Avebury

milou · 02-10-2005, 01:51

One of my most fave places so me, her ladyship and a friend went to Avebury today to catch the late sun/cloud etc. Bit of a storm brewing:

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Plus this rather iccle cloud just outside the inner henge:

Gandhi · 02-10-2005, 02:08

Nice pics.

Especially like the first one. We had the same kind of light when me and some friends visited Callanaish in the Hebrides this year.

Also nice to see somebody else can't sleep!

Warspite · 02-10-2005, 02:34

Nice shots Milou - even the shot with the cloudy sky at least is a dramatic .

Like the depth in the first 2.

milou · 02-10-2005, 02:45

Cheers

Hopefully we're off to Scotland later this year or early next year. Friends of ours are currently in Orkney, Shetland etc at the mo.

Two more which I like - both along the Kennet Avenue and then bed for this tired OAP. When I used to play UT/2k4 I used to be able to stay awake for ages; not so now :/

***Steve*** · 02-10-2005, 10:18

I really like the mood of the last shot. Maybe increase the saturation in the green just a little more to balance the strong colours??

***Steve*** · 02-10-2005, 10:29

In fact I like it so much I couldn't resist a quick play. Hope you don't mind?

Increased the green saturation, then slightly more red/orange brought out in the sky. Removed the digital haze by applying a small amout of large radius USM then made the cow slightly more prominant to futher balance the picture and lead your eyes through the frame. It was a little tricky keeping things under control in the small version but it would be very easy to get the best from the full photo.

Matty · 02-10-2005, 10:44

lovely images Milou, but watch your file sizes!

***Steve*** · 02-10-2005, 10:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by EosD

...but watch your file sizes!

:lol: :naughty: Is your IE playing up again Eosd or have you been on the bottle??

milou · 02-10-2005, 11:03

Steve - that green sat does work - cheers - it's one of my first efforts in trying to merge two photos into one. I put the lighter one over the darker and then used the eraser thingy to wipe over the sky.

Matty · 02-10-2005, 11:25

dont think i been on the bottle...let me ask my nurse...

milou · 02-10-2005, 12:54

The photos were saved by the "save for the web no bigger than this size or else matey" method. In vino veritas tbh...

Matty · 02-10-2005, 16:57

hmm well it seems that 163400 isnt 163kb, its 159.7 using the Duckworth lewis method, so i humbly apologise to the members whom ive broken links for when the image was slightly over....

/wanders off to find a calculator

milou · 02-10-2005, 17:21

Doesn't Windows round down it's file sizes or something. I recall something about gigabytes and 1,000 not being 1,024 using the Crosse & Blackwell method...

Matty · 02-10-2005, 17:59

IE shows your second image as:

163400

Most times you would knock off the last 3 digits but in computer land you dont apparently, i obviously didnt realise this, and no-one pointed it out to me, and microsoft couldnt be bothered to convert it for me, so i assumed 163400 was 163kb, you have to use a complex Power of method to determine its KB value, so 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 521, 1024....1024 being the magic number here, thats 1kb! so you have to divide 163400 by 1024 to get the KB.....apparently. So when it says 165000 i can break the links, and if i forget that i will have to get a calculator out and check it....

milou · 02-10-2005, 18:27

Firefox also says: 159.57 KB (163400 bytes).

Matty · 02-10-2005, 19:52

so in short: Get firefox?

Joe T · 02-10-2005, 20:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by EosD

so in short: Get firefox?

YES!