Thanks for the comments Greytop, Im thinking now maybe its a little cluttered with branches and stuff anyway its given me motivation to go ack and try the area again

Could you not have demanded a replacement rather than a repair? I thought that that was the law.
I would never have expected to defend Curry's but when I bought a large flatscreen TV from them a couple of years ago it broke down after 6 months, I went in and told them I had lost the receipt, they checked my details on the computer and let me take any TV in the store with cash difference either way. Six months on the prices had all dropped so i got a better telly and £300 cash back.

Took this shot this morning, it was freezing.
I would appreciate your thoughts on whether you think its too dark as my monitor is quite bright.

I used a CPL and a 0.9 ND which I dont think I needed to do as the blurred water doesnt really add anything, in fact perhaps it would be better with sharp water?

Perhaps some emails to customer services?

Cool thanks Stefan that makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for the link Kris and i can certainly see that a hard grad on the second imagewould be likely to leave a visible mark even on a dslr I guess

Here is exactly what it says

*** HARD or SOFT


WHEN CHOOSING HARD or SOFT GRADUATED PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING ADVICE:


Choose HARD Graduated when using with 35mm cameras, Digital SLR cameras including full frame and Medium format cameras.


Choose SOFT Graduated when using with large Format cameras.



Heres the page

Thanks

I have had a set of Lee ND hard grad filters for some time and have been meaning to get some soft grads.
However looking at the dale photography website it states on the ionfo page for lee filters that hard grads are for 35mm or DSLRs whilst soft are for large format cameras.
I can see the sense in this and I suppose many of the authors who specialise in landscape whom i have read use large format a fair bit.

So, my question is what are peoples opinions on hard or soft edged graduated ND filters. Should I buy the soft or stick with the hard for those non flat horizons?

Steve

Thank you

I see what you mean about the left hand tree, I have cropped a bit and cloned a bit out (very quickly) to try and keep the image not too square.