Thingys In The Sky

These look good on you GR, and I'm sure there strong enough


WS
Ps Not sure about the lipstick

WS - nice suggestion

Lai

Thought I'd try that first pic with frame round it, not sure about the frame colour though


WS

WS - what a great idea.

Lai

Love the frame round it WS it finishes the picture off. Can I be bold enough to suggest either a dark grey frame or an off white colour, they may just show of the blue sky and also the hill and dark water at the bottom......just a suggestion and you can tell me to shut up if you like and the colours may not be right anyway

littlewid-x-

Yep I think your right LW. Tried it with white looked Ok but as you said to light on the top left, so I've tried this one


What do you think ?
WS

Brilliant WS, my suggestion of grey is perfect, it really does show the picture off beautifully, its a stunning picture and now its framed it looks like a picture you would buy and hang up. I think you could have started a trend with us all framing our pictures and you've started us all off with real classy one

littlewid-x-

Beautiful teamwork WS and LW

You both used your grey matter well

I could only see that because of those binoculars

WS and Littlewid as Giraffey Boy said, great teamwork and a lovely result as for the comment Onesie Man that was

Lai

Glad you like it Guys, it does work well great suggestion LW.
Nice one GR
WS

your welcome WS.....occassionaly I have a good idea....but not often i'm really pleased it worked well, it looks lovely.

littlewid-x-

I really posted the pic to show what you could do with photos that dont turn out like you'd want them to. When I took the photos the sun was directly in the lens, and they turned flat, and lifeless, I was going to delete it but then thought I'd play around with it with the photo editing programe I have. This is what it looked like before.


WS

WOW, it's like two completely different photo's WS, although seeing them both you can piece them together. The first one is an nice lanscape picture but you are right, it doesn't hold the breathtaking element that the altered one does. It is amazing what you can do and I am not sure everyone (dont mean on here) would own up to altering it, they would just take the praise for the pic, however, I am sure a few of us may now fiddle with our pics to see if we can be as clever as you

littlewid-x-

Great comparison WS. I confess to using Lightroom 4 but don't really tweak my pics much, I crop them and make some black and white and some times change the exposure a bit if the light was fading but I don't have the energy to go through them one by one removing blades of grass etc. Some people do!

Lai

There's nothing to confess to Lai, virtualy all proffesional photographers will use photo editing programes at times, they are just another tool in photography. When I first started as an apprentice phtographer we used enhancing techniques. We used a chemical that would lighten prints where the negative had been over exposed, and when printing from an enlarger we would use paper with a hole in to give different parts of the print different exposers to balance black, and white areas like a grooms dark suit with a brides white dress so that the pattern would show on the dress without the suit looking like a black blob, we also used a chemical to make prints look aged. Very basic as everything we did was in black, and white, colour was sent away. So as I said enhancing is just anthoer tool in the photographers armoury.
I do the same as you mostly use it for cropping correcting exposure, and I also have a sharpening tool that will make the shot sharper if its slightly out of focus. I do use cloning, and painting out, but only on special photos where it needs it to make a shot better, like a friend of ours had a family shot at a night out, and there was a persons head right in the middle of the group behind them spoiling it, so I took it out replacing the head with the same background behind them, so it turned it into a nice family group, and sometimes as a bit of fun changing pics. I agree though I would'nt use it on every shot just specials, especialy as when your away you take photos like you you'd never have time to show them

WS

WS - I like your style

Lai

I've posted this before on here but this was taken in August when I was at a local music festival. It was taken at lunchtime on a lovely sunny day but for some reason the moon wanted to join in the fun

I remember you posting that PPH, it's a nice picture and here is the right place for it......you never know, WS may put a frame around it for you

littlewid-x-

I remember it to. A Frame no sooner said than done


WS

for keeping my thread alive!

And I love moon (the ones in the sky ) pics

I keep forgetting this thread

So at the moment the International Space Station is passing over

http://www.meteorwatch.org/

and dates in February when it is passing

http://www.meteorwatch.org/iss-uk-passes-february-2013/

We watched it last night with our binoculars, although it was so bright you couldn't miss it! I didn't try a long exposure photo but might tonight if the sky is clear.

Lai :study:

for reviving this thread Mrs Kipia! But I can't seem to open these links just now (stupid online connection ). Shall try again tomorrow.

Good luck with your meteor watch and happy snapping tomorrow!

Take 15,000 of them

Giraffey Boy - that's bad news!

Thanks, I shall be sure to try - 15,000 would be interesting as we have a 4 mins slot I think!

Mrs Kipia
:study: E

15,000 in four minutes We would need to get the fastest snap on the saf for that assignment

Your rabbit and cheetah look kinda cool running away from each other

G R
aka

P.S. (make the most of Tongueey before his/her demise )

It's either or and then they would collide

Lai

is here to stay :?: :!: :idea: :arrow: to go

Putting the link in again as we've gone off on a

http://www.meteorwatch.org/iss-uk-passes-february-2013/