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Postby ChristianBecker » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:44 am

Nice one, Penfold. I like this kind of fly.
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Postby Penfold » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:00 pm

Chris wrote:@ Penfold

Is that shot straight out of the camera with no post processing?

I'm afraid it was cropped and I very quickly played with the unsharp mask. If I remember rightly, and I was a little hurried when I done it, I think I used some digital noise reduction as well.

I still prefer the pictures as they come with as little fiddling around as possible, although I do use cropping and exposure adjustment a fair bit (as well as straightening, since I seem to have one leg shorter than the other, on occasion . :lol: )
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Postby The Mad Collector » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:02 pm

I know the feeling about straightening, my pictures seem to be 1 degree out from vertical every now and then and need a small rotation anticlockwise :roll:
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Postby Penfold » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:15 pm

Incidentally, does anyone know where Snowballs is? He would be absolutely loving this thread.
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Postby The Mad Collector » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:18 pm

He was going on holiday wasn't he? I seem to remember reading about him going away.
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Postby poohcarrot » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:14 pm

He went to Bulgaria. :D
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Postby spideyGirl » Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:39 am

Penfold wrote:Incidentally, does anyone know where Snowballs is? He would be absolutely loving this thread.


Apart from the butterflys and moths :lol:
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Postby Penfold » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:32 am

I didn't get to see many insects yesterday at the WWT, which came as a bit of a surprise. i did manage to get these two shots though.

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Postby Chris » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:23 pm

A damsel fly.

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Postby Tiffany » Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:37 pm

I like your hoverfly photo & the ladybird & damselfly too, Penfold.
Your damselfly is very good, Chris.
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Postby The Mad Collector » Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:29 pm

Dragonfly I saw in Cambodia
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Postby spideyGirl » Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:45 pm

Great pics guys :D
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Postby Tonyblack » Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:47 pm

Indeed! :D
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Postby Tiffany » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:29 pm

I like that one, Mad Collector. Different to ours here.
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Postby Who's Wee Dug » Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:25 pm

It almost looks mechanical.
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