Recent content by ctranter

Shoot once with the filter, then shoot the same shot without it. In Photoshop use the normal shot to get the colours: masking / colour or luminance overlay

Wyming brook.

Experience and luck. Best sunsets are with heavily textured cloud cover with a break on the horizon. Sunrises are too early for my liking.

Its incredible how good a badly-blurred or OOF photo can look good at web size after a proper resizing and sharpening. A lot of what goes into good web images is decent resizing and sharpening, so at smaller image sizes things can be misleading if you're comparing your own full res, unsharpened raws

I use 10x live view to check focus for landscapes

Work with it. Sometimes bleak is just what the scene is, and often scenes like that don't benefit from a lot of post work. I guess to some people that might be dull.

chalk dust or smoke works well

Again for the 10-20/22. That and the 30 f/1.4 are all I really use in most cities and they tend to do the job for 99% of situations.

You mean like the water droplet shots? http://www.wonderfulphotos.com/articles/macro/dewdrops/

Can't say I've ever really tried it. Always been happy to set it myself.

promist or gaussian overlays.

Agreed that technology will only make things easier. And whilst better equipment does make for better photos - it's only one factor that contributes - e.g. creative eye, patience, luck.

Obviously normally best viewed at higher latitudes than the UK, but on a clear night with little light pollution in exceptional activities it can be viewed from here. As far north as possible is best though.

Thanks for the info!

Nice! Definitely will be my next purchase. Just wish I could afford to get one new, and there are so few going second hand.