Snow ... What snow... ?

Puz · 14 Feb 2007 at 23:28

Random pics from me.. Been too quiet on here recently. Just out taking photos for once !

DannyDan · 14 Feb 2007 at 23:37

The first few don't do much for me but the last 2 are excellent.

Fireskull · 15 Feb 2007 at 07:18

Nice pics dude, wish we had snow that was that thick and lasted lol

Wile E. Coyote · 15 Feb 2007 at 08:03

Really nice pics

Wish we had snow here also, only had a dusting for one day

Puz · 15 Feb 2007 at 08:57

Cheers guys,

The snow down here was 3 inches thick and lasted for 3 days. As you can tell from the first one, even managed to got sledging, something I've not done in 20 years

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Cuchulain · 15 Feb 2007 at 08:59

DannyDan said:
The first few don't do much for me but the last 2 are excellent.

It was the other way round for me.

Helium_Junkie · 15 Feb 2007 at 09:16

I love the soft edges on the last two, could you explain how you got them please?

Mohain · 15 Feb 2007 at 10:25

Four and five are great. I think 3 could look good too if you could get rid of the blue tinted snow

tedaC · 15 Feb 2007 at 10:33

last 3 look great to me buddy , good work

lolism · 15 Feb 2007 at 10:36

Helium_Junkie said:
I love the soft edges on the last two, could you explain how you got them please?

The best way to get that effect is to duplicate the layer in Photoshop, blur it (experiment with the settings) set the layer as overlay (i think, its been a while) then adjust the opacity levels.

Puz · 15 Feb 2007 at 12:22

Mohain said:
Four and five are great. I think 3 could look good too if you could get rid of the blue tinted snow

Yeh I need to have a better play with that one. It's a HDR from a RAW file and level fiddled but the process has put a blue cast on the snow.

Thanks for the compliments on 4 & 5.

The donkey shot was funny as it was taken with my 10-20 mm lense so I had to get pretty close to the little critter to get the angle. He kept trying to eat my camera !

Puz · 15 Feb 2007 at 12:26

lolism said:
The best way to get that effect is to duplicate the layer in Photoshop, blur it (experiment with the settings) set the layer as overlay (i think, its been a while) then adjust the opacity levels.

It's basically like that but I use a PS Filter to apply effects like that in one fell swoop (as I'm lazy

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ChroniC · 15 Feb 2007 at 13:05

Hope you dont mind, but i felt this had more potential with some colour balance, and a bit of contrast adjustment.

Possibly even apply that filter to get a better match to the final 2!

Puz · 15 Feb 2007 at 13:24

ChroniC said:
Hope you dont mind, but i felt this had more potential with some colour balance, and a bit of contrast adjustment.
Possibly even apply that filter to get a better match to the final 2!

No don't mind at all, thanks for the advice. I'll try that when I get home