You must be up late Clarky, it's 14:39 here in the UK

Took me 20 minutes, but I just noticed there were birds in the picture as well,

Don and Chris are right, the weekly competition should be a fun exercise between like-minded people , and judging it should be open to any winner, novice or expert. Everyone has an opinion, and should be entitled to express it. If you are judging and a particular picture takes your eye, just declare it the winner, and as you are the judge, your decision is final, just give us a wee bit of feed-back, please.

As for your pictures, Dirk - well you'll be judging very soon.

to - 'justgetoutandride'

I know, I just got a bit excited, what I was trying to say, was that I normally use photoshop for cropping, lifting levels, contrast etc., not much more. I don't "experiment". This simple tip showed me another route, one I might sometimes wander, but it may have opened a path to many other routes.

Don, I have read a lot of your posts and seen a lot of you pictures, all I can say is you must have at least 36 hours in your day in Winterpeg, I don't know how you fit it all in !!!
The pictures are fantastic, and your imagination shows no bounds. Each post you make is encouraging the 'rest of us'.

Can I come for a week's tutorial ?

I could probably acquire a taste for Moose roast ? ( Maybe not ), but I couldn't keep up with your work load !!!!

You have a very individual style, keep it up and keep giving me things to copy sorry shouldn't have said that !

Digital photography has opened up so many possibilities it is very hard to keep pace these days. Especially for some of us 1/2 Centenarians. I think I manage to keep up to date, I am computer literate, I use a Mac, and a PC, so won't go down the obvious route. I work in a medical physics environment, so new technology doesn't frighten me.

I used to develop my own B&W photos in the 70's and 80's, never got round to colour printing.

Now I take pictures without film.

But this is where the problem starts.

It seems the possibilities of what you do with that captured image are endless, where do you stop, you can now tweak and tweak until you go mad.

I recently took a few pictures of my nephew and his friend with the K10 and Sigma 105, I liked the image that came straight out of the camera, just cropped it a bit and you can see it below,






I was then trawling through some web sites and came across a tip to make your pictures look a bit more "Rock & Roll" (?). Anyway, tried it and loved the new image. I'm now tempted to go back through my back catalogue and tweak them all. But then again I may come across a NEW tip and have to start all over again !!!
Here's the tweaked image, it may not be to everyone's taste, but I do like it.






I would be interested to get your opinions ?


The tip was from this web site, which is well worth a look and is very Pentax orientated,

"Saw this little trick today - this is a three-step post-process. 

(1) Copy background layer, make it type 'Screen'. 

(2) Copy Layer 1, make it type 'Color Burn'. 

(3) De-saturate Layer 2."


http://www.pbase.com/carpents/equipment


What do I do now, take more pictures or just tweak the ones I have ?

Don't all shout at once, of-course the answer is take more pictures !!!!!

Nice one Dan, I did like your pic.

Your Sunday 2nd Sept idea, sound's good. I'd be happy with that.

I don't think we need to make the rules to this competition too strict, have fun and take more pictures. Be happy

( But if you win again, I'm buying a baseball bat I know where you stay !!! )

Congrats Dan !!!


p.s. all deals are now off !!!!!

Tara - Age = 4 hours

It won't be this wrinkley for another 60 years.

Looks a bit like my 'ex', but not quite as mean

I too, like the current system, everybody needs to get some feedback from their peers. The comments from all the
competitions have been offering constructive criticism and helpful suggestions rather than negative responses.

For my own judging, I downloaded each picture and viewed them in a slideshow, seemed the best way for me.

Sorry Dan, the agreement slipped my mind, but I might be suing Dirk over copyright issues, ,
his version of the newspaper shot was better than mine.