Perthshire shots

These are a few of my shots from the third Scottish POTN meet, and after seeing the quality of the other shots, I debated whether to bother uploading my attempts. Anyway, I decided to, and feedback on improvements will be gratefully accepted.

As usual, the save for web option on Photoshop has lost some of the saturation, so I would also be interested to hear how others compress and upload to maintain the quality of their photos.

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Thanks for your contribution John. All have their merit but perhaps the old bridge just wins over River Garry.

I change image to 8bit .. change colour space to sRGB .. change size to 800 & frame and then "Save as" jpg .. I then resharpen as is required.
As you noticed I over sharpened one today.
I don't like using PS save to web.
All the best.
Paul

Thanks for your comments and save suggestions Paul, I'll give them a try.

I love the bridge. You chose the right aperture, making everything sharp. It's very nice.

John cottage shot for me …fished that pool many a time …still with no success …I may add …love the colour and looks sharp on my monitor

Super nice job on the these John _ exposure looks good.

Nice shots Rudgej.

Personally I upload my pics to photobucket, then link to them, stops trying to get the file size way down for directly posting on here.

Very good series. I'm certainly glad that you "bothered" to post them John.

Come on, John, no false modesty, please. These are very good, as we've come to expect from you.

montreal wrote in post #2212441
I love the bridge. You chose the right aperture, making everything sharp. It's very nice.

I was deliberately sticking around f/13 for depth of field, and as I used a tripod, this didn't really raise concerns about the resulting shutter speed.

superscot wrote in post #2212737
John cottage shot for me …fished that pool many a time …still with no success …I may add …love the colour and looks sharp on my monitor

Thank you SC.

Bluedog_XT wrote in post #2212761
Super nice job on the these John _ exposure looks good.

Thank you Toney. I'm on the whole happy with the mechanics of taking the photo, but where I could do with learning more is perhaps in composition, but definitely in how to use Photoshop the best to produce both natural but impressive looking photos

zebedee wrote in post #2212767
Nice shots Rudgej.

Personally I upload my pics to photobucket, then link to them, stops trying to get the file size way down for directly posting on here.

Thanks David. I'm using my own website to host them, so I'm not really constrained sizewise either, but do tend to keep each one around the 100kb mark simply out of consideration for people opening my threads.

HrcRacing wrote in post #2213551
Very good series. I'm certainly glad that you "bothered" to post them John.

sparker1 wrote in post #2213681
Come on, John, no false modesty, please. These are very good, as we've come to expect from you.

Thanks Robert and Stan and it is very ego-boosting to have such complementary feedback. Seriously though, after seeing shots from the other Scottish POTN bunch, I wasn't too sure about these. Did they look overprocessed for instance? I also really liked the low angle and composition that some of the others achieved with UWA 10mm shots, and I thought that these made mine look mundane and nothing special by comparison.

I really like the composition and exposure of your cottage photo.

Ahh,memories-memories,thank god it was only a wee while ago.
You`ve done a good job John,especially #2.

John, I find you do an excellent job with motion blur like wit you water shots but this last shot is my most favorite. With that old bridge in the upper BG and the spray of water in the MG, this is a fabulous shot, I love it.

Big_B wrote in post #2214525
I really like the composition and exposure of your cottage photo.

Thank you Sam.

dv2004 wrote in post #2214813
Ahh,memories-memories,thank god it was only a wee while ago.
You`ve done a good job John,especially #2.

Thanks Dimitri. Another vote for #2 which is interesting as it was one that I really wasn't sure about. Are you able to make the fourth fabled Scottish POTN meet? It looks like being in the Trossachs.

Frank_Hollahan wrote in post #2214844
John, I find you do an excellent job with motion blur like wit you water shots but this last shot is my most favorite. With that old bridge in the upper BG and the spray of water in the MG, this is a fabulous shot, I love it.

Thanks Frank. My wife wasn't sure about this one because of the rock outcrop hiding some of the falls. Unfortunately I had left my spare stick of dynamite in my other trousers, so couldn't do anything about that.

Lovely shots John,I particularly like the bridge shot. Nice lighting. Thanks for sharing.