Photography Thread
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With the current deluge and warmer temperatures melting snow, I might pop down to my favourite torrent tomorrow morning, and possibly just before sunset tomorrow too, if I time it right. Could be quite impressive.
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A 5 minute effort just for fun.
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That's the kind of thing I try, but the immediacy/vividness reduces the atmosphere, to my eye.
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Agreed. Lean in to the gloom.
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A warm evening glow on some lovely bush-hammered concrete.
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I'm rapidly going off @briantrumpet 's photo.😆
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Easy enough to tone down to taste anywhere in-between the two supplied examples. Always subjective.
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While waiting for the cloud inversion to lift down yer in the valley... 1/8s, with just a little tweaking to make sure the whites in the water weren't bleached.
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If the inversion lifts in the next hour or two, I'll be out on the new bike, if it doesn't, I'll stay on foot and head above the clouds.
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The new bike lost and the walking boots won: I think I made the right choice. Watching the mer de nuages tumble through the gap into 'my' valley was just the most extraordinary sight. Had I taken a tripod, a time-lapse video would have been spectacular.
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Looks like that panned out nicely with those conditions.👍The shutter speed was right in the Goldilocks zone in the first set this morning. Not always easy to judge on the rear screen.
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I try to get the water ones as dark as I can with a vaguely slow shutter speed, otherwise the white water bleaches out. The lurky cloudage definitely helped this morning. I think if I'd had a faster turnaround the mer de nuages might have been even more spectacular (or even more so if I'd been keen enough to go out before breakfast), but I was more than happy with the outcome all the same. Just a privilege to be able to walk up to something like this an hour from my front door.
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It's exceptionally clear tonight if you want to photograph some stars.
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I made the same comment at home after walking the dogs. If I’d still been on leave I would have taken a trip to Elan Valley for the proper dark skies.
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Apols for the selfie aspect (gotta feed the mafffia beast), but as my photos today were pretty dull, my reinstalling IrfanView with all the plug-ins, especially the perspective bit, is more interesting. Like the rest of IV, it's not very sophisticated (I prefer the tools in my Android Photo Editor), but with a bit of rotation first to get the centre vertical, then dragging the photo around in the plug-in, this one worked out passably well. Certainly better than the original.
In other news, the gravel bike is lovely, but hard work on tracks that first had snow on them, then a deluge two nights ago. But it's cracking to get views I'd not get from the road - it's going to be fun exploring on dry tracks in the summer.
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PS, I didn't think about getting the vertical perspective changed, as that really would have made the proportions very weird!
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^There's a godlike quality with that stance and low camera angle^. Nice bike👍.
Wabi-sabi went out of the window as I had to clone out a tiny ripple in the top corner.
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Seems like the mafffia like it anyway... they seem to think I'm the new mayor. I might bring in congestion charging, but for sheep and goats.
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Sacre bleu, an English mayor. Sod congestion charging, take Greenland.
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Actually, it has been known, and there happens to have been one not far away, called Roger Moore. TBH, it's a shit job without much pay in the smaller communes, so quite often it's down to whoever is vaguely willing.
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Anyway, the weather's still shit, but not too cold, and the clouds at least had the decency to be vaguely interesting. Humidity has been at 93% all day, as basically everywhere down to ground level is cloud to some degree. I've not tried to dry any washing.
I quite liked the zigzag in the composition - better than a horizontal block.
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Back to water this morning. There's plenty of it about, which is good news on the ecology front, less good on the cycling front. There were all 1/8 or 1/10s, as I can't stop this camera down any more. I think the last one is my favourite, as there's a nice collection of different movements.
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Definitely agree that the last one looks best. I think the rocks create more texture in the water and also break up the whiteness.
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At least I got one photo without rain on the lens from this afternoon's ill-advised short, cold ride. In my defence, having checked the rainfall radar and found what looked like a two-hour gap, I discovered after my return that a big blob of rain sprang up just after I'd left home. Even better, it sprang up exactly where I rode.
On the photographic side, the Sony really struggled to get the atmosphere and shades, whatever I tried... it constantly tried to brighten everything, and even with turning everything down, it still didn't get the shades within the clouds. Annoying.
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Just a guess that the camera is trying to expose for the whole scene. If you have a lock exposure option then try setting exposure with only the sky in the scene as it is mid-grey, lock exposure, recompose.
Agreed that the last waterfall photo is the most interesting. Nice.
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Thanks. Yeah, should have tried that (spot mode, half depress shutter to fix it), but by this stage I was losing the feeling in my fingers, pretty much everything was cold and wet, so something to try another day. Ironically, the auto functions that I rely on so much and which I am quite adept at knowing which to use depending on the scene, are a PITA if you want to override part of the automatic-ness.
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Nearly uploaded as colour as the light was surprisingly nice, but I’m preferring B/W on cliffs at the moment.
And a cheery pastoral shot 😏 (on a fine summers day with my tiny Russian lens). I’ve been looking out for a dark, dreary, wintry cattle scene, but nothing has caught my eye yet.
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That'd be the sort of thing I'd head to Dartmoor for, to get some hardy native cattle standing like statues under leaden skies. The ones you've photographed are southern lowland wusses. This kinda thing:
Annoyingly, there are two good native Devon breeds (South Devons and North Devons - original, eh?), but the Highlands and Belted Galloways on Dartmoor seem to be more of a thing, photographically.
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Here's my own photo, probably of the same herd, after a wash and blow dry, definitely not under leaden skies.
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The wusses were a joy to work with, perfectly groomed, striking a pose just like professional models. Those unruly highland slobs are always a shambles.
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