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first time out

shot from first time out with first dslr

andy mclean ¤ 2006-Feb-06

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1900

taken at a local meseum that looks at the life down pit

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
alnmouth

i took this one on another visit to alnmouth in northumberland i think it was an old church cpl fitted

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
alnmouth b&w

b&w conversion of earlier post

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
alnmouth sunset

pano from three shots

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
alnwick castle

anlwick castle in northumberland england

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
amble harbour

4 shot pano of a local fishing harbour shot during sunset. stitched then only a few adjustments with levels and curves

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
amble harbour 2

5 shot pano a few paces back and one extra shot. levels and curves only

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
angel

a black and white conversion that i was going to do ages ago

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
angel of the north

anotehr shot from the angel

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
another northumbrian castle

another northumbrian beach castle (i think adrian may have missed this one:) )

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
bambrugh castle

first attempt at making a panoramic out of three shots of bamburgh castle in northumberland.

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
blowing bubbles

spotted this snail blowing bubbles while out on a walk

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
blyth sunrise

another shot from the windmills at blyth

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
boat shed

this is a shot of the boat sheds on lindisarne (holy island) northumberland. the sheds are upturned hulls of old boats turned into storage sheds for the local fishermen on the island

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
bridge to nowhere

taken around ten pm on friday night converted to balck and white and masked blur in PS

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
crashing wave

on this picture i used two layer masks one to bring out the rocks but keep the skys colour and the second to darken the sky and then used the gradient tool to slowly mask between foreground and background.

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
down the river

taken an a walk down a local riverside walk reposted so people can remove sunglasses

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
dry me dad

caught youngest son coming downstairs from bath

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
dunstanburgh castle

dunstanburgh castle off the northumbrian coast

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
entwined

first time looking around the house for something i used some bamboo and a rose and a piece of white voil. please give comments good and bad thakyou i need to learn

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
escape (2)

fooling around in the garden at dusk. high iso shot on a twelve second timer for me to get into the shed :)

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
fathers son or only ghost

during a walk along newcastles quayside on saturday night i experimented with my son waking towards the camera slowly during a long exposure time

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
flower

close up of garden flower with screw on lense

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
foggy church

i took this shot on the first outing with my first dslr. i am a total newbie so your advice will be noted oh masterfull ones

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
from the garden

away for the weekend and found this wee beaut in the garden when i got back home :)

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
from the garden (2)

another rose from the garden levels, curves, crop,burned out all the background and faded out the stem

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
fruit of love!

close up of a dried piece of apple in wife smelly bowl :) (another rained off day :( )

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
Groyne Lighthouse

converted to b&w in PS

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
halloween pumpkins

this years pumpkins i carved for the errmm kids ;)

thanks to free hand and the help of

www.zombiepumpkins.com

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
harbour at low tide

muddy feet to get this one :0

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
holy island

from the beach looking up to the castle

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
in hot water

trying to get to grips with photoshop. let me know where i go wrong plz

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
inside the old church

the inside of the old run down church

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
its f f f feeezing

image crop but that is all. another cold day in england :)

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
just one of the problems we face

forget the camera settings this is another problem we all face in getting the shot

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
knight

took this one while visiting a local tournament in warkworth castle in northumberland. this night looks like he may be thinking about the injury he got

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
knock knock......

while driving back home on saturday i passed a farm house an spotted this door about six feet upon a barn. so i quickly ran into the farmers yard and took this shot before i got shot :)

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
leaves

an experiment over the weekend placed a handfull of leaves in a glass dish filled with water and placed in freezer overnight with this one i placed it on cooker for side lighting and turned on halogen hob to produce red underglow

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
leaves 2

another one from the freezer

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
lighthouse

light house in a local port

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
lighthouse 2

first try at toning and masked blur

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
Low tide

an image taken at low tide at a local harbour. one of 5 taken of the same shot this one however is my favourite one (others to close and missing the bridge above). please feel free to comment good or bad thankyou

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
merry christmas

merry christmas and a happy new year to all members from andy

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
mine`s a pint

i found my way to the pub on saturday mines a pint and a wine for the laydee

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
morning visit

found this wee one feasting on the scraps under my bird table

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
mushrooms are bad

playing around in cs for fun on a drunken friday night :)

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
not the knot

one rung of a rope ladder on a kids climbing frame

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
OK! remind me 'Who said it was spring again'

another cold day and more snow after a warm week ? english weather :(

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
old church

this is an old run down church next to my caravan

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
old wheel

spotted this on an old piece of farm equipment

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one from the summer

one of the boyz enjoying the summer time, a long old wait for them days again :(

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
one mans junk

on the same walk as i got the wee beast i spotted this leather chair dumped in a field

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open all hours

at a local open air museum. high iso handheld shot

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
OUT OF THIS WORLD

sitting at home watching the birds in the back garden i took this shot of my wife while she was not of this world

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
PEACE

one from around newcastle

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
poppy

first try out with cheap extension tubes from ebay (£10) you have little dof and focus in manual but for a tenner :)

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
run away

on a local beach with nephew

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
souter lighthouse

souter lighthouse near sunderland

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
spiral to the top

taken inside a local lighthouse, the image was converted in photoshop and i found that rotated 90 degrees gave ( to me at 1am ) of the staircase going down

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
spiral to the top again

reposted this colour version of the first spiral

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spooky

playing around with layers on a rained off day

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st marys lighthouse

out for the day took this of one of the local lighthouses on an overcast cold afternoon

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stump

an old tree stump in a local graveyard

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sunrise

got this one at 6.30 on acold morning on the way back home from work pano from two photos

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swan

swan near home levels, curves, crop, resized and save for web

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
swan B&W

another lake another swan :)

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
the angel

taken on saturday using a polorizeing filter the angel of the north has the same wing span as a 747

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The Causeway

another of the lighthouse new filters arrived this weekend so took the family out for a wee walk

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the force is strong in this one

oldest son with a flashing saber during the christmas light switch on at a local village

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
THE KING`S ALIVE

the king is alive and on sunday was enjoying a refreshing pint in a pub in amble northumberland :) "the king is dead but not forgotten"

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
the old bench

walking around an old harbour near to my house i came across this old bench about two feet from the harbour edge hidden in the under growth. if benches could talk what stories could this one tell ?

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2006-Feb-06 16:22 EST
the old wooden cross

taken in the sand dunes at alnmouth in northumberland

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trye

tyre tack in the morning sun

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waiting for the bite

took this of a man fishing on a local beach.

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warkworth castle

warkworth castle in northumberland

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warkworth castle (2)

another walk around the castle and now all the daff`s are dead

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wee beast

spotted this wee beast on a walk down by a local river using a cheap extension tube (from ebay) shot hand held and manual focus on oly e500

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WHEN I WER A LAD !

picture of oldest son dressing up for school

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woodhorn

another from the meseum

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