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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject:

Berlin TV tower from my hotel room:

To give you an idea of its size, I'm on the 20th floor ...

tali · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:52 am Post subject:

Cayenne goes off road

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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:33 am Post subject:

Best place for it

tali · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject:

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject:

The end of the Hallowe'en party:

Matt · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:17 am Post subject:

From yesterday's trip to the North Cornish coast. The Atlantic was a bit choppy yesterday.

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Matt · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

Atlantic Sunset

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woof woof · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:

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Boxer6 · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

Took this (or rather, the original!) on sunday, when I was in getting a Pen tablet for my laptop/mac. (A Bamboo, packaged with Elements6)

For those who have never seen it, it's the Finnieston Crane, the last remaining from the Golden Years of Clyde shipbuilding.

I have "tweaked" it a bit, which isn't something I do very often. I like it, but what do you guys think?

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Matt · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject:

It's a stark image and the adjustments give it a stencil effect. Nice effort.
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DarthBalls · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject:

Nice work - Elements 6 is what I use.

Digital Photo mag has some very good tutorials for Photoshop that nearly always include the same adjustments for Elements too. Most of the other mags don't seem to bother.

I also got a book 'Advanced Photoshop Elements 6 for Digital Photographers' by Philip Andrews - a week of going through that taught me more than 6 months of trial and error. A good investment.
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the old man · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:25 am Post subject:

Boxer6 · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

Cheers, guys.

This was "edited" in a freeware programme called IrfanView. It is very basic compared to what I imagine Elements can do (I haven't installed it yet!

) but I've used it before for tweakery. I also have something called Kai's Photo's on my PC upstairs, which gives a few other tweaks Irfan doesn't, plus I've used PhotoPlus on the PC's at work on occasion too.

Darth - I've been looking at the Evening courses at Metro for digital photography. I'll need to pick your brains on them next week.
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DarthBalls · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:03 am Post subject:

Matt · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject:

One our resident duck-loving Francophile might like...

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Big TC · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject:

In addition to Boxer6's picture of the Finnieston Crane in Glasgow:

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Boxer6 · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject:

Love the juxtaposition of the crane and flag in the second shot, Trevor.
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DarthBalls · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:17 am Post subject:

From the way he insists on drinking from a glass you wouldn't think he used to be a stray

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Matt · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:

Three from Pugwash Central

Bit of reportage style

Is this your HQ, Mike?

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Matt · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject:

I've been reliably informed it stands for Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, so even if Mike was a member, he couldn't tell us

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M. · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject:

I was looking through one of my Grandfather's old field books and saw this label on the inside of the back cover. Makes you think.

Big TC · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

^^^ That's a really unusual message, Michael. Who'd've thought that a war could affect the quality of an accounts book? Wonder what other mundane items suffered because of WWII?
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DarthBalls · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

Matt · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:46 am Post subject:

This year's Christmas Tree is a bit abstract

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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

Boxer6 · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject:

Matt · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

30-second exposure of the tree with some expressive shaking. Thanks.

I've done a few of these long exposures recently

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cslm...9899005/in/set-72157610871994406/
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Boxer6 · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject:

A "snatched" shot of the sunrise over Royston on the way in to work on Friday.

And one of Ben Lomond taken from Aberfoyle yesterday.

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Giant · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject:

Boxer6 · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

Some shots from the past few days.

Cold, yesterday morning!

A few looking over what used to be Stoneyetts Hospital, near Moodiesbrn.

Just one example of what the years have led to - eye-catching though!

Lastly, a shot taken almost by accident!

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Boxer6 · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject:

A few more, of the A80 last night - a la Matt's, of a few months ago.

Looking northbound.......

Fire engine happened to be passing!

Looking southbound here.......

The camera "wobbled" at the start of the exposure here!

Saying that, I quite like it.

Lastly, a shot of a fairly attractive church in Kirkintilloch (St. Marys, for those who know it)

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:-( · Turbocharged My Car: . Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 2787

Some great ones in there. Love the fire engine and the loops.

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Havent looked in here for a while...hence not seeing your pictures Matt. The car under the rubble happen ages ago, must have been september time I think. Remember mentioning it on here at the time. Its still there now infact.

And im not a member of the R.A.O.B. That building is getting torn down soon anyway. If you had been down to the seafront, you would have seen our new premises being built actually.

Here in fact

the old man · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:00 am Post subject:

Mike, saw the building work going on down at the seafront but didn't know what it was.
I suppose the R.A.O.B. is being pulled down to make way for some plush 'poolside appartments or holiday lets?
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Well its 'spose to be for a 'Community Centre' - but the people running the project are totally incompetant so it will never happen which is a bit of a shame as Looe could do with one really.

the old man · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject:

It'll be a shame if it isn't a community centre as there must be enough holiday lets there already, another idea would be for affordable housing for the locals, like that'll ever happen. I always thought the now library would have made a good premise for a community centre. What is being built opposite the Looe Chandlery/Norman Pearn site?
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Haha! Luxury flats!

Boxer6 · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

One more from earlier this evening.

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D. · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject:

I love those type of pics.

GonnaBreakABuggy · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:01 am Post subject:

Not bad for a handheld at 1am, bit noisy and some edge blueing, but hey ho:

Some of the noise is from a PS filter to knock out highlights in the shadows though.

Gurney · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:18 am Post subject:

Was that shot taken in Liverpool?
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DaveGibson · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject:

Big TC · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject:

Some shots I took at the ice sculptre exhibition in Brugges just before Christmas:

And a bar, made of solid ice:

EVERYTHING was made of solid ice - the 'tent' where they were displayed was -5c. Quite spectacular - these photos don't really do them justice.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:21 pm Post subject:

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GonnaBreakABuggy · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:06 am Post subject:

Anyone reckon they could 'shop a wheel stealing Chav into that pic. of mine, for a topic on another forum about my local area

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Matt · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:47 am Post subject:

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GonnaBreakABuggy · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:49 am Post subject:

Genius Matt, cheers!
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Matt · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:13 am Post subject:

You wouldn't believe how difficult it was finding a running chav on google, so you have the look-out and his 'mehts'

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Turbonutter · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

Robin on New Year's Day