I love it when the postman brings things for me to play with.

Yesterday he delivered my recently purchased Pentax M-Macro 1:4 50mm lens.

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And a quick picture taken with it last night, (un-cropped)
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Its a five cent piece with a duck billed plattypus on it

Very happy, looking forward to some dry weather so I can go bush and give it a propper try.

Regards
PaulM

Hi All,

This chap was sat in the tree out side the in-laws house over christmas just begging to be snapped.

C+C please (especially on the colour balance of the tree against the off white of the bird, it looked a lot green in the flesh so I tweaked to the colours to try and recreated it) ta.

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All taken with the tammy 70-300 at or close to 300 and cropped in ps along with the colour tweaks

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PaulM
(edit)Forgot to add all hand held

Another good shot Kris

Its quite surreal, reminds me of a scene from the movie Dune.

Just goes to show what you can achieve without photoshop

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PaulM

I like that Kris,

Is there speckled colour tint on focal plane near the R/H side or is it my monitor?

Still a nice shot though,

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PaulM

Great shots JudithAnn.

I have been struggling to get in the Christmas spirit since I have been over here due to it being warm/hot over Christmas. But These pics have helped me get in to the yule tide spirit and remember what a cold one is like. So thanks

They also reminde me a little of infra red photos

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PaulM

Another vote for number one mate.

Its nice to see alternate views from the manor.

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PaulM

I quite like them both Kris,

I like the juxtaposition of the old style wood water tank (i'm guessing thats what it is) with the new(ish) style of the skyscraper, but the colours seem a little flat (could just be my laptop screen though)

and the second one as per everyones else's comments I love the composition and the converging lines, the colours in this image seem stronger and more vibrant.

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PaulM

Harbour wall meeting for me.

Great shot

I just love that grainy effect. I haven't been able to effectively recreated yet though, it always looks blatently fake when I try in PS.

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PaulM

When i'm trying to work out what sort of crop would look good, I use my browser window and drag the top, bottom and sides in and out until i see a good crop.

I would like to have seen the image with tight(ish) crops on both sides up to hefty's 'victorian robo cops' so that they frame the robin.

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PaulM

I use photoshop elements and the command is something like
File > Save for web and devices >

That will give you another screen in which you can re size the image, set the length to 800 pixels as per John and Oggys comments

Just make sure you give it a new file name so you dont overwrite the original

Regards
PaulM