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Went outside today in the lovely snowfall! I ended up out for 4 hours enjoying the sunshine on the crunch of snow below me. I know many of my friends have been at work today so heres what you have been missing.

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Johnny
http://www.lucid-composure.co.uk
365
http://lucid-composure.co.uk/exposurev4/#/content/PROJECTS/365/JANUARY/
 
Great shots, although I think the logo is a little overbearing in them, for some reason my eye is really drawn to it in the second.

(Also your site has a typo - commercial)
 
round the corner, left out of there, left at the crossroads with the traffic lights and 1st left into woburn drive.

lovely places, lots of places to go for photo taking. went to take a pic of the arches from the very same spot but the fog/mist didnt make much of a good pic. Like yours though, very good
 
Oh yeah that road. Go a little further down there and as the road climbs you go under a bridge which is the old railway lines. Good access that runs under the arches. Perfect for dog walking.

Yeah I aint a huge fan of the halo but in fairness its not that intensive given the overal effect.
 
Oh yeah that road. Go a little further down there and as the road climbs you go under a bridge which is the old railway lines. Good access that runs under the arches. Perfect for dog walking.

yeah took a walk down there before, want to take the camera down there sometime, need practice and need to learn how to use it, also photoshop once I get it.
 
Is no one else finding the pictures a bit noisy/muddy? Particularly 1 and 3, whilst 2 seems fine. The burning in on the sky on image 3 looks a bit botched around the image edges, the trees have a halo, too.
 
It's not an offence to have noisy images at all! Why would you presume I thought that?

To elaborate a little more on my last comment, pictures 1 and more specifically 3 look rather blotchy, particularity in the sky, the image quality seems quite low and there are patches where the sky looks muddy and (unintentionally) scalded. In image 3 on the left hand side, there looks to be a swarm of bees in the distance which has been caused by however it is you've processed the image.

Also, the burning on the third image leaves it looking a little like it's been embossed, it goes all the way around the right and top side where the sky meets the edge of the photograph, on the left edge it begins to go down but stops seemingly randomly about one inch above the tree, I can't see this being intentional. I don't like the halo around the tree tops, it looks like bad technique, saying that - some people like it.

There is no noise in the sky on image two, the quality of the image itself is generally better than the other two.

Well observed on my signature, but there's a slight difference between strange looking noise and natural film grain which adds depth to images. Out of interest, have you ever cross processed film? I've never had a roll of cross processed film come out of the dark room looking like your pics, they look like IR images?
 
The blotchyness has come from airbrushing my effects over my image. I have an A4 print out infront of me which is more than satisfying. These images are saved in a low resolution with its overal output quality set to half of what jpeg's maximum setting is.

There is no burning on the image but I know what you refer to and I agree. It has blead into the sides of the image which I have already corrected so thanks for pointing that out to me.

I have cross processed films yes. I have done many things in a film darkroom as I used film for several years before owning a digital compact.

It is to be noted that the 3rd one is a two image HDR and I am still finding my feet in HDR processing. These internet versions have not had any noise reduction applied. They have had for the A4 prints which has improved the sky imensely.

Finally, in regards to halos. The halo around the trees is not as bad as your making it out to be. There is a gradient blend in the sky which by the time it hits the trees makes the halo look worse than it is. I actually don't mind it at all because it adds to the surreal look of this particular picture.

I make all these pictures (displayed here and on my online portfolio) to my own taste. I don't follow tightly to rules n regulations.

I fully appreciate your advise and hope our discussions on this don't affect our friendship. You produce nice photography here also.

Thanks

Johnny
 
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