It IS funny, and just as I was told once, there is a lot of truth in humor sometimes!!

All you have written Robin, and all you have shown, indicate how eager you are to have sharper pictures. ANd
most of the replies have mentioned that, yes, some of the latest high end models handle hi ISO well. So Auto
ISO does have its use, particularly where the light changes dramatically from one shot to another. The explanation
usually given for that use then is an onstage concert, and for there some noise is acceptable. But for general use, you
really do need to stay with the light of day, and the lowest possible ISO will really give you the least noise.

Let's get the best out of the camera then by concentrating on what the camera can do, as adding PP to the result is
only a step to fix something that wasn't understood and might have been achieved in the camera. If you have a
tripod, you might do some tests right at home. Hope this helps.

Caregivers, neighbors,and family members often do errands for the disabled and elderly, but it's still legal for people
to smoke, and they may judge you for your expensive camera you don't need. You do have one I presume?

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Too bad that bride looked like someone else, that's what portrait photographers graphers do y'know, they're known by real photographers
as another name, and it's only 4 letters long....

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Congratulations. To paraphrase a bit, "you must have a good photo processor".

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Quite simply then, if the sunset was to the left then that's where the lightest part of the sky would be.
Also, you lightened the rocks.
You manipulated the picture into what you wished it could be, which is not camera work but processing
into something that couldn't be possible.

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Having to face reality, the sun appears to be about 20deg left of your position when taking the picture, but...
Darkening the sky rather unrealistically there appears to be afterglow coming from the background.

That may not be a "reason" to have stayed w/some version of your original, but the result of all the tampering with
reality does not look like anything we could believe would be real because it's just too obvious.

Is that all right with you then, that you avoid what is possible and natural, as though you had set up giant mirrors to
reflect the light back to those rocks, and you like it that way, then that's all that matters regardless of what anyone
else sees and immediately recognizes as impossible from one light source.
Soo where are we going with the title of a topic being for the straight-out-of-the camera crowd. It would seem rather,
that what you have done is straight for the extreme processing crowd. That, then would be....anything at all is
pleasing, "reasonable", even if surreal

Hm, well I guess it's okay if it's okay with the post processing crowd

However the "improvement" is rather puzzling since the light is so unnatural.
Wonder what time of day/nite it's supposed to be with two opposing light sources?
Of course there could have been some gentler adjustments set in the camera years ago,
maybe you didn't do that sort of thing at the time. Maybe you still don't.
Maybe you just don't like anything "believable", been reading sci fi stories, e,g,we get a 2nd sun?

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Sorry Apaflo, NOT always.

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Yes, invisible,as many people don't read rules, just as many as don't read directions or the manual
Then of course there are those who scoff at rules as barriers to their own purposes.

However, for those who speak of shades of gray, yes, and they all go on behind the scenes. There are
some very bad problems in communications and other areas, which are not dealt with, and may never
be where freedom to recognize or discuss them is denied.

But where did he move it to BHC, so that we may see it? There must have been
some reason to move...ah, could it be...there was some rule peculiar to the main section
where you would have to introduce a topic but not post a picture in the topic post, but rather
in a second one.
Seems cumbersome maybe, but think it had something to do with trying to keep topics in
the main section first, with any pictures as illustrations of a topic being secondary, so they tend to
get moved to in one of the pictures sections such as the Gallery.

If your only question is whether to print it, then that is a question no one else can answer. There may be aspects of that picture
other people don't see that make it special for you the way it is. If you are not quite satisfied with it as it is. you could revisit the scene
again or resort to post process, but you wouldn't want to print what someone else thinks is the best decision would you? Now here are
two ways to help you make your decision for a print:
Make copies and work on them. And/or put this out of sight for a time....a week, a month, 3 mos. I think you're just, excuse me, too
close to the forest to see the trees, to make a decision right now that will be YOUR picture, not what pleases anyone else.
Hope this helps!

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Finding their upgrades and new features more like the game that changes
to keep confusing us as to how to play!

We still have a good number of people who joined the forum in its very earliest days
and I'm surprised no one comes forth with the explanation admin. gave at the time.
He said it was named after a French novel he had read, with no special reason from
the contents of the story, just the tag of one of the characters.

Went on to say he wasn't especially interested in photography but had started other
websites and this seemed like a good subject for a new one. The mission statement
was that it was to promote photography, and would be a family friendly site.

There was an open discussion about the name. Many never heard of a hedgehog, as it
is not an indigenous species. Some imagined it as a hog maybe...that hung out in hedges!
It is of course a....hedgehog, which is why I always refer to it as UH, but those who never
read the statements persisted in the erroneous misspelled name you see every day.

Welcome home !