Craftysnapper

Upgraded from Elements 11 to Elements 14 so thought I'd try out the new anti shake feature.

Just used auto setting  very processor hungry took about 3 min to render this image that had bad camera shake no other adjustments made.

Well deserved congratulations.

Thank you for choosing my image Chris, it must have been a hard choice given the great pics that were available to you.and thank you to everyone for the kind comments.

Tina it's  strange how peoples experience differ mine has been fairly good with Virgin, we have three computers and three TV's in the house and all three can be streaming  a movie with no problems or downloading large amounts of data.

I only once had a problem with the internet signal dropping and that was because the router was a old model and could not cope with the new speeds.

Virgin never automaticly updates/replaces your router (shame on them) but a phone call and a new latest model router by post the next day sorted the problem. 

Mmm while a great believer in rules are meant to be broken once you get past his arty explanations the fact remains that most of those images are following the rule of thirds to some degree.

And to a greater degree he is copying the golden ratio upon which the rule of thirds derives from.

http://www.goldennumber.net/art-composition-design/

The purple fringing has been made more obvious by incresing the saturation also you have a white halo around the fringing this is caused by sharpening and/or increasing contrast.

All lenses will show some fringing to one extent or the other if a fine tracery of leaves and branches are shot against a bright/white  sky.

Looks fine on my calibrated 27 inch monitor for the type of lighting and exposure.

Low warm bright winter sun has given a orange tinge to the pink flamingos, the lightness of the birds in conjunction with the bright light has caused a little underexposure of th the water which would increase saturation. I'ts a very nice warm image.

Well done RW, great use of dof.

Congrats and well deserved Clicker.

Chris strangley enough you have hit on a pet subject orf mine.

Humans do not see colours correctly,why, because we have a utomatic wb in our brain,our brain filters out colour casts. When there is a warm light from a sunset we do not see those very warm orange hues in a white shirt but a white shirt,thats the auto wb working just as ity does in the cameras we have built to mimic what we wrongly see.

And then you have to ask yourself do we all have the same auto WB in our heads?

had the e-mail for this  from WEX this morning before coming here and it went straight in the trash bin.

Like BP said for a hobbyist (like me) it's overkill, plus these days I don't like anything round my neck that feels like a house brick.

Thank you Colin for picking my image and to everyone for the wonderful comments

.Judy it was took at Lyn Clydogg Cambrian mountains Mid Wales

Wishing yo all at  TIPF a Merry Xmas.

Well deserved.

BP I could not tell you how many shots I take a year only the keepers, the rest get deleted there and then and I cull pretty hard.

Keepers

2013- 1005      2014-1570     2015-1090 so far

It's always a festive time for all the members of our house. 

I'm confused by the term "on the pitch"you are not very specific,as to what type of shots you are being asked to take does this mean you are doing a set up  team group shot if so then I will just cover that as the rest as been covered.

The time of day and amount of light available especially this time of year will dictate the best way forward.

If before 3pm and the light is good then the 24-105 will be fine but if light levels are low then the 50mm f1.8 and moving further back will be the way to go to keep ISO speeds down, in either way be sure to use a tripod. You could also use fill in flash depending on the coverage of your flashgun. Luckily with digital you can preview the results nd adjust accoedingly.

As to posing either mid field so the background will be out of focus or use the goal posts to fame them, possibly nine men inside the goal mouth and one each side leaniing on the outside of the posts.

Try different poses and rember unles in a line watch your aperture to get them all in focus,shoot atf different apertures to be sure.

One I did in a studio shoot for Teressa in about 2002,I used a semi infra red film for this one.

Beaerded Iris from 2006.

Oh boy Chrissy old photos, as someone who has been doing it seriously 25 years I don't even remember the dates of some of them (taken on film.

Lucjkily digital has the date embeded.

This was taken in 2004 at Bridgenorth train station on a Canon 300D which was the first consumer affordable DSLR at £999.99!

Thank you Ryewolf I do appriciate your help very much and I owe you one,various tests and then a pre op on the 25th makes it difficult for me togive it my fulll attention, again thank you.

Thank you all.

to be honest I I entered to make the numbers up and thought Phill's image would win it so was not expecting this and do not have a clue what to do except  to make the subject anything back lit.

I may be in and out of hospital in the coming week or so before my operation so if someone else could run it I would appriciate it.

Got it Phill sorry for not seeung that box..my eyesight or haing a senuor moment, thank for your help.

Been a few years since I owned a printer (been usin Photobox) my how they have improved,now  straight out of the box everyone a perfect match to what's on the screen. I guess having a perfectly calibrated monitor hrlps.

Excuse the window light on the edge of the prints lighting the edge.

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ot getting that when I click on my name Phill.

Taken 4thOct 2015.

Flower Light.