The Vulcan

I think you're far better off using a blower brush, canned air and spotting rather than using digital ICE.

In my opinion, it removes/tarnishes too many pixels.

Seems I'm in the minority with my liking of monochrome!

Well summarised jukapot. I too believe Photoshop is OTT for those of us that merely require to edit our shots. In fact, apart from re-sizing and sorting a few mis-aligned perspectives I NEVER USE IT. Lightroom does everything I need and is a lot less intimidating than Photoshop. And as for as workflow is concerned Lightroom stands superior to everything I've seen to date.

A nice set. Too many to evaluate. Maybe you should select your favourite and re-post.

I'd suggest one were the clouds cover the mountains

Much better.

I must say I'm very impressed at the control over the lighting in this shot. Every area from the highlights to the shadows reveals detail. Not an easy task. The exposure is absolutely spot on. Even the bleached out sky blends in with the overall colouring. Most impressive.

Aaargh, I thought I liked it!

Good photo. Your wife did exceptionally well to get this so tight and keep the interest in the frame. I presume you travelled alongside for a while , hence the blurring of the landscape.

Well done

Update

2 weeks later and 200 slides/negs scanned. Awesome scanner, Silverfast bundled software is brilliant. Highly recommend this machine.

Noticed there's a distinct lack of monochrome submissions!

Hopefully we'll start to see a few coming in.

EOS 5D - 28-80 L at 42mm setting- 100 ASA - 1/800th at f5.6. Shot in monochrome, red filter dialed in and polariser added.

Korat Centre Oct 2007

I like them just as they are - wonderful colours.

Great composition and subject matter. Lots of activity. Lovely framing. Good colours too. Pity about the "Isuzu" sign though. My eyes kept wandering to it, and detracting from the image. Maybe better if it was cloned out?

Hi Arnie

The first you you do is to size your photographs to a reasonable level i.e. 100-250k.

Save the image to (say) your desktop.

When posting a "new topic" you'll see just outside and at the bottom of the text box "browse" - click this, locate your image off the desktop, and then click "upload" Then just click "add reply" and you're there.

Hope this helps

Thanks everybody - Bang Pa-in Royal Palace it is.

Much appreciated

Just come across some slides I took at this place about 10 years ago but I have no idea where it is or what it is called.

Can anybody help please.

I vaguely remember a very long name beginning with the letter V, and a few hours out of Bangkok

As Bert Hardy (a great British photographer) once said "If it ain't good enough, you ain't near enough"

Fill the frame - That's what makes a good photo (imho)

I don't have a cable release, sorry remote for my camera........

You don't really need one on bulb. You're opening the shutter ONCE, for maybe 10/30 secs or even more. The multiple exposures are then created merely by covering the lens. Over this period of time, any "camera shake" movement should be hidden.

I've just remembered another technique we used to use "bulb" for.

Imagine (say) you wanted to create your twin and photograph yourselves together.

Photoshop can do this so easily these days but we used to sit the person down and photograph him/her and then move them to the one side and re-photograph them on the same frame. hey presto, twins. The benefit of this of course was it looked real as although the image was the one person, the facial expression, body shape etc, after the re-alignment, were different thus giving it an air of authenticity.

It's fun, try it. But don't forget to compensate for the double exposure.

Lightning strikes is the most popular use I believe (but not the season for that). Can be very interesting trained on a high building during storms.

But be careful your expensive metallic camera perched on its metallic tripod doesn't act as a conductor!

I would be interested to hear your views on the shot attached.

I DELIBERATELY sought to avoid sharpness. This animal was ripping backwards and forwards along the rope and it occurred to me than any attempt at freezing his (?) movement would destroy this energy. I ditched the monopod and elected to handhold at 1/30th knowing full well that I'd get a "blurring" image. It's easy to pan and flash and freeze the main subject against a blurred background, but this technique never really projects "movement" in my eyes.

Some days I love it, some days I hate it!

What do you think?

Canon 5D - 80-200 L - 1/30th @ f5.6

Fireworks are a good example of "Bulb" use.

On the attached shot I used bulb, covering the lens in-between bursts. I used the lens cap but anything black and light proof will do.

You need to be aware of over exposure.

I calculate the true light reading first. I then decide how many "exposures" I'm going to allow (i.e. removal of the lens cover). Assuming its (say) 4 exposures I'll re-adjust the aperture setting to allow for this. i.e true reading (say) 20s @F16 = 20's at F4. You cannot adjust the time for obvious reasons.

It's a bit hit and miss and has no scientific justification but it works every time for me.

Bulb is also a technique used in strob flash shots were the moving subject is "flashed" and captured throughout a movement on 1 frame.

Colourful...would look nice on a kids bedroom wall.

Funny you should say that.

I printed 3 16x20 prints of this shot. I pasted 2 of them (laterally reversed from each other) , onto a piece of stiff card. I then cut the card into 128 pieces to simulate a jig-saw puzzle. I then challenged my kids to assemble it. The problem for them of course was that BOTH sides of "the jig-saw" contained the image BUT would only fit one way!

The 3rd print went on the wall for reference.

Kept them busy for months believe me!

Thank you both for your kind comments.

Astral: The shot was taken at an outside stall at Stratford Upon Avon "Mop" fair. The available light was merely the light bulbs they strung along the stall. I wanted to keep this warmth about it, hence no attempt at colour correction.

Nordys. It was Velvia ok. Just new on the market in those days.

The Leica was an SL35 (SLR) camera. Other camera's owned were:

Pentax 6x7, Mamiya RZ11, Bronica GSI (I hated it), Rollei 3.5 TLR, Rollei 2.8 TLR, Rollei 6006, Canon A1, Canon T90, MPP 5x4 and a Wista 5x4. Not all at the same time of course.

Of them all, the 6006 and RZ were my favorites.

25 year career! More like 45 years. I started out in 1962!

Great shot, wonderful tight composition. Great sense of motion. No empty corners, lots happening all over. The positioning of the jutting rock is perfect for keeping you "in the frame". Maybe the highlights are a "tadge" over-exposed but apart from that it's good.

It seems from an earlier thread that FotoFile have opened a new site at MBK dedicated to Canon. I'll be going over there within the next few days so I'll post my findings

I see a face just in the top part of the shadow that is in the grass in the middle of the lower photo. there is an odd blue thing that has a a white pixel at the top. That would be the left eye of the face. It seems to have horns..........!

I'd definitely move now!