weekly Boots' 52 for 2024

Week 50 - Decorations

Someone (not me) decided to decorate a hedge.

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I wonder what made someone decide to tie a bow around it? Still, it is a lot better than the bags of dog poo that some strange people seem to do! Excellent picture (y)
 
Week 51 - Entertaining

This image may not be immediately obvious as appropriate to the theme to some, but I find little to be such good entertainment as a brisk walk with good friends. This was just such a walk.

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Week 52 - Transport

So, in my head, this was a fantastic shot of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang swooping over scenery. Think of those shots we have seen on this forum of the Mach Loop. Unfortunately the production values aren't quite up to that. Instead we have ended up with a photo of clearly a model car, sat on a sheet of rather scratched glass, and reflected in that said glass, over a not-quite-large-enough photo of Talisker Bay, looking like it's just about to crash. Sorry team!

I probably would have done rather better to have just photographed the model, and then added the background digitally.

Transport of Delight!

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I really prefer old-school set-up of photos to the digital adding/subtracting, so this works for me. Nice end to the year, bringing back some childhood memories.
 
I think you've been quite creative with your photo, I certainly wouldn't have thought of using a picture in the background. As Alan says I probably would have gone down the route of digitally added the background and then spending far too long trying to get it right. Yours has a lovely charm to it and don't tell anyone but I've never seen chitty chitty bang bang :oops: :$
 
Simonbrown16 said:
I think you've been quite creative with your photo, I certainly wouldn't have thought of using a picture in the background. As Alan says I probably would have gone down the route of digitally added the background and then spending far too long trying to get it right. Yours has a lovely charm to it and don't tell anyone but I've never seen chitty chitty bang bang :oops: :$
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Using a print as a background was a tip I heard of a years ago for macro photography, having a large print of an out of focus plant to put behind your macro subject. Makes it look like you were working "in the wild" even though you were set up in your kitchen. Mind you, I've never done it before.

There are better films out there! But it does hold a certain place in our history... and I happen to have the model from my childhood.
 
I like it - the car has that superimposed look which reminds me of movie special effects of that period. The colour contrasts are great too
 
Great shot to end on Paul!
Boots said:
Using a print as a background was a tip I heard of a years ago for macro photography, having a large print of an out of focus plant to put behind your macro subject. Makes it look like you were working "in the wild" even though you were set up in your kitchen. Mind you, I've never done it before.

There are better films out there! But it does hold a certain place in our history... and I happen to have the model from my childhood.
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I know someone who uses this technique doing outdoor macro when shooting with a cluttered/ busy bg but it always seemed like a bit of a faff to setup and has a real risk of scaring any live subjects off before you can get a shot. I have on occasion used my tv with one of my photos up on it as a bg for table top macro stuff, works rather well actually as with the shallow dof of macro any bg is going to be somewhat oof anyway.
 
RyanB said:
Great shot to end on Paul!

I know someone who uses this technique doing outdoor macro when shooting with a cluttered/ busy bg but it always seemed like a bit of a faff to setup and has a real risk of scaring any live subjects off before you can get a shot. I have on occasion used my tv with one of my photos up on it as a bg for table top macro stuff, works rather well actually as with the shallow dof of macro any bg is going to be somewhat oof anyway.
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Thanks Ryan!
 
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