Excellent result. The lapwing is a super picture.
David

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I would have come to this - been to three already - but I've arranged to meet up with some other PUF members at Beamish Museum the same day.
David

Exactly!
David

I'm not defending the officer who was clearly out of order and will no doubt face disciplinary action because of it. But I can't feel much sympathy for an amateur photographer insisting he knows 'rights' just so he can have his moment on Facebook.
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I used to be a newspaper reporter and have been at the scene of many accidents, crime scenes and various tragedies. Believe me these incidents are distressing, even to the emergency services who are trained to deal with them
With my photographer colleagues and other media, including radio and TV journalists I always tried to work in co-operation with the police. This included being aware of sensitive issues such as the avoidance of identifying dead or injured people before the authorities had notified families.
It also meant not hindering the emergency services, whether they were police, ambulance or fire service.
Professional journalists are trained how to behave at the scene of incidents - if they don't police co-operation is swiftly withdrawn from the offenders.
As for last night's helicopter crash you can be sure the journalists there were behaving themselves and its unlikely any pictures of dead aircrew appeared in the media, certainly not so they could be identified by family members on the TV.
You could not guarantee this with members of the public freely snapping away and then downloading images onto social media.
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What is interesting about it? As for what is distressing: Someone died.
David

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greynolds wrote We could just go there and do candid shots of Geordies in their natural habitat!
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You'll find the MetroCentre half full of border raiding Scots looking for a decent day's shopping Gareth.

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Why in heavens name would anyone witnessing a distressing incident such as this want to snap away and then download the images on Facebook or whatever social media?
Its totally insensitive behaviour, no wonder police get annoyed with rubber neckers at the scene of accidents.
The copper will no doubt be reprimanded by his superiors for the way he handled this but I can sympathise with his irritation.
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I too photograph steam trains, among many other subjects not, alas birds. Blown highlights concern me too, not just in the steam but in highly polished paintwork on the restored locomotives which are kept beautifully clean these days.
I used to routinely underexpose by 1/3 or 2/3 of a stop but gave that up because underexposed pictures can become more digitally noisy when processed.
Do you shoot in RAW? Its much easier to recover blown highlights if you do rather than from JPEG.
In the RAW processor I use the recovery slider to do this.
These days I don't often encounter many problems with blown highlights.
David

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Another great retrospective from 2013. You certainly have a good eye for landscape Tom. Thanks for sharing.
David.

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