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« Reply #435 on Jul 22, 2010, 7:07am »

Grant, you're making me Drool

I'll dig out some of mine when i get home

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« Reply #436 on Jul 22, 2010, 7:34am »

Thank you everyone for your kind comments!

Yes Grant, I prefer monochrome and sepia. I love the way it makes each picture seem like an intimate moment. Moreso than traditional color. Maybe in the future [and if she'll let me!

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« Reply #437 on Jul 22, 2010, 3:32pm »

Jul 21, 2010, 9:30pm, jamesrlucas wrote:

And my battery grip, batteries, and filters came today at last b:D

Finally! Haha must be a relief!

Grant, thanks for the advice, I'll keep looking, and I'll post if and when I get a DSLR

Melissa, those are really nice photos! I'd nearly forgotten about sepia and black and white :-/

They're a nice change. Like.. back to basics. Haha

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« Reply #438 on Jul 22, 2010, 11:47pm »

Meesa!!! >.<

I love your pictures, but did you really have to put up that photo?

I know you really want to post the rest of the photos so go ahead. haha

Have fun!

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« Reply #439 on Jul 24, 2010, 11:07pm »

Well, you really couldn't expect me to go off for a fortnight's holiday without boring you with my holiday photos afterwards could you. OK, we'll start with the wildlife ones first.

We spent two weeks in the motorhome in Northumberland. The first week was spent near Newcastle. Now if you think Newcastle is all coal mines and shipyards, you have another think coming. If you think of the Tyne as a river full of immense quantities of sewage and industrial waste (it used to get a bit whiffy in summer, I'm told),think again. All that has been cleaned up, and it is now a very pleasant city.

One of the beneficiaries of this is the wildlife, and we were told that there is nowhere else so far inland that kittiwakes nest. And they do, under the Tyne Bridge and on the Baltic Flour Mill in Gateshead (across the river from Newcastle).

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Yes, that's the one. If you look to the top right, you can see the viewing platform on this building which is where the following two photos were taken. I was shooting through a sheet of plastic, which won't have helped the quality, however:

A couple of the kittiwakes

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« Reply #440 on Jul 24, 2010, 11:11pm »

Oh, and while I'm at it, another gull photo I like

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« Reply #441 on Jul 25, 2010, 12:50pm »

Some Newcastle bridges. First the famous Tyne Bridge, prototype for the even more famous (and slightly larger) Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Then there is the Gateshead Milennium Bridge. This time a unique design pedestrian bridge where the walkway swings upwards to let shipping through. It has been likened to the blinking of an eye.

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« Reply #442 on Jul 25, 2010, 4:21pm »

Jul 25, 2010, 12:50pm, martindn wrote:

Some Newcastle bridges. First the famous Tyne Bridge, prototype for the even more famous (and slightly larger) Sydney Harbour Bridge....

For what it's worth, New York City's own "Hellgate Bridge" looks a lot more like the Sydney bridge than the Tyne one, and it was built decades before either one in 1916.

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« Reply #443 on Jul 25, 2010, 5:06pm »

Jul 25, 2010, 4:21pm, stevemacdonald wrote:

Jul 25, 2010, 12:50pm, martindn wrote:

Some Newcastle bridges. First the famous Tyne Bridge, prototype for the even more famous (and slightly larger) Sydney Harbour Bridge....

For what it's worth, New York City's own "Hellgate Bridge" looks a lot more like the Sydney bridge than the Tyne one, and it was built decades before either one in 1916.

I'm pretty sure that both designs (Tyne and Sydney) were based on Hell Gate bridge.

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« Reply #444 on Jul 25, 2010, 9:52pm »

Hi Guys,

Well, I don't know about that, but both the Tyne Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge were built by Dorman and Long, and there is a placard on the Sydney bridge (I've seen it myself) that says so, and ISTR it mentioned the Tyne Bridge. Does anyone have a photo of the Hell Gate Bridge?

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« Reply #445 on Jul 25, 2010, 10:16pm »

Jul 25, 2010, 9:52pm, martindn wrote:

.... Does anyone have a photo of the Hell Gate Bridge?

Hi Martin,

Look HERE.........

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« Reply #446 on Jul 26, 2010, 10:23pm »

Thanks Graham,

Yes, it is a very similar design I have to say.

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« Reply #447 on Jul 27, 2010, 7:33am »

The Millennium Bridge at Gateshead is featured on the UK £1 coin dated 2007.

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« Reply #448 on Jul 28, 2010, 9:27pm »

Well, we'll try again shall we. I might atempt to be more arty this time.

The second week of our hols was spent at Berwick on Tweed. Very different to Newcastle for sure. And we visted some beautiful places.

This is the view from our campsite.

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This is just a picture I rather like

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And then there are the seascapes

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« Reply #449 on Jul 28, 2010, 9:37pm »

The problem with landscape photography is always the contrast. The sky is often much brighter than the land, so any form of pattern metering in a camera will overexpose the sky and underexpose the land. I see this all the time in my digital photos, and often try to compensate afterwards using image manipulation software, but I think you always lose some detail.

There are ways to try to overcome this. One is to use spot metering, but if you meter for the land the sky is washed out and if you meter for the sky the land is dark.

The proper professional answer is to use graduated filters. And a tripod. These are filters that are dark at the top, whithout chaning the colour, so that the brightness of the sky is reduced and the whole picture will hopefully be corectly exposed. Typically you need to reduce the brightnes of the sky by two stops.

Ot you can bracket your exposures and combine then using software. But life is too short and it takes actual skill. So I won't bother.

Anyway, here are some more seascapes.

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These were all taken on Spittal Beach, just south of Berwick Upon Tweed and a half mile walk from our campsite.

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