Frank_Hollahan wrote in post #2567459
Neil, I like how you position subjects in your photos. By allowing the people walking in your shots gives activity and scale. You could have waited until they walked on by but it wouldn't have the same impact.
Beautiful contrating colors in the FG of the second shot but the sky is showing little to much noise for me. Have you tried the Blur tool on it to try and soften it a bit?
The sunset looks great in the third, fantastic colors, mountains get layered back into the distance, excellent looking shot.
I've taken quite a few sunset shots but only ever posted one that I was happy with, and that was about two months ago.
Cheers Frank. I used to wait for ever till people moved out of shot, now I like the odd one with people for scale or interest, just breaks things up. As for the noise, yep I know, being at 250ISO didn't help but I would rather a bit of noise than a blurred picture. IS helps but strapping the filter holder to the front means itis harder to handle. I do run Noise Ninja over the sky but find you have to be careful not to lose the details of the clouds, and I like detail in clouds like these.Still playing with the various methods of sharpening though, so the noise may be lessened if I do a print version. 
rudgej wrote in post #2567536Very nice Neil. I'm a great fan of the rich colours that you always manage to produce.
Thanks John, it helps to have the right light to take too, just glad I took the camera (not that the slingshot isn't superglued to my shoulder 
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