Its all gone quiet again, if the Chatsworth meet goes ahead sadly I cannot make it as I am stuck in Gibraltar for the next couple of weeks.

RD
yeh that is an improvement i think,the contrast boost certainly helps, food for thought for when i get back.

Cheers, signing out until end August.

Casperdog
I know what you mean, I do use zooms exclusively but on the sigma 100-300 I only ever use 300 so I wish I had bought a prime for that lens only. (obviously not for portrait work)

Manual when shooting landscape as I try and emulate some of the stuff I have learnt and shoot for DoF and prefer to choose my shutter speed when using ND Grads etc. or trying to expose using the zone chart.

Aperture most of the rest of the time.

Bulb for underground and some very long exposure night shots.

Shutter, I dont use but would if I had the need.

Program - hmmm if i really couldnt be bothered I might use this I suppose.

Hey thanks Darlene, I agree its not a bad picture, just not quite got the wow factor.
Will keep trying though

I would be seriously interested in this but Im away for a month as of tomorrow.
If you dont sell it, perhaps you could PM me at the end of August and I will see if I can arrange it.

Road Dancer
I tried the crop and its certainly an improvement, but still not quite there i think

MikeW
Tried the rotating and it helps but I a going to forget this one i think.

Off to sunny climes (Spain) tomorrow so hopefully I'll have a few pics when I get back, (no ice hopefully unless its in my drink).

This was my first waterfall shot. I was attempting to slow it down enough to blur the water, something I had never tried before. I found getting an exposure slow enough to blur the water but retaining detail in the ice crystals in the foreground fairly tricky at first, it took a CP filter plus a .9 a .6 and a .3 ND filter stacked to get it slow enough.
I think bforbes is correct in his point,perhaps it would look better with the water frozen instead of blurred and would suit the ice better.

And yes the sky is distracting I agree. So, either a wider shot, more of a landscape or a close in shot may have been better.

The location is on the path up to the Glyders in Snowdonia, I was not alone so did not have the time i would have liked to compose (experiment) with this shot.

Thanks for the constructive input, so much better than polite compliments and much appreciated.

One for the 'not quite there' folder then

Would the DA 50-135 make a decent portrait lens do you think?

Not sure about this shot, perhaps its a little too busy or not rally leading the eye but perhaps you could help me make up my mind whether to dismiss it or not.

Honest thoughts welcome.

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