Photography Thread

briantrumpet

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Pross said:

As Brian said, rubbish hazy sky today so this was the best I could manage

Hope you don't mind, but a little bit of adjustment (quite a bit less contrast, and lowered the gamma a bit too), and I think it's a bit better/more realistic (though of course I wasn't there)...



It's one reason I use Irfanview for really quick tweaks on the laptop... it's a tiny program, with quick shortcuts: you can adjust colours & resample in just a few seconds, and often it restores what I think I perceived on site/sight, before the camera turned it into a jpg file.

I did tweak it in my phone camera software. This one was massively improved but I'm still trying to understand the impact different changes and combinations of changes make

Just keep on playing, and cringe when you get it wrong. Practice doesn't make perfect, but you do get better at it.

As I've got no pretensions that I'm anything more than a happy snapper, it doesn't really matter if I get it wrong sometimes. Though I hope I get a good one from time to time

masjer

Just looked at a pic after that giant sun sank. Something strange with those colours. I quite like it

shirley_basso

Plenty going on to keep the viewer interested

masjer

After reading about several large fires, It must have been smoke in the atmosphere, causing the sun to appear massive.

rjsterry

Right way round now.

rjsterry

Annoyed that the sun blows out as this was a vivid orange to the eye.

Ben6899

They’re still really nice though, with the silhouettes.

rjsterry

Ben6899 said:

They’re still really nice though, with the silhouettes.

Thanks. The arch of branches very obligingly framed the view.

masjer

Popped into this overgrown graveyard on a ride today. The roof was starting to come off the church, which is a shame.

briantrumpet

If only Topsham had had proper planning controls, you wouldn't end up with this mess:

shirley_basso

I quite like the higgildy piggildy look

briantrumpet

shirley_basso said:

I quite like the higgildy piggildy look

I might have been being sarcastic. Topsham is Topsham because people just built what they wanted to. Most of the houses down there (The Strand) would go for £1m-£3m now, despite a lot of them, theoretically, being 'terraced houses'. Though if sea levels rise much, their insurance premiums are going to be interesting.

shirley_basso

Same as lots of parts of Cambridge. Especially the area known as De Freiville. There are some terrifying high water marks here from historical floods. (I don't think they're real as they're almost to the top of front doors, dating to 1880s)

pblakeney

Not sure how relative it is today, or more worrying the future, but I am reminded of this map.

briantrumpet

pblakeney said:

Not sure how relative it is today, or more worrying the future, but I am reminded of this map.

"Too late to do anything."

pinno

shirley_basso said:

I quite like the higgildy piggildy look

Me too.
The houses aren't shabby nor have widely disparate architecture.

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

Not sure how relative it is today, or more worrying the future, but I am reminded of this map.

"Too late to do anything."

Nah. Too early to tell.
Too late to do anything will be the nanosecond later.

Ben6899

briantrumpet said:

If only Topsham had had proper planning controls, you wouldn't end up with this mess:

Loving the crop on this one.

briantrumpet

Ben6899 said:

briantrumpet said:

If only Topsham had had proper planning controls, you wouldn't end up with this mess:

Loving the crop on this one.

Ha, thanks - I cropped out a few people and cars at the bottom as 'clutter', and decided I quite liked the result.

Ben6899

Works for me - I like photos with the context removed.

briantrumpet

Ben6899 said:

Works for me - I like photos with the context removed.

I like both of those, especially as I don't have to photoshop any dented louvres...

Ben6899

briantrumpet said:

Ben6899 said:

Works for me - I like photos with the context removed.

I like both of those, especially as I don't have to photoshop any dented louvres...

Very difficult to reverse a service vehicle into these louvres...

Tashman

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

briantrumpet

Tashman said:

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

Is she Cornish?

seanoconn

Tashman said:

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

Is she married?

Tashman

briantrumpet said:

Tashman said:

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

Is she Cornish?

Haha, Sussex, but with Cornish relatives if that counts

Tashman

seanoconn said:

Tashman said:

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

Is she married?

She's 12!

seanoconn

Tashman said:

seanoconn said:

Tashman said:

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

Is she married?

She's 12!

Oops, sorry!

briantrumpet

Tashman said:

briantrumpet said:

Tashman said:

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

Is she Cornish?

Haha, Sussex, but with Cornish relatives if that counts

That would explain the jam/cream mistake.

briantrumpet

Tashman said:

seanoconn said:

Tashman said:

I quite liked this from the "tea" my daughter made yesterday

Is she married?

She's 12!

When do they do sex education in school? Maybe they use scones, cream, jam, and chocolate-coated strawberries as an analogy...

Oh dear, I think I'll stop there.