Here's my go Shakey.

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I prefer not to use filters at all unless I have to. Like others have stated in various posts"why put another piece of glass in front of a lens that cost way over £1000".
I use Hoya REVO CLR-PL and ND filters when the need arises.
The only time I use a filter for protection is when I am shooting at the beach as I would rather the filter got sandblasted or splashed with salt water than the lens. Again Hoya Revo.

Bill,
Here is an excerpt from the book "Mastering the Nikon D800" by Darrel Young.
He explains it in the only way that makes sense to me.

Why does your memory card’s remaining image capacity seem to stay the same
in NEF Lossless compressed and Compressed modes as in Uncompressed mode?
Shouldn’t it show lots more capacity in the compressed modes since they make
the image smaller by 20 to 55 percent? The reason your camera does not show
any increased image capacity on the Control panel in the compressed modes is
because the D800 has no idea how well it will be able to compress a particular
image.
An image with a large amount of blank space, such as an expanse of sky, will
compress a lot more efficiently than an image of a forest with lots of detail.
The camera shows a certain amount of image storage capacity in NEF (RAW)
modes—a little over 400 images with a 32-gigabyte card. You’ll find that in the
compressed modes, the D800 does not decrease the image capacity by one for
each picture taken, as it does in Uncompressed mode.
This means that the camera will decrease the number of available images only
every two or three shots, according to how well it was able to compress each
image. When the card is full, it might have more than twice as many images
stored as it initially reported it could hold. Basically, your D800 deliberately
underreports storage capacity when you are shooting in either of the NEF (RAW)
compressed modes.

The layer is copied in order to create the masks. The more masks, the larger the file size.

Like Donald says, delete the luminosity masks when you are finished with them.

I've never regretted Buying it. Has some good effects also.

I use Raya Pro. The easy panel is a free download.

http://www.shutterevolve.com/raya-pro-the-ultimate-digital-blending-workflow-panel-for-photoshop/

I was impressed and purchased the full version.
Alan.

A treat indeed. Thanks for posting :thumbup:

Went the other way. A quick go in Lightroom.
If I took it into Photoshop I could of improved the sky but I'm a bit pushed for time.

Thanks for the exercise Shakey.

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I've had 2 Seagate external hard drives fail on me recently.

Luckily I always have 2 back ups for my photos so I didn't loose any images, only music. Having said that, it's a good job they did not fail at the same time.

Replaced these drives with Western Digital and up till now I've had no problems.

Welcome to the forum Nikongunn.

It's good to have another UK member on board.

Nice shot of the lighthouse and the sea looks dramatic in B&W.

I agree 100% with you jerryc41.

A few year ago I was shooting a firework display with a 18-105mm kit lens on my Nikon D300s. This was mounted on my tripod and I was using a cable release for the long exposures.
Some idiot thought it would be a good Idea to bring a rottweiler along to the display. When the flares and bangs started, the frightened dog bolted sending my tripod flying.
The lens hood took the impact and the plastic mount smashed completely (all the locking wings snapped off). Fortunately this was the only damage.
Cost £20 to have the lens checked over and a new mount fitted at the local camera repair shop. If a metal mount was on, the damage would have been unthinkable.

Alan.

I subscribe to Phlearn.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o-UtiX4rqw

Just enter the link and press the subscribe button.
It's free and Aaron Nace has a simple, and even humorous way of explaining Photoshop.

Congratulations and well done Dale.

Some excellent shots and I hope the video inspires others to take up photography as a serious hobby.

Thanks for posting.

Here's my effort Shakey, mostly with split toning in ACR and a bit play with levels.

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He doesn't seem to bothered about dust getting in his camera, or any of his gear.