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15th February 2019, 01:12 AM
#41
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Week 6: This is a beautiful shot even with the ' busy foreground' I really enjoyed it.
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15th February 2019, 01:15 AM
#42
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
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25th February 2019, 06:20 PM
#43
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Thanks for all the positive comments. Something different this week.
Week 08 - Shadycombe Cemetery Gate. I am still photographing local gravestones for the Salcombe History Society and have moved on to this cemetery so I have had a go at the entrance gate. One of those situations where the light is always going to be problematic so I deliberately choose a dull day. This is a merge of two bracketed exposures.
7D with Tamron 24-70 lens. 1/125 F5 Iso 400
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25th February 2019, 07:15 PM
#44
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Geoff - you have captured some nice texture in the stonework and colour in the wooden gates.
It is interesting how the cut stone pillars are constructed on a visible foundation that looks to be the base of earlier rough stone pillars or walling.
I wonder whether the purpose for which the shot was taken would allow the cloning out of the background properties by extending the evergreen trees on the right?
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26th February 2019, 01:15 AM
#45
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Week 8, nicely framed and processed.
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27th February 2019, 09:42 PM
#46
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
I suspect that when this small steep field on the edge of town was first used as a cemetery the wall would would have run along the road edge so when the gates were created they probably used the old wall footings as a base. I'm not sure when this area was first used as a graveyard. The 1842 tithe map shows a 'burying ground' behind the church which was under construction at that time. But by the 1890's this was shown as the town cemetery.
That distant house did concern me as it was originally rather too bright; so I have toned it down. I wondered about attempting to hide it but that will be tricky to make natural looking and because this image is part of a project for the local history society I thought it ought to be a true historical record of the scene. There is another house on the left side but after a bit of shuffling around I did find an angle which excluded it while still looking like a straightforward scene.
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28th February 2019, 05:04 PM
#47
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
It would have been hard to hide the house and have it look natural. It doesn't bother the image having it as it is. Interesting gate. It looks recently cared for? Or is that a fairly new install of the gate? I enjoy seeing your photos of "history".
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3rd March 2019, 04:18 PM
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3rd March 2019, 07:41 PM
#49
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Geoff, I love the first photo. It reminds me of a B&W image I took at Sheen Common, Richmond, Surrey, one December in the early 1970's. I had the negative professionally scanned a few years ago and began cleaning up dust spots. Your photo may encourage me to go back and see what I can do. The photo was taken on a folding bellows camera with a lens dating from probably the late 1930's so it does not have the sharpness of our modern lenses. One thing that makes your photo work well is that you have a sharp image of the fence posts before everything disappears into the mist.
I also really like the stonechat photo. The EXIF appears to say you shot it with your lens at full extension, 600mm. Did you crop the photo when editing? There's good feather detail on most of the bird when I enlarged the image on my monitor.
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3rd March 2019, 08:02 PM
#50
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Great capture Geoff. The fog lends a aura of mystery to this composition.
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3rd March 2019, 08:05 PM
#51
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
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3rd March 2019, 08:28 PM
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Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
I have said it many times before that foggy scenes usually require some form of 'reference area' often in the foreground to show that it really is a foggy scene and not just a badly exposed and focused shot. After that, a bit of editing with two or more exposures or careful use of Curves etc can gradually add some 'depth' into the scene by fading the details as a viewer looks closer into the apparent distance.
Incidentally, I have produced a video of the birds from that hide which were clips taken over a couple of visits. But I don't seem to be able to get the Insert Video link to work (although it is visible as I am typing) and my alternative just produces very small images
Maybe going to vimeo.com/321046174 which isn't now a direct link will show the full size version.
It is something of an experiment for me but maybe I will now get around to producing more videos. Shot with my Canon 7D mkII and the Sigma 150-600 lens. Basic editing with Photoshop CC then put together with Pro Show. There is still so much for me to learn about video work and I found that shooting those fast moving waders were a real challenge. They were running around faster than I could follow while retaining smooth panning and keeping sharp focus was so difficult with a shallow focus depth as the distances kept changing. And I did use a tripod.
So maybe this is far from perfect, but everybody has to start from somewhere!
Last edited by Geoff F; 4th March 2019 at 09:56 PM.
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3rd March 2019, 10:48 PM
#53
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
A very relaxing video, Geoff, rather like I imagine "slow TV" might be. I had never before seen a swan put its neck into a complete circle!
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6th March 2019, 03:47 PM
#54
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14th March 2019, 08:41 PM
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14th March 2019, 10:26 PM
#56
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Geoff, the wagtail portrait is quite an action shot! Did you see who won?
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14th March 2019, 11:16 PM
#57
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Week 11 - These are all pleasing natural looking shots of the birds. I like the colour of the background for the Reed Bunting which sets it off rather well.
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15th March 2019, 01:24 AM
#58
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Post#54, week 10, nice captures of changes of the environment.
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15th March 2019, 01:25 AM
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Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
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15th March 2019, 08:12 PM
#60
Re: 2019 Project 52 by Geoff F - 1st Quarter
Thanks for the comments. Backgrounds are always a bit of a gamble with nature photographs. Sometimes I refrain from clicking my shutter when I know there will be problems; unless it is a rare species. Aperture settings sometimes come into my thinking when there is a chance of avoiding a poor background.
That Grey Wagtail eventually pulled the worm from its burrow, or at least it had most of the worm.
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