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CelticRambler

cnocbui wrote: »

Is it just me and my monitor settings, or does they sky appear almost mauve to anyone else?

Doesn't appear mauve to me ... but then again, it doesn't appear at all - nor does any of the rest of the picture. Everyone else's (oh, except pft's from yesterday) is there ...

cnocbui

Red Rocks Amphitheatre by Jack Arigho, on Flickr

Anyone who can ski those moguls must have legs of titanium - vicious!

jaansu

cnocbui wrote: »

Red Rocks Amphitheatre by Jack Arigho, on Flickr

Anyone who can ski those moguls must have legs of titanium - vicious!

You're right, as anyone trying to ski down there would be suicidal but I was told it's a wicked concert venue - without the snow!!

Adrian.Sadlier

Loki, I think your horizon is off on your last post. Great image, but crooked horizons are a bug bear of mine - I find it hard to get past them.

Loki98

yeh, you're right Adrian. Just checked it out, it's off by 0.43 degrees

DaireQuinlan

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

If you go down to the woods today ... by Adrian Sadlier, on Flickr

I'm curious what happened along the top of this image, is it editing ? Or some lens artifacting w/ busy background ?

magicbastarder

it's also on the left, just above the football. weird out of focus effects from leaves much nearer the camera?

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's also on the left, just above the football. weird out of focus effects from leaves much nearer the camera?

right, yeah, busy foreground makes more sense than busy background.

Adrian.Sadlier

It's out of focus branches and leaves in the foreground, back-lit and a shallow depth of field (f/3.2)

keps

Loki98 wrote: »

Where is my CREAM:mad:

Loki98

keps wrote: »

Where is my CREAM:mad:

Ah, keps, forgive me for omitting the blindingly obvious but We"re all out of cream. Sorry, abject apologies, maybe next time

TomSweeney

parko202 wrote: »

Is this Howth ?



Lovely shot, so simple, but just great

New Home

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I'm so envious!!

iLikeWaffles

New Home wrote: »

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I'm so envious!!

Ever heard them scream. Was putting out the bin one night and thought someone was being murdered, even went out with a maglight to see if something was amiss. It has to be the most terrifying sound an animal can make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1mAd77Hr4

This but for about 15 minutes straight, even sounded like help at one stage :eek:

Wailin

The screech of a barn owl at night is also terrifying!

cnocbui

I heard a scary screaming comming from the woods one night and took a torch and went to investigste. It turned out to be badgers having a fight. Awful noise. I left them to it after one of them made a move in my direction while making the horrible rasping shriek.

TomSweeney

dball wrote: »

should've brought my camera by Zed Llab, on Flickr

Is that one of the Skelligs I see ?

TomSweeney

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

The rain in Spain .... by Adrian Sadlier, on Flickr

The original post of this had way too many blown highlights. A recent tutorial on an editing approach from DCC camera club (thank's Helen) via Zoom made we want to have another go at it!

Nice shot, really hard to get rain I find ...
well done

cnocbui

Top left corner puts me off.

magicbastarder

where's the original? it's the sort of shot where i suspect blown highlights won't be an issue; the rain doesn't quite look natural in that treatment, almost like an overlay.

Adrian.Sadlier

magicbastarder wrote: »

where's the original? it's the sort of shot where i suspect blown highlights won't be an issue; the rain doesn't quite look natural in that treatment, almost like an overlay.

The heavens opened - mono by Adrian Sadlier, on Flickr

cnocbui

I prefer the original with blown highlights. Getting rid of them also got rid of the ladies under the umbrella by losing them in the background shadow.

CelticRambler

Another one here who prefers the original. The blown highlights suggest a torrential rainstorm in the midst of bright sunshine, the kind that would come out of nowhere, soak you to the skin, then just stop leaving you wondering what the hell happened, and a real "capture the moment" photo. The reprocessed image is a bit ... meh.

I can understand why you'd want to recover a bit more detail from the pavement to the right of the car, but I feel it's come at the price of all the atmospheric texture of the buildings' façades.

iLikeWaffles

pete4130 wrote: »

Magnificent shot!

pete4130

Thanks.

It's a bit of a throw away shot for me. Taken with a Mavic Pro drone. I struggle with how poor their dynamic range can be on landscape shots. I'm too used to a full frame camera.
I much prefer using them for straight down drop shots.

Was a sunny day here and I thought I heard some thunder and thought I'd mistaken it for a wheelie bin being moved by the neighbours. Then the next rumble there were no mistakes. Sent the drone up, had a look around and there was a localised storm cell and double rainbow just south of the steelworks.

It's actually a 3 shot HDR. I usually shoot like this with the drone for landscapes because it struggles so much with blown highlights and dark shadows.

CabanSail

I also find the sensors on the DJI drones to be quite limited. I have the Phantom 3 and an Inspire 1. There are some better camera available for the Inspire but they are beyond my budget at present. They also suffer from noise.

I too am used to the freedom of full frame.

Still it does allow for a different perspective.

TomSweeney

pete4130 wrote: »

Very nice, where is this do you mind me asking ?

Wailin

@ Daire Quinlan

That's a sparrowhawk

DaireQuinlan

Wailin wrote: »

@ Daire Quinlan

That's a sparrowhawk

Seems so, I was thinking peregrine originally, but the head didn't really match up. Sparrowhawk fits though. From what I can tell it's busily chowing down on one half of the breeding blackbird couple that spent the last few months building an ornate nest in one of the trees in our garden. Nature, red in tooth and claw etc etc :-D

cnocbui

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Seems so, I was thinking peregrine originally, but the head didn't really match up. Sparrowhawk fits though. From what I can tell it's busily chowing down on one half of the breeding blackbird couple that spent the last few months building an ornate nest in one of the trees in our garden. Nature, red in tooth and claw etc etc :-D

Send it round my way, I have some magpies it can have.