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[Dave Humphries]

...the sound of those Merlins

Oh don't; you know I have 'a thing' for Merlins (of the aviation variety I hasten to add), but I wouldn't turn away a good witch (are the white ones good?)

[Ollokot]

Hi Peter and thank you for your welcome.

I am delighted that you played around a bit with the shot.I was going to play with it myself but hav'ent much experience of image
editing and was affraid of over or under doing it. To be honest i left it as shot in the hope someone like youself would enhance it,
thus giving me, shall we say a birds eye view.
Thank you for your invaluable advice,and the interest shown
Pat.

[Wirefox]

Excuse me Steve but isn't it a little twisted/rotated to the right side ? Just a little bit ...

Thanks Antonio. Just testing...you are quite correct I will fix it

Oh don't; you know I have 'a thing' for Merlins (of the aviation variety I hasten to add)

I attended a couple of courses on advanced pneumatics at Manchester Poly years ago. They had a Rolls Royce Merlin in the foyer. One heck of a beast. If you have not already done so The Fighter Boys by Patrick Bishop is an excellent documentary read on the Months during the Battle of Britain. I have not read better on this subject.

And just to really get you going...

[Ollokot]

Hello Antonio,
Your constructive criticism is most welcome.Yes it is one of the ways that will help my novice photography to evolve.

Best Wishes and take care
Pat.

[arith]

Thanks Antonio. Just testing...you are quite correct I will fix it


I attended a couple of courses on advanced pneumatics at Manchester Poly years ago. They had a Rolls Royce Merlin in the foyer. One heck of a beast. If you have not already done so The Fighter Boys by Patrick Bishop is an excellent documentary read on the Months during the Battle of Britain. I have not read better on this subject.

And just to really get you goin

My commander in the ATC used to fly Spitfires in Egypt and constantly bored us with stories of shooting up pedestrians on desert roads, you couldn't shut him up, he was the commander.

[Dave Humphries]

And just to really get you going...

OK, call me fussy, that didn't do it for me, I need doppler shift (on approach and recession), plus a full size prop and some G force for good measure. More like these ...



Sorry Antonio

[Antonio Correia]

...Sorry Antonio

Please don't

[Peter Ryan]

Thank Pat for posting here.
Let me wrote some lines about your picture.
I think it is too flat in terms of composition. There is nothing to lead our eyes to, the image looks twisted to the left and the fence (?) on the bottom right shouldn't be there.
I am sure that you can do better. I know you can. I have been in Ireland and I do know that you do have many nice places.
Places where you can compose nice beautiful images post-cards type, like mines.
If ever - ever - I am a model or some one to follow which I am not. Be careful.

OK no offense. You have probably read here how I am critical about my own shots. Merciless. I think that it is only this way we can evolute.

So, I give you a work for the week end: (I dare to ask you to) make a beautiful shot of your neighborhood with something in front, something in the foreground - not focused - to give depth to the image. Show us. A tree, a stone, a face... what ever. Oh a cross for example.

Don't be mad at me because I am so ... rude.
Come on let's improve our shots.

Hi Pat,

Antonio is a very harsh critic, as he says, but he makes some good points. There are other aspects to compostion other than leading lines. We started a thread here on using triangles in composition. Have a look and you will see what I mean about this in your shot.

[Peter Ryan]

Hi Peter and thank you for your welcome.

I am delighted that you played around a bit with the shot.I was going to play with it myself but hav'ent much experience of image
editing and was affraid of over or under doing it. To be honest i left it as shot in the hope someone like youself would enhance it,
thus giving me, shall we say a birds eye view.
Thank you for your invaluable advice,and the interest shown
Pat.

No problems at all Pat.

I am not overly technical about these things but all digital sensors have a low pass filer over them. There are tutorials here that explain it very well. This is the stop the mosaic effect you often see on TV if someone wears a striped shirt. This causes all digital images to lose contrast and sharpness so this needs to be added back in post processing. See Tutorial 2.

The exposure issues are another question and also covered in the tutorial one.

[arith]

Burton Swimming Baths; first pano with my new lens which is a bit long. ND8 1/25 f8 100iso 3 frames 17mm and the bridge is about half a mile long or feels as if it is.

[Antonio Correia]

Hello to all.
I'm not long with you nor to photography,thought i'd post an image on this thread,here it is,

Pilmore is a section of Youghal Beach in County Cork Ireland,

All the best pat.

Pat I would like you to excuse me for being so rude.

[Antonio Correia]

Burton Swimming Baths; first pano with my new lens which is a bit long. ND8 1/25 f8 100iso 3 frames 17mm and the bridge is about half a mile long or feels as if it is.

it is nice Steve but perhaps you could darken a bit the hole image - or it's my monitor - and enhance the colors.

[arith]

I set saturation at -1 Antonio but the brightness is probably because I've lowered brightness on my monitor. It is a first to be told it is a bit bright though. I must get it right one day. cheers

[Ollokot]

Pat I would like you to excuse me for being so rude.

Antonio I wholeheartedly excuse you,although it is not necessary as i did not find your comments in any way rude.

All the Best Pat

[Peter Ryan]

I set saturation at -1 Antonio but the brightness is probably because I've lowered brightness on my monitor. It is a first to be told it is a bit bright though. I must get it right one day. cheers

Hi Steve,

Rather than change the brighteness again try adding just a little contrast with Curves and see how you go.

[PopsPhotos]

Nice Pops It looks like the landscape is twisted to the right but probably it's not so... it's the land itself with those small elevations... and the verticals are not clear enough to check if everything is vertical...

Antonio, the clouds are level. That hill screws with my mind every time I shoot that view. The silly thing is about 2 miles of upward grade and you only gain about 500 feet. Thank goodness that is due North, or I'd be shooting it with all my sunsets and I'd really go crazy(er.)

Pops

[arith]

Hi Steve,

Rather than change the brighteness again try adding just a little contrast with Curves and see how you go.

It is a pretty rubbish panorama made with rubbish software and without the proper equipment. The only trouble is that the only way to get the bridge is in a pano. I just had a go but PSE crashed however I found that it needs sharpening again, a little blue taking out and a lot of cloning. In addition to a spot of contrast. cheers

[Colin Southern]

It is a pretty rubbish panorama made with rubbish software and without the proper equipment. The only trouble is that the only way to get the bridge is in a pano. I just had a go but PSE crashed however I found that it needs sharpening again, a little blue taking out and a lot of cloning. In addition to a spot of contrast. cheers

Hi Steve,

Just raise your black clipping point considerably and I personally guarantee that the image with look great.

[arith]

Hi Steve,

Just raise your black clipping point considerably and I personally guarantee that the image with look great.

I missed this post, got to do it again now.

No points awarded to the person that spots the best place to take the photo, with their waterproof camera and very wide lens waiting for a bird to fly along the waterfall. It does happen but the herons are shy.


Every time I re-do this it gets bigger and I notice more faults. 18MB goes up to 35MB that is jpeg
This image is edited with Colin's suggestion.

And this one with Peter's

cloning out shadows of lamps, increase small detail and sharpen, increase contrast protecting highlights, increase saturation and burn under the arches where there was little or no detail. All these artifacts were introduced by the stitching using the crummy serif program which unfortunately churns out an eight bit with so much left to do. I did not notice the grasss had turned to porridge until Antono forced me to look at it again. Thankyou Antonio.

"The royal treasure was lodged at Burton in 1186 en route for Chester in connexion with Prince John's proposed mission to Ireland, (fn. 19) and in the 1230s the abbey was used as a secure place for storing money raised in Staffordshire for royal aids. (fn. 20) The main advantage was probably Burton's situation at an important river crossing. By the time of John's visit as king in 1200 the river bridge had reached its full extent, and its strategic importance is indicated by its choice as a defensive point by rebels in 1322. (fn. 21) Other royal visitors were Henry II in 1155, Henry III in 1235 and 1251, Edward I in 1275 and 1284, Edward II in 1322, and Edward III in 1328. (fn. 1) "

From: 'Burton-upon-Trent: General history', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 9: Burton-upon-Trent (2003), pp. 5-20. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=12328 Date accessed: 13 August 2010.

[Colin Southern]

Hi Steve,

It's still looking a little washed out due to the black clipping point still being too low (to me) - although - I have a feeling that my monitor might have had the brightness readjusted by one of the kids, so it could be a little too bright and thus your image a little too dark now.

In this 30 second edit I just raised the black clipping point - added a touch of clarity, and lowered the saturation slightly to compensate for the apparent increase in saturation that raising the black clipping point created.