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| JAW |
Moments of Inspiration (NBR)I think a fair few people have these random moments of inspiration for a shot. Sometimes it's an idea they've thought about and sometimes it just pops into your head. Often they turn out good or just plain creative.Show off your creative juices and post your 'random inspiration' shot here. |
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| Hamish |
This was a random moment. I was waiting to cross a road whilst visiting Auckland and I noticed a nice reflection off a skyscraper. Fortunately I had my D50 and 18-200 VR in my hands and fired off a quick shot before the green man.
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| JAW |
Wow that's a really graphic shot. Once again, i'm liking the vibrant colours.
I'll post one of mine later.... |
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| JAW |
here's one of mine recently:
Lemme know what you think of it! |
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| Roo |
Try this one, it probably means nothing to you but certainly means something to me, early hours of the morning, 50 miles from home, at the turning around point of a 100 mile night ride. Sore arse, shorts and shirt, very cold on the brighton downs, just messing around with the D70. Not a good shot, but full of memories. I was trying to capture what it felt like, the orange blurriness becuase of the thousands of street lights I must have passed while half a sleep pedalling away for hours and hours.
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| bluebomberx |
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| JAW |
Roo, that shot does give me the knackered blurry-eyed feeling when i look at it which is what you were aiming for. Would have probably been more apt in the Biking moments of inspiration but doesn't matter.
Bomber - i do like that shot; it's so clean it almost looks computer animated! |
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| Hamish |
That's a cracker, JAW. Good work fella. | ||||
| Meercat |
Love that JAW. I actually came on to post my moment of inspiration, which was a similar idea to yours, but feel slightly bettered. Here it is anyway:
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| Meercat |
And another, from a pub this afternoon:
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| Hamish |
I can't say anything positive about the photos taken by someone who has a racist porcelain doll collection. And someone who takes pub pictures with no beer in them. Honestly! 
Only kidding. The first looks a little grey - a bit more exposure/contrast might help, but I like the use of shallow DOF. And I like the second, but it'd definitely look better with a nice pint of ale. |
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| Meercat |
Beer is never far enough away from my lips to get in shot. I had taken the levels down with Capture in the first. Maybe it was a mistake. |
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| Hamish |
Travis - I had a quick play with yer current pic in capture NX and it's easy to tweak to make it a bit brighter and make the faces more contrasty:
Open a levels edit step and drag the whites slider across to approx 174. Drag the middle tones slider across from 1 to 1.1. Change the number in the box below the blacks slider from 0 to 2 or 3. That should give you a good start point from which you could make further tweaks. |
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| JAW |
Thanks for the feedback guys! Loving the gollywog dolls and the picture in the pub has a nice antique/musty feeling about it. Might have looked better with a pint but then again it would probably have drawn our attention away from anything else in the shot!
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| Roo |
Not really a moment of inspiration, but It's somewhere about a mile or two from home that I often pass on rides, I'm waiting for the right light to get a better pic but I just really like the sign.
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| grinch8 |
i dont really understand this thread..i am easily comfused.
but here is a recent self portrait: 
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| bluebomberx |
You're still in a shoulder sling? They gave me a figure-8 sling. It's pretty much a set of backpack straps without the backpack. They keep your shoulders back so your collarbone stays in one place. | ||||
| grinch8 |
the nhs are useless my grandma tied the sling better than they did. | ||||
| JAW |
Aw you look so pitiful alone in the dark with that sling!
Do you ever get those moments where you suddenly get an idea for a shot that is often quite random? This is where you post those shots... |
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| grinch8 |
well i think mine conforms then | ||||
| bluebomberx |
How bad of a break was it? Just make sure you take your arm out of the sling a few times a day to move your arm what little bit you can. If you don't it will atrophy very quickly. After a week in a shoulder sling, my right arm was useless. By about the third week I could raise my arm over my head with minor discomfort. I went down around 20MPH on a road bike. I pedaled nearly 400 miles from 1/1/07 to 2/6/07. I was pushing for 4000 miles last year. By 12/31/07, I might have pedaled about 600 miles more the year 
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| grinch8 |
after 4 days after doing it, i can move it a bit, it can support itself, and with a little pain i can touch my left arm on my right ear, going for a check up in a few hours, should find out....
the break isnt too bad, could be better, could be worse
i got really comfused by that i thought it was an impossible date then i saw you swapped the date and month around. |
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| Hamish |
Hope the check up went okay.
Simple clavicle fractures heal well usually. The type of sling isn't really that important - the purpose is to hold your forearm still and take a bit of weight off the fracture for pain relief purposes. It doesn't need to "hold it straight" for it to heal. In fact, a bit of movement is good, as bbx points out. If you keep it straight all the time then the shoulder joint will stiffen up and your muscles will atrophy from lack of use. It'll heal fine by itself. You will have a bit of a lump/deformity but that won't affect the function of your neck/shoulder. But wait until it's healed properly before you get back to proper riding or you are more likely to reinjure it and it'll just take longer. And listen to what the docs tell you! (I used to work as a doctor in A&E for a good few years) |
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| grinch8 |
yea check up is all good i got rid of the neck strangalar of a sling replaced with a far better one.
the doctor said there would be some deformity nothing to worry about, and also no contact sports. even though for the last 3 days i have been at centre parcs playing tennis,badmington,squash and rideing around 1 handed on a bike all day i am not going properly rideing i dont want to risk it. looks like a lot of photo taking. o well. i am currently writing a SA for media about the good and bad points of diffrent cameras and editing equipment.....with one hand, its taking an age |
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| JAW |
Ok, we are really badly going off topic here. I didn't realise it would be such a hot topic, so if you want you could set up a bone-breakage discussion thread! Just to make it worse, what center parcs were you at?
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| grinch8 |
ignor this, my mistake | ||||
| grinch8 |
there is no off topic area for me to do this!!! and i went to longleat.....steep hills, one handed,frount brake i was fine |
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| JAW |
Erm yeah there is: http://freewheelphoto.myfastforum.org/forum16.php Longleat is phat, i was there this summer! Love the hire bikes! |
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| mikedeere |
Had this idea out of the blue, actually I did loads of different poses etc. Got some really cool ones on the other computer when I get that back online. See if you can guess how I did this.
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| Hamish |
Did it involve using another camera operated by a remote trigger/timer and a gorillapod type tripod? | ||||
| mikedeere |
Yep with the remote, no with the gorillapod.
Here's another one: 
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| JAW |
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