Recent content by Craig20264

Correct. To be guilty of murder, there has to be an intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (if memory serves me). Pre planning is neither here nor there. If charged, he then has the usual defences to to persue if pleading not guilty. Diminished Responsibility, Autonomy, Self Defence...

Sticky up branches/twigs in the foreground are a shame.

It looks like you've already lost the blacks in trying to force the contrast when the light was flat. There really is no substitute for good light. If you want a lot of contrast in mono images, you'll need to shoot on a sunny day.

You might have got away with it but I saw your docks one from Felixstowe, and I know from experience that water is never that calm. Same goes for Dovercourt really. You've done a good job on them though. ;)

Almost too perfect. Would it be rude to ask if it was composite/blended image? It's very well done if it is.

Your White Balance seems a bit on the cool side. A quick click on 'Auto White Balance' brings it up like this, which is probably more like it was on the day?

Nice composition for me. Gives you a way in.

Old CD's under the tripod legs. ;)

First is a nice scene but snow looks under exposed to me?

I think he (Kodiak QC) was actually giving praise in the use of the tools. To use the flip-side of your analogy, the tools are useless without a skilled carpenter. Basically he was complementing the processing, but your were rather quick to disagree with something you didn't appear to have read...

You can get rid of the noise if you have a large enough file, and don't want to enlarge too much.

Ahh, Shingle Street. Nice light.

Plenty of detail in that one. Just needs some work. Here's one overdone, just to show you what is there. Sky is close to blown but difficult to avoid given the light. Might want to think about composing without the sky if possible, unless it's adding some interest.

You do understand that you can have blocked shadows and blown highlights all in the same image don't you? Open the image up in ACR or similar and have a look. You will see lost detail at both ends.

Yes, lost detail in highlights and shadows are blocked.