Day 23: October 2010 PAD

[timo2]

That is certainly a bird with attitude, Tim.

Before the days of modern antibiotics, cockerel attacks caused the death of many farmers wives. Feeding the chickens was usually part of their daily duties and a wound from those spurs easily became infected.

Farmers normally wore leather gaiters which gave them protection from this and many other nasty potential problems.

Thanks for the background info Geoff.

[carregwen]

They were both 'going out' tonight, so I wanted a picture of them 'dressed up' together....I had my props and reflector etc all ready, but they only gave me 2 mins..... then they were gone so this isn't exactly what I wanted.
The problem of the young 1 being 6ft and the old 1 4ft 11.....posed it's own challenges - thank goodness for her heels

Is she your daughter, Kay? She is very attractive (am I allowed to say that these days?) And it's so unusual (in the UK anyway) to see young people looking so slim and healthy-looking. Australian life-style I suppose.

[Katy Noelle]

Eeep! Still trying to get the garden in! (There was snow on the ground, yesterday morn.) I dusted off my hands as the sun was going down and just snapped at a few things - the shovel and these. I finally got these pansies, though (somewhat)! They're color is so intense that I could never seem to get an image that I could even adjust - i.e. no detail. What do you think? Color, details, exposure??? Something that I don't understand, yet??? C&C?

[Donald]

Is she your daughter, Kay?

You mean you haven't been following the adventures of the 'Fashionista'?

[Katy Noelle]

You mean you haven't been following the adventures of the 'Fashionista'?

I'm glad you said it, Donald! I was wondering how he missed that??? She is gorgeous - looks a bit like Marie! (Antoinette, that is...) I was starting to think that that was really what Kay looked like!

[Geoff F]

Great colours, lovely shot. Could you do a stitched together panoramic another time and get all the rainbow ?...ask Rob I have got a scooby of how to do that...


Pete

Thanks Pete. About 20 years ago I did some panoramas of this view but now a large tree in a garden across the road has become so large that much of the view has been lost. And it isn't even an attractive tree; just a rather untidy sycamore.

I did tweak the colours a little bit. Created a duplicate layer and set the Blend Merge to Soft Light, with a suitable opacity. Added a View All Mask then erased part of the fields to their natural colour. Finally cleaned up a bit of sky noise with the Blur Tool.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Dave,

very interesting shot I like it, the shadow has real menace. ...
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So can you experiment with different backgrounds, maybe curving up behind the beast to sharpen the shadow?

Possibly, although unlike the Green Lacewing which was in the same place for a week, this one was gone by this morning In fact there were 3 yesterday, but they have all disappeared

Good idea with the paper though, as many know, bugs in my hall are common, so I can perhaps try that idea another day.

This was shot looking downwards - with the flash up against the wall, giving the low angle and almost 'underlighting' the bug, which was on an emulsioned wall - it was inverted in PP to get a more pleasing angle.

Cheers,

[wilgk]

Is she your daughter, Kay? She is very attractive (am I allowed to say that these days?) And it's so unusual (in the UK anyway) to see young people looking so slim and healthy-looking. Australian life-style I suppose.

Hi Rob - yes these are our children & thankyou for the compliment, you can say she is attractive
Although that it is definitely not genetic, I the rugby playing, skate-board riding girl who called herself 'Kevin' came home from the hospital with the 'girliest girl' there was........I have raised concerns she was perhaps swapped in the hospital
But they do have good genes for keeping healthy, so they are lucky there.

[wilgk]

You mean you haven't been following the adventures of the 'Fashionista'?

I'm glad you said it, Donald! I was wondering how he missed that??? She is gorgeous - looks a bit like Marie! (Antoinette, that is...) I was starting to think that that was really what Kay looked like!

Ooops sorry guys - have I been doing the Mum's Brag book thing a bit much?

& Marie might make a return , although I don't want to upstage Portia as she dresses to impress, but self-portraits you will most definitely be spared from

[Donald]

Ooops sorry guys - have I been doing the Mum's Brag book thing a bit much?

No, of course not. Is that not what mums are meant to do?

[Katy Noelle]

Ooops sorry guys - have I been doing the Mum's Brag book thing a bit much?

& Marie might make a return , although I don't want to upstage Portia as she dresses to impress, but self-portraits you will most definitely be spared from

I don't think so. You've been practicing on your kids just like Colin, right? She's a great model and I might possibly be learning just by watching you learn and grow. Anyway, even if you were......... we wouldn't mind!

[Colin Southern]

They were both 'going out' tonight, so I wanted a picture of them 'dressed up' together....I had my props and reflector etc all ready, but they only gave me 2 mins..... then they were gone so this isn't exactly what I wanted.
The problem of the young 1 being 6ft and the old 1 4ft 11.....posed it's own challenges - thank goodness for her heels

Hi Kay,

I adjust the height of subjects with cane mats - also, cameras hate gaps ... so the closer you can get them, the better it looks

[wilgk]

She will love you - She is Tall!!

[Colin Southern]

She will love you - She is Tall!!

That's why women always go for photographers rather than muscle-bound blokes ... we make them look good!

[rpcrowe]

Three dogs and a bumblebee...

Early Halloween costumes...

[rick55]

Canon 50D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM @ 110mm, f/4, 1/10s, ISO 800. Full EXIF, PAD slideshow.

Posting a day late, running behind lately. I saw this traveling back from Pennsylvania last night, stopped along the road for a shot.

C&C are always welcome.

Cheers,
Rick

[Camellia]

I've nearly finished playing catch-up.