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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/22/2005 10:49:28 PM
just like me feet this morning before the heater got warm!!!
nice work
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| Photo By: Chris Spracklen
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/20/2005 7:04:47 PM
the gravel was a yellow/beige colour in reality, but the light was making it a very different hue!
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/20/2005 7:03:43 PM
everything looked [pink in that light Danny, was really quite surreal. Got some shots of red leaved trees to come. that was wierd
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/20/2005 6:52:39 PM
Thank you....
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/20/2005 4:03:56 PM
first a bum bag, then melons....
you feeling frisky :-)
nice melons too
well done
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| Photo By: Danny Brannigan
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/20/2005 4:02:43 PM
any good - the Lens that is???
My mate has it's predecessor and it is quite an improvement on my 90-300 (which never lees light of day any more, way way way too soft).
Good reviews - will have to scronge a play with it on the next meet :-)
Oh - it's a very pleasing shot - again showing the force of the water and the strength of the rock well.
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| Photo By: Danny Brannigan
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/20/2005 3:55:51 PM
shows the power you can out of water - I really like the way the main part of the flow has an almost glass like quality.
nice shapes in there - there's a decent diagonal line between the 2 rocks that leads my eye to the main flow.
best of the 2
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| Photo By: Danny Brannigan
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/19/2005 12:23:17 PM
just need some HUGE hands coming out of each side of the rays and you're laughing!!
a craking light capture.
just need to blend Keith's ar*e in there :-)
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| Photo By: Mark Evans
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/19/2005 12:22:03 PM
Britain, Britain, Britain
Can just hear Tom Baker saying taht when this shot comes up!
sure there are other palces in the world like this, but we've got more of them, and this is well lit, composed and the bloke makes it look a welcoming palce to go
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/19/2005 12:17:23 PM
what a hill - who planted those trees???
the light compliments the colour of the hill well, clouds are sublime as ever, but its the trees that win this one
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/19/2005 12:13:17 PM
like the colours.
maybe a little shortt on Depth of field - sould like to see the green pointy bits in the middle all in focus
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| Photo By: Gabriela Veteanu ( Ada )
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/19/2005 12:08:04 PM
need a bloody bg parachute if I were to go tandem!!!
like the recedeing hills, the clouds making each one hazier and lighter. always a great effect in my eyes
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| Photo By: Danny Brannigan
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/19/2005 12:06:55 PM
the lighting in this is amazing - studio quality!
real;ly even all round and just lets the colours do the talking !
good old turkey!
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| Photo By: Danny Brannigan
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/18/2005 8:10:05 PM
think it w3as longer than that come to think of it....
thing about RAW is tath you can't get hold of teh EXIF data as easily as a JPG... looks like 1 -2 seconds doens't it?
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/18/2005 8:08:23 PM
cheers steve, and the spray as well as the noise!!!
to be honest, I had the lens on quite slow - F11 I think, I just exposed for the water. pointed the inner circle at the water in manual, then moved the shutter speed till the pointer went to + 1 2/3.
Then I left the exposure at that (so the water doesn't burn out completely) and took all the waterfall shots at that exposure.
the beauty of manual is that once you've got a meter reading, you don't have to bother changing it unless the light changes!
you probably just unerexposed a bit - that's fine in RAW as you can boost it in the RAW editor!
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/18/2005 9:42:18 AM
I've heard of them... in a historical documentary about music as it used to be :-)
is it that 4 piece vocal harmony group??
decent place old Goredale Scar, but the light makes a lot of difference....
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/17/2005 11:23:32 PM
I'm amazed at just how many parks there are in California!
We just did Yosemite and Death Valley en route to Vegas when we were there, thought about Kings and Sequoia, but they were too far off track!
another amazing formation that really did need the person in there to give a sense of scale.
we get little waterfalls, you get HUGE cliffs and canyons :-)
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/17/2005 10:12:44 PM
yeah - you can hardly tell when you focus on infinity. It's a decent lens, nice and sharp, just a badly built aperure!
Ade
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/17/2005 9:21:20 PM
we'll never know - the aperture on my sigma broke so it's alway's fully open now :-(
cheers for the comment!
Ade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/16/2005 5:56:15 PM
I was later and got soaked....
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/15/2005 12:32:23 AM
there's gonna be no leaves like this tomorrow - bvlowing a gale up here! just been on the M62 and nearly ended up in a ditch!
super saturated colours make ths one stand out above most other thumbs I've seen today.
class stuff
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| Photo By: Chris Spracklen
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/15/2005 12:30:14 AM
took quite a bit of dodging to get the detail out of those middle areas 0- but with RAW you can dodge till the cows come home and not loose quality!
I've recorded an action that re-sizes and adds score lines to make the frame. 3 canvas reszes and 3 scores!
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/15/2005 12:27:04 AM
when's the new one gonig up?
...hang on, isn't that where all the celebs end up for rehab :-)
like the sky... quite a lot of it!!!!
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| Photo By: Mark Evans
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/15/2005 12:05:33 AM
nice exposure on the water, gues sit was a dull day by the really dark stones?
makes for a great contrast - I ofen head for water features on duller days as yuo're not relying on the sin or light quality as much for an effective shot.
this turned out nicely - diagonal composition and water appearing out of the tyop 1/3 line - all spot on compositionally
Ade
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| Photo By: Ann Nida
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/13/2005 10:50:26 PM
Cheers Ann,
When I resize them to 800 I use IrfranView, a freeby image viewer. That's got a sharpen function on it and I often polish them with that before posting - can be quite crude at times, but usually works. SOme of the leaves looked a bit harsh on my monitor.
I'm a huge proponent of RAW, been telling al the UK UF people to ditch JPG for ages now. It's one of the things that's taken my images from where they were last year to the ones I'm cranking out now.
You can bring out detail in a RAW taht just isn't there in JPG - especially when you have a dark foreground and light sky. I use 2 curves layers to deal with the sky and land separately as they have different "needs".
As for the warmth - it's just a case of altering the white balance in post processing. I warm up most times but you can cool down as well to get some more sinister effects. If you've never tried it - set your camera to "Tungsten" white balance and take a few shots outside. They will be blue!!! With RAW you can change this, without loss, when you open the shot in PS.
it's superb.
I think the reasons people don't like RAW are...
File size - 6Meg on a 10D, 8Meg on a 20 etc.
Storage speed - some cameras take a few seconds to store a RAW and you miss shots cause of it.
Frames/second rate goes down. I think the 20D does 5 FPS in JPG but less in RAW
You can't see RAW thumbnails in Windows, but you can with JPG's
They are all inconvenient, but not show stoppers. If you really don't have many CF cards then fair enough, shoot JPG :-)
I've got 4 or 5 GIG, so enough for a day out :-)
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/13/2005 10:24:57 PM
ha ha -= I was expecting your mug to get a BIP, or PoD at least!!!!
It's a cracker even though there is a cmall crack in the front lens. When I bought it I took 30 shots and examined it on his PC - not a sign of any evidence. Bargain for the money really.
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| Photo By: ade mcfade
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/13/2005 4:56:46 PM
didn't see the bird on the thumb chris - finishes off what is a super sunset, perfectly.
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| Photo By: Chris Spracklen
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/13/2005 4:54:48 PM
a very breitish looking wall - if there is sucha thing.
like the shadows on the stones too. they work well. Great sky and nice colours
is High Force in Weardale? Must go there some time
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/13/2005 2:52:15 PM
....Danny has a point :-)))
what a great set of models you've got to practice your portraits on.
this is definitely one of the best ones you've posted - it's in the angle of her head and that distany look she's got.
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Critique By:
ade mcfade (K:12388)
11/13/2005 2:49:41 PM
sure she'll be impressed with the title!!
worked nicely, nice little carch lights in her eyes as well.
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