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Message: <blockquote data-quote="P.H" data-source="post: 41961" data-attributes="member: 777">It is very interesting to read the contributions and I'm very grateful.  I spent a frustrating hour or so trying to follow up some of the advice, couldn't get it to look how I wanted, you think you've nearly got it then BANG it's awful!  The whole digital post processing thing is still new to me, time to get a book and learn it properly, a winter project. I'm also a bit stuck on 3 x 2<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/redface.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":redface:" title="redface    :redface:" data-shortname=":redface:" /> It's the ratio I've always printed and even on shots that are never going to be hard copy nothing else looks right to me.The things I have taken from the advice, though some were two polite to say, was a bit more care before the shutter was pressed would have been better. What can I say, it was a bright day and the view on the LCD wasn't great, I should have moved further forward excluding some of the foreground and waited for the walker to clear the frame.  I still like it but it hasn't lived up to the expectation I had when I took it.There's also the snapshot Vs art thing, which goes to the heart of why we take photos and we're all different.  I like my photos to look like what I saw, I don't want to process them beyond that, even if that would make them a more appealing image.  By most definitions I think that makes them snapshots, that's not to belittle them, or an excuse for them not being as good as possible, just seeing them for what they are.  And don't get me wrong, I love loads of the images I see on this forum, it's just not what I want to do.</blockquote>

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