I came very close to abandoning this image and going out again to seek another subject. The shot was taken not long after sunrise and the foreground was still in deep shadow due to slightly higher ground between my position and the sun. In the end I managed to "rescue" the shot with an inverted graduated filter to lighten the foreground. I also increased the saturation of the colour image to 100% before conversion to monochrome. Although the colour image looked appalling that enabled me to retain tonal separation between the blue sky and the flecks of small cloud which were the remnants of a passing shower. The shot might have been better attempted in the afternoon but it was a long walk, not from the village you can see behind, but from a hamlet about a mile to the right. It could have also benefited from more prominent clouds in the background, never mind, such is life.
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Fire Beacon
Barrie