Spring Lake In December

Steven - not sure (again) what you're doing in your post processing, but things here seem to be quite funky yet again. This image, in particular, has some pretty strong & unwanted banding going on in the sky. This usually comes from jpegs where you have lost many of the in-between colors in your histogram. Instead of a smooth histogram, you have all these vertical spikes separated by white area. Plus, there is pixelation galore in the clouds, not to mention the sky area is overly bright. Top all that with the fact that the image is extremely blurry, and there's not a whole lot left.
You're posting a lot of images, but for the most part, and for want of a more positive, constructive way of putting it, they are all technically "challenged." We're all here to grow & learn, in addition to offer critique to others. In all candor, I seriously wonder sometimes if you're not just playing a practical joke on all of us. But on the other hand, assuming that you ARE serious about your postings, I would strongly suggest that you evaluate what you're doing, study quality images, compare them to your own quality of work, and try to improve upon your craft. Surely your camera is capable of better quality than you're exhibiting. Is there a possibility that you're shooting low quality jpegs from your camera rather than RAW? Then just sizing and uploading, skipping any post processing? You've got to really abuse a RAW file to get the kind of artifacts that your images, in general, are displaying. But it's a partnership between using your camera to its best ability, plus incorporating good post processing skills. I wish you luck, and hope to see vast improvements in your skills in the future.

Mr. Cothran has caught quite well my feelings about your postings. Perhaps you could provide more information about your camera settings and post-processing technique.

Hi Steven,
I have to agree with Michael. As a comment and critique forum, we would like to see you make some progress in the quality of your postings. We are here to help, but if we feel like you are not implementing some of our suggestions, and continuing to post images that will not display properly, we won't want to waste our time in critique! If you have specific questions, ask!

I have to totally agree with what has been already said. The whole purpose of this forum is to share and learn. You're images are becoming to easy to skip over. Take the suggestions to heart, we are here to help and in return would like you to also participate in the critique of others. It is immensely helpful to you own progression. Join in !!!! You have 30 post to date and by now you should have at least 150 comments .