Yeah, having the top too dark wouldn't be good. Fixing the blown highlights should be simple - I've not used Silver Efex but it seems control points could do it, or there's several other ways in Lightroom/Photoshop/equivalents if they don't.

With the subscription model, I am also assured of having the latest functionality without having to wait for a major release, for which I would have to pay. A subscription model and incremental releases are distinct things; neither requires the other. Also, I don't understand "for which I woul...

I'm not sure why you're not sure, it's a perfectly good image. Also it might be one that looks even better when projected.

I would experiment with flipping the person, and possibly removing or darkening the text on the sign so it's less distracting, but those are relatively minor things.

I think it might be that you have two pictures. I like the titled aspect - the pebbles, sea and sky go well together - and are enough to make an image on their own. The people and their belongings don't work for me - for them I would crop it with less pebbles and not as wide, but then I'm still not ...

It's several years since I went to Skye, but I don't remember that midges were an issue even in June, though we were probably using a repellent, and maybe it was a year when they were breeding slightly later. On Wednesday night, Sarah mentioned Skin So Soft by Avon, which has been discovered to also...

By the way, congratulation on doing so well in the recent club competitions!

Thanks Iggy, I think that was the first time I've got certificates for all three images in one night.

The crop is a good idea, but if your subject is the sky and the couple then maybe crop even further - i.e. have you experimented with taking 20-30% away from the right-hand side? As for needing to scroll, you can always zoom to view a full image - hold Ctrl key and use the mouse wheel to go larger/s...

Maybe even see if we can see the Northern lights? It turns out there's a solar storm which increases the possibility, but for Saturday evening (when the KP index is highest) the forecast is 90-100% cloud coverage.... https://www.metcheck.com/WEATHER/aurora_forecasts.asp?zipcode=Belfast There's stil...

Amazingly, there is no mention of the show on the RPS website. There is an event entry for 16th Feb , but it doesn't have a duration/end date set and the default behaviour appears to be only showing future events, so anyone looking at the list after the 16th would not have seen it. The exhibition i...

Unable to open your blog page that came up with an error. The error ("Sorry, you are not allowed to preview drafts") is because Mike's link inadvertently contains parameters for viewing the draft version. Removing those parameters (everything from the question mark onwards) gives the inte...