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Very good point, Wayne. I played with the temperature, but not with Picture Control. Here is standard conversion (no post processing): and this is Vivid conversion (again, done in ViewNX 2 with no post processing): Clearly, Vivid is much closer to the Velvia profile. I usually ignore...

Here is a photo I took yesterday on a bright sunny day: The white balance was at auto and the camera decided the colour temperature of 5650 deg and the tint of +10, which is very close to daylight. I kept these values, tweaked the image a little (enhanced contrast using Tonal Contrast in Nik...

Signs This pertains to the previous signs about dog waste. Do not walk too fast! This sounds a bit harsh: Entry to this field is free. The bull will charge later.

Some has put this sign up next to a small stream, here, in Scotland. There are no crocodiles in Scotland (to my best knowledge).

Raw Right Away is a new NEF plugin for Mac OS | Nikon Rumors Haven't tried it yet...

Elliot, after downloading your picture it is 400x600. Paul's version is 667x1000. The weird thing about his version is that when I open it in Photoshop CC, it goes straight to Camera Raw, though it is a JPG! Let me try. I resized it to 1000 horizontally (1000x1499) and then resized to full size...

Housing And something different. Very colourful houses in the village of Tobermory, Isle of Mull.

Housing Some of the houses are very remote. The house below is on a tidal island of Erraid. It is cut off from the main island of Mull for half of the time. There are no roads and no vehicles on the island. The only access is by boat. There is a tiny community of crofters living there. They...

Housing A nice cottage on Isle of Iona.

Housing Let's have a look at houses in the western Highlands and Islands. These parts of Scotland are sparsely populated and in the rural areas houses are usually far apart. This picture was taken from a distance (across a strait) to show typical distances between houses. Second house on...

A very good effort! In your last picture you've probably done all you could with your lens. I like the composition. Now it is time to play in post-processing. Try lightening the shadows. You will be amazed how much information from our sensors can be extracted from shadows. Here is a quick fix...

Roads Spectacular coastline road on Mull. Single-track road with passing places. Below I stopped (for a short moment, you are not supposed to park there) in one of the passing places.

Roads Some more single-track roads. Slightly better surface quality. See the passing places marked with black-and-white posts in the first picture?

Roads This is a bit topic and it might keep going for a while. Let us start with the tiniest of them: single-track roads. In the remote parts of the Highlands and Islands some of the roads are no more than dirt tracks. Notice grass growing through asphalt (yes, it is asphalt!). This road...

Burning bush

Two very serious bird photographers waiting for a boat. The one on the left had a Canon with something big, the other had a Nikon with what looked like an old 300-mm lens with a teleconverter.