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« Reply #2566 on: 22:39:03, 26-10-2007 » |
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« Reply #2567 on: 09:57:44, 27-10-2007 » |
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Absolute laugh at band practice last night!! We all started up quite normally, had a tea break, which my wife prepares, but for some reason we all werer in fits of laughter. Dont know why, just werer. Not bad though ya!! My wife said she put some marijuana in the tea!! Well ofcourse she didnt. It was good to see everyone in good spirits!! (No pun intended there, the time of year - ha ha!!)
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« Reply #2568 on: 13:14:22, 27-10-2007 » |
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You have band practice during half term? That would be unheard of where I live. There are a number of amateur choral groups, an amateur dramatics society and an operatic society as well as the orchestra I play in and they all follow the school terms - no rehearsals during the holidays, even half term, which I know some people whose lives aren't ruled by these things find tiresome.
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« Reply #2569 on: 13:44:45, 28-10-2007 » |
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What ho!. Today, I am happy. Yesterday, we took two of my wife's seven year old grand neices to the theatre in Blackpool. We saw "Peter Pan on Ice" (in effect, an ice ballet) danced by the White Rose Russian Ice Skaters. The performance was perfect; wonderful skating, costumes and sets with a fine and completely suitable score by Silvio Amato. The youngsters, who are always extremely well behaved in the theatre, were riveted and their eyes never left the stage and they didn't utter a word until the interval. All of us thought it a magical performance and I feel happy that two such youngsters can really appreciate a fine performance. I recommend it to you - adults and children. Contentment reigns in Soundwave Towers.
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« Reply #2570 on: 13:48:01, 28-10-2007 » |
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Ho S'Wave, Great to see you around, and to hear you are happy  Sounds a lovely evening. A bit of a long way ( now!!) Hope you are keeping well. ( Do look on the picture association thread... you are mentioned !!!!) A <hug emoticon> |
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« Reply #2571 on: 13:59:42, 28-10-2007 » |
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Ho "A". Thanks for the "picture" reference. Peter Pan on Ice is going round various locations. Try to see it if you can and take "himself" for a taste of common culture.
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« Reply #2572 on: 18:30:21, 28-10-2007 » |
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More happiness from the beechwood at Denside: glorious light but a nightmare for exposure setting.... |
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« Reply #2573 on: 19:07:45, 28-10-2007 » |
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Another cracker, Ron! Have you ever photographed professionally (in addition to all the other things you've done?!)?
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« Reply #2574 on: 19:12:56, 28-10-2007 » |
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« Reply #2575 on: 21:03:01, 28-10-2007 » |
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More happiness from the beechwood at Denside: glorious light but a nightmare for exposure setting.... Superb photo with remarkable light effects - it's like an oil-painting, Ron. (Remembered the comma this time - so you're not an oil-painting! ) |
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« Reply #2576 on: 21:20:04, 28-10-2007 » |
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I've sold a couple of photies, martle, but I'm an amateur in this as in most other things.
Kitty, I've had to pull the exposure down a bit on this pic - the gradation from the brightest green to the darkest brown is immense, and the green was almost glaring. Apart from that and resizing (it's a 10 meg camera) I've done nothing, though I like very much what you've done in taming the brightest distance yet lightening the foreground. I do use Photoshop, but rarely on the pictures posted here: one or two have been re-balanced using the native Mac software, but most are as snapped; the camera itself gives me a huge amount of options at the point of shooting, and I'm still very much at the bottom of the learning curve....
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« Reply #2577 on: 23:46:12, 28-10-2007 » |
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I know with a lot of photographers it's a ticklish issue. In the red corner the purists insist "I took the picture the way I wanted it to look" but in the blue corner "I took a good picture but I knew I could improve it in the lab".
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« Reply #2578 on: 00:13:54, 29-10-2007 » |
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I'm slightly closer to the red corner than the blue. But I do rely on being able to straighten any pic which includes horizontals or verticals since I have great difficulty in getting those right at the time of shooting. Cropping is very often called for since a camera only gives you a fixed height/width ratio. Exposure and colour balance are more tricky and I find it's easy to produce more than one version of a picture, each of which has something in its favour. I don't have Photoshop and I've no desire to produce some of the distortions of reality which software like that enables - I prefer to distort reality when taking the picture. |
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« Reply #2579 on: 00:42:48, 29-10-2007 » |
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Well, it depends for me whether each particular picture will be purely documentary or is intended to be of a more impressionistic nature. Sometimes I see beyond what the lens sees as I'm considering a picture, and know that some adjustment will be needed: but the light up here is extraordinary, and more often than not what you see is what you get. No matter what tricks I tried in situ, I just couldn't find the right balance for Denside today. The middle camera, used in program mode, was even more confused by the brightness, which has a slightly tawny quality, and was very intense today. Being right on the coast really affects the light, too, of course. Shining through translucent leaves - not just trees, but often grass as well when the sun is low, gives those amazing glowing colours which you really don't believe until you see them 'live'.
Photoshop is used more for the 3D CAD work that I'm starting to get involved in, particularly when it comes to mapping 2D co-ordinates onto a 3D plane, an exercise somewhat akin to trying to knit elastic with spaghetti needles. The trick seems to be to work out the approximate distortion in advance, and build it into the texture to be applied: sometimes Gimp does the job more easily.
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