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This one is a little too dark given the overcast but bright-looking skies.

Hi Cemal,

Thank you for the feedback - appreciated as always!

The lighting on this day was quite challenging - we'd started at Cragside under skies resembling a grim day in Mordor - the people coming into the house as we left looked like they'd just walked through a car wash.

By the time we got to Brinkburn things had brightened, but with a harsh afternoon sun overhead leading to me having a 'blinkie battle' to protect the sky (in retrospect I should have perhaps taken multiple images).

The upshot is the buildings and foreground were left underexposed and I juggled with the settings, never quite happy with the balance/ look. (The image as a whole would certainly bear a half-stop exposure lift).

I'll have another bash at this one in due course to see if I can improve my original edit. (I'm unable to upload images in this reply, but if you want I can post a *.jpg export of the unprocessed raw on the main thread?).

Phil

Phil, after all, you were there and it is your photograph. My comments are nothing more than a "concept test."

Hi Cemal,

I've always been happy to receive feedback, it gets me thinking and challenging myself to see if I could do things better - as you may have noticed, I like puzzle solving and pushing tech around, so to me it's part of the fun.

(I don't always get things right - but I do want to have an interesting time, even when I'm getting them wrong!).

Phil