Hi and welcome my friend.

Two shot's today, but processed slightly differently. Was a beautiful spring morning blue sky bright early morning sun and fresh spring foliage on the trees. The first shot is a mild HDR in TopazAdjust 4 and the second is edited in CS5, now I prefer the first, it gives the closest at to what my eye's saw this morning, but what do you guy's think.



Bird box (HDR med) by SFB579, on Flickr



Home with a view by SFB579, on Flickr

I know it would probably look better with a bird exiting, but I wasn't that patient.

Lovely dog and great shot's, looks really protective of that stick in the first shot. Had a friend who also had a Staffie and your right they are bonkers must be a trait of the breed.

Lovely little critter.

Welcome to the forums Keir, looks like your large collection of lenses will continue growing then.

Great capture, looks like some kind of high diver.

This is one of my pet hate's, as soon as there is a nice day, out comes the bonfire and everyone with window's open and freshly done laundry on the line suffers. To me it's sticking a finger up at everyone and really bugs me. I would video them lighting the fire, that way the time and date is on the footage, also include yourself asking them not to do it. As far as I am aware there are certain times of the day that is permitted to light fires, isn't it after 18.30? but you carry on what your doing, nothing wrong with taking shot's of neighbours.

Just different tools, same techniques.

Thank you for the honest comments fella's, This shot is bending the rules slightly, it is almost macro, but with a very narrow depth of field, usually shoot around f16 for these, shot this at f7.

An impressive amount of work there, over 25,000 frames shot and 4,500 used in the video.