utterly random picture thread.

[Felix]

[Taipan]

Honestly. No. Never.

You do know the Happy Mondays though?

Very vaguely.

Yorick during the 80s...

[KungFooBob]

90's and 00's.

I went to a Black Grape gig once. It was a long time ago.

[Taipan]

90's and 00's.

I went to a Black Grape gig once. It was a long time ago.

Got their cd somewhere...

[KungFooBob]

90's and 00's.

I went to a Black Grape gig once. It was a long time ago.

Got their cd somewhere...

It's great when you're straight, yeah!

[Yorick]

Artistic photos of our gaff in the late sun

Which do you think I should use for our promotional pictures?
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[KungFooBob]

I didn't know you had a cat!

[Horse]

This one, cropped. You're showing the building, not an empty garden (unless it's for camping )

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[Yorick]

I didn't know you had a cat!

Got 4. That one adopted us

Dog. Elvis.
Cat 1. Frankie (Sinatra)
Cat 2. Sammy (Davis jnr) Cat is black
Cat 3. Roberta (Flack)

Cat 4. Jack. (It's black &white)

[Taipan]

You're over exposed. Take it first thing in the morning. Lose the car. Get down lower and shoot from about waist height. Stand on the drive and put the house to the upper right. Google rule of thrids for help.

[Yorick]

You're over exposed. Take it first thing in the morning. Lose the car. Get down lower and shoot from about waist height. Stand on the drive and put the house to the upper right. Google rule of thrids for help.

In the morning the front of the house is in the shade.

[Horse]

Google rule of thrids for help.

Then Google 'golden section'

Thirds gives a noughts and crosses grid
3 3 3
3 3 3
3 3 3
ie
2 horizontal lines, 2 vertical, 4 cross points.

Golden section gives a variation of this grid. Where with thirds you might have a vertical line left of centre, a ratio of 3:6, GS has the ratio of 5:8.

[Taipan]

You can work with shadows and shooting into the sun with great effect, converting to black and white and using high contrast would give you a great shot of your place for yourselves, but its probably not best for a promo shot. You do need to get your exposure down as you're getting flare (no data) on the house. I'm not there so can't really scout it, but i'd probably crouch on the left side of the drive putting the house into the upper right and showing the driveway as a leading line to it. Don't shoot from standing height, its how we see things so looks normal and lacks impact. Crop it to suit this view. I'd bring down the highlights and play with shadows. Add contrast to bring out the house details better. Crank up some vibrancy/saturation to bring out the primary colours. This would work well with the monotones of the house and drive.

[Jody]

His first Ducati, I didn't even know he could ride a bike.

I seem to remember reading something about him being a track day fan with a tricked up Blade.

(Although that might have been Keith Flint too)

I saw Kieth at Silverstone many years ago. He had a GSXR750 that was being looked after by the Suzuki BSB race team.

[Mussels]

This one, cropped. You're showing the building, not an empty garden (unless it's for camping )

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Is that a giant tube of Anusol sponsoring your roundabout?

[Horse]

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Is that a giant tube of Anusol sponsoring your roundabout?

Do you mean the mighty Dacia? How very dare you!

[Count Steer]

The first one looks like Elvis has a pair of Raybans on.

[Yorick]

The first one looks like Elvis has a pair of Raybans on.

That's what I thought too

[gremlin]

Is that old furniture/pallets out to the left? Crop them out. Looks a bit untidy.

And for the love of God, don't have any of you in Speedos lounging by the pool.

[Count Steer]

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Is that a giant tube of Anusol sponsoring your roundabout?

Do you mean the mighty Dacia? How very dare you!

Not the mighty Duster but the mysterious thing with the sun symbol. However, the mighty Duster actually makes the house look smaller, being close to it, while the cat makes it look proper palatial, so I'd lose the car and deploy the cats for a better sense of scale.