The Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Uppermill

Thanks very much. In a perfect life there would have been a touch more sun on the bridge and foreground, but (even if I say so myself) compositionally and tonally this is the best that could be done under the existing lighting conditions and the image is satisfactory.

Have you seen the picture "as is"? Because very few of Howard's pictures are!
I prefer "as is" pictures too.

Er, no. John is saying that he likes the picture 'as is' (after any digital enhancement it might have received), not the original scene as it might have appeared.

As pointed out before, no photograph is ever a literal and exact facsimile of what is seen by the eye, because of the very nature of the photographic process. As explained, a certain amount of tonemapping can make the end result look closer to what the eye saw than a plain camera-generated .jpg which you assume always to be the most accurate and realistic representation of any scene.

Are you now John's spokesman? He did say in a previous comment that he likes pictures
"as seen" imperfections and all that makes a proper picture not a manufactured one".

I'm inclined to agree with him, although I have no objection to cloning out unwanted features.