Today in pictures

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

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I managed to get a kingfisher to stay still for me

Frank I would have been more impressed if you had captured that one flying

[maxthecollie]

So would I

[Gremlin]

I popped along to Great Harwood this afternoon to have a look at the small WW 1 exhibition in Church Field house.
What fascinated me was the letters children had written, some pretending to be from the soldiers on the front line.

I had a go on the bagatelle but didn't score half as many as some of the children.


5. Coming out I saw this insect on the flower and the colours reflected through it's wing. No colour adjustment needed.
6. Another insecty thing too busy to notice me.
7. Then another pretty flower to keep the nature lovers happy.

Dave Mac, I didn't get my gusset wet, they were on raised beds.

You see I do take other photos apart from mechanical stuff.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

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i managed to get a kingfisher to stay still for me

Lol!

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I popped along to Great Harwood this afternoon to have a look at the small WW 1 exhibition in Church Field house.
What fascinated me was the letters children had written, some pretending to be from the soldiers on the front line.

I had a go on the bagatelle but didn't score half as many as some of the children.


5. Coming out I saw this insect on the flower and the colours reflected through it's wing. No colour adjustment needed.
6. Another insecty thing too busy to notice me.
7. Then another pretty flower to keep the nature lovers happy.

Dave Mac, I didn't get my gusset wet, they were on raised beds.

You see I do take other photos apart from mechanical stuff.

I had a game of Bagatelle when I was little -that really took me back!

[gpick24]

Last set from Sunday, including one that didn`t happen but I wish it had.

1&2. The Blades
3. Catalina
4. Sea King
5. Tutor T1
6. Huey
7. Black Cat.
8. I think this is the P-51 Mustang
9. The Avro Sisters
10. Canberra & Hunter

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I popped along to Great Harwood this afternoon to have a look at the small WW 1 exhibition in Church Field house.
What fascinated me was the letters children had written, some pretending to be from the soldiers on the front line.

I had a go on the bagatelle but didn't score half as many as some of the children.


5. Coming out I saw this insect on the flower and the colours reflected through it's wing. No colour adjustment needed.
6. Another insecty thing too busy to notice me.
7. Then another pretty flower to keep the nature lovers happy.

Dave Mac, I didn't get my gusset wet, they were on raised beds.

You see I do take other photos apart from mechanical stuff.

If its not wet, you are not doing it right.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

You see I do take other photos apart from mechanical stuff.

Russell, a good picture needs no justification.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by gpick24

Last set from Sunday, including one that didn`t happen but I wish it had.

1&2. The Blades
3. Catalina
4. Sea King
5. Tutor T1
6. Huey
7. Black Cat.
8. I think this is the P-51 Mustang
9. The Avro Sisters
10. Canberra & Hunter

Fantastic pictures. I know planes are not a 'girly' thing, but they are still spectacular to see......cutting a swathe through that lovely blue sky.

[Gremlin]

Davemac, I know you are happy when you come home from filming with a wet gusset and I am not doing it properly if I return dry. I have to consider my old bones which have lasted a long time and I want them to carry on.
I cheat a little when taking shots low down or high up ones which means leaning backwards with a risk of falling over so I use this little device which isn't expensive and will, with the included adapters, fit any viewfinder.
Call me a softy, I don't care.

[gpick24]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Fantastic pictures. I know planes are not a 'girly' thing, but they are still spectacular to see......cutting a swathe through that lovely blue sky.

Even the mrs enjoyed the day there, helped by the good weather of course. The noise from some of the planes was fantastic, Typhoon and Vulcan both set off car alarms.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Davemac, I know you are happy when you come home from filming with a wet gusset and I am not doing it properly if I return dry. I have to consider my old bones which have lasted a long time and I want them to carry on.
I cheat a little when taking shots low down or high up ones which means leaning backwards with a risk of falling over so I use this little device which isn't expensive and will, with the included adapters, fit any viewfinder.
Call me a softy, I don't care.

What an ingenious device.
Alas many of the pocket cameras no longer have viewfinders....this can be a right pain in bright conditions.
Sometimes(when using my little camera) I just point and shoot and am never really sure what kind of shot I have captured until I get home....it is called a 'pot luck shot'.

[Gremlin]

The lack of viewfinders is a big problem with the compact cameras, especially with the sun behind you.
The Olympus DSLR I just sent to Moffat Golf Club lacked one but the electronic viewfinder I had for it clipped on to the hotshoe and made connection so it then had a proper viewfinder.
It was a rip off really, the electronic viewfinder added about £150 extra to the camera.
At least I didn't have to hold the camera at arms length and squint into the screen.

[mobertol]

I wanted to prepare the following photo for the competition in B&W but can't manage to upload - it isn't quite how I wanted it in any case and I was hoping the expert Photoscapers might be able to explain to me how to do what I want.

I wanted to put the photo in B&W, as I have done in the version with the frame, but using the colour isolation technique which Margaret has used so successsfully on here in the past so that the man's hat stayed in it's original colours, even though they are more or less black and white, and would provide an interesting contrast I think...an alternative would be the opposite - the hat as in the B&W with the rest in colour, what do you think? Is this possible and if so how do you go about it?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Is this what you meant Dianne?
You just have to play around a bit with photoscape.
1) load the picture to photoscape.
Choose tools from the menu.
Click on Grey scale.
For large areas that you want to remove colour go to the Zoom and reduce buttons on the R hand lower edge of the picture.
Reduce the size of your pic.
Choose the large brush........and hold the L button on your mouse and sweep the circle over the areas where you want to de colour.
Give a wide frame where you want to leave colour. To remove the colour from areas close to your target(where you want to leave the colour) Zoom in and use a smaller brush.
It takes a bit of patience, but the results can be spectacular.