pixrobin Canley All posts by this member Thread starter | 76 of 85 Thu 18th Sep 2014 9:59pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 Whichever camera I use from those acquired over the last 10 years, and no matter how careful I am at setting up, all images need a little tweeking in an image editor. The industry standard is PhotoShop but it is expensive and really aimed at Art Editors/Picture Editors preparing images ready for magazine printing. It also has a steep learning curve. So here's a link to a review of 10 free ones.
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Mike H London Ontario, Canada All posts by this member | 77 of 85 Thu 18th Sep 2014 10:53pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:400 Those shops should have been left at the Hill Street end. ![]() |
pixrobin Canley All posts by this member Thread starter | 78 of 85 Wed 24th Sep 2014 12:05am Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 I have now tried one of the image editors mentioned in the link above. I chose to try PhotoBuilder because the reviewer suggested it was a no-nonsense type of editor. I usually want to merely tweak the image not reconstruct it. It is frugal on the space it takes up on the hard drive - just 8MB. It'll fit on most laptops. I'll eventually install on the carer's and her girls computers. |
pixrobin Canley All posts by this member Thread starter | 79 of 85 Sat 4th Oct 2014 4:19pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 My younger daughter has got herself a part-time job: a part-time activity organiser in an old people's home in Hastings. How does photography come into that? Well, some of the residents rarely get out. I've suggested that Ann goes out and take pictures of streets and details in the environment to bring it in to the residents on her laptop fed into a large-screen TV. I suggested she also take them on a window-shopping tour using the same method. Digital photography has made all these things possible. It is no longer a case of telling a friend "OOO! I saw this lovely pair of shoes in the Dolcis' window." Take the picture and show her!
That is the heart of photography to me - showing others what you have seen. It doesn't need a fantastic camera. In fact, a camera that you carry around with you is much more useful than one that can take technically perfect pictures but is so heavy that it is only taken out when you have a 'photographic jaunt'. It is the image that counts - not the camera it was taken on.
But that also takes me on to another idea and question. How much do you really 'see'? If you look and don't 'see' then there are rarely photographic opportunities. I doubt that any two people 'see' in the same way. A photographer friend, whom I've known for almost 40 years, and I can stand side by side with the same model camera and we come up with different pictures. Every time! When we photograph something all our past experiences come into play – and that is what makes the difference. Both our photographic and personal backgrounds are entirely different. One thing we do have in common is that we never treat the thing we are photographing as an object. We are trying to capture our interpretation of what is in front of the lens. Photographing with my friend is fun because it's a bit of a competition – we're only too happy to show the other what they've missed. Then we try to take the same picture that the other did – and we have never achieved matching pictures yet. We couldn't exchange our ideas so simply in the days of film cameras, so we are more at home with digital.
Don't think that either of us achieve immediate success with one squeeze of the shutter. If the image isn't quite what we had in mind then we make minor adjustments and try again. Sometimes it is again and again! There have been times when I have made 20 or 30 exposures before I capture the image I have in my mind.
I almost know what readers are going to say to my suggestion of 'making minor adjustments'. It's along the lines of me having the knowledge to be able to make those minor adjustments. It comes with experience. My answer of course is that you will never gain that experience if you don't take lots of pictures. The adjustment may a matter of taking a step back and zooming in to achieve the same size image. That way you change the perspective within the picture.
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Otec110815ML Coventry All posts by this member | 80 of 85 Mon 25th May 2015 1:00pm Member: Joined May 2015 Total posts:1 I have photographs of a family member which were taken at Cine Portraits Co., Coventry. Unfortunately, I have not been able to determine where/when these were taken or where the company was located in Coventry. Do any of your members have information regarding this company. Question |
Dougie | 81 of 85 Mon 25th May 2015 2:30pm |
Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 82 of 85 Mon 25th May 2015 5:43pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3785 Pixrobin, it would work and the people would love it.
dougie, I enjoyed Walk round Coventry, some weeks ago, I have just watched Mill fields and the Fox, 'twice' and liked even more. Thank you, Kaga.
I love all the photo's on this forum and thank you all, the older you get, the more you appreciate what you can't get out to see. |
pixrobin Canley All posts by this member Thread starter | 83 of 85 Thu 12th Nov 2015 6:30am Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:1103 |
Dreamtime | 84 of 85 Thu 12th Nov 2015 12:40pm |
mcsporran Coventry & Cebu All posts by this member | 85 of 85 Thu 12th Nov 2015 2:20pm Member: Joined Oct 2013 Total posts:473 A late response to this one:
On 25th May 2015 1:00pm, Otec110815ML said:
I have photographs of a family member which were taken at Cine Portraits Co., Coventry. Unfortunately, I have not been able to determine where/when these were taken or where the company was located in Coventry. Do any of your members have information regarding this company.
Unfortunately there is no such name registered at Companies House either amongst the current or dissolved companies.
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