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Well done Dave, I have not had the nerve to post an actual photograph yet. I know Dartmoor sort of well, one of my fav areas. I too am on the US Pentax site as the name I use here ( Reggie1958 ) and I have been an awful lurker there too. I plan to make amends. I need to go through my thousands of photos for the 3 or 4 that I'm willing to show people

Reggie

Never be afraid to post images on here. When I look at the early cringe-worthy images I posted (and some later ) I've almost always had helpful comments on how the image could be improved. It's difficult being one's own critic.

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes. Had an eye screen test on Monday and things are improving slowly.

To the website designers: I still think there could be more contrast between the font and background.

*Waves from behind the tree* I will make an attempt to post an image or two. Like others, I guess there's that fear of it being perceived as rubbish.... but then I guess you just don't improve

Folks here are always willing to offer some constructive criticism. The worst that happens is no one says anything!

OK, a quick one. Will find more.

Whitstable bay sunset. My attempt at some PP. I'm yet to learn anything so just a bit of cropping and playing with sliders to see what happens. Tricky to find that balance so that it doesn't look to processed.

Seems to stall trying to add more than one image to a post

Do you shoot jpeg or raw? Raw will give you more leeway in adjusting levels and extracting the most detail. I like the first shot as it is. There's a potential for some dramatic skies in the other two, particularly no. 3. Black and white conversions may help in that respect.

Are you sizing the images to suit the forum. I think it's 800px longest side.

You might also try starting your own thread in "Your Photos Forum" then peoples comments on your images won't get lost in amongst other things

Originals are in raw, these were converted to jpegs a few months ago.

No, I think they have to be jpeg and the forum re-sizes them to a max size of 800px. So I wonders if the re-sizing was slowing your uploading

I always make my own resized versions to upload, I think the quality comes out a bit better.

The only "fault" I can see is the "unsupported" foliage in number 1 but as I wasn't at the location couldn't know if you could have eliminated it Like the other two very much, very atmospheric

ANY attention is GOOD attention ! Thats always been my motto ... (no doubt some would agree with that )

I occasionally pop in and have read through some topics and have gander in the gallery.
However as Ex-Pentax owner it's not that regular occurance.
Still it's nice to pop in every once in a while