iltby Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Iltby... beautiful, great timing with the fight, it is good to capture different things, i think. Thanks BB! Yes, pretty happy with that shot, though wish I'd framed it better. Love the ducks Iltby! Cheers! iltby - I love the 2nd duck shot! I was amazed to witness an Owl (I never see owls) get harrassed out of this big bush it was probably sleeping in by a bunch of black crows (?) this morning Thanks CM! I thought it was very cute The quality of the shots is way better on Flickr, though. How bizarre, guess it must be a territorial thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I haven't had much of a chance to do anything not work, but hubby and I went to the beach evening before last and I took a shot of a cool tree branch. Would like to go back out there and play around, but probably won't get a chance... Anyway, my one pathetic April shot LOL Canon A720 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraNik Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 No way is that shot pathetic! I love the sky - it really creates a mood.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iltby Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) Love it Kja, it has a really awesome atmosphere Two more from me today, this rosella spent hours at our feeder- ETA: Nicer quality on flickr- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilovetobeyoung/ Edited April 29, 2009 by iltby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlc Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 KJ, love the tree stump, do you do your PP in PS?? Beautiful Bird Iltby, great shots so lovely and clear, what lense did you use for these?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iltby Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Thanks Tlc! I used the f/4.0 70-200mm for these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Wow, what a pretty birdie!! Thanks for the kind words. TLC I hardly open PS usually, almost all of my editing is done in Lightroom. One day I do need to get back in to PS and actually learn stuff, but Lightroom makes my life so easy I don't bother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraNik Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 'A Month of Medicine' Almost time to put my feet up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lea Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 whats next month going to be? im ready to get my camera back out. i would love to see a month of black and white. its a real challenge to get a good B/W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Ooo, I love black and white and Lightroom ROCKS for getting just the right BW for a shot...I often have to stop myself from doing big groups of BW when I know some should really be in color LOL If this becomes the challenge, it would be great if we could - where possible - include settings and techniques in our chosen editing program. Edited April 30, 2009 by kja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirislin Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 I'd love to see a challenge where they're straight off the camera, no photoshop or lightroom or anything, cause I haven't got them! hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clicking Mad Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 iltby - great quality on the rosella! kja - I love that dead tree on the beach terranik - feet up gave me a giggle ****** "I told you it would be closed, Chester!" I was hoping for a sad, disappointed look, but he looks more curious here than anything. He was a good boy lying down on the cold concrete though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlc Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Tn, there is just something about the gloved doctors hand that makes me shudder , good shot though!! Love Chester at the closed pet shop, love the orange and brown tones, great shot!! I have been wondering about lightroom, I have it, i thnk it is the new version it is light room 2 but I got PS at the same time and have been using that. How hard is it to navigate your way around light room, is it a matter of just having a play or will I need to do a tutorial or something like that. Is the sepia effect easy to achieve in light room?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lea Posted April 30, 2009 Author Share Posted April 30, 2009 Well if there is no challenge for next month, i am going to B/W for the month anyway. i had a break this month and im ready to shoot again. So if anyone wants to join in, please feel free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashanali Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Hey everyone, as usual there has been some really interesting and creative work posted throughout the month and you all deserve a big congratulations. MAY will be a rest month as a few people are starting to run out of inspiration and this is meant to be a bit of fun. My advice is to put the camera down and relax... and hit June with a vengance. June will be based on 'movement' but I'm not giving details as yet. Hope to see you all in 32 days, fresh and ready to roll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlc Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Well if there is no challenge for next month, i am going to B/W for the month anyway.i had a break this month and im ready to shoot again. So if anyone wants to join in, please feel free. Hi Lea, Id be keen to join you, although I did get a bit slack towards the end of this month. when you say B/W do you mean black and white, maybe Ill go sepia for the month. I have been working out a formula for how sepia looks the best but in the end I have figured out that it really depends on the photo I guess that should have been obvious to begin with!! A friend I work with (also a keep photographer) is getting involved with some photographers here in our town and they are thinking about having a exhibition at our local art gallery and he asked me if I would like to put some of my pictures in the exhibition. Not sure if it will come about but I have a few photos of my oldest boy Cooper and Lacy in Sepia that I thought I could do a series on and have the theme all the same. So I might be able to work on getting some better shots of them and make them sepia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerraNik Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Oh dear... A month of movement? Movement is my weakness! haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 clicking - LOVE that shot!! It sounds like there are some who would like a May challenge, so why not have it be BW? Those who are burning out or who have plates that are too full don't have to play, but those who want to can. No one has to post every day - or at all - if they don't want to. I know I haven't been able to do more than view stuff for April's challenge, but I would have really missed seeing what others were doing if it wasn't there. I have been wondering about lightroom, I have it, i thnk it is the new version it is light room 2 but I got PS at the same time and have been using that. How hard is it to navigate your way around light room, is it a matter of just having a play or will I need to do a tutorial or something like that. Is the sepia effect easy to achieve in light room?? I adore LR and find the vast majority of things I want to do way easier and faster than in PS. Mostly it's a matter of just playing with the presets that come with it and playing with the myriad of sliders. There are tons of great tutorials out there to help you along or to give you ideas, too. Sepia and all sorts are dead easy - there are already presets that will let you get sepia and other tones with a single click...and if you want to tweak those, just move the sliders around. Easy peasy. Create something you really like and might want to apply later? Click the + sign under presets and it will save it for you with whatever title you want to give it. Then go to another image and click your new preset. Viola. Not quite right? Tweak the sliders. Everything is tweakable and you don't have to backtrack if you don't want to. Got something you think you like but aren't sure and want to try something else? Click the + under snapshots and name it - it saves every step then you can go back to any of those steps and try something different. You can save the new version with another snapshot and flick back and forth between the two to see what you like. My biggest lightroom problem? I can get sucked in to playing with options and very subtle variations coz it's so easy! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlc Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Wow you make it so easy might have to have a play, thanks for the info!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlc Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Ok since it is the last day of April, I thought id try to make a bit more of an effort, I have done the same thing before and I really liked the out come so I thought id try it again, and this time I edited in light room only very basic antique greyscale and darkend them a little, thats all I can work out how to do so far....lol anyway here they are Me and Cooper Jay Me and Bronson Cooper and Lacy Me and Lacy ' and the last one is me and Tully, she is usually the one to buck the system so it isnt a real good one, but i edited it Picassa just to see what the difference was like and thier is no comparison!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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