15 Apr 2011, 7:57 am
A picture from Bakewell in the Derbyshire Dales of the peak district and a sample of the big trout you find in the river. The Rainbow were easy to find, the brown weren't coming out to play the day I was there.
15 Apr 2011, 7:58 am
Laz wrote:
A picture from Bakewell in the Derbyshire Dales of the peak district and a sample of the big trout you find in the river. The Rainbow were easy to find, the brown weren't coming out to play the day I was there.
can i move there. it is picturesque.
18 Apr 2011, 1:45 pm
Three photos I took today:
Blackpool Road, Preston by Lancastrian, on Flickr
Manor House Crescent, Preston by Lancastrian, on Flickr
St Gregory's RC Church, Blackpool Road, Preston by Lancastrian, on Flickr
19 Apr 2011, 11:12 am
I spent some time in an old Medieval town called Hitchin today. Enjoy the pics I took of the town, market and its church.
19 Apr 2011, 11:24 am
Ooh, Hitchin - that's not too far from me.
Nice place, and some nice pictures. 
19 Apr 2011, 11:37 am
Aye well I did grow up in Letchworth you know we could be neighbours cornflake 
19 Apr 2011, 11:38 am
19 Apr 2011, 11:40 am
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The photos are a bit dark and could do with a boost in exposure
You do realise I'm taking these pics with a 5 megabit pixel blackberry camera don't you? It ain't professional by any stretch of the imagination. The only decent camera I had my ex got to keep cause she paid for most of it.
Buying new camera is on my to do list after getting my car serviced
19 Apr 2011, 11:41 am
19 Apr 2011, 11:44 am
I'm suffering from can't be arsed syndrome 
19 Apr 2011, 3:44 pm
19 Apr 2011, 4:52 pm
hyperlexian wrote:
Tequila, are you sure it isn't just your monitor? honestly, the pictures look quite bright on my screen...
I thought the same thing - they look fine here, except the second (looking down a street, bollards in foreground) and the eleventh (balustrade in front of market awnings) - but these would be tricky to expose correctly even for a pro SLR because of the contrast range: practically black to full-on white.
Besides, boosting the exposure would blow out the highlights. If anything, a little curve compensation would lift just the shadows but really - for quickie mobile phone snaps I'd likely suffer from CBAS too.
For pictures from a mobile, they certainly have a better exposure balance than I would have expected. A damn sight better than my mobile, that's for sure.
19 Apr 2011, 4:53 pm
Laz wrote:
Aye well I did grow up in Letchworth you know we could be neighbours cornflake
Waaah! Waaah!
19 Apr 2011, 4:58 pm
Cornflake wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
Tequila, are you sure it isn't just your monitor? honestly, the pictures look quite bright on my screen...
I thought the same thing - they look fine here, except the second (looking down a street, bollards in foreground) and the eleventh (balustrade in front of market awnings) - but these would be tricky to expose correctly even for a pro SLR because of the contrast range: practically black to full-on white.Besides, boosting the exposure would blow out the highlights. If anything, a little curve compensation would lift just the shadows but really - for quickie mobile phone snaps I'd likely suffer from CBAS too.
For pictures from a mobile, they certainly have a better exposure balance than I would have expected. A damn sight better than my mobile, that's for sure.
i see what you mean - the actual shadows are... shadowy. i guess i didn't peer into the shadows to notice, because it just looked logically darker in those areas.
i tend to overdo it with reducing contrast, myself.
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19 Apr 2011, 5:29 pm
hyperlexian wrote:
i see what you mean - the actual shadows are... shadowy. i guess i didn't peer into the shadows to notice, becausei t jut looked logically darker in those areas.
Yep, that's it. They're too shadowy.Auto exposure tends to work from the brightest areas down towards the darkest, so if there's a very bright area with not much intervening tonality between that and the darkest areas then the exposure is skewed too far towards balancing the highlights - at the expense of shadow detail.
Eyeballs and the machinery driving them sorts all this stuff out automatically but it's practically impossible to duplicate that efficiency in camera firmware.
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i tend to overdo it with reducing contrast, myself.
When post-processing I always set up the levels first, so the brightest and the darkest levels are moved to sit at the extremes of the brightness range available. Ultimately it depends on the picture content, but generally that sorts things out well enough although sometimes the shadow detail still needs a small lightening tweak.
Heh. Taking the picture is the easy part. Making it a picture comes later.
20 Apr 2011, 5:05 pm
Today I was in Nantwich, which is a small market town in the east of Cheshire. Here is some of the photos I took. I might put up more here if I feel like it.
