I've been hoping to get out and shoot some more stuff for Runner's World magazine but the March weather has just been rubbish hasn't it? Would things improve in April - you betcha! A whole two weeks of fantastic warm sun and crisp blue skies - all I need now is a handy runner or two. Fortunately my good friend Georgie Lowrie and hubby Matt (I've only just started running - can I be in the magazine?) seemed able and willing. Kentmere looked a good bet with evening sunshine lighting up the top end of Green Quarter, only ten minutes from the fell road - lovely.
OK, this is not the shot that will make into the mag - they like colour and nice views but I couldn't help notice what a strong sky I had with this shot. I was pretty sure it was a candidate for some Lightroom/darkroom work and couldn't resist. I have a bunch of black and white filters in my pre-sets that do a pretty good job at getting the basic high contrast look with just a click. I liked the idea and the sky looked great but what else could I tweak? I thought about isolating Georgie and keeping Matt in the background using the Sharpness and Grad Filter tools - basically trying to get that "short depth of field/differential focusin" look you can achieve with a large format camera and camera movements...I think it turned out OK in the end, not sure what Matt will say though!

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