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I found the harsh light quite fun in some of the others in that set.

The ones with tents and awnings and stuff to pick up the strong light, or ones with space for shadows to do fun things.

This is a bit of an adventure for me because I'm normally crawling about in my garden. I really quite enjoyed trying something different in todays set.
 
I couldn't resist taking one of him. This guy I knew spent months on the run from psycho drug dealers disguised as one of those. He'd busk with a banjo to survive. As time wore on the bear costume became a bit insanitary. That bear reminded me a bit of him, only it is clearly better fed and a lot jollier looking.
 
Bernie Gunther said:
...River Dee saltmarsh and Welsh Coast from Parkgate
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I liked this one best out of the three. Captured the wide open feel of the estuary perfectly. However, would be interested to see an evening or early morning shot from the same vantage point to see how the changed light alters the feel of the location. Just out of interest, was the grassland mudflat or beach at one point? The reason I ask is that the road on the left has every appearance of being a promenade that has been abandoned by the beach!

Cheers,
Dave
 
portman said:
I liked this one best out of the three. Captured the wide open feel of the estuary perfectly. However, would be interested to see an evening or early morning shot from the same vantage point to see how the changed light alters the feel of the location. Just out of interest, was the grassland mudflat or beach at one point? The reason I ask is that the road on the left has every appearance of being a promenade that has been abandoned by the beach!

Cheers,
Dave
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Here is parkgate in the 1930s
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Parkgate has an interesting history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkgate,_Cheshire

I live in Neston, btw
 
Bernie Gunther said:
Does the tide still come right in twice a year?

I know it says that on wiki, but somebody was telling me recently it only really comes in properly one year out of several now.

Also, thanks to those who offered comment and criticism, much appreciated.
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yeah it does. early spring and autumn i think. as for coming in properly, not sure, i've never seen it look like it did in the 1930's :D
 
portman said:
Two more from the weekend trip to Belgium...

First off is this one leaning over the side shot almost straight into the sun...

http://daveamis.freeservers.com/Channel27806_02.html
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now with that one, I would have the body of the ship a little further to the left so that it was taking up about 1/3 of the picture, as it is, with the protruding bit, it takes up a bit more. This would have the effect of drawing the eye into the expanse of the sea, along the glimmering sunlit bit and onto the tiny boat on the horizon that you don't really notice as it is.

I would have also positioned the camera so that you got more of a perspective of the side of the ship going off into the distance, probably by moving the camera a little more to the right.

I would also not be happy with the way that the basket looking things are cropped half way through. I would either crop higher, of if the image isn't cropped, I would crop this one to the left and top so that the baskets disappeared and there was a thin line of sky at the top, which would also emphasise the ship on the horizon.

I would also reduce the shadows on the ship a little bit to see better what was there.

Having said that, I love the light on the water and the glossy appearance of side of the ship that you can see.

Please note that my comments might be complete rubbish, just my 2p worth :)

I like the 2nd shot and the angle looks great IMO :)
 
Bernie Gunther said:
I couldn't resist taking one of him. This guy I knew spent months on the run from psycho drug dealers disguised as one of those. He'd busk with a banjo to survive. As time wore on the bear costume became a bit insanitary. That bear reminded me a bit of him, only it is clearly better fed and a lot jollier looking.
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That's a great theme for a short story *makes a note* :D

I like the bear shot too and the one of the people eating, it seems quintisentially English

:)
 
Louloubelle said:
now with that one, I would have the body of the ship a little further to the left so that it was taking up about 1/3 of the picture, as it is, with the protruding bit, it takes up a bit more. This would have the effect of drawing the eye into the expanse of the sea, along the glimmering sunlit bit and onto the tiny boat on the horizon that you don't really notice as it is.

I would have also positioned the camera so that you got more of a perspective of the side of the ship going off into the distance, probably by moving the camera a little more to the right.

....I would also reduce the shadows on the ship a little bit to see better what was there.

Having said that, I love the light on the water and the glossy appearance of side of the ship that you can see.
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Thanks for the feedback, very useful. Looking at it again, I should have thought a bit more about the perspective - realised I could have done it without leaning any further over the side than I was! When I was taking the shot, my main concern was getting the horizon straight - sounds sad I know but I'm a bit obsessed with getting it right so I don't have to muck around with the rotate tool :)

As for the shadows, given the camera I was using (Konica Minolta Dimage), while I get a reasonable amount of control over the exposure, I didn't have that many options available given the prevailing light conditions which were pretty bright. My main aim was to avoid total burn out on the sea towards the horizon - this meant that the parts of the ship in the shadow were going to be fairly dark. One of those situations where I had to compromise and hope the result would be halfway okay.

Cheers,
Dave
 
riot sky said:
industrialuy5.jpg
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I quite like this, but the closest valve puts me off it a little - it draws the eye too much... This might be ok, but it lacks definition and has that nasty, flat look that you get from something that's close to a flash. Looks out of place when compared to the richer tones in the rest of the picture.
 
Barking_Mad said:
Nice photo, to be slightly critical Id say you need to get their heads in the top third of the photo to balance it out a bit.
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I know what you mean. I played about with cropping to just the two older people on the left, but I couldn't get anything I really liked
 
Should have been submitted to 'Angle' but...

...I'd already submitted the three images before I shot this! Basically, an exercise in playing around with shadows (there are a few more in the pipeline that will go up on the website - eventually!).

http://daveamis.freeservers.com/los_aug06_15BW.html

Shot late afternoon with a Konica Minolta Dimage. Minimal tweaking in PS Elements to bump up the contrast a bit before converting to monochrome. Any comments or constructive criticism welcome.

Cheers,
Dave
 
portman said:
http://daveamis.freeservers.com/los_aug06_15BW.html
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It's nice. B+W is particularly good for textures, though for my tastes I think there might be too much going on. The bricks themselves and the long diagonal shadows just kind of clash in, for me, an uninteresting way.

Also, (a particular pet peeve of mine) the watermark/signature just isn't needed. Granted that yours is fairly small and unobtrusive, but honestly I think it does more harm than good. Any pic at 72dpi just isn't worth stealing, much better to simply show your pictures without any text on them.
 
Took this shot this afternoon, Skim gave it the name "Trapped". I played about with the colours and levels a bit.

trapped.jpg
 
alef said:
Also, (a particular pet peeve of mine) the watermark/signature just isn't needed. Granted that yours is fairly small and unobtrusive, but honestly I think it does more harm than good. Any pic at 72dpi just isn't worth stealing, much better to simply show your pictures without any text on them.
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Force of habit I'm afraid - I've been slapping on the copyright statement on the images since the site started way back in 2001! Given the low res (I post them up at 100dpi), they won't get nicked for print reproduction purposes. The main worry was someone using them on another website, however, having re-read the copyright info on the site, I'm probably well covered by that. I'll try a more discreet signature for any future images going up...
 
twister said:
http://static.flickr.com/84/232615930_492c775ee2_o.jpg
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Very nice. I would like to see a print mind. Trouble with low light/critical exposure photographs on the web is that very few of us use a monitor calibrated to a recognised standard. I suspect it loses a little on screen because of this. And, I suspect it would be lovelly as a good old fashioned, carefully produced photograph or, even an inkjet print.
 
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