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by Wildieswife
Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:08 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Fiber aquarium macro project
Replies: 17
Views: 5833

Re: Fiber aquarium macro project

Fantastic! I've just been showing this to my husband - we thought at first you'd used an objective lens of which we have one - as yet unused! This is for studio work and will be attached to bellows.
These are great images!

Pat
by Wildieswife
Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:55 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Birds 2013
Replies: 479
Views: 129035

Re: Birds 2013

Thanks for the kind comments:) These cranes are very interesting birds. It's great to see something ohter than Our UK birds :) Cracking shots but I do prefer the ones with feet in ;) :)

Pat
by Wildieswife
Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:58 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Todays Flakes
Replies: 10
Views: 2929

Re: Todays Flakes

I can only see the middle one. What material is the one I can see resting on ? Still impressed :)

Pat
by Wildieswife
Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:18 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Birds 2013
Replies: 479
Views: 129035

Re: Birds 2013

Oooh - I don't know....... I go away and you all get contentious ;) Nice to see you're all still getting some great bird shots and giving our wildlife the reverence and appreciation it deserves :) Regarding my shots. I do a lot from my hide. You may call it 'artificial' or even 'manipulated' but bel...
by Wildieswife
Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:46 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Birds 2013
Replies: 479
Views: 129035

Re: Birds 2013

Those are wonderful Robbie. I've never succeeded in getting a swallow shot, yet. The second one is fantastic - looks like there'll be some youngsters soon? Her mind is on the practical side of things (nest material in beak) :D

Pat
by Wildieswife
Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:34 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Landscape 2013
Replies: 277
Views: 77688

Re: Landscape 2013

Atishoo! From me too, Sury. Great colour, there. Birma - lovely light on that one - reminds me of the 'golden hour'. (I don't often see dawn) It reminds me of some I took last week of furrows but from a very low elevation - http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8088/8467641179_de1a780898_o.jpg and a 'straig...
by Wildieswife
Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:55 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Autostakkert
Replies: 16
Views: 5648

Re: Autostakkert

This is all out of my area of knowledge - but I'm impressed. I've done moon shots and where the part shadow highlights the craters etc but I've never heard of astro stacking software. As mine are taken with a 300mm lens I have to crop in some - the 24.3 px help a bit more now ;) I'm sure there's a g...
by Wildieswife
Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:46 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Valentine's Day....
Replies: 3
Views: 1583

Valentine's Day....

..is nearly upon us! The Blackbirds, amongst others, are pairing up and these two youngsters (last year's young) seemed to be in on the act. He kept following her around but as I didn't manage to get a shot of them together (she kept playing hard to get) I did a bit of 'matchmaking' in Photoshop - a...
by Wildieswife
Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:32 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Birds 2013
Replies: 479
Views: 129035

Re: Birds 2013

Thanks both of you :) Mark - I put too many 'W's :I WWT is ' Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust' started by a guy called Peter Scott - son of the Robert Falcon Scott who died in an Antarctic expedition.

http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/martin-mere/

Pat
by Wildieswife
Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:03 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Birds 2013
Replies: 479
Views: 129035

Re: Birds 2013

A couple from the other day - from a WWWT near us. I don't normally go to places where any birds are clipped but the walking was easy (with plenty of seats) and I've had a bad back recently. Red Crested Pochard http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8515/8459538028_7309f17721_o.jpg Flamingo http://farm9.stat...
by Wildieswife
Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:15 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Birds 2013
Replies: 479
Views: 129035

Re: Birds 2013

Great Buzzard shots! I often find PCA slow to load and post - not too bad today though. Now we'll see when I press 'submit' :)

Pat
by Wildieswife
Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:42 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Image Manipulation
Replies: 52
Views: 14459

Re: Image Manipulation

I enjoyed all of these great pics. Image manipulation has been with photography from its very inception. Google Henry Peach Robinson, Oscar Reijlander or Bill Brandt. By the way even Bill Brandt's early documentary photography was not entirely straight. Did you know that the maid in his famous pict...
by Wildieswife
Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:54 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Black and White
Replies: 28
Views: 8974

Re: Black and White

Nice conversions, bf . The windows/light in the first one look a little hot - an awkward situation by the looks of it. Did you use the in camera B/W or convert in RAW/PS ?

Mine - this was practically monochrome anyway!

Image


Pat
by Wildieswife
Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:31 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Birds 2013
Replies: 479
Views: 129035

Re: Birds 2013

[quote="david antony" Caught this Black Capped walking thru the woods couple week back. [/quote] What a cute bird. He/she reminds me of our coaltit and marsh tit. Also of the N American 'Chikadee'. I like the way this image shows how tiny he is - sometimes that is lost in an extreme close ...
by Wildieswife
Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:19 pm
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Image Manipulation
Replies: 52
Views: 14459

Re: Image Manipulation

This discussion is interesting. I always find it more interesting if there's some evidence that it is not just theory but has some basis in practicality. Not just 'armchair photography'. Photography is similar to me (sounds odd but bear with me) the point of capture is the most exciting moment, I've...