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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Somersetscott" data-source="post: 157304" data-attributes="member: 10691">Thanks guys, this is the kind of critique I was hoping for - seeing exactly what I wasn't and giving some constructive pointers for improvement. I was on a high ISO as I didn't reset it after shooting some birds earlier that day - I should have thought about that and checked. Good to know that if I had bothered I would have got more in focus. Focus stacking - Thanks, new term to me. I only purchased Lightroom 4 last week and learning via youtube videos how to use it - playing with all these new-to-me features and wanting-to-fiddle is resulting in my un-natural looking images, I didn't help myself by doing it on a laptop, I can see on my desktop now it really does look unnatural. Trial, error and plenty of practice should sort it. I was using CS2 until I realised the version I had was meant to be only for people that have bought it in the past and it does not run on my Windows 7 Home edition without some kind of emulator. Flat Image, yes! looking back it is! plus the wierd colour of the lighthouse. I'm glad my experiment is kind of successful in that I managed to 'focus stack', but it certainly is lacking a point of interest and therefore didn't require this technique. Thanks for the replies! i'll certainly take them onboard and hopefully improve <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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