Good Bokeh on the first one, was that with the 50mm?

Im just wondering, did you actually take any photos with my camera Adam? AFAIK you didnt, just want to make sure the reflection one isnt yours!

Haha. If you did I doubt you did a portrait shot, I hope not anyway!

Almost none believe it or not! I ran a mild unsharp mask over them as I figured it couldnt hurt, and it didnt make any difference tbh, usually I end up oversharpening things to make up for a soft lens or similar.

As it was raw I opened them in camera raw and used the auto values, and again it barely changed anything, might have just notched up the exposure by .2 or something, and I changed the blacks value from whatever they were (~2-3) to 5 or something else non-major.

The only other thing was in the river shot there was a plank of wood at the end that was just visible once you really started to scrutinise the shot, so I clone-tooled it out. I cropped about 3% from the bottom of the river shot too, other than that theyre both full frame.

I also rotated it 180 degrees at one point out of curiosity. Seriously, looking at it upside down is weird, you kind of know its upside down but still end up looking for the waters edge in the wrong place.

Like the fungus shot, nice use of depth of field and I always like the textured effect sharply shot bark can give.

The reflection shot is just a bit disorienting for me - wouldve preferred to see the thing being reflected properly in shot - but dont know if that was possible given the setting?

The reflection shot is just a bit disorienting for me - wouldve preferred to see the thing being reflected properly in shot - but dont know if that was possible given the setting?

What do you mean, a mirror reflection all the way up to the top with no ripples, or something else? Sadly it was the only real bit of the 1km stream that we covered that was nice and open and didnt have loads of branches and/or rubbish in it etc

Ahhh ok. Yeah, that would have looked better, the problem was the bank in question, there was a buckthorn bush just below out of shot, so any wider/further back and it would have been in the way. Also its portrait rather than landscape as pretty much to the left/right its a bit more trashy. We were right next to a wooden bridge which is kinda like the M1 for people walking and riding, so there was a lot of disturbance in the close vicinity from people, including half a dozen rope swings.

You live and learn though, hopefully Ill get out somewhere next weekend