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Hi Paul, High contrast water and sunlight seem to turn out orbs most of the time for me. I agree it is debatable whether this ruins the picture but below is a rather extreme example. Cheers, Charles.

Thanks for the feedback. I did sharpen a little but another problem may be that I was almost looking directly into the sun. I have always found it incredibly difficult to get good photographs of cobwebs, so I tried this backlit method to get the contrast up.

Great composition of the mermaid Duncan! Serenity between the smoking chimneys. I was also in Copenhagen a couple of weeks ago and was really drawn to the landscapes along the waterfront.

Thanks. Here's the original. I think upping the sharpness have added some noise. Thinking of getting LR4 to see if I can do better.

I did some post processing on this one. May be too much? But the sky really was that moody. Do others find that they often want to up the sharpness on the jpegs?

EXR mode straight out of the camera!

Like it! Great colour and detail! The super/macro mode is like looking through a microscope. Cheers, Charles.

Many thanks to everyone that contributed samples from around the house.... Have been inspired by this forum to start looking at everything as a possible subject..... The cold tap Undercover cat.

At about 6 pm today just before a hail storm. Other shots did not work so well due to too much contrast. Any ideas on what settings to use in such cases?

Thanks for the reply. I am afraid I mainly stick to EXR mode at the moment (I always seem to be too rushed to experiment). That's good advice on the street scenes. It was really this forum that inspired me to have a go! Cheers, Charles.

One of the things I really like about the x10 is the colour fidelity under different conditions. I thought I would post some examples even though the subject matter is not that exciting. This is Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke on a dull day but still the bricks appear vibrant even without...

Hi Houston, Thanks for the comments. The wind was blowing waves over the dam creating this layered effect. I clipped the picture below the dam so you just see a wall of water. The shutter speed was 1/850 and I used Velvia (this was my first time out with the X10 so was experimenting with the...

Thanks Duncan. Have figured it out now and updated the links. Here's the dam picture too. Cow Green in the North Pennines on a windy day.