I like it, and it seems to be stitched together seamlessly (as far as my tired eyes can tell:shock. I agree with snappychappy in that we come tantalisingly close to seeing the 'full curve' of the bay/inlet at the left edge but it is just cut off... a couple of extra degrees left would have been great. Just my view though - it's a nice shot in any case.

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Mat

Wow - like people have already commented... very difficult... Can't really do an order but just at the moment the top ten would probably comprise...

Dr Strangelove
Gladiator
The Empire Strikes Back
Once Upon A Time in the West
Alien
Donnie Darko
The Right Stuff
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
Pan's Labyrinth
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

But it's tough to pick ten!

Mat W

Mike - not a great deal of PP (although I am not sure how much people typically do)... I use the RAW converter from PSE to convert the RAW file, tweaking the sliders little but nothing too radical - I normally find myself slightly upping the contrast and the saturation. Then in PSE I normally then do some further tweaking on the shadows, highlights, and mid-tone contrast, and normally sharpen. It is quite possible they are over-sharpened (I fear I have a heavy hand:shock. The Bokeh on the Robin is pretty much as per the RAW file from having just down a quick comparison... I have seen a couple of my shots with a similarly 'aggressive' bokeh so assume it's typical - or maybe I just manage to find weird backgrounds for my pictures...

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Mat

Thanks again everyone - another two months of winter...Gosh. If the sun comes out here again I'll try and post some more 'warming' shots (big if though:shock...

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Mat

I agree. I always keep my instruction book in my camera bag; and were I to only have a pdf version of it, I would be trying to print off a double-sided A5 version of it!! Still I guess if companies are constantly trying to drive down costs and (presumably) meet green targets, then it's an 'easy' target...

Mat

Yes I agree - the second one is great! it almost seems to move, or shimmer, as you look at it (maybe that's just me:shock

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Mat

I'm often quite taken with Ridley Scott films - he always seems to manage to add to his films with his cinematography (if I have understood the term correctly) - Blade Runner; Gladiator; Alien;... I remember thinking Hannibal was fantastically well shot (especially the bit in Venice) even if the film itself wasn't the best

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Mat

I like this one - lovely colours on the water.

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Mat

Thanks Kris and Huw. You are right, Kris, the light was great yesterday. It's nice to have a clear day at this time of year as even at midday there are some good shadows as the sun is quite low. Still cold though. Quite a lot of the ponds in Richmond Park are still largely frozen, or look like mini ice-floes with big chunks of floating ice. It's a great time of year I reckon... and the robins are absolutely fearless! A problem I had yesterday was that I was too close to the little fellers and was worried they would take flight if I moved away...

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...P.S. - 'Honk-fest'...




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