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busterboy
29-12-2005, 08:33
Ferrybridge... Eggboro... and Drax cooling towers taken at 8am in near dark this morning from just up the road from my house.. These towers are about 40 miles away as the crow flies so 16-35mm wide angle on my tripod at F16 was in order..:)

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~tprocter/Various/3-towers1.jpg
Marianne
29-12-2005, 08:59
hmm....well I felt this looked a tad too blue and I found the wall a bit intrusive in the shot, especially as the title says 'the three towers'. Anyway, I have have a fiddle with it, sharpened it , kept the blue in the sky but taken it out of the snow a bit and then added the 'autumn colours' filter from the Optikverve Lab.
http://www.barrianne-photos.co.uk/images/buster.jpg
busterboy
29-12-2005, 09:05
Good morning Marianne.:)

Yes I also had a play with the picture with filters in photoshop but looked at them and decided to leave it alone..;)

TBH I had it looking something like that but thought it had too much tango colour in it.:confused:

Some of the kind forumites will be along soon when they get their backsides out of bed to give their views...:D
Marianne
29-12-2005, 09:09
thats the beauty of photography and also being the photographer, you know what you saw through the lens and know what you wanted to see on the screen. I do love my filters lol
Gemok
29-12-2005, 09:12
personally I like mariannes crop but prefer the colours of the original I'd have a play too see what I'd do but I'm already late for work lol :exit:
dod
29-12-2005, 09:34
we had that kind of sunrise as well, lovely colours.

I think it needs the wall out as well BB, and possibly crop in tighter so the farm building on the left isn't there. Would also make a great silouhette of one of them with the steam from the chimney against that kind of sky.
chuckles
29-12-2005, 09:39
Thought we'd been 'nuked' ... mornings just aren't my thing!

Agree about the crop, just think it lacks contrast. Not had time to edit it but we (Marianne) discussed this before I left for work.

I'd post our sunrise this morning in Haddenham, but who wants to see a grey frame?
busterboy
29-12-2005, 10:49
Mmmmm.!!

Any better..:confused:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~tprocter/Various/3-towersframe.jpg
Marianne
29-12-2005, 10:52
yep...much better :)
matty
29-12-2005, 11:42
lets not talk about blue snow again!

prefer the last one
dod
29-12-2005, 11:43
Have you tried a pano crop? I think it could work quite well.
Arkady
29-12-2005, 13:00
I like the colours in Marianne's version and the composition in the second of Buster's shots - dodgy bit of cloning there mate - bottom left.
busterboy
29-12-2005, 13:10
dodgy bit of cloning there mate - bottom left.


Well spotted mate, Now sorted..:)
Arkady
29-12-2005, 13:12
Now you need a new border to cover up the grass...tsk tsk...
AquilaEagle
29-12-2005, 15:37
I love Mariannes version :)
jewel
29-12-2005, 19:43
Well I will be the oddball here. I like the first shot busterboy posted! I happen to like the blue tones in the snow. Gives it that chill factor. When you take that away the colours just look flat too me. I think you should just go back and take the shot all over again busterboy,lol. :p

Cheers,

Jules
busterboy
29-12-2005, 19:45
Way-hey... I have a fan.. Thank you Jewel..:D
Arkady
29-12-2005, 19:47
Get back in yer box, you mad Canuck...
busterboy
29-12-2005, 19:50
Get back in yer box, you mad Canuck...



:finger3:
Arkady
29-12-2005, 19:54
:shock: Are you Canadian as well, Buster...?
busterboy
29-12-2005, 19:58
:shock: Are you Canadian as well, Buster...?


Cripes.!!!

I thought your last insult was meant for me regarding the Canon "cough" Nikon thing..

Please accept my humble apology..:sadcry:
Marianne
29-12-2005, 19:59
ha ha!!
Arkady
29-12-2005, 20:01
I'll get to that later...

You do know that Canons are a direct copy of the old Russian Gorki cameras from the 1920's don't you?
And that the CCD's are made from old cathode ray tubes scavenged by Pakistani merchants from surplus WWII Luftwaffe night-fighters?
Marianne
29-12-2005, 20:07
even funnier!
busterboy
29-12-2005, 20:10
even funnier!


Please don't encourage him Marianne..:noshake:
jewel
29-12-2005, 20:11
:shock: Are you Canadian as well, Buster...?


and what is that implying?
Marianne
29-12-2005, 20:11
yeah Arky, you pickin on my new mate? ;)
chuckles
29-12-2005, 20:14
I think I'm starting to turn pages two at a time here.....:dizzy:
Arkady
29-12-2005, 20:18
Always.
Always kick a man when he's down - less distance for your foot to travel, plus, you wouldn't want him to get back up, would you?
Arkady
29-12-2005, 20:19
Jewel, Babe - it's just a joke. I'm a mean, nasty old man with no friends.
Marianne
29-12-2005, 20:21
oh now I feel bad....I'll be your friend Arky, but I won't pose for you lol
Arkady
29-12-2005, 20:29
Ha! You know you want to...(tee-hee)
jewel
29-12-2005, 20:38
Jewel, Babe - it's just a joke. I'm a mean, nasty old man with no friends.


When people show you who they are, believe them. ;)
Arkady
29-12-2005, 20:50
Such meanness from such a small person...
Marianne
29-12-2005, 20:52
:exit:
CT
29-12-2005, 20:59
ROTFL. Where did I put my tin hat? :laugh2:
Arkady
29-12-2005, 21:00
Canada - the Belgium of North America...
busterboy
29-12-2005, 21:49
Like WOW.!!!

I go away for an hour and World War 3 has started..:hissyfit: