5 minutes from home

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• tanburi (20276)
• [2008-09-11 12:40]

Hi Bev,
What a beautiful scene. Saturated colors and nice details
TFS
Selahattin E

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• tyro (3096)
• [2008-09-11 15:53]
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Hello, Bev.

What interesting places you have close to home! A fine interesting note to accompany your picture and I like your workshop photo too - anything mechanical and old interests me, especially when it is still functioning and doing a job of work.

Your main picture is very interesting too but I just wonder if it could have been just a tad sharper. You have obviously used your 60mm macro lens for this one - an incredibly sharp lens which works well as a short telephoto and portrait lens too. But I'm not sure why you wound the ISO up to 1600 and used such a small aperture? I think you could have used the ISO 100 setting and 1/100th sec exposure with an aperture of about F/4 or f/5.6 by my calculations, or 1/200th sec at f/2.8 or f/4. I find that at ISO 800 or 1600 I get quite a lot of "grain" or "noise" and I like to keep the ISO as low as possible unless the light is really bad.

Anyway, I just say this as food for thought. As you know, I ain't no expert, so please don't take any offence. It's just an impression that I have that you could have got away with a wider aperture and kept the ISO a bit lower for better image quality.

I must get poaching in Dumfriesshire again soon!

That lens really is a cracker isn't it?

Kind Regards,

John.

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• y2kosan (1506)
• [2008-09-11 15:55]

good composition. your colors are great and that includes the rust and dirt. good lighting. well done. TFS
y2koSan

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• WhiteKnight (2617)
• [2008-09-11 20:38]
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Hi Bev - nicely composed shot of the tractor. Lots of interest.
I find the sky quite over-exposed. If you do a lot of this kind of photography then it's worth well investing in a filter kit - they don't cost too much these days - and using a Neutral Grad, it'll bring the sky to a manageable level. After the polarizing filter it's the most useful filter by far.
Cheers
DAvid

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• Royaldevon (9239)
• [2008-09-12 0:43]
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Hello Bev,

A great and very unusual subject for the theme.
Very interesting notes.

I have to agree with John about the sharpness
I'm not technically skilled enough to be positive about the ISO settings, though I know that large ones do make the shots grainy.

I think your w/s is spot on and do prefer it personally. So, please don't take offence but my points are for your original, w/s contribution.

Kind regards,
Bev :-)

pl :-)

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• luckybry (1547)
• [2008-09-12 0:46]

like this one BEV very well composed shot nice and pov and good subject tfs

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• Silke (24123)
• [2008-09-12 5:07]

Great colours in this capture
Fascinating to see what people have found 5 minutes from home :)
TFs
silke

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• Beger (15449)
• [2008-09-12 6:24]

Hi Bev,
Interest subject and note!
The photo is well composed with this eye-catching tractor!
I agree with others members about the exposure but, however it is a nice view just from a 5 minutes of your home! Bravo! Annie

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• CameronDuncan (0)
• [2008-09-12 7:07]

hi bev,

good pov here, good idea and good colours and details. a touch bright, but thats ok, might look good in b/w or sepia?

regards c.d.

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• WTS (1217)
• [2008-09-12 10:55]
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Hi Bev , I like you detail and color obtained in this photo, more so after reading John's comments and then your response.

Sometimes mistakes do work out well even though we can't explain why, and this is one of them.

wayne

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• Refugee (25502)
• [2008-09-12 13:56]

A fine addition to the theme Bev. I get ost in ISO and apertures, so glad I only have a point and shoot. Good colour, a wee bit soft maybe but a colourful scene,
David

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• Hendrika (18754)
• [2008-09-13 2:18]
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Hi Bev,

Great to see what surrounds the place where you are living. For scenes like this I have to travel a lot longer.
I think I would have posted the WS with this one in WS, but then again you would not be able to take in the whole scene....

Lovely work, thanks for driving up there - we all seem to have done a lot of walking and driving for this theme.

TFS
Els

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• Helkoryo (22076)
• [2008-09-13 15:46]

Hello Bev

A lovely old country feel to this shot, very good colour and texture and you chose a nice angle. I think I might have been temoted to clone out some of the overhead cables or maybe just the one in the top left corner.


TFS and for joining in the theme

kind regards Helen

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• ChuFer (728)
• [2008-10-01 11:57]

Muy buenas imagenes en esta galerya...ésta es una de ellas,luz y color...