Love the tree reflections in the first and the indications of the water actually moving.

I find the background in the second slightly irritating , but then I know I wouldn't do any better

I would honestly prefer that in colour . Our wonderful hairy coos look far better in their natural colours then converted into B&W .

Sorry - but that's my opinion

OK - this for submission - not perfect but it will 'do'

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Yes I found it didn't work either - oh well - marks for effort I think I've certainly learnt a lot from this week's task

Thanks Stefan

I actually think that 4 & 5 would have been better on black - the colours would have shown up better . I had thought of cropping #4 to just have the spiraly thing down the centre

# 2 will be cropped and put in the flash drive

Now to get on with the Photoshopping excercise - and that will be a slow process I fear .

Mike - I've been looking found the house for things for the macro attempt - and really nothing sort of 'spoke ' to me I actually had a wee pile of things at the side - and the only thing that really worked was the balloon whisk

OK guys - been trying some more - actually took 10 shots of various things. Some were rejected out of hand . I have also realised that I need a black matt backcloth for this sort of thing .

Will any of these classify as Macros for this excercise - nothing has yet been cropped - these are straight from the camera - oh and I did use inbuilt flash for these.

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Tsk tsk Stefan .

As a result I'm sure that several brains have gone into overdrive.

This is very true - but I know he wanted something more than I was getting - I understood that the requirement was a Macro and what I was getting [ till Mike-P steered me on the track ] was just a picture of the end of a whisk .

Now there's a bit more to think about - there are some nice curves there but you also have to think "what is it ? "

Well - that's a heck of a lot clearer than I knew /understood/had had explained before

We were just told " Macro - normally 1:1 , but then you knew that " and many mouths were hanging open after that.

Parts of this course are excellent , parts are not so great - like everything it's the curate's egg

OK - yes and it's appropriate there


now I'll make you all ROTFLYAO [ plural of ROTFLMAO ]. Next year I am expecting my younger daughter to get married . I asked about a photographer and was told they really had no option - it would be his daughter who was doing photography at College . I've been told that I am expected to be there with my K-x I'm going to have to improve a heck of a lot before then

Stefan

Nope - should be " It's almost a given ............"