The Forth Bridge

[RockNGoalStar]

I actually swore to myself when i saw this first. I said, "that is ******* brilliant!"

And it is. So I'll say no more!

[Donald]

I must admit that as I took the photo I felt I had something that was going to work quite well and I sort-of expressed that with a wee utterance of pleasure myself.

[rpcrowe]

I keep looking for the First, Second and Third Bridges. Were those torn down before the "Forth" Bridge was built? Sorry, I couldn't resist that horrible pun...

BTW: Very pleasing image in all respects...

[Donald]

After all the discussion in this thread about concentric circles and my following up in the DxO Optics Pro forum and with DxO Optics support, I think we're getting close to understanding what's going on. If you're really at a loose end and looking for something to read, you can have a look here.

Anyway, I have re-processed this one. Please tell me you can't see any concentric circles. Please!


40D, 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM @ 26mm. ISO400. 1/8@f16

[Dizzy]

Donald,

Looked at it as posted for a bit, and could see nothing there. Not satisfied, I saved it to
my desktop, and then blew it out to 200x and 400x ..and even went so far as using a magnifying
glass to check the specific areas where the circles were previously.

FWIW, an illness I deal with daily causes my eyes to be very sensitive to the rotational patterns
in any image, video or real life scene. In essence, if I can't even perceive a rotational pattern,
then it doesn't exist.

All that effort and...I got nuthin'.. Clean as can be.

Mike

[Donald]

All that effort and...I got nuthin'.. Clean as can be.

Aaaaahhhhh! Relief.

I'm going to have to learn to ease back on the 'Amplify Blacks' and 'Structure' sliders in Silver Efex Pro 2. It is definitely reacting with DxO processed TIFFs in some way. But I can live with that knowing what the issue is. ... Or thinking I know what the issue is!

[benm]

I liked your first version best; excellent. It has a certain grittiness that complements the bridge well.

[Donald]

Ben - thanks for your response.

So did I, but unfortunately the image contains some basic processing errors (which, in my defence, I didn't anticipate being made - but there we go). So, it can't be held to be a good image because of these. So, I'm afraid that other than as a historical record on here which we can use for the purposes of learning, it's now history. It doesn't exist anywhere else, including on my computer.

[ScoutR]

Reporting in from Canada - no circles here and I even opened it in a new window and zoomed in

Over and out
Wendy

[speedneeder]

ah, but this kiss needs to be in the raw

lol