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[Kassaundra]

I have a Nikon D90 but I'm pretty much using the autofocus or active mode most of the time.

For all the great photo's, how many of them are worked on with a computer before you post or save them? Wondering if I should invest in a class or not.

There are several free and inexpensive post editing programs out there. I have used some of the free ones, but I really like photo shop elements. I am not very computer / techy savy and I picked up on the basics of PSE very easily. There is a lot of stuff, both artistic and just tweeking the pic for better light, shadow, composition etc.. , that can be done w/o any classes, just by practice and experimenting, but layers still gives me fits. I think the only way I will ever master layers is w/ a class. But there is tons, and tons of things that can be done w/o having to mess w/ layers.

Some people feel it is a stigma to admit to post edit work on your photography. I do my photography for my enjoyment not for a living, so I don't give two flips what anyone else thinks. For my photos I'd say about 60% have very basic post editing like cropping and of that 60% another 1/2 of that has basic light control, brightening or shadow control, and a tiny few will have more extensive editing but short of layers. I have several I post on FB especially that are manipulated for effect, the artsy type stuff that I really like. Things like these

















All these were original photographs by me that I just played w/ the filters on PSE each took just a few clicks and moments to make. The fun was applying all the diff. filters to see what exactly it did to the pic to see if I liked it better or not.

Those pics are obviously "enhanced" but you can be very subtle so that no one knows work has been done too. I hate having power lines in my sunset pics, I am forever removing then with PSE out of my sunset pics. I can remove power lines out (and a 1/2 built tower) of my sunsets in less then 2 minutes w/ a few clicks and no one ever knows they were removed. (well I guess they do now!!! lol)

 

[Pasha838]

3 acres tell those little pork pies to be gentle, mama hurts - a spa treatment would probably make her feel better.

Rocker hen that cat/dog picture is beautiful, they both look so in tune with each other

Pascha make sure you little duckling is warm enough while waiting for his siblings to hatch. And please use a wire top on his box, so he has ventilation and enough air to breathe. I worry for the whole world so you don't have to.

Thanks. Today i changed a cage where live my little goose (i take a cage bigger). I use a lamp - it heating (i don`t know about the lamps and standarts of the lamps in another coutryes, but here in the Rusia we have 2 types of lamps: new lamps for take low power, but its are cold, and old lamps. Old lamps take more power as new lamps, but they can be used for a heating the brooders too). Here are my lamp:

Goose are okay, he begin to eat the boiled grain yet (las day i gived to him only boiled yellow part of the eggs). Now he eat boiled grain width boiled egg of the chiken. I wait the next gooses (it was a first egg, next eggs i put to the incubator only after one or after two weeks). Unfornatelly all the eggs of the chikens was unfertilized. I think i need a new cock. When i buy my chikens the men who sell me it tell me that he don`t have any cock, only hen, all the "boys" was sold yet. I tell that this is a strange - to have the hen widthout any cock, please find me any cock. And he find for me "ANY" cock, nice, but very old cock, widhout a tail and the cock are very big (bigger as my leghorn). This is a good cock, he always walk width my hen, and call the hen when find any feed (he are very clever, eat only after the hen, he are a gentleman, or gentlecock haha), but all the eggs are unfertilized... Next time i will buy new hen and hope to buy 2-3 cocks too (i will buy much hen).
Here are a new cage for my little goose. I put there a water and boiled grain width the water and width boiled egg. Next time when he will be older i begin to give him another grain and the grass. I change the feed 2-3 times in the day, when the feed begin to be "old" (after 5-6 hours), i give it to the chikens, they eat it very fast (they are not young, they are big). I don`t wait the time when this feed will be bad.


Today i had a work - i take all the mat (dirty old grass) from the room where lived my chiken. I take it to the little "field" where i will plant a corn. My ducks and geese live in the garden (the weather here are warm yet, we have a snow, but it melt very fast). Everywhere are puddles and the geese and duck swim there. The chiken walked in the garden too, but they did not return to the room - they entered to the room where lived my geese in the winter and sleep there in the night. All the day they walk. It`s a good chance for me to restore order in the room where lived my chikens in the winter. Next time (when i wash all the floor, walls and shall paint whitewash, and bring new clean mat) i will close my chiken there and begin to do this work in the room where lived my geese in the winter. But now it`s too early, near of the door there was the water and now there are the melting ice. Of course the place where sleep the chiken no are wet, but i need to change all the map and clean all room, and paint whitewash.

 

[3acres]

Beautiful pics 3acres!

Thanks! Same to you! I'd like to pet/rub the fur off of those cute goatie ears....

3 acres you're a real gas - not that kind, I meant funny. I had no idea mama pigs released "endorphins" so loudly. That's a joke here, some medications have that as a side effect - so we kid around about releasing endorphins when we have family gatherings. What's worse than a merry tune, the silent bombs are deadly.

Now I've got a silly spell, I'll be up all night laughing every time I think about it.

lol..."releasing endorphins"....

. Her pituitary gland is working over-time then...

Never seems a bit excessive. I think one day I will own many goats.....many!!!

Oh, you will have many many goats someday! I was just being dumb. If my goats give off good luck, I don't think I am receiving it...lol. It might be a thing like that switch in your house that does nothing when you turn it off and on, but is actually doing something in someone else's house....somebody's getting my good luck...

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[drumstick diva]

Oka 3 acres, I'm having a prolonged silly spell - you wouldn't by chance videotape the mama pig - with sound, while she is nursing. I think that would cause a lot of damp diapers from hysteria.

After the miserable winter most of the country is having - it would sure jazz things up.

 

[3acres]

Oka 3 acres, I'm having a prolonged silly spell - you wouldn't by chance videotape the mama pig - with sound, while she is nursing. I think that would cause a lot of damp diapers from hysteria.

After the miserable winter most of the country is having - it would sure jazz things up.

lol....let me see what I can come up with...

. If I become known as the owner of Butt Trumpet Berk Swine, you have to pay the difference I suffer from lack of profits....lol.

Yeah, my water lines to the barn froze in Jan. I just now can use the hydrants again and am thankful. Many a bucket was hauled from my bathtub in the house to my animals. Things could always be worse. I'm pretty sure I can carry 2 5 gallon buckets of water across the U.S. now without putting them down and without any strain....lol.

 

[drumstick diva]

3 acres, I can see it now, a new event in the farmer Olympics " cross country bucket run . I'd bet my roll of pennies on you.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Quote: hahaha, you are to funny!

Well I suggest you disconnect that light switch, reconnect it to a bottle and when it's full poor all that luck onto those goats. Then pat the goats and walla! Good luck Goats!

 

[Fancychooklady]

hahaha, you are to funny!

Well I suggest you disconnect that light switch, reconnect it to a bottle and when it's full poor all that luck onto those goats. Then pat the goats and walla! Good luck Goats!

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[cluckcluckluke]

Quote:
You may ask, I don't have an answer hahah!

 

[3acres]