Day 23: October 2010 PAD

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Originally Posted by Geoff F

That is certainly a bird with attitude, Tim.

Before the days of modern antibiotics, cockerel attacks caused the death of many farmers wives. Feeding the chickens was usually part of their daily duties and a wound from those spurs easily became infected.

Farmers normally wore leather gaiters which gave them protection from this and many other nasty potential problems.

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Thanks for the background info Geoff.

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Originally Posted by wilgk

They were both 'going out' tonight, so I wanted a picture of them 'dressed up' together....I had my props and reflector etc all ready, but they only gave me 2 mins..... then they were gone so this isn't exactly what I wanted.
The problem of the young 1 being 6ft and the old 1 4ft 11.....posed it's own challenges - thank goodness for her heels :)

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Is she your daughter, Kay? She is very attractive (am I allowed to say that these days?) And it's so unusual (in the UK anyway) to see young people looking so slim and healthy-looking. Australian life-style I suppose.:)

Eeep! Still trying to get the garden in! (There was snow on the ground, yesterday morn.) I dusted off my hands as the sun was going down and just snapped at a few things - the shovel and these. I finally got these pansies, though (somewhat)! They're color is so intense that I could never seem to get an image that I could even adjust - i.e. no detail. What do you think? Color, details, exposure??? Something that I don't understand, yet??? C&C?

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Originally Posted by carregwen

Is she your daughter, Kay?

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You mean you haven't been following the adventures of the 'Fashionista'?

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Originally Posted by Donald

You mean you haven't been following the adventures of the 'Fashionista'?

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I'm glad you said it, Donald! I was wondering how he missed that??? She is gorgeous - looks a bit like Marie! (Antoinette, that is...) I was starting to think that that was really what Kay looked like! :)

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Originally Posted by Pete W

Great colours, lovely shot. Could you do a stitched together panoramic another time and get all the rainbow ?...ask Rob I have got a scooby of how to do that...


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Thanks Pete. About 20 years ago I did some panoramas of this view but now a large tree in a garden across the road has become so large that much of the view has been lost. And it isn't even an attractive tree; just a rather untidy sycamore.

I did tweak the colours a little bit. Created a duplicate layer and set the Blend Merge to Soft Light, with a suitable opacity. Added a View All Mask then erased part of the fields to their natural colour. Finally cleaned up a bit of sky noise with the Blur Tool.

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Originally Posted by Pete W

Hi Dave,

very interesting shot I like it, the shadow has real menace. ...
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So can you experiment with different backgrounds, maybe curving up behind the beast to sharpen the shadow?

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Possibly, although unlike the Green Lacewing which was in the same place for a week, this one was gone by this morning :( In fact there were 3 yesterday, but they have all disappeared :eek:

Good idea with the paper though, as many know, bugs in my hall are common, so I can perhaps try that idea another day.

This was shot looking downwards - with the flash up against the wall, giving the low angle and almost 'underlighting' the bug, which was on an emulsioned wall - it was inverted in PP to get a more pleasing angle.

Cheers,

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Originally Posted by carregwen

Is she your daughter, Kay? She is very attractive (am I allowed to say that these days?) And it's so unusual (in the UK anyway) to see young people looking so slim and healthy-looking. Australian life-style I suppose.:)

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Hi Rob - yes these are our children & thankyou for the compliment, you can say she is attractive :)
Although that it is definitely not genetic, I the rugby playing, skate-board riding girl who called herself 'Kevin' came home from the hospital with the 'girliest girl' there was........I have raised concerns she was perhaps swapped in the hospital :eek:
But they do have good genes for keeping healthy, so they are lucky there.

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Originally Posted by Donald

You mean you haven't been following the adventures of the 'Fashionista'?

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Originally Posted by Katy Noelle

I'm glad you said it, Donald! I was wondering how he missed that??? She is gorgeous - looks a bit like Marie! (Antoinette, that is...) I was starting to think that that was really what Kay looked like! :)

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Ooops sorry guys - have I been doing the Mum's Brag book thing a bit much? :eek:

& Marie might make a return ;), although I don't want to upstage Portia as she dresses to impress, but self-portraits :eek: you will most definitely be spared from :D

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Originally Posted by wilgk

Ooops sorry guys - have I been doing the Mum's Brag book thing a bit much?

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No, of course not. Is that not what mums are meant to do?

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Originally Posted by wilgk

Ooops sorry guys - have I been doing the Mum's Brag book thing a bit much? :eek:

& Marie might make a return ;), although I don't want to upstage Portia as she dresses to impress, but self-portraits :eek: you will most definitely be spared from :D

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I don't think so. :) You've been practicing on your kids just like Colin, right? She's a great model and I might possibly be learning just by watching you learn and grow. Anyway, even if you were......... we wouldn't mind!

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Originally Posted by wilgk

They were both 'going out' tonight, so I wanted a picture of them 'dressed up' together....I had my props and reflector etc all ready, but they only gave me 2 mins..... then they were gone so this isn't exactly what I wanted.
The problem of the young 1 being 6ft and the old 1 4ft 11.....posed it's own challenges - thank goodness for her heels :)

http://i54.tinypic.com/otq4g9.jpg

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Hi Kay,

I adjust the height of subjects with cane mats - also, cameras hate gaps ... so the closer you can get them, the better it looks :)

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She will love you - She is Tall!! :D

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Originally Posted by wilgk

She will love you - She is Tall!! :D

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That's why women always go for photographers rather than muscle-bound blokes ... we make them look good! :cool:

Three dogs and a bumblebee...

Early Halloween costumes...

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Canon 50D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM @ 110mm, f/4, 1/10s, ISO 800. Full EXIF, PAD slideshow.

Posting a day late, running behind lately. I saw this traveling back from Pennsylvania last night, stopped along the road for a shot.

C&C are always welcome.

Cheers,
Rick

I've nearly finished playing catch-up.

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