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Great weather for dramatic shots at the moment.
This was in the Bourne Woods. A man out walking his dog.

Tuesday 21st Jan up on the ridge overlooking Frensham ponds. The fog was so thick you could hardly see anything
Both these shots were processed using Nik Software Viveza 2. I'm really liking this plugin for Lightroom. Lightroom 5 is fantastic but I seem to prefer the results I get when using the Nik Plugins. The control points work so well and I like what structure does more than the clarity slider in Lightroom. Not sure whether they are directly comparable but they do seem to try and bring out detail. As with all these different pieces of software, they have the areas in which they excel  so I guess the secret is to use the best bits of all of them.

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