Photo-a-day

[Tim S]

I like that Tim, the house gives it a real sense of scale.

I'm not so keen on the sky colour being so close to the hills themselves though as it makes all merge a bit red but that's just my opinion.

Thanks

I'd only got my TS-E primes with me on this walk, so I'd got a limited scope for framing. The house was an important compositional element, but I would have liked to keep more sky in the frame. I'd been in this area for most of the afternoon and I climbed higher and also descended lower with my compact to find a composition that I liked. I ended up going back to my original visualisation for a photo because I would need to get my composition fine-tuned before the light arrived.

My 24mm was too wide as the foreground wasn't all that interesting (and would have added unnecessary complication to the frame - the house would've been lost), so I my choice was either the 45mm or 90mm. It was quickly apparent that if I wanted to include the house, I'd need to use the 45mm lens.

I played around with the movements, but hadn't got the lens converted to offer both tilt/swing and shift on the same plane. I did move the focal plane around a bit and attempted to squash the perspective in the top half of the frame, but I ended up settling on this. I guess it was a compromise, but then all photographs are a compromise in one way or another.

[Syd]

Cheers guys

It was weird light that morning Bobster - lasted 5 minutes at the most. I maybe overdid the effects going for the 'Tim Burton' look. I'll have another play with it.

Some great landscapes in your Flickr Tim.

Some great colour in that second one Syd - nuisance that wee branch.

Thanks Yeah - I figured that even with PP I couldn't loose it ! Esp with my current skill set.

[Ruggerbugger]

From RAF Cosford, playing around with reducing the clarity to 0 in Camera RAW:

[g8ina]

Nice rugger - looks a bit like "Dave's Ethereal Glow" plugin !

I'll upload my bomb bay pic off that same plane a bit later

[Ruggerbugger]

Thanks My bomb bay pic is next in line, I look forward to seeing yours.

[g8ina]

OK heres something special. Have to admit IT'S NOT MINE, but belongs to two astro imaging friends of mine from UK Astro Imaging Forum, Alex and Chris.

It's a link to a film on YouTube of their mini weather ballon flight, carrying a GPS locator and a video camera which filmed the thin blue line of the atmosphere before dropping back safely to earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgOYsWnisk

Watch the lot, but for the best bit, see esp 8m 40s ish

[GoNz0]

amazing

[Ruggerbugger]

Wow! Did they get CAA permission to do that?

Was taking a shot of my new P38, and look what poked through the clouds

[Bobster]

was cleaning up some disk space earlier and came across a bunch of shots i'd completely forgotten about

Maisy back in 2007

[Ruggerbugger]

ahhhhh lovely shot

[mmh]

OK heres something special. Have to admit IT'S NOT MINE, but belongs to two astro imaging friends of mine from UK Astro Imaging Forum, Alex and Chris.

It's a link to a film on YouTube of their mini weather ballon flight, carrying a GPS locator and a video camera which filmed the thin blue line of the atmosphere before dropping back safely to earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgOYsWnisk

Watch the lot, but for the best bit, see esp 8m 40s ish

This needs a thread of its own!! Amazing!

[kushtibari]

Like the effects with the 0 clarity RB and a lovely portrait Bobster.

[nibbler]

OK heres something special. Have to admit IT'S NOT MINE, but belongs to two astro imaging friends of mine from UK Astro Imaging Forum, Alex and Chris.

It's a link to a film on YouTube of their mini weather ballon flight, carrying a GPS locator and a video camera which filmed the thin blue line of the atmosphere before dropping back safely to earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgOYsWnisk

Watch the lot, but for the best bit, see esp 8m 40s ish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zku7R_GftV4

A father and son did it a while ago as well, was sure I saw it linked to here on hexus. Pretty damn cool tbh.

[kushtibari]

Cracking link Dave

[razer121]

wow that is awesome i wanted to see the camera fall though!

[crazy]