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

Lovely photos, the 400 5.6 is a great lightweight birding lens - especially excellent for birds in flight. It pairs with a 1.4x converter pretty nicely too (until you can afford a 500!)

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.

Terrific clarity.

Great stuff.

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

Great photo, if anything I guess it just feels a bit unbalanced with the space on the left and all the detail of the head and clouds over on the right. I might've been tempted to shift the bear left a bit in the frame.

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

Top capture.