The 11th UK South-East "100,000 spams and counting" Thread (All Welcome)

TCIK wrote in post #11742556
had a pretty good turn out for the Big Garden Bird Watch today, lots of familair faces, a few not so... couple of sets of chaffinches checking out the niger seed...

then everyone scarpered... this guy arrived, my first bird of prey in the garden...

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_MG_6118 by felt_tip_felon®, on Flickr

I nearly wet myself with excitement!

Niiice! He/She (I can never tell the difference in Sparrow Hawks!?!) might well become a regular now he's found your bird table. Easy pickings!

Jonathan wrote in post #11742892
How about this?

Plus one, being particularly stupid how do you add the black borders at the top and bottom

adrian5127 wrote in post #11743000
Plus one, being particularly stupid how do you add the black borders at the top and bottom

i use this http://www.irfanview.c​om/ but i need a better way..
can you do it in LR?

adrian5127 wrote in post #11743000
Plus one, being particularly stupid how do you add the black borders at the top and bottom

The way I do it ... which might be a long winded / beginner's way ... but

In PS I look at Canvas size, and increase the height of the image ... you can play around and see how much extra you need ... but there's an option at the bottom to select whether you want black / white / background for the extended size so I just choose black ...

Am probably doing a silly way but works for me

Evening one and all - greetings from a very windy and bitterly cold Guernsey

Tryping on my Blackberry so viewing the recent postings not easy but top praise to Richard and Clare, not forgetting Lee's stunning garden visitor

Not much chance to tog until this afternoon might try a location I found for an image in mind but need low tide tomorrow before our flight back.

But did meet up with Paul Hillion who has a very nice port of bird images www.islandbirds.co.uk also went to museum/art gallery where they have the Wildlife tog of the Year on dispkay - all good but some especial stunningly inspiring images seen.

Lastly (thumbs & fingers sore :lol for cricket fans do have a look the back page of the Sunday Telegraph sports section great image of Jonathan Trott (the eyes have it!!!)

Ttfn.

Adrian there is bound to be downloadable boarders for Photoshop somewhere.

Might be pushing your boredom limits here ... but quick question ... have I added too much noise to this ... was going for an old-style look ...

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A tad less Clare but nearly spot on for me.

Cannot speak about noise for age but what a nice change as a wedding car - an old FX3 black cab, spent many a journey in the back of my dads one as child going to relatives, ah the nostgia

Ronin Silv wrote in post #11743104
A tad less Clare but nearly spot on for me.

Thanks - will cut it back a bit ... just wanting to try some different stuff to give to the couple to stretch their imaginations!

Just looking on Flickr and the shot of the Quarterhouse I posted friday had 19 views yesterday, while that may not seem a lot to some people on here for me that's is a lot for a photo let alone in just one day. Does this mean I'm getting something right?

cforster wrote in post #11743042
The way I do it ... which might be a long winded / beginner's way ... but

In PS I look at Canvas size, and increase the height of the image ... you can play around and see how much extra you need ... but there's an option at the bottom to select whether you want black / white / background for the extended size so I just choose black ...

Am probably doing a silly way but works for me

courier wrote in post #11743033
i use this http://www.irfanview.c​om/ but i need a better way..
can you do it in LR?

Ronin Silv wrote in post #11743066
Adrian there is bound to be downloadable boarders for Photoshop somewhere.

Thanks, another way I have found is using mogrify in LR but this puts the borders inside the picture so you lose some of the image so depending on the picture using PH is the other option.

Matt thanks will have a look at that

Ronin Silv wrote in post #11743104
A tad less Clare but nearly spot on for me.

Agree with Dom just reign it in a little bit, I take it we have finished the horse jokes

Can i get someone with a calibrated monitor to take a look at this shot, as i've just re-calibrated and it looks different to the usual!?!?! Better check before processing any more lol!

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO | PHOTOBUCKET ERROR IMAGE

The second shot looks better to me on the laptop.. The bright green area seems less obvious!

Great shot tho!

Cheers Matt. Don't know what happened when i first calibrated it, everything just looked screwy!?!

How's you mate? I shot this over near Marlow, LOADS of Kites over there now! I'll have to take you over there sometime.