Wonderful.

Cheers.
Philip

John, I too would consider myself a novice relative to some of the others who contribute here. So to argue or state categorically that something is wrong would be inappropriate.

All I would suggest from my limited experience is that I doubt that a camera, even the K-3, could capture that sort of scene as it would be perceived by human vision, and therefore it would need some helpful intervention in post-processing, whether the images are in Raw or JPEG file format.

As one example from the last image, light is reflected by the sky and by the rocks on the right, so it seems to me that our vision would see more light, colour and detail in the trees and the pot-plant on the left hand side. As another, despite the possible mist and/or haze in the scene, I suspect that we would also see more in the steep rock and vegetation on the right, as it seems to be directly illuminated by sunlight from the left.

However, everyone will have their own views, so all that really matters is that the photos convey your vision and emotion regarding the scenes and that you are happy with them.

Cheers.
Philip

So presumably it was pointless of the old masters, such as Ansel Adams, spending hours of their time manipulating images (dodging, burning, altering the chemical processes, etc.) in the darkroom, or as it might now be called - "analogically faking it"?

Cheers.
Philip

Very nicely composed images, and wonderful colours.

Cheers.
Philip

I like the compositions of these images, but if they were mine I would want them to have more punch rather than the soft muted look. The k-3 will have recorded the details so I would bring more out of the shadows, then play around with brightness, contrast, saturation and clarity, e.g. -



Cheers.
Philip

You might be right, Nigel, but I cannot really answer that as I do not have the knowledge or experience of a range of software options - I use PaintShop Pro X6 for most of my image processing.

Perhaps the only way to correct lens distortions in a single image containing a body of water, is to make sure that the water surface is horizontal (or as near as possible) in the composition of the shot being captured in the camera. But others might know better.

Cheers.
Philip

A nice set, Nigel. I like the natural range and layering of the colours in each shot, but perhaps some regions are a bit dark, and if they were mine I might try slightly reducing the saturation of the colours in some areas.

Cheers.
Philip

The following image was made from three copies of Nigel's JPEG on page 1. The horizon was corrected in one of them, and the clock perspective corrected in another. The three were then combined by cutting and pasting the corrected sections, and placing them above the boats of the original, plus a bit of cloning and re-sizing.




Cheers.
Philip

Totally agree with everyone above - the images are wonderful.

As for whether it works - on my usual browser, Opera, the web pages do not appear correctly. Switching over to Firefox, everything seems to work perfectly well.

Cheers.
Philip

Nigel, I can't match David's analysis, but the sloping water just feels uncomfortable to me. The rest of the photos - I would be pleased with them if they were mine, and if I had captured and processed them as you have done.

Cheers.
Philip