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The second of the monarch butterflies hatched. I managed to get a couple of pictures before the wings finished drying off and if flew away to become some lucky bird's dinner.


Monarch by supermonkee, on Flickr

After I was done taking the pictures, my 4-year-old daughter grabbed my camera and became a tiny paparazzo. I like it because I think it makes me look mysterious, and I think she has a future in photography.


Mysterious Me by supermonkee, on Flickr

 

Greg, love the last one.

Monkey, that looks awfully grainy for ISO 800. Did you push it in post?

 

The black and white shot of me? Yeah, it's been overly processed to enhance the feel of a sneaky mysterious photo. It was mostly just for fun since my daughter took the picture.

 

Went up Saltram yesterday, got a few pictures of the wildlife.


Blackbird by measter2, on Flickr


Squirrel by measter2, on Flickr


Robin by measter2, on Flickr


Guinea Fowl by measter2, on Flickr

 

Grinning friend by George.Yoda, on Flickr

At a LAN this weekend, attempting to take photos of people

 

Got to shoot a live show again. I love it. I'll trickle them in a few at a time.


ben.rector-17 by shutterdoggy, on Flickr

 

Live shows are awesome to shoot Here's one of mine from a while back.


SVD XII by zhisheng_chow, on Flickr

 

Like the grinning friend George, focus is perfect

 

reshoot of an old shot from ages ago but with slightly better lighting this time

Smoke in glass second try 1 by whisperwolf, on Flickr

Smoke in glass second try 2 by whisperwolf, on Flickr

 

Love the shots, how do you create the smoke to do this?

 

If you follow the Flickr link it states the glass was glued to a base inverted and incense stick placed in a bottle

 

incense sticks, the photos are upside down the smoke originally goes up into the glass which is glued to a base and turned upside down for the shot.

 

That is so clever, need to try it sometime

 

Here are a few shots i took in Leeds i have been meaning to put on for a while.

Any critique would be gratefully received as i have never really photographed any architecture before.

Thanks.


ROB_6073.jpg by Rob Umpleby, on Flickr


ROB_6060.jpg by Rob Umpleby, on Flickr


ROB_6055.jpg by Rob Umpleby, on Flickr


ROB_6052.jpg by Rob Umpleby, on Flickr

 

Band: Needtobreathe


needtobreathe-21 by shutterdoggy, on Flickr

 

I'm no expert, but with the first photo I'd suggest cropping in a little on the right hand side to take the blue signs (and the blue and pink sign below) out of the shot as they are a little distracting. Secondly I'd also be tempted to clone out the blue and pink logo on the window, as again, it's a little bright and takes the attention from the architecture.

The second shot I'd crop a little on the left to centralize the building. I'd also crop the bottom a little as the plain stonework there doesn't really add much.

 

Thanks for your help, i will have a play around later!

 

@Material, those are some lovely wedding shots!

@Dog Knees, really nice details. Like the treatment on both. Especially like the Bee

@GregTheRotter, the second one I like as a photographs.

@Measter, quite few of the bird shots are lovely. Really like the Orange chested one.

@Eddie Dane, nice one... but in your Flickr you have SOME AMAZING SHOTS of the stage & lights from far & above. Those just blew my mind!

@whisperwolf the red smoke on the white background looks brilliant.

Was just going through tones of never opened photos.
Found this snapshot...
alternate name is the Beautiful Side of Ryan Air

On these summits rest the eternal snows by Neo - nimajus, on Flickr

It's not as pretty when you land in Eastern Europe though...

Gaz-24 Volga by Neo - nimajus, on Flickr

So to end with something more beautiful;
here's a shot of two GT3's racing wheel to wheel. Was just playing with CameraBag app

Porsche Wheel to Wheel Battle by Neo - nimajus, on Flickr