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.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Definitely a vast improvement. In reality the colours were sharper in the foreground and the bridges were much clearer despite the haze (they're virtually invisible on here with the compression but you can see them when clicking on the photo). Shooting into the sun wasn't ideal and I should probably have used my filter. Maybe a graduated filter would have been a help but I don't have one.briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
Seemed as good an excuse for a 5 minute diversion as any. 😉briantrumpet said:It looks to me as if the last two would have benefited from HDR to flatten out the contrast between light & dark... I've just had a play with the last one, and didn't get a satisfactory result...
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These things are subjective though.
Certainly better than my effort, though, of course, without our having been there, only Pross can judge...
My use of HDR sometimes is just to make sure that at least the extremes of detail are there in the photo, and so is there for me to play around with later to try to get what I *think* I saw in real life.0 -
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Definitely a vast improvement. In reality the colours were sharper in the foreground and the bridges were much clearer despite the haze (they're virtually invisible on here with the compression but you can see them when clicking on the photo). Shooting into the sun wasn't ideal and I should probably have used my filter. Maybe a graduated filter would have been a help but I don't have one.briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
Seemed as good an excuse for a 5 minute diversion as any. 😉briantrumpet said:It looks to me as if the last two would have benefited from HDR to flatten out the contrast between light & dark... I've just had a play with the last one, and didn't get a satisfactory result...
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These things are subjective though.
Certainly better than my effort, though, of course, without our having been there, only Pross can judge...
My use of HDR sometimes is just to make sure that at least the extremes of detail are there in the photo, and so is there for me to play around with later to try to get what I *think* I saw in real life.
It does make you realise how fantastic our eyes and associated brain processing is.0 -
All I did was correct contrast (imo) then adjust levels. It wasn't till I finished that I remembered about the HDR tools. Oh well, probably just automates the same thing.briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
Seemed as good an excuse for a 5 minute diversion as any. 😉briantrumpet said:It looks to me as if the last two would have benefited from HDR to flatten out the contrast between light & dark... I've just had a play with the last one, and didn't get a satisfactory result...
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These things are subjective though.
Certainly better than my effort, though, of course, without our having been there, only Pross can judge...
My use of HDR sometimes is just to make sure that at least the extremes of detail are there in the photo, and so is there for me to play around with later to try to get what I *think* I saw in real life.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Some autumnals and a riding-towards-camera selfie. The low sun and reduced foliage cover gives some nice light.
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Some good track standing practice😄briantrumpet said:Some autumnals and a riding-towards-camera selfie. The low sun and reduced foliage cover gives some nice light.
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masjer said:
Some good track standing practice😄briantrumpet said:Some autumnals and a riding-towards-camera selfie. The low sun and reduced foliage cover gives some nice light.
More like counting-to-ten practice. My friend got into position, after I pressed the shutter, I rode towards his left, he started moving forwards as I passed then turned round behind him and caught up with him on his other side. This was the first take. The second take (the only other one) wasn't quite as well timed. I probably missed out 7 or some other pesky number. I told you I stank at maths...
I just quite like the challenge of coming up with a good shot and trying to execute it without falling off or someone driving over the camera.1 -
I think Pross is remembering a reference to the Picturesque movement, which was late 18th century. The word might not have been new, but using it with a capital P to describe a style of art (and landscape design) was.briantrumpet said:It looks to me as if the last two would have benefited from HDR to flatten out the contrast between light & dark... I've just had a play with the last one, and didn't get a satisfactory result...
Re picturesque... the word goes back to at least 1705... from the OED:1705 R. Steele Tender Husband iv. 43 That Circumstance may be very Picturesque.
1749 U. ap Rhys Tour Spain & Portugal 86 The Ends of their Veils..tied in so pretty a Manner, as to render their Figures extremely pittoresque.
1768 W. Gilpin (title) An essay upon prints; containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvi. 263 Poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave..about this picturesque land of ours.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picturesque
Pross's photo would fit quite well into that genre.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Good sleuthing. Thanks RJS, and well done to Pross for remembering the link.rjsterry said:
I think Pross is remembering a reference to the Picturesque movement, which was late 18th century. The word might not have been new, but using it with a capital P to describe a style of art (and landscape design) was.briantrumpet said:It looks to me as if the last two would have benefited from HDR to flatten out the contrast between light & dark... I've just had a play with the last one, and didn't get a satisfactory result...
Re picturesque... the word goes back to at least 1705... from the OED:1705 R. Steele Tender Husband iv. 43 That Circumstance may be very Picturesque.
1749 U. ap Rhys Tour Spain & Portugal 86 The Ends of their Veils..tied in so pretty a Manner, as to render their Figures extremely pittoresque.
1768 W. Gilpin (title) An essay upon prints; containing remarks upon the principles of picturesque beauty.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvi. 263 Poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave..about this picturesque land of ours.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picturesque
Pross's photo would fit quite well into that genre.
A a slightly weird notion of the "*rules* of picturesque beauty"!Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travellers to examine "the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty". Picturesque, along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism, was a part of the emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century.0 -
Yep, that was what it was. I heard it a few weeks ago on the travel thing Susan Calman does and then I read it in the blurb for the walk I followed. I lived in Chepstow for a while but had never realised the estate of Piercefield House had public access until I did a cross country race there last year. The house itself is a great example of how Grade 1 listing can have the complete opposite of its intended consequences. Various developers have tried to restore it over the years and given up so it just gets more dilapidated every year.0
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Yep. There's a whole school of painting that is basically variations on Medieval ruins in a steep sided, wooded valley.
There's a famous one by Turner of Cilgerran Castle, which masjer can try to recreate if he fancies.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Interesting, I could try on a very wet day to catch the Turneresque style. Maybe above my pay grade.rjsterry said:Yep. There's a whole school of painting that is basically variations on Medieval ruins in a steep sided, wooded valley.
There's a famous one by Turner of Cilgerran Castle, which masjer can try to recreate if he fancies.
Guilty of having cycled past many times, but never actually going in.0 -
rjsterry said:
Yep. There's a whole school of painting that is basically variations on Medieval ruins in a steep sided, wooded valley.
There's a famous one by Turner of Cilgerran Castle, which masjer can try to recreate if he fancies.
I ought to re-read the book on Dartmoor by the brother of an ex-student friend https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quartz-Feldspar-Dartmoor-British-Landscape/dp/0099552558 - I seem to remember he has a whole section on how 19th century literature and art created the myth of Dartmoor wilderness as a Romantic notion.0 -
Catching up again. Two more from August.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.6 -
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That was the objective. High speed burst to capture the best droplets.masjer said:
That's a nicely taken shot. Good and low looks much better than taken from above. Drops of water from its bill, a nice touch too.pblakeney said:Catching up again. Two more from August.
Isn't shooting digital wonderful! 😉 Wouldn't dream of trying with slide film. 🤣The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
pblakeney said:
That was the objective. High speed burst to capture the best droplets.masjer said:
That's a nicely taken shot. Good and low looks much better than taken from above. Drops of water from its bill, a nice touch too.pblakeney said:Catching up again. Two more from August.
Isn't shooting digital wonderful! 😉 Wouldn't dream of trying with slide film. 🤣
I was briefly in Topsham hide this morning, and everyone else had fancy kit with enormous lenses and shooting on rapid burst. I just stuck to single shots of sitting ducks.
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I can't see your droplets? 😉briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
That was the objective. High speed burst to capture the best droplets.masjer said:
That's a nicely taken shot. Good and low looks much better than taken from above. Drops of water from its bill, a nice touch too.pblakeney said:Catching up again. Two more from August.
Isn't shooting digital wonderful! 😉 Wouldn't dream of trying with slide film. 🤣
I was briefly in Topsham hide this morning, and everyone else had fancy kit with enormous lenses and shooting on rapid burst. I just stuck to single shots of sitting ducks.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
pblakeney said:
I can't see your droplets? 😉briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
That was the objective. High speed burst to capture the best droplets.masjer said:
That's a nicely taken shot. Good and low looks much better than taken from above. Drops of water from its bill, a nice touch too.pblakeney said:Catching up again. Two more from August.
Isn't shooting digital wonderful! 😉 Wouldn't dream of trying with slide film. 🤣
I was briefly in Topsham hide this morning, and everyone else had fancy kit with enormous lenses and shooting on rapid burst. I just stuck to single shots of sitting ducks.
No selfie today.1 -
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I don't like the clocks going back, I keep running out of light. There was a monster swell with no wind.
It doesn't look like a monster swell. Photography, grrrr.
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Swell... no swell in Topsham.. looking either way from the same spot:
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I'm surprised how well these turned out. Low light, shot in RAW and pulled them back.
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Scarborough in early light, off out and about to find some bass, 90 mins later it was belting down with rain, defo saw the best of this day
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Love it. The disappearing clouds and light and concrete into the distance in similar vein.eric_draven said:
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Same road, similar shot, different day, slightly different angle.
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