About the Image(s)

How I Did It:
This was taken at the same location as Mussenden Temple, last month's image, on the north coast of Northern Ireland at Downhill Demesne. It is looking over the wall and down to these houses situated by the beach. The temple building is out of shot on my left. The houses are situated against the cliff and are protected from falling stones etc by large nets suspended from the clifftop. Being north facing, they get no midday sun and are open to northerly gales, but they look nice for a photograph! Camera was my Lumix G9 with the Leica 50-200 lens at 73 mm. Exposure was 1/1600 at f/8 with ISO 640. Back home I took it into ON1 RAW and adjusted the highlights and shadows a little. Then I applied NoNoise AI in ON1 and cropped some off the top and some off the RHS to balance the composition. The black container near the rail line was a very distracting bright blue so I changed that to black. I also brightened the houses and increased the overall contrast. ON1 also has a handy Sunshine Filter which just perks up the scene so I applied that too. I darkened the sky a little, but just enough to bring out the clouds without making them too dark