Stormy morning, Mablethorpe

6. Stormy Morning Mablethorpe: My main goal in landscape photography is convey a sense of mood. This image, I feel, has worked well because all the effects you see were created in camera. I selected 1600 ISO disabled the noise reduction system on my Nikon D200, changed the white balance to enhance the overall magenta light that existed on this overcast stormy winter morning and simply made the image. The only post capture manipulation was in Photoshop using levels and curves. I cropped the image slightly to remove a dull upper part of the sky. The overall painterly effect is one of my favourites. It won’t do well in competitions, but then, I didn’t take for competition; I took, as I do all my photographs, for my own pleasure. Nikon D200 Nikon 18-200mm lens.