Photography Thread
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Credit to the lighting director for this one this morning.
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A fair point. My thinking about this frame was both the left and right turbine blades appear to be pointing at the setting sun in harmonypblakeney said:
I'd have zoomed/cropped it to just the left 3 turbines. Wonderful sky though.Charlie_Croker said:
I was a bit worried at this point (last night), that I might not be able to make the track/road I was heading for before dark (plunging into a water filled censored )
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Leading lines is a fair point but the right side seems a bit cluttered. IMO only. 😉Charlie_Croker said:
A fair point. My thinking about this frame was both the left and right turbine blades appear to be pointing at the setting sun in harmonypblakeney said:
I'd have zoomed/cropped it to just the left 3 turbines. Wonderful sky though.Charlie_Croker said:
I was a bit worried at this point (last night), that I might not be able to make the track/road I was heading for before dark (plunging into a water filled censored )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:
Leading lines is a fair point but the right side seems a bit cluttered. IMO only. 😉Charlie_Croker said:
A fair point. My thinking about this frame was both the left and right turbine blades appear to be pointing at the setting sun in harmonypblakeney said:
I'd have zoomed/cropped it to just the left 3 turbines. Wonderful sky though.Charlie_Croker said:
I was a bit worried at this point (last night), that I might not be able to make the track/road I was heading for before dark (plunging into a water filled censored )
An exceedingly good photographer I know says that the mistake most people make is to look at the 'subject' of the photo as they take it, rather than just the shapes in the composition. You can rectify that, to an extent, when you edit them later, though not if you've taken it from the wrong angle.0 -
Thanks both, the yellowish colour of the tree stood out even more against the mist 'in the flesh' but the camera didn't do it justice. Same with the red berries on the one tree. I only ever carry a phone but starting to think about a lightweight camera as I seem to be taking far more photos that ever before.0
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Would thoroughly recommend a Sony HX-60. Got mine for £200 new.Pross said:Thanks both, the yellowish colour of the tree stood out even more against the mist 'in the flesh' but the camera didn't do it justice. Same with the red berries on the one tree. I only ever carry a phone but starting to think about a lightweight camera as I seem to be taking far more photos that ever before.
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Thirdedbriantrumpet said:Charlie_Croker said:
Lov this onePross said:What a difference a day makes. Today's shots from the Blorenge (the hill the Tumble climb goes up). In the clouds at the top and misty lower down.
Yes, that one caught my eye too.Ben
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Cheers, will look into it. I like the convenience of being able to upload things straight from phone and I'm not sure if the limiting factor is what the phone can do or my lack of photography skills!briantrumpet said:
Would thoroughly recommend a Sony HX-60. Got mine for £200 new.Pross said:Thanks both, the yellowish colour of the tree stood out even more against the mist 'in the flesh' but the camera didn't do it justice. Same with the red berries on the one tree. I only ever carry a phone but starting to think about a lightweight camera as I seem to be taking far more photos that ever before.
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Pross said:
Cheers, will look into it. I like the convenience of being able to upload things straight from phone and I'm not sure if the limiting factor is what the phone can do or my lack of photography skills!briantrumpet said:
Would thoroughly recommend a Sony HX-60. Got mine for £200 new.Pross said:Thanks both, the yellowish colour of the tree stood out even more against the mist 'in the flesh' but the camera didn't do it justice. Same with the red berries on the one tree. I only ever carry a phone but starting to think about a lightweight camera as I seem to be taking far more photos that ever before.
It's got a wifi option, so it's easy enough to transfer onto a phone, though I generally like to put them onto a laptop for a bit of basic tweaking with Irfanview. The phone screen tends to give a poor representation of the colours (though it is a cheap phone I use), so I never really trust it with anything other than basic snaps.
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Re 'photography skills', it's definitely something that can improve with practice. I've probably taken about 50k photos over the past ten years, and I look back at the ones from the start of that period, and the strike rate of ones I like now is very low. Even my current ones aren't anything other than quick snaps, but the discard rate (although still high) is lower, as I've got a better idea of what will work, in technical terms (i.e., what a cheapish camera on auto cam manage reasonably well), and in compositional terms.0
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Not my photo, credit a William Dickson. But special. A red kite with a crow attached, eyes on talons out.
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Saw a kestrel being chased off by a crow last week in Putney. Not something you see often in these parts.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0
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I think it depends on the media you copy it from.orraloon said:Not my photo, credit a William Dickson. But special. A red kite with a crow attached, eyes on talons out.
... don't know how to manage the image sizing on this wunnerful tech website
Generally better to put in the link from another site, rather than upload the image here. Here's the image I linked earlier, this time uploaded.
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Right click on the uploaded image, and you'll see how compressed/small the file is.0
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Looking at it again the bit which I like are the two seemingly identical trees - one bare and one quite full with autumn leaves.briantrumpet said:
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shirley_basso said:
Looking at it again the bit which I like are the two seemingly identical trees - one bare and one quite full with autumn leaves.briantrumpet said:
I tried it in B&W, as I thought the shapes & shades might work well, but it didn't press any extra buttons. What caught my eye was the contrast of the man-made and natural shapes in the frame, and the various symmetries they created.0 -
It’s a great shot.Ben
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When the sunset doesn't develop as hoped for then it is time to improvise.
Not often I'm complaining about the lack of overhead clouds. 😉
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 -
Looks like the sort of shot that becomes a print on office walls with one of those inspirational messages about pulling together.0
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We have obviously been meeting different ladies. 🤣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.1 -
Been wanting to try this for a while but don't usually have my phone. Need to work on it, had hoped to get something sharper but rushed it a bit
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Nice llama!2
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briantrumpet said:pinno said:
I think it depends on the media you copy it from.orraloon said:Not my photo, credit a William Dickson. But special. A red kite with a crow attached, eyes on talons out.
... don't know how to manage the image sizing on this wunnerful tech website
Generally better to put in the link from another site, rather than upload the image here. Here's the image I linked earlier, this time uploaded.
Underneath the M5 on the Exeter Canal by chance? ( Saw you were an Exeter Wheeler!)briantrumpet said:pinno said:
I think it depends on the media you copy it from.orraloon said:Not my photo, credit a William Dickson. But special. A red kite with a crow attached, eyes on talons out.
... don't know how to manage the image sizing on this wunnerful tech website
Generally better to put in the link from another site, rather than upload the image here. Here's the image I linked earlier, this time uploaded.
Know it v well ( if it’s the Canal) from many years ago when I used to train in kayaks. Was last underneath it with my wife and my Mum now sadly passed away on a hot summer day a couple of years ago when visiting. ( Am now based in Southampton)
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Yes, exactly there.molteni_man said:
Underneath the M5 on the Exeter Canal by chance? ( Saw you were an Exeter Wheeler!)
Know it v well ( if it’s the Canal) from many years ago when I used to train in kayaks. Was last underneath it with my wife and my Mum now sadly passed away on a hot summer day a couple of years ago when visiting. ( Am now based in Southampton)
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Pross said:
Been wanting to try this for a while but don't usually have my phone. Need to work on it, had hoped to get something sharper but rushed it a bit
Good to see you've got the dog plugged in recharging.0
