Thanks for the comments and the kind words
(And the criticism too, it's always needed
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Re : The sharpening halo's and the first two shots. Afraid to say you're all wrong
But that's my fault for being deceptive, and you'd be forgiven to think that they were sharpening halos and my fault.
The first one, the halo is in the original. Not as bad as it ended up though. I don't think, but certainly there. I think it's because it was taken as a JPEG on my Fuji 2800. That's the only original I have to play with. My processing didn't help matters I suppose.
Here's the original, so I'd appreciate your thoughts, not only on the halo but the comparison of the shots.
When I had my gallery online before at my domain, this was certainly the most popular of my shots.
The second, the halos you see around the jetty posts are as a result of my poor selecting / feathering while adjusting, and sharpening / resizing has accentuated them.
I've taken the original TIFF (well my master anyway), and had another go. I've stopped flattening the image recently, before saving the master, but this was one that was already flattened in the final version, so I had to basically clone the bad outline out....
You may need to do a forced refresh, I've renamed the halo'd version above, so the one you see here may be the originally 'oversharpened' one, if that makes sense.