sense of humour: a middle age gent (dressed in the standard naff "I'm a tourist" gear, complete with Bermuda shorts) had a very expensive looking light meter and spent ages taking all sorts of readings from a variety of angles, and making (what seemed to me to be) a million calculations on a piece of paper. When all this palaver was finished (it was about 20 minutes), he took one of these wee "point and shoot" cameras, which was about the size of a large postage stamp, from his trouser pocket, pointed it in the general direction of the mountains and clicked the button .. and that was it .. and he then spent the next 20 minutes telling his adoring spouse what he'd done. Dear God, I wished I was close enough to hear what he was saying .. it would have been priceless!

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Taken on: April 4, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS 450D, f/11.0, 40 sec, 33mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 450D
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	40
Focal Length:	33mm
ISO:	100
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
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