dandeakin

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Thsnks for the user award, much appreciated.

By: dandeakin

Ballintoy

Many thanks, glad you liked it.

By: dandeakin

Carrickabraghey Castle

Thanks very much for the GEA. Much appreciated.

By: dandeakin

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Unlikely to make a Readers Choice

By: dandeakin

Steps

I haven't read any of the other critiques. It makes a great thumbnail image. The colours and lines are very strong. My two comments would be 1) The steps and hand rails are leading the eye up to something, yet the top of the handrails are cropped off. I'd like to have seen just abit more of what's up there.

The other thing was that whilst the steps are horizontal, the verticals at the top are not. As this image is all about lines I wonder if taking the image from a few inches to the right (ie in the middle of the stairwell) would have 'straightened' the Image up slightly? photoshop's transform tool would also be able to do the same thing as well.

By: Apurva

Hartland Quay Mono

I really like the colour version and viewed this one first. As soon as I saw it I thought that it would look amazing in mono. I think this could be even better without the vignette. I really want to see all the tones and contasts into the corners. The vignette comes in quite along way into the image from the corners which darkens the overall image (although this might just be my iPad screen).

I really think this could be an epic mono image, particularly with the textures in the sky. The exposures are perfectly balanced in both the colour and mono versions. It might not have been the colourful sunset you might have wished for , but I'd take one of these images over a classic sunset view any day...

By: derekhansen

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Cheers. I uploaded an image of him in front of these blinds a few weeks ago - I only got a couple of images as every time I sat him down in front of the blinds he'd try and lunge through them to the otherside...

By: dandeakin

The Yellow Zone..

Clever!

By: woodlark

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Cheers. I don't normally go on about equipment! I only mentioned it as I've read in several forums over the last couple of days people saying they need an expensive full frame camera I order to get decent images. This image could only have been shot with the 'cheaper' camera - the guy would have heard / seen me after one shot on a Big DSLR. And this definitely wasn't the first frame. Micro 4/3's has certainly opened up new opportunities...

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated.

By: dandeakin

Cruising

Thanks, it took quite abit of effort / planning to be at this spot in Nottingham when the storm hit...

By: dandeakin

Long Jump

Ha. Thought I had this month sorted out 8 months ago with a couple of images from last year. The past few weeks shooting has given me abit to think about....

By: dandeakin

The Long Walk Home

Thanks, i've been getting into the 16:9 cinematic crop recently

By: dandeakin

Little Everest

many thanks for the award. I prefer this version as well.

much appreciated.

By: dandeakin

Little Everest

Cheers, that's a good idea.

Dan

By: dandeakin

The Last Supper

cheers, i've never seen anything quite like it.

I wasn't sure if the damsel would escape at first.

I was totally unprepared equipment wise, the web was about a meter away when the damsel hit it. I would have set the camera/lens/tripod up differently if it happened again.

Hadn't thought of it as photojournalism, but I guess it is in a way....

By: dandeakin

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I know what you mean, not one for the wall...

By: dandeakin

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Cheers. Votes can be funny things! Good luck in the competition

Dan

By: dandeakin

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Cheers, he loves to sit on top of the sofa and look out of the window. Once he caught the attention of some people walking on the street two floors down and put on a bit of a show.

The photo doesn't show it but there are heavy storm clouds in the sky which balances the exposure. I'm not sure where the low view point comes from but it seems to work.

By: dandeakin

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cheers. the sun kept coming and going giving very different images.

By: dandeakin

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Cheers

By: dandeakin

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Thanks very much for the award, much appreciated. Dan

By: dandeakin

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Cheers. The pigeons were walking in circles with one following the other.

By: dandeakin

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Thanks very much to Anne for the award. Much appreciated. I had been waiting for someone to walk down the arches to provide some interest and then realised the Courting Pigeons made a nice focal point.

Thanks again

By: dandeakin

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Thanks, I think I agree that the flipped version is better....

By: dandeakin

Triangles

Cheers, I very nearly missed this one.

By: dandeakin

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Thanks for the award, much appreciated.

The lens is the 105mm VR Macro lens, which like most macro len's gets you down to 1:1 magnification ie) if the cameras sensor is 24mm across, you can focus close enough to fill the frame with a subject 24mm across.

I put the lens on a set of extension tubes to get closer. These work with any lens. Used with the 105mm lens it's lets you focus down to 2:1 ie) fill the frame with a subject 12mm across.

This image is uncropped which gives you an idea of the size of the damselfly.

Thanks again

By: dandeakin

Dunluce

Thanks, I'll try the mono tomorrow...

By: dandeakin

Causeway

cheers...

By: dandeakin

Take me Away

Cheers. Havnt seen the results yet, guess it must have been top 30 then.

By: dandeakin