Re: Marlow suspension bridge
An interesting series Dave, dead right on looking at it a few different ways/days.
I actually like the last one best and think you may get away with the cars if you stamp out the blue one way arrow and 40mph sign
About no 8 where you have the vertical suspension hangers, they do need to be straight; I forget what PP software you use, but should be a lens correction/distortion control somewhere.
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Wow that bridge looks spectacular. I love old bridges and churches.
I think I like number 7 the most - the church looks spectacular - especially with no cars in the way of the church. Because there's no cars in immediate view, I think it helps to keep that old look about the photo.
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Interesting spelling of "compleat" there Dave - do you know any of the history behind that?
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dan88
I think I like number 7 the most - the church looks spectacular - especially with no cars in the way of the church. Because there's no cars in immediate view, I think it helps to keep that old look about the photo.
Ah ha, so I could clone out the modern Marlow sign and the white lines, etc., B&W convert and sepia tone it, now there's an idea I hadn't thought of - Thanks Dan.
Cheers,
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Interesting spelling of "compleat" there Dave - do you know any of the history behind that?
Nope, in fact I can't even find it in my text at the moment!
It's just one of the many words my fingers get wrong, like
teh
radion (radio)
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Thanks Chris,
Yes I like that one too, something to do with the added depth provided by the trees and distant, misty, hills counteracting the compressed foreground of the bridge. this was a significant PP crop to get rid of the well blown sky.
Regarding the correction of the bars, I use PSE6 and I looked in Filter > Camera > Lens Corrections, but all I could see was vignetting and perspective, definitely not barrel/pincushion :(
Not sure how I could tackle it in other ways - suggestions anyone?
Free transform? - but I could make it worse overall!
Cheers,
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Dave Humphries
Nope, in fact I can't even find it in my text at the moment!
Dave,
I think Colin was referring to the "The Compleat Angler" sign in your fourth photo.
Great to see lots of shots of the same subject!
Graham
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The Compleat Angler, from Isaak Walton's day, he wrote the book 'The Compleat Angler' that has inspired many an angler to improve their angling abilities, angler coming from the word 'angle' which referred to the hook used at the end of the line.
I am an 'angler' as opposed to a fisherman, because I use an angle (hook) to catch fish instead of a fishing net used by fishermen.
Thought that might be a total useless piece of information for you :)
I must get out more!
Nice pictures Dave.
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dendrophile
Dave,
I think Colin was referring to the "The Compleat Angler" sign in your fourth photo.
Yes - just wondering why it was spelt as "compleat" rather than "complete" - a monumental mistake, or just the way they spelt it back in those days?
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Colin Southern
Yes - just wondering why it was spelt as "compleat" rather than "complete" - a monumental mistake, or just the way they spelt it back in those days?
Crusty's got the story and yes it was written back in the 1653 (ish) in the Marlow area and the Inn took the name of the book (spelt that way) sometime later.
.. and there was me thinking you'd spotted another of my many typos!
:)
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crisscross
I actually like the last one best and think you may get away with the cars if you stamp out the blue one way arrow and 40mph sign
Thanks Chris, I gave it a go;
http://www.pbase.com/dhumphries/imag...5/original.jpg
and put it in the challenge this week.
Regards,
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A very interesting collection Dave. Others have covered some tech issues; I fancy the concept of a group of images around the same subject, be it a small detail or large landcape. Many years ago a friend of mine won a significant competition with the title something like "six shots of the same subject" or "a six-pack".. hers was an old wooden saw-horse on a dead plain BG, using angles and light/shade for variation.
I'm interested in that part of your work flow used to bring these images into CIC gallery. Here you have eleven shots; my method of installing just one sometimes frustrates me .. 1/select image (this is after any PSE adjustments BTW) 2/ go away to upload to flickr 3/come back to CIC and upload..
shot by shot seems a pedantic route. Eleven would take me all morning!
In fact I find this process sometimes deters me from installing images at all. Am I just lazy (don't answer that!) or is there a quick'n easy way to deal with this?
I wonder how others in the group get their pictures in?
Roxy.
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Roxy
I'm interested in that part of your work flow used to bring these images into CIC gallery.
Hi Roxy,
Well I do them all together at each stage, so;
1) PP them all (ACR+PSE6), at same time producing a full size and a 1024 width reduced shots, each with own final sharpening and saved on my HDD.
2) Log on to (in my case) PBase. For a larger series like this I might first put all pics in a Windows compressed folder and upload all in one go. PBase automatically uncompresses them and creates all the thumbnails etc.
3) Log in here and with PBase open in one tab and CiC in another, just copy and paste the direct linking URLs from one to the other, adding the EXIF below each picture here myself.
With practice the last bit can be got down to less than a couple of minutes per picture, probably the same for step 2 if done individually, much less if "all in one go" because you can go do something else while it's uploading.
The PP in step 1, well that takes as long as it takes, it was a few hours for these 10/11 pics. each one was a learning experience.
Thanks for the kind words about the pics.
Doing several of one subject does make you think, and as you say, can be rewarding.
Cheers,