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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,582
    briantrumpet said:



    Otherwise, if there are verticals, then I try to get a vertical somewhere in the middle of the photo as vertical as I can, and then shrug my shoulders at the other verticals/horizontals that haven't played ball.

    Top tip right there. Central verticals are alway vertical.
    Horizontals can be off due to leading away/towards.
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  • Charlie_Croker
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    briantrumpet said:

    Pross said:

    Yeah top was definitely the better light. Not sure why they're sloping, I used the feature on my phone that suggests the focal point and displays a line that stretches across the screen when you get the 'right' angle. I think the top one is horizontal but the ground is sloping in front of the church, the lower one has the ground level but not the edge of the watercourse.

    It's always annoying when the lines that you think should be parallel horizontals don't quite line up. You can jiggle with perspective plug-ins if it's close enough to be doable without it being ridiculous.

    Otherwise, if there are verticals, then I try to get a vertical somewhere in the middle of the photo as vertical as I can, and then shrug my shoulders at the other verticals/horizontals that haven't played ball.

    Yes, I just concentrate on the verticals, getting one (centre) of them plumb with a level camera/phone. That’s about the best you can do without a tripod and spirit level. I also try not to tilt the camera upwards especially when shooting buildings, though it’s not always possible.

    Just keep ‘em coming, there great to see

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    Couple of old ones I came across in my album from a walk around London on a summer's evening a couple of years ago.




  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,610
    mrb123 said:

    webboo said:

    mrb123 said:


    Is that the North York moors.
    North Pennines, near Edmundbyers this morning.
    We were there last summer. We stayed near Derwent reservoir.
    That area sure is hilly. I goosed myself on the sticky tarmac up and down dale.
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  • mrb123
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    pinno said:

    mrb123 said:

    webboo said:

    mrb123 said:


    Is that the North York moors.
    North Pennines, near Edmundbyers this morning.
    We were there last summer. We stayed near Derwent reservoir.
    That area sure is hilly. I goosed myself on the sticky tarmac up and down dale.
    Yeah, takes some beating for road cycling round there so long as the wind isn't blowing too hard across those moors.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    This thread has got me thinking a bit more about photography and reading up on it so hoping to start trying to take proper photos soon and consider things such as exposure length rather than just pointing and pressing at things I see of interest to me. I've never really understood any of the phrases before - sometimes I get quite lucky and produce a fairly decent, sharp image but usually it doesn't come out as the image I'm seeing.
  • briantrumpet
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    Frost's always fun...


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  • Pross
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    I've just been trying to get some frost photos in the garden but it wasn't thick enough on any of the plants. Took some of the ice on the birdbath but it isn't as nice as I'd hoped. With a bit of luch tomorrow will be a crisp one as I'm going to be out and about around sunrise.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,582
    Pross said:

    ...Took some of the ice on the birdbath but it isn't as nice as I'd hoped..

    You will probably learn more from failures than successes. Post up for critique (if you can take it). Most flaws are easily fixed with a bit of knowledge of how and when to go off auto.

    Quite probably under exposed for what you want in this example.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    pblakeney said:

    Pross said:

    ...Took some of the ice on the birdbath but it isn't as nice as I'd hoped..

    You will probably learn more from failures than successes. Post up for critique (if you can take it). Most flaws are easily fixed with a bit of knowledge of how and when to go off auto.

    Quite probably under exposed for what you want in this example.
    It's hard to tell the ice is ice, it looks like leaves under the water


  • pblakeney
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    Awkward shot.
    1. The ice will be reflecting colours from around it.
    2. The ice is underexposed, and even more so again due to the sunlit edge.

    Reposition next time so that the ice is the brightest part of the photo and avoid reflections. I dare say that the second part is problematic.
    Just a thought (and a cheat), a breath to give the ice some condensation might help.
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  • Ben6899
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    Another trick here is to go into a manual setting, over-expose the whole lot and then play with the shadows and highlights in post-processing.
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  • pblakeney
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    Ben6899 said:

    Another trick here is to go into a manual setting, over-expose the whole lot and then play with the shadows and highlights in post-processing.

    I guess I am an old school slide photographer.
    I still expose for the highlights and develop for the shadows. Each to their own. 😉
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  • Ben6899
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    National Theatre
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  • Pross
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    The full moon, clear sky and high tide meant even Newport was worth photographing tonight. Takes perfect timing so it's dark enough to hide the many flaws whilst being early enough to give you a sporting chance of not being mugged for your phone / camera!



  • Pross
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    Complete fluke that it has lined up to look like the moon is being fired out of the bridge on the bottom one!
  • briantrumpet
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    Ben6899 said:

    National Theatre


    I like that - I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to see what it would look like as a negative... and that kinda works too. because the shapes are strong, I think.


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  • Ben6899
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    edited January 2022
    Don’t mind at all - it looks great as a negative, doesn’t it!?

    (It’s the National Theatre, btw, if anyone wondered)
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  • briantrumpet
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    Ben6899 said:

    Don’t mind at all - it looks great as a negative, doesn’t it!?

    (It’s the National Theatre, btw, if anyone wondered)

    Yes, I thought it looked good... I did it partly because at first (quick) glance, your photo looked like a negative, so was interested in how it would look actually inverted.
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  • briantrumpet
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    And then perhaps it works even better when flipped vertically...


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  • briantrumpet
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    Anyway, enough of strong shapes, how about a strong clever sheep who can balance a big tree on its back...


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  • masjer
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    Is it a ewe tree?
  • briantrumpet
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    masjer said:

    Is it a ewe tree?


    Very good! (Just annoyed I didn't think of that...)
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  • Ben6899
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    edited January 2022
    If she isn’t careful, with all that lifting, she’ll need an operation.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,610
    ...on her baaaack.





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  • webboo
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    How come you’ve got a picture of my cat.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    edited January 2022
    webboo said:

    How come you’ve got a picture of my cat.


    You need to lock the front door.
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  • Charlie_Croker
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    Here's one I took on Monday, not a great shot in the photography sense more a moment in time. I found it hard to take, riding on soft ground one handed looking ahead and releasing the shutter pointing sideways...

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    Cycling towards a local (aircraft) bombing range, at Donna Nook in Lincolnshire

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