Photos you have taken in the last month of which you are proud?

a few of my faves

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Could you see anything through the viewfinder....

It's ok in bright light - you can focus and compose etc fine with it on. My camera also makes a pretty good job of judging the exposure correctly with it on as well.

This thread must be the best in ages! I'll try not to mess it up too much...

Grumm, you must be upping GF1 sales all by yourself, you should ask them for sponsorship (not that it's just down to the camera!)

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I'm not 100% happy with the stitch but don't know what I did wrong, any help would be fantastic!

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Sailing on the broads yesterday - was in a bit of a precarious position to take these!!

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Love the last one with the crashing waves doug

Got up early this morning...

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Sunset over the Hebrides, last Saturday...

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Love the top one grum. Cracker.

Rob, stunning westerly shot, miss those from when I lived in Gourock! (Sunset over sea/hills a bit lacking in Switzerland!).

Wow - this thread is still going! Some brilliant recent additions as well.

Here's a few from the last couple of days:

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Cheers big_scot_nanny.

Robgarrioch - superb pic. I was up there a few weeks ago but there was never any sunsets like that!

V nice flowers pic stuartie_c

Gonna post another meerkat shot just cos they are ace 🙂

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quite a few nice pics so far... i'll add a few

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quite an eclectic bunch.

grum, fantastic two there..

Rob, stunning westerly shot, miss those from when I lived in Gourock! (Sunset over sea/hills a bit lacking in Switzerland!).

if you live close to lac leman you can get sun over the lake...not the same i know but..

and as for sun over the hills..well you cant be in the same part of switzerland that i am! (where are you?)

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Taken just over a month ago, now furnishes my dining room wall!!

Thanks for nice comments guys - no technical skill involved, just right-place, right-time luck.
For your interest, another taken that morning, facing east, not very far from the same spot...

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Seeing as this is still running I'll add a few.
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scotia - Member
grum, fantastic two there..

Rob, stunning westerly shot, miss those from when I lived in Gourock! (Sunset over sea/hills a bit lacking in Switzerland!).

if you live close to lac leman you can get sun over the lake...not the same i know but..

and as for sun over the hills..well you cant be in the same part of switzerland that i am! (where are you?)

Aye OK, hills: yes. Sea: no! I'm in Basel, NW Schweiz (the Swindon of Switzerland), but even in the alps, whilst undoubtedly spectacular, there is just not the same light as a sunset over Argyll. Where are you Scotia?

OOh, and by the way .duncan, love the remote flash into the umbrella shot. Looks like a marketing shot for a magazine cover. Are any of these stock shots or are you pro? It's brill! In fact, your top 3 are fab.
Kev

Crewlie - Nice car 😉

Love the last shot as well!

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Some of these are just amazing, Im insanely jealous of you all.

This one isnt anywhere near the high standard already set but Im posting it anyway because it makes me smile so much

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My cat Moo

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hamilton loomis Texan guitar god.

Weekend over in Snowdonia
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I really like that bottom one Matt-P.

Its quite funny that I read Talkphotography and end up finding much better photographs over here! Does it mean mountainbikers are out there with their cameras more often than some other people?

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Taken with an Old Nikon F5 with a 85mm f1.8 lens! Great camera shame its soo heavy!

Mainly been shooting 'em from the 'cockpit' whilst on the move......
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OOh, and by the way .duncan, love the remote flash into the umbrella shot. Looks like a marketing shot for a magazine cover. Are any of these stock shots or are you pro? It's brill! In fact, your top 3 are fab.
Kev

they're all mine, and i'm no pro 😉 just teenager looking to do maths at uni.

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Stuff finally going places after the snow melted and also alot of my helicoptering pics were getting kind of boring in a samey way.

My 2p 🙂
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With a point and shoot hand-held 🙂

Matt - That last one is very nice!

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Agree about .duncan's pics - very professional looking

And Matt P's last one is a cracker.

Some amazing photos on here, very inspirational. here's one of my faves from recently

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A couple from a few days away in the sun last week.. 🙂

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and this one was taken by my other half.. one of my fave pics ever! 🙂

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big_scot_nanny: Lausanne..got the lake, and mountains...i live in Echallens, so often have sunset over the jura, v nice..

shame my skills are well below par..otherwise i'd have some to show here!

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Three_Fish - love that second macro.

Here's another just to keep things ticking along:

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Excellent thread.

How do you do those ones that are B&W but just have one focal point in colour? (Like the brilliant chain link one on page 1)??

You need to create a [b]layer [/b]using Photoshop (or similar). Using a selection tool like the magic wand, select all the pixels you want (like all the gold-coloured pixels in the chain example). This takes a bit of patience and some tweaking of the settings to get it just so. You then create a new layer with the selected pixels, de-saturate the background layer and you end up with something like this:

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That one is a bit crude because the selection is quite rough - I got bored.

Also, if the thing you want to highlight is the only thing of that colour in the pic, you might be able to just desaturate all the other colours.

Here's another 10 stop filter shot from me - just to keep things ticking along 😉

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Come on people!

Was kinda pleased with this one from 2 nights ago, purely from subject p.o.v. - crappy phone-camera though -

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I think Moo wins my vote!

Don't do many 'people' shots but quite like this one from Easter.

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Not that interesting but my dog looks cute so..

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Grum - love that first one, at first glance I thought 'blimey, what crap composition, that gert big rock takes up half the fra... hang on a sec, what's that on the rock??' I like the way it draws the focus from the scenery to the carvings...

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Cathedral Quarry Cave

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...which is pretty much all I've achieved today.

Go on then....

Repost of volcanic sunset the other night

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Silver Bay on Anglesey

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Beaumaris fireworks

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All clicky. Really annoyed that with the exception of the odd one, I'm still about 6 months behind with my processing! I've got much better lurking as RAW on my HD, but never any time to do anything with them. I guess it's better that than never any time to get out to take photos in the first place though...

The Anglesey shot is great imo. I've got literally thousands of RAW files on my puter. Most of em are rubbish though!

I like these - they capture our twins beautifully I think...
Izzi
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They are both just snaps though, but happened to work out nicely - technically there are plenty of things I would change.

Cheers Grum. As it looks like I'll be out of work in June, and thanks to visa issues may not be starting in Australia for some time yet, I may have quite a lot of time to edit photos. I certainly won't be able to afford to drive anywhere nice to take any more...

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Snowdonia
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Bantham Beach Devon

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Llanberis slate quaries

More here

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Ohh - has Ansel Adams come back from the dead? 😉

Cheers I'll take that as a compliment.

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My first experiments with black & white.
Taken at the crash site of B29 Superfortress serial no 44-62276, which crashed below Beinn Tharsuinn near Strachur, Argyll, in January 1949.

I like it, but constructive comment welcomed.

Rob

Cheers I'll take that as a compliment.

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Some great pics here. Grum - really like both of those - been back for third look now! Agree with comments above re the first - it's a grower! Second just looks amazingly peaceful. Mostly though, I think I like them as they don't look processed to death - so many landscape shots do now 🙁

Can people please post what they were taken on and what settings etc? Thanks 🙂

Oh and MF your Izzie looks a lot like my Meggie.

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This I quite like.

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Can people please post what they were taken on and what settings etc? Thanks

If you click on mine, flickr should let you see the exif data if you click on "more properties" down towards the bottom right. It'll probably even tell you where it was taken if I've been bothered enough to put it there...

A few from Oban area taken on Sunny Sunday:

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Thanks user-removed 🙂

Just within a month 😉

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Couple of mine:
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Bike stand in Hiroshima

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Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo

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Top of Dumyat this morning

i suppose another.. yes its a self portrait but i like how the two came together:
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Some inspiring photos on here - almost makes it a bit intimidating to stick up any of my efforts. We bought a DSLR for the wife initially, but I've started playing with it a bit and finding I quite enjoy photography despite years of being put off by camera snobs.

I found this little fella sitting on the path at the David Marshall Lodge in Aberfoyle a couple of weeks ago

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There's something about the atmosphere of this shot I really like

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Out of my office window - just grabbed the camera and took some shots before the moment passed
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First attempt at playing with a polarising filter on a frosty morning
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view from Walna Scar last night
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Love the toad/frog pic - yours is very nice too Robb.

Just been playing with my new (old) Konica Hexanon 50mm 1.7 - incredible lens, especially for £30

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yet another sub-par couple from me from todays adventures down at Middlehaven:

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Was using my D70 glued and taped back together as the area is quite dodgy and thought if some smackhead was going to steal my camera they might as well take a buggered one. The pics are shit but then I didnt want to get the camera out a great deal. There's crap on the sensor too which needs cleaning out.

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matt schofield at the 100 club london
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