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DK32

This little lot came out of my father in-laws boiler house, they had been resting there untouched for at least the last 10 years.
All need some TLC and plenty of new parts to restore them to their former glory. Great project for anyone with a bit of spare time & money.
My favourite has to be the Nottingham built 1970′s Raleigh Chopper with the 3 speed Sturmey-Archer gear hub. A real classic!

sprinkles

keps wrote: »

I'm not sure what adjusting the white balance means....

2nd photo is far better, for reasons you mentioned on the assignment thread, yet the first is still the best picture entered in that assignment! Fair play on getting the shot you aimed for!

As for white balance, generally for night shots if you leave your camera on Auto WB it will give you that Orange glow to the shot that you seem to have - this wrecked my head a while back when I started taking night shots. Rather than plagurise someone else's explanation of what exactly WB is, here's a link. Good news is it's pretty easy to correct, especially if you are shooting in RAW.

I don't use PS so I'm not too familiar with where the WB settings are in it but here's a tutorial for it - link. The shot could do with a reduction in the temp, take away the orange glow, only my pinion of course!

Mountainsandh

keps wrote: »

( I went back this evening after I thought I had snapped to early last night in a last ditch effort to get into Marton's 'Speed Assigment - this was the shot I took last night(Tue)

Keps I hope you don't mind me saying but I like the one with the wobbly lights better (the first one, despite being able to see platform at back), the second one is neat too, but the first one (to me) is more interesting and like the colours better
I like clean perfect light trails, but I like wobbly ones best, there's lots more to be done with them, just my very amateurish opinion.

keps

sprinkles wrote: »

Thanks Sprinkles - much appreciated

Sir Gallagher

Mjollnir

From my home, Big Sur, where I no longer live, but still I dwell. This is the south end of San Carpoforo Beach, looking north, into eternity. May all of you one day see such a place

oshead

Got this piece of glass last night. Feels great to have an ultra fast lens again. Now, where did I leave my 50mm 1.4?

sNarah

Kintarō Hattori

sNarah wrote: »

Sunflowers...

Feck I think that must be your best photo yet. Brilliant, really well done, I like it a lot.

aidan18

sNarah

And another (belated) Charleville one:

A moment of reflection before the BBQ/alcomohool/lightpainting madness kicked off...

Bacchus

Lovely pics sNarah, especially that last one. Mind if I ask how you got that shot? What kind of PP did you do? I love the feel of it and the colours.

sNarah

Bacchus wrote: »

Lovely pics sNarah, especially that last one. Mind if I ask how you got that shot? What kind of PP did you do? I love the feel of it and the colours.

Uh. Damn - getting caught out here Tenty one: basicly clicked the shutter (EXIF data you can find over at Pixie when you click the image) + PP in lightoom with a preset which I can't remember and twigged the colours a tad and upped the blacks.

That probably didnt help did it...

Bacchus

sNarah wrote: »

Uh. Damn - getting caught out here Tenty one: basicly clicked the shutter (EXIF data you can find over at Pixie when you click the image) + PP in lightoom with a preset which I can't remember and twigged the colours a tad and upped the blacks.

That probably didnt help did it...

At least you tried. I'll see can I get the EXIF data and I'll have to play around with Lightroom, see can I get a similar effect.

GristlyEnd

May have gone a bit overboard on the greens

magicbastarder

is that sNarah i see in that photo?

swingking

Road by swingking85, on Flickr

daycent

sNarah and DarrenG; may I ask where you took those photos? I'm hoping it's in Ireland...

sNarah

It is! It's on the Duleek - Julianstown bypass road in Meath/Louth. (not too far from the M1 exit for Drogheda) Accordingly to some RTE 1 journalist who was there when we were, it's the only (commercial) field of sunflowers EVER in Ireland! 8 acres full of sunny goodness for those Surf Seed yolks (from the Dragons Den). Yer man has "open day" on saturdays and charges 2 euro so people can walk around in it.

Trev M

Bacchus wrote: »

Lovely pics sNarah, especially that last one. Mind if I ask how you got that shot? What kind of PP did you do? I love the feel of it and the colours.

Try a Cross Processing "CP - Creative" preset, the reduce vibrance a tad and you should get something very similar type effect.

the_monkey

My Nephew, love this pic :

the_monkey

My Mam's cat (he has no name!)

Slidinginfinity

the_monkey wrote: »

My Mam's cat (he has no name!)

Yes he does!






He is just not going to tell, you.

s.a.man

swingking

criss-cross by swingking85, on Flickr

dazftw

thatsnotmyname

keps wrote: »

Dem trees look a bit 'dangerous':D

Yeah
they do !
I read somewhere that the local council wanted to cut some of them down
for safety reasons !
that would be a shame a magical stretch of road.

Kintarō Hattori

thatsnotmyname wrote: »

Yeah
they do !
I read somewhere that the local council wanted to cut some of them down
for safety reasons !
that would be a shame a magical stretch of road.

Just saw and thanked the photo now, it looks amazing. May I ask where it is?

oshead

Today in the playground.

kjt

thatsnotmyname

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Just saw and thanked the photo now, it looks amazing. May I ask where it is?

Its in County Antrim very near to the village of Armoy !

squeakyduck

I took this picture at the weekend I think it's a cute shot. I am by no means in a league with some of the shots in this thread!

oshead

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Just saw and thanked the photo now, it looks amazing. May I ask where it is?

Here's the exact location in Panoramio, pics and all.

leche solara

*eadaoin

peter1892

bernard0368

Sir Gallagher

MiG 21

Dublin Horse Show

WheresMyCamera?

SetOverSet

kelly1

Hello folks, this is my first "studio" portrait for money. I had to bring up the exposure on the background because I only have a weak/cheap background floor light. Umbrella on the right and soft box on the left. I also should have kept the power on the 2 lights the same (I mistakenly use 1/2 power on one and 1/4 on the other). But it's a start!

Borderfox

Chorcai

Jack, mad as a box of frogs, he fell the other day and rightly busted up his face ! Eating cake and watching bob the builder.

Trev M

He definitely has that crazy look about him, hope th elittle fella mends up well, my own little lad is about to start walking now , watching him wobble around is nerve racking

charybdis

kelly1 wrote: »

I also should have kept the power on the 2 lights the same (I mistakenly use 1/2 power on one and 1/4 on the other).

You probably shouldn't.

killbillvol2

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sheesh

kjt

*eadaoin