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Thanks mate

Absolutely. No one comes up to a big, wide, deep image and thinks, "Let's look at the immediate foreground only." 🙂 The eye is drawn the width and depth, passing right over the foreground (just as it would be if standing there in person). A beautiful shot of a beautiful place.

Thanks very much - for sure at extremely close subjects then it’s necessary but for something like this then it’s a non-issue to be honest. Thanks for watching

Ah cheers mate I’ll check it out

Very kind of you Paul thanks 👍

Cheers David

Cheers Peter

Cheers Colin 👍

Thanks Alan yeah in real world use it's a non-issue. If the result was worth doing the stack I would have but it's basically minuscule.

Cheers Rich

Cheers Dave it’s been a lovely autumn hasn’t it, nice to not have to fight it constantly

Cheers Martin thanks for watching

I agree about not always needing a razor sharp foreground (unless it's the main subject). It's not how your eye sees a scene.

Our eyes don't focus stack - they wander around the image focusing on the various elements. Like you, I don't believe focus stacking is a 'must'. Focus stacking seems to be a solution for a problem that doesn't exist. The fact that digital cameras offer the facility doesn't mean it's a requirement to use it.Using hyperfocal focusing usually produces acceptable sharpness and some real 'blur' in the foreground and/or background can be an artistic choice. We also tend to look at landscape photographs drom a distance, so critical front-to-back sharpness is for the pixel-peepers.

Thanks Trevor

Cheers mate much appreciated

Thanks Nick

Thanks very much

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Thanks very much, yeah aware of the need for a space but you’re right an easy one to miss 👍 hopefully I’ll be open next time you’re passing.

Thanks Barry much appreciated

thanks mate

Thanks Alec

Thanks Gary

We've been quite fortunate for once in the north, a lot of the weather systems mid / late Oct seemed to be south and east

Thanks Joy much appreciated

Cheers Ian

Thanks Gary

Cheers Bob much appreciated

Cheers mate

Thanks very much cheers for the sub

Cheers Simon

Thanks Anthony yes it's a tricky balance and sometimes a pragmatic approach is required.

Thanks Holger hope you're well!

Thanks Nick

Nice to meet you Robert lovely to chat, thanks for watching

Cheers Dennis

Thanks Stephen

Cheers Craig 👍

Thanks very much 👍

Thanks very much Ian

Cheers mate yeah it's a nice alternative, key with the shop is having options and keeping it fresh

Thanks mate much appreciated

Thanks Steve, I'm consciously trying to do anything different though the videos won't be following any sort of schedule as such, basically if I'm I'll try and film it and for periods I'm busy then they'll have to wait.

Thanks Keith

Cheers mate much appreciated

Cheers Jim yeah it's been great this year

Cheers mate yeah it’s massive overkill to be honest

Thanks Ian, my frames are custom sizes and done by Castle Framing at Brampton near Carlisle.

Thanks Dave though I'm a little confused as to how you think I'm beating myself up? I've little doubt where I'm at or my abilities.

@@StuartMcGlennon Your always apologising for not doing enough video's, your videos are great, I look forward to seeing them. All the best look forward to seeing you next time I am in Keswick. Merry Christmas.

That's a slightly different thing, your comment read like I was doubting my ability, but appreciate the sentiment. Regarding videos it's just a courtesy nothing more than that, I do what I can do in the time I have.

Thanks Glen I agree 👍

Thanks Keith, light is much better and less diffused, contrast much better and obviously the colour in the trees is much more pleasing (to me anyway). I think the clouds in the first version are a bit distracting also.

Thanks Stuart that is really useful.@@StuartMcGlennon

Thanks for watching Steve 👍👍

Thanks yeah it's a lovely viewpoint if a little limiting compositions wise though it's ideal for the sort of shot which sells well.

Thanks, generally 3:1 for longer panos, any longer and they lose impact, that's about the sweetspot though I also run quite a few 2:1 crops from single frame images

Thanks 👍 to answer your first question, I’ve the ability to produce my own canvases though to be honest in the UK they’re not all that popular, they look a bit “old fashioned” for me and I think don’t look as premium as a well presented framed print. I do canvases on request though should a person want them. Costs will vary as I’d imagine if you’re not a business you’ll be paying retail price to produce which in turn hits your bottom line when pricing for sale. As a business my consumables are bought at trade price so I’m not hit as hard on that front. Your 2nd question - I print and mat everything myself, the framing I outsource as I don’t have the room to store the equipment and the glass (plus I’d rather leave framing in the hands of those more skilled and experienced than myself). The cost to produce a finished piece of artwork is often overlooked by 90% of pro photographers as for the most part they don’t sell their work in any great volume and the few that they do sell are outsourced to a third party so they never actually produce any of it (though some just do the print element).

Thanks 👍 i use museum glass on most images though there’s many different grades of it, mine is somewhere in the middle cost-wise.

The one on the wall is sold as seen though I also have a second framed copy as well as smaller mounted versions on display

Thanks klaus it’s just over a metre wide

Thanks - it's just over a metre wide printed on a smooth pearl paper by Fotospeed.

Thanks so much for the reply @@StuartMcGlennon, I really appreciate it

Thanks Marieta I don’t mind those trees too much if I started cloning them out it ends up not really being representative of what’s there. Ideally I’d like some step ladders 🤣