A shot or two...

these are using the above mentioned slotin holder, and the cokin P121S.

Tamron 10-24@10mm, Pentax k10D, I think ISO 100 (not sure, it's not really relevant).

With grad 1/30@f16, green button says "1/50@f16", which was also too high. UFRaw wanted to bring that down another half stop, I've left it alone.
No curve corrections, saturation up (as usual). No sharpening.













I can really, really see the use of these now, though the grad is a tad too strong for this situation. Will have to see if I can find a softer one for the summer.

Bret

no, that's almost what I'd figured, I just wasn't sure.
We spent quite a lot of time in and around Aberaeron / Aberystwyth / Aberteifi when I was a kid and more time in up north when I was a teenager (Cader a couple of times and various other hills, but not yet Snowdon).

Shame I won't have any time when I'm in the UK in the summer to go to Wales.

Bret

4 for me. Care to share in slightly more detail where you were?

Bret

.... I have spam, too... I rarely check my portfolio page, as I don't use the functionality.

Bret

the snow was in Helsinki (where I work). Here in Lahti it just rained.

And now my dentist pulled a wisdom tooth. Yay!

there's no comparison with working on a JPG and on the original RAW file, and I'll argue that's true up to photoshop expert level.

If you want to get the most out of your photos, you have *no choice* but to learn how to post-process.

Bret

snowing here....

There's not that much wrong, the light was obviously OK.

Probably increase blackpoint. Were you behind chainlink, by any small chance? Also minimal saturation increase, maybe a little USM.
However, none of this helps without the software.......I'd process this first automatically and then refine. But I a) know what I want and b) I'm a computer guy anyway, so the software is the lesser evil.

Bret

[IMG]http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z307/50crates/Owl2crop.jpg[/IMG]

... with software. Load the pictures into your software and start working with it... like setting your Whitebalance, correct the exposure and then maybe get a handle on what curves can do for you.

I have absolutely no idea what you want to do, what your user level is (competent?), what operating system you're using or what you want the pics for. Without that, it's a bit flying blind.

Bret