Photography Thread
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masjer said:
A case of the early bird............ with that rainbow.
Late bird... that was last night, but my internet was rubbish... I gave up trying.0 -
Brian on your Notebook have a look in C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\colorbriantrumpet said:masjer said:I'm no expert, but are the graphics drivers updated? Pics look a natural colour this end.
Thanks. Since writing that, I had one more look, and tucked away I found a suggestion that going via the adjustments on the graphics card itself might work, and give up on Windows colour calibration... might just have done the trick.
Serves me right for getting such a cheap laptop for the 'other house', but as it only gets (at most) 10 weeks of non-work work a year, I wasn't going to spend much on it.
for your colour profiles, you can make and save your own for various different things like screen calibration or printing calibration (for different types of paper) etc. these can also be downloaded from manufactures websites. A good colour chart is useful when calibrating too
I use this sort of thing as a starting point http://bracket.no-ip.com/johnriches/mtp1024.bmp
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Charlie_Croker said:
Brian on your Notebook have a look in C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\colorbriantrumpet said:masjer said:I'm no expert, but are the graphics drivers updated? Pics look a natural colour this end.
Thanks. Since writing that, I had one more look, and tucked away I found a suggestion that going via the adjustments on the graphics card itself might work, and give up on Windows colour calibration... might just have done the trick.
Serves me right for getting such a cheap laptop for the 'other house', but as it only gets (at most) 10 weeks of non-work work a year, I wasn't going to spend much on it.
for your colour profiles, you can make and save your own for various different things like screen calibration or printing calibration (for different types of paper) etc. these can also be downloaded from manufactures websites. A good colour chart is useful when calibrating too
I use this sort of thing as a starting point http://bracket.no-ip.com/johnriches/mtp1024.bmp
Thanks Charlie. For now, going via the graphics card seems to have got the settings roughly where I want them, and they've not reverted... yet. 🤞0 -
No doubt about my photo of the day today. I find these griffon vultures stupidly hard to photograph satisfactorily (they are enormous), but this one lined itself up nicely, and the camera (for a change) successfully focused on it.
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PS, I assume people know you can right click on a photo and get it to open in a new tab at full size. The vulture's worth it, I think. Might get this one printed & mounted.. think it would work 90cm x 60cm.0
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A cracking shot, lit just right.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:
A cracking shot, lit just right.
These things tend to move faster than snails, so one just keeps fingers crossed that the lighting director gets it right.1 -
A round of applause from here, Brian, that looks spectacular!0
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masjer said:
A round of applause from here, Brian, that looks spectacular!
Thanks. I tried cropping it a bit more to make the vulture bigger in the frame, bit it didn't work as a composition - seems to need all of the cliffs... part of the atmosphere of the shot.0 -
Sunset in kernow
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One in honour of the Grand National today
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You might as well have a bonus sunset-time photo, from my garden.
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My attempts at catching the Blue tit attacks.
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They keep flying at the windows, the car mirrors and landing on front door handles. They are driving the cats wild.0 -
Apologies for another self-timer selfie, but two reasons: one, the sun's out, and it's a beautiful day to be riding up mountains (it was only a small one), but also, I think I'm getting a better feel of what camera angle works... for this one, the camera was on a mini tripod on the ground, and that angle works better where there are mountains involved in the background. And, on a happy note, this was the only take.
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One take and it's a goodun. Mind you, with that backdrop it's almost cheating. I think if I tried that here, my camera would get squish by a tractor.0
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I've only ever once actually put the camera in the middle of a (very quiet) rural road, to get a shot of four of us approaching (I'll see if I can dig that one out)... this one was actually far enough to one side that I wasn't too worried.masjer said:One take and it's a goodun. Mind you, with that backdrop it's almost cheating. I think if I tried that here, my camera would get squish by a tractor.
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Ah, got it.
Having set the camera up in the middle of the road, with the other three riders waiting in place, I pressed the shutter, rode around the back of them while they started to ride forwards, all the while counting to 10. Second take got it. Would have preferred the two middle riders to be tighter, but they were trying not to run over the camera.
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The road in the distance? Doesn't look to be a small one.briantrumpet said:Apologies for another self-timer selfie, but two reasons: one, the sun's out, and it's a beautiful day to be riding up mountains (it was only a small one), but also, I think I'm getting a better feel of what camera angle works... for this one, the camera was on a mini tripod on the ground, and that angle works better where there are mountains involved in the background. And, on a happy note, this was the only take.
Nice shot!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:
The road in the distance? Doesn't look to be a small one.briantrumpet said:Apologies for another self-timer selfie, but two reasons: one, the sun's out, and it's a beautiful day to be riding up mountains (it was only a small one), but also, I think I'm getting a better feel of what camera angle works... for this one, the camera was on a mini tripod on the ground, and that angle works better where there are mountains involved in the background. And, on a happy note, this was the only take.
Nice shot!
Haha, no... the road I'm on goes off to the left over a much smaller col (about 750m) - the one ahead is actually a track created by a farmer to get his stock up onto Vercors for the summer. French blokes really like doing major earthworks - that track is several kilometres long.1 -
BTW, I have got an excuse for the selfies: you might notice that I have a following of French ladies 'of a certain age range' 🤣
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Reminded me of the Pla d'Adet which looks incongruous from a distance but is a pure bar steward to cycle up. 😉briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
The road in the distance? Doesn't look to be a small one.briantrumpet said:Apologies for another self-timer selfie, but two reasons: one, the sun's out, and it's a beautiful day to be riding up mountains (it was only a small one), but also, I think I'm getting a better feel of what camera angle works... for this one, the camera was on a mini tripod on the ground, and that angle works better where there are mountains involved in the background. And, on a happy note, this was the only take.
Nice shot!
Haha, no... the road I'm on goes off to the left over a much smaller col (about 750m) - the one ahead is actually a track created by a farmer to get his stock up onto Vercors for the summer. French blokes really like doing major earthworks - that track is several kilometres long.
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 -
pblakeney said:
Reminded me of the Pla d'Adet which looks incongruous from a distance but is a pure bar steward to cycle up. 😉briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
The road in the distance? Doesn't look to be a small one.briantrumpet said:Apologies for another self-timer selfie, but two reasons: one, the sun's out, and it's a beautiful day to be riding up mountains (it was only a small one), but also, I think I'm getting a better feel of what camera angle works... for this one, the camera was on a mini tripod on the ground, and that angle works better where there are mountains involved in the background. And, on a happy note, this was the only take.
Nice shot!
Haha, no... the road I'm on goes off to the left over a much smaller col (about 750m) - the one ahead is actually a track created by a farmer to get his stock up onto Vercors for the summer. French blokes really like doing major earthworks - that track is several kilometres long.
Even from here, that looks bloomin' steep. Most of the stuff around here averages well under 10%, and a lot of it looks virtually level side-on.0 -
Some from the weekend. For full disclosure they are taken from a hide we discovered while out for a walk so not quite so natural as they may appear.
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.5 -
I like the challenge of taking bird photos, even though I have little interest in what the birds are. Some of the common ones are stupidly hard to take out in the wild - blue tits, for instance, rarely sit still long enough. And I haven't got the patience to sit anywhere for hours... well, even more than a few minutes.pblakeney said:Some from the weekend. For full disclosure they are taken from a hide we discovered while out for a walk so not quite so natural as they may appear.
I think of that when I remember a old badminton-playing friend of mine who spent 200 hours in a hide to get footage for the BBC of some birds or other mating...
http://www.bird-watching-papua-adventure-travel.com/press/amblyornisinornatus.html0 -
Oh! I spent maybe 30 minutes all in. 😉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 -
Could hear a woodpecker on Saturday but no chance of spotting it.0
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Pross said:
Could hear a woodpecker on Saturday but no chance of spotting it.
Lesser spotted then...3 -
What a grey day. A clump of Sea Pinks for some colour.
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masjer said:
What a grey day. A clump of Sea Pinks for some colour.
Ha - flowers are my resort on a grey day. Nice composition... almost catches your annoyance with the weather too.
Looks like I got a few minutes' more brightness than you, though annoyed the forecast went from 'sun all day' to 'you might just get a bit of sun in the afternoon, if you're lucky'. Oh well.
Anyway, some foreshortening - the mountain behind is about 5 miles away. I likes foreshortening, I does.
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