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You definitely have to have a digital camera for these pictures. I think the tip using a tripod is such a great idea. IT makes the picture so good. When using the tripod there is no shaking going on. Great ideas to use.TV Shows Online

Try using a wide angle lens f2.8 or alternatively a fish eye lens and compose your photo with an object right in the foreground like a person or monument. Try getting plenty of cloud filled skys in the photo. Blue skys full of white clouds and dark rain filled skys are best. Use maximum pixel quality on digital or if using film try one of the fuji Velvia range. If you are feeling really ambitious and want to reproduce some of Ansel Adams magical B&Ws try agfa scala. Its difficult medium but the results are truly outstanding if processed properly.  Remember always take a tripod for those long exposures (water, ghost walkers etc).

Hi there again ridgewalker, you left a comment next to my image that simply said,  "Which photoshop do you use" and I replied explaining how I went about it. This was hopefully for you to understand that It aint just about photoshop. To get a shot like this, which was mearly an expression of how it looked and felt  when i was there, I had  a huge list of preparation. To improve your photographs try heading out to a place you really love, check the weather for perhaps a great sunrise or sunset or even part sun part rain. Then you must begin to look closely at some good foreground and begin to work this in to the main attraction. You will often find that it takes more than one trip to get the pic. Now this needn't be a problem cause you will learn an approach to getting that pic and also you will get to know your camera much better. Its a learning curve but its worth it. I have been serious now for only two years and it is hard work but I love it as THE CAMERA has forced me to new places to camp down and now I have 8 galleries selling my stuff and let me also add that photoshop, when used in most cases descreetly is vital to the final outcome.  I have attached  the original image and the one you were asking about and am not ashamed to tell people exactly how I went about it.  I hope this helps you overcome what appears to be a hatred of the affore mentioned software. Happy clicking  Paul.......

Before digital camers's, if your SLR was loaded with a 24 exposure film and you took it up the mountains on a walk. Firstly the law of averages says that a lot of the shots would be grey, dull and unexciting, some would just show a shadowy figure in the misty distance, some would show people you were with posing cheesily forcing a smile through the blowing gale, wrong aperture or exposure contributing to poor photo's. When developed, possibly a couple or up to about 6 of the 24 pictures actually might have been any good.

The advent of automatic camera's improved the quality of some of the photo's while just learning through experience of what makes a good and bad photo, composition, contrasting colour and interesting features could again inprove the number of good photo's out of the 24.

The further development of automatic digital camera's has again increased the chances of getting a higher percentage of good photo's. If you pay some attention to some basic composition rules, take note of where the sun or light is among other simple practices - just about every photo taken could be a good one. Digital has the advantage of being able to view the picture immediately after taking it. Although mostly automatic, don't forget that various functions, settings and features of the camera can be changed to allow for different conditions and effects.

The Photoshop facilities are just another tool to either change, crop, improve or add effects to. Not having things like Photoshop is not the end of the world, but there's nothing wrong with using it as out of say 24 pictures taken, a much larger percentage are actually any good - and the worst ones can be discarded, the poorer ones might be improved or enhanced and even the good ones might be improved while still keeping the original image unchanged. Photoshop does not take skill away from photography, it just means that with a digital camera and a readily available computer programme, anyone can take great pictures without needing expensive camera suites with multiple lenses and filters weighing a ton or dark room facilities.