Recent content by Simon_Atkinson

:plus1: they look ever so slightly too saturated in my opinion, almost radioactive and this makes them the brightest part of the image. The sky, especially a dramatic sunset such as that one, should always be the brightest part of an image. Just like you'd never find a reflection on water...

:plus1: only thing I would add is before doing all that, when you have your two layers, select them both and go to edit---auto align layers. That way Photoshop will align them both so you don't need to worry about whether the tripod or camera shifted a little and it'll save a lot of messing...

Many thanks once again for the comments everybody:) Fair enough, I respect your opinion(y)

Many thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated(y)

Taken just a few miles down the road at Burghead Harbour on a very windy evening! I took multiple exposures of the various wave movements and then in post I simply blended them together. Cheers, Simon

Spent many a day at both of those locations when I was first learning photography. Have you tried getting a photo at sunset/dusk from the top of the 199 Steps? Well worth it.

You may have guessed correctly;)

What a ridiculous thing to say, post processing for many is just as important as the actual photo taking. I'll spend hours processing an image to make it look the way I visualise in my minds eye. Im not saying everyone should do that but to say that if you spend more than a few minutes on a...

Got ya! Nice analogy:D

Cooking? I'm not sure what you mean.

25" AOC for me, a good happy medium I find with my 15" laptop as a secondary screen.

I've never really been a fan of presets, like others have mentioned, I think every photos needs to be edited in its own way with a pre-visualised idea of what you want to do with it. For me, post processing is one of the best parts of photography, it really allows you to put your own artistic...

A really beautiful summer photograph with fantastic colours. Just goes to show you don't always need golden hour light to achieve a nice landscape photo.

Looks like you got a fantastic sky! Second photo is my favourite, love how the colour reflects off the water.

Really like the top photo, great mood and also like the light hitting the foreground rock.