5 Counties - Twice! - Page 2

PMG · #11 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by camo

Hi Pauline

I have now had a chance to look at your web tips and it would give a lot of people more confidence knowing how much of an improvement you have made to your pictures. Please take this as a great compliment but when you see the final fabulous pictures that you produce, such as your Long Tailed Tits etc it easy to believe you are on a different planet, however because of your honesty and preparedness to share the original files we can see less of a chasim. I have tried Photoshop, Canon default editing and am now using Photoscape; certainly Photoscape is easy to use and makes a big difference However I suspect like most I only use auto level, contrast, tweek the sharpen and add backlight. I am looking for a good one day editing course and will now explore Paint shop pro.

Thank you Roy

No - thank you Roy!! I've been trying to get this message across for ages - maybe now you've said it folk will take it up! I think my dad must have taught me early on that presentation is all when it comes to putting something before other people - if you want them to like or admire your efforts! That was for artwork but I've applied the same rule to photography even when I was using slide film - and I still know folk who think nothing of going after one bird species and shooting off 50 rolls of slide film - thats 1,800 images for that one fabulous photograph.

Brilliant photography whether it be film or digital is a combination of things either set up before hand or engineered partially afterwards - very rarely does that magic moment filled with luck unfold down your lens - but sometimes it does! It is also a matter of never showing sub standard stuff - I learned that rule when doing slide shows - you don't put a slide in that you have to apologise for - folk pay money to see something good and tend to get disgruntled if you show them rubbish!

There are people born to be photographers I believe - folk who have innate skills which they learn to embroider - folk who's eye and sense of timing and an ability to shut their ears and concentrate down the lens - and then there;s the rest of us who with the right equipment - look at my early pages on here - you don't see many bird pics - I didn't have a big lens and now I do - simple as that! Until affording that big lens (and don't forget I'm 56!) I made the most of what I could get at and concentrated on little things and landscapes....

The only difference between me and other folk is I do have an eye for a pic (I used to paint and draw) and very often I 'see' pics in my mind that I would like to take, I do have an eye for composition tho this last 12 months of having a big lens I haven't been able to stop myself from going after frame fillers and I know its getting boring but it excites me! And I can turn a bad opportunity into a good one - or make the best of what there is - I have a crested tit somewhere back in these pages taken at distance, in square format with a very complimentary background - its an effective photo - the same for a distant kingfisher - again with the right background - the bird is tiny - but the only colour in the pic so it works .......

So as you now see its not a chasim at all - its a mere stepping stone - come on across

Pauline

Pete Collins · #12 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 11:31 AM

Thanks for the report and the stunning photos Pauline!

Cazzie · #13 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 08:59 PM

What a blast you two ladies had! You do make me laugh (and that's a compliment

) but I've still got this image stuck in my head of you in the stream in yr knickers!!!

Looking foward to hearing about your next escapade!!!

ron1863 · #14 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 09:08 PM

Good to see you enjoyed yourself Pauline and had a nice break from the daily routine. Lovely photographs too.

PMG · #15 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Cazzie

What a blast you two ladies had! You do make me laugh (and that's a compliment

) but I've still got this image stuck in my head of you in the stream in yr knickers!!!

Looking foward to hearing about your next escapade!!!

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Originally Posted by ron1863

Good to see you enjoyed yourself Pauline and had a nice break from the daily routine. Lovely photographs too.

Thanks Cazz and ron - actually ron knows all about knickers and rivers - he found the pic of Ian in his big drawers in the River Hayle in Cornwall quite disturbing I seem to remember (that pic is in the Poking Fun sect of my own website next time your having a browse over there!!!)

Pauline

ron1863 · #16 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by PMG

Thanks Cazz and ron - actually ron knows all about knickers and rivers - he found the pic of Ian in his big drawers in the River Hayle in Cornwall quite disturbing I seem to remember (that pic is in the Poking Fun sect of my own website next time your having a browse over there!!!)

Pauline

I saw them again Pauline............the nightmares won't go away

PMG · #17 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ron1863

I saw them again Pauline............the nightmares won't go away

LMAO

Cazzie · #18 (**permalink**) 19-04-2009, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by PMG

actually ron knows all about knickers and rivers - he found the pic of Ian in his big drawers in the River Hayle in Cornwall quite disturbing I seem to remember (that pic is in the Poking Fun sect of my own website next time your having a browse over there!!!)

Pauline

That makes two of us now

- I'm still reeling from the shock!

Don't know why... but windowlene springs to mind...