I like these!!

But... AI Denoise and Sharpening are not demons. It depends how hard you hit them. Some can over do it and make things look unatural, I find not over doing it works best. Especially for the sharpening!

I use and prefer AI DeNoise more myself.

TopazAI is well woth the money...

This is an image I did to show frieds what it can do.

Before Denoise...



After Denoise....

Reminds of the Smurf me misses get me

I have just recieved my Cokin M (P Series) Nuances Extreme Smart Kit. It consists of a Reverse Grad ND4, a Soft ND8 Grad, and finally an ND1024 10 Stop filter.

For those of you that don't know, these are glass filters.

I got these for £40.89!! They're on fleabay for £42.99, but I watched them and got an offer that I just could not refuse!

Most places sell these from anywhere between 150 and 300 quid!! I did not want to post until I got them, just to make sure they ain't knock offs!

Playing with long exposures and ND Filters!

Goyt Valley just outside Buxton.

This B&W one had a red filter thrown in to the mix!









I deicded to try something different with this last one.... A vertical Pano!

This is mega

Last year (I think), I asked about using an ND filter with an IR modded DSLR.

So this afternoon I gave it another go. I used an ND1000 filter on my IR K20D and it worked!!!!! I was able to use long exposures, the below image is an HDR merge of 5 images. Exposures are 60, 90, 120, 150, and180 secondsat f22.

I also used a CPL to produce then second image. It is a multiexposure of 6 images, all at 0.5 sec at f22.

ND1000 Filter



CPL Filter

I went to Brize specifically to see the A400 Atlas..... and it was bloody grounded!!!

A 16 year old has been arrested....

no 1 is my fave