[Nick_Smith]

   

I took this with my Sony DH 200 bridge camera, it's Clumber park.
A national trust estate in Nottinghamshire
It was one of the first pictures I took, I like it allot. I would like to say it came out exactly as I framed it. But it was more luck than judgement.
I would welcome comments criticism and advise.
Even if you just say " step away from the camera fatty"

[Jocko]

Nice image, and I like the vignette treatment. I feel it could be a little sharper and with a bit less noise though.

   

[Nick_Smith]

Nice image, and I like the vignette treatment. I feel it could be a little sharper and with a bit less noise though.

Thanks, yes i agree with the noise , at the time I was only using a free editing app. So was limited as to things I could do

[Jocko]

What post processing do you use now?

[Nick_Smith]

I'm still using a free app that I found on Google. It's not ideal but better than the first one I used. I have a laptop but it is being repaired at the moment so really I an stuck in my tablet until I get it back.
My mate, who is a wedding photographer has recommended
Adobie light room. When I get my laptop back ( or a new one should the problem turn out to be terminal) . I think I will look into purchasing it.
The thing I am using now is just called
Photo editor.

[Jocko]

I use Adobe Lightroom 6 for the bulk of my work. I find it excellent. Originally I used Photoshop CS2, but found Lightroom better for the basics. I now use CS4 for the fancy stuff, but stick with Lightroom for dealing with the raw images I shoot. I also use Nik Software for some of the stuff I do. I find their Dfine 2, Noise reduction software, brilliant.

[MrB]

Nick - how are you setting the white balance in your camera? I ask because most of the images you have posted or linked to so far (except the dog) seem to have a warm tint (yellow/orange/red bias) which doesn't appeal to me for those scenes, although of course, that might be exactly what you want. This one, for example, looks almost as though it was a colour image to which a sepia toning has been added.

As John has noted, this is a pleasant scene but there is quite a lot of digital noise in the image, and the camera appears to have recorded little information for you, particularly in the shadow areas, to do much creative editing. It appears to be shot against the light, which would give a brightness range difficult for any camera and particularly one with a small sensor.

At what time was the photo taken? As it is a National Trust property, I would guess it was taken during the middle of the daytime, so I would have expected something like the one on the left below, but I would also try a mono conversion.

   

A friend uses an Android Tablet for much of his photo processing, and he always sings the praises of a software App called Snapseed, with which he achieves some stunning and competition winning edited images.

Cheers.
Philip

[Nick_Smith]

Nick - how are you setting the white balance in your camera? I ask because most of the images you have posted or linked to so far (except the dog) seem to have a warm tint (yellow/orange/red bias) which doesn't appeal to me for those scenes, although of course, that might be exactly what you want. This one, for example, looks almost as though it was a colour image to which a sepia toning has been added.

As John has noted, this is a pleasant scene but there is quite a lot of digital noise in the image, and the camera appears to have recorded little information for you, particularly in the shadow areas, to do much creative editing. It appears to be shot against the light, which would give a brightness range difficult for any camera and particularly one with a small sensor.

At what time was the photo taken? As it is a National Trust property, I would guess it was taken during the middle of the daytime, so I would have expected something like the one on the left below, but I would also try a mono conversion.



A friend uses an Android Tablet for much of his photo processing, and he always sings the praises of a software App called Snapseed, with which he achieves some stunning and competition winning edited images.

Cheers.
Philip

Thank you. I do like your two examples.
And I am using a android tablet. So I will look into snapseed.
I'm not sure of the time of day but I'm guessing early afternoon ish
Thanks for the tips.
Nick

[Jocko]

Nick. I assumed the sepia effect was intended. Was it. What about the vignette?

[EdMak]

No point in posting something akin to others, this, a bit different.
B&W is the way to go, to me. Ed.

[Nick_Smith]

Nick. I assumed the sepia effect was intended. Was it. What about the vignette?

No the sepia was accidental, but i liked it. I put the vignettes on via photo Editor.

[Jocko]

Nick. A brilliant bit of free software (open source) is GIMP2.8. It is almost as good as Photoshop, but with a slightly clunky interface. Worth a look once you get your laptop back.