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Rossie
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11/01/2008
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Because of the grim weather, I have been unable to experiment outside with my shiny new camera, so I have resorted to indoor efforts, using flash and focus................
Gill
Kalh mera oi filoi mou
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Rossie
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Posted - 02/02/2008 : 18:36
............... and here is another taken about 1pm this afternoon. No fancy settings - just set on 'auto' as it was far too cold to be messing around pressing things on the camera.
Gill
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Julie in Norfolk
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Posted - 02/02/2008 : 23:09
Oooh, I miss snow and hills!!!!!!!
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 09:02
Rossie, Jacob sheep! I have a jumper and bobble hat hand spun and knitted in Jacob Wool by an old lady on the Isle of Eigg..... Warm as toast! Tip for steadiness. Dig your elbows into your side and take a couple of deep breaths, breathe out and stop and hold your breath halfway through the breath-out. Then squeeze the button gently. That's the way we hit the bull at 600yds when we were shooting for our marksman badge with the rifle in the army. It works......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Doreen
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 09:39
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Rossie wrote:
LIKE IT, SHEEP WITH HANDLES ON EM!
Dordygail 
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 10:20
Dot, if you look carefully they have two sets apiece.... one of the distinctive features of the Jacob.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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softsuvner
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 11:06
Rossie
I understand how you feel about digital cameras. I have had some problems adjusting to them myself. With my digital point and shoot cameras (I am on my second) I let them get on with it in the auto mode. Now that I have a digital SLR, I am trying to come to terms with something more complex than any machine I have ever owned!
The problem is that it gives me too many choices!
You have already found the solution for you, keep taking pictures!
I do what photographers have done since the dawn of photography, I do my adjustments in the darkroom. The "digital" darkroom : a good photo manipulation programe on the computer, is a much more pleasant place than the "wet" darkroom that people like Stanley laboured in for years. The problem with digital seems to me that every device, the camera, your computer, and the printer, all have gizmos to manipulate your photos. I just use one device, in my case Photoshop Elements, once you have got to grips with it, you can use it for all photo jobs.I use it on old photos and slides that I've scanned, and on new ones from both the film and digital cameras.
In my experience, digital photos don't need too much manipulation, but some cameras do underexpose slightly, and digital photos often need a bit of warming up. You seem to be doing alright so far!
Malcolm
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Rossie
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Posted - 03/02/2008 : 11:27
Thanks for all your comments and glad you like the sheep - they have acted as models, along with Kallie the dog, since I got the camera at Christmas. I am getting there and just love being able to snap away whenever - the camera is always with me now. It is our second digital - the old one is an early one and is like aheavy brick, and is now used by my husband for his site work photos.
Stanley - the elbows in side tip does work, also the camera has an anti-shake thingy on it, which delays the shutter slightly when you press the take button so there is less movement. And Malcom - having spent a fair bit of time in a 'wet darkroom' myself, I agree that a good editing package on the PC is much more pleasant particularly with a good glass of wine alongside!!
Gill
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/02/2008 : 06:36
Doi you remember me giving my wet dark room away to the lady who promised to come back to pick up the sink and paint the room? Never seen hide nor hair of her since....... Nowt so queer as folk......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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softsuvner
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Posted - 04/02/2008 : 10:06
Stanley
I bet she hadn't realised what was involved, and was just "going to set it up in the spare room". I wanted to take pictures like Bert Hardy from Picture Post, but I was living at home and the family wouldn't give up the bathroom! I took to sending my films away to Kodak instead.
That's why the digital darkroom is such a pleasure. Mind you, I have read several articles in photographic magazines that have pointed out that the most successful photgraphers using electronic manipulation are those who were trained in the old fashioned "wet" darkroom.
Malcolm
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Rossie
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Posted - 04/02/2008 : 10:26
I remember when husband & I were in our courting days in the last century, and we both shared a passion for black & white photography. We used to experiment with various different speeds of film and G. bought a plastic gadget thingy for developing them - a highly portable 'darkroom' It was a circular plastic encased spool arrangement. Uner a blanket to keep out the light, you fed the film into it by turning in different directions, right hand clockwise left hand anticlockwise and the film hopefully disappeared into it. Then you emerged from the blanket and poured the developer into the gadget, shook it, left it for a few minutes, rinsed it, then poured in the fixer and shook it. With a bit of luck the developed film could then be withdrawn. I do believe this contraption is still lurking in the loft.
Gill
Edited by - Rossie on 04/02/2008 10:28:15 AM
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/02/2008 : 14:56
I don't think there is much doubt that getting your hands dirty in the darkroom got you a lot closer to the mystery of capturing an image. It made you a lot more aware of what effect exposure and developing time had on the image. Daniel and Roger taught me to under expose slightly and over develop. Equivalent to de-rating the film and it gave really juicy negs but with plenty of detail in the shade. Happy days.......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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marilyn
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Posted - 04/02/2008 : 23:20
Then....for others....there is PHOTOSHOP!
A very clever device for manipulating all elements of photography....hue and saturation, exposure levels, etc.
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
Stanley
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 05:41
Denmark, Western Australia, 1996.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Ringo
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 09:47
quote:
marilyn wrote:
Then....for others....there is PHOTOSHOP!
A very clever device for manipulating all elements of photography....hue and saturation, exposure levels, etc.
I use Photoshop CS2 when I need to, most of the pictures I put on here are straight out of the camera however.
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Posted - 05/02/2008 : 11:24
Hey I managed it, thanks to dad and his wonderful instrctions. A picture of Laura and Dusty her kitten.
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