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[smccuen]

smccuen - I LOVE all your plant photos - they look like they belong in a book for identifying plants or something. You have some pretty cool things that grow there!!


Here's my pic of the week...

19 purple balloons for our fallen heroes. We laid 6 to rest today, but I was just involved with one funeral of someone close to us. Tomorrow we have another one... Fire stations from all over Arizona have volunteered to work all our local stations so our boys could be off work and free to attend every memorial service.



The really amazing thing about this photo is that it was taken when we were lining the streets of our town to welcome all our boys' bodies home in the processional from Phoenix. People were all down the street and across the street, letting go random numbers of balloons. We didn't even have exactly 19 within our small group - some brought just a few to release when the people they knew drove by - some of the balloons popped while waiting for their arrival, etc.
I went to edit this photo planning on photoshopping any extra balloons out to make it 19 for the "perfect" photo - I started counting to see how many balloons I should remove, then I counted again. No work needed to be done - somehow I captured exactly 19 balloons.

nice

 

[aoxa]

smccuen - I LOVE all your plant photos - they look like they belong in a book for identifying plants or something. You have some pretty cool things that grow there!!


Here's my pic of the week...

19 purple balloons for our fallen heroes. We laid 6 to rest today, but I was just involved with one funeral of someone close to us. Tomorrow we have another one... Fire stations from all over Arizona have volunteered to work all our local stations so our boys could be off work and free to attend every memorial service.



The really amazing thing about this photo is that it was taken when we were lining the streets of our town to welcome all our boys' bodies home in the processional from Phoenix. People were all down the street and across the street, letting go random numbers of balloons. We didn't even have exactly 19 within our small group - some brought just a few to release when the people they knew drove by - some of the balloons popped while waiting for their arrival, etc.
I went to edit this photo planning on photoshopping any extra balloons out to make it 19 for the "perfect" photo - I started counting to see how many balloons I should remove, then I counted again. No work needed to be done - somehow I captured exactly 19 balloons.

Wow this is a photo with a lot of meaning. Beautiful, and so sad.

 

[zazouse]

 

[drumstick diva]

Cuteness overload

 

[Sanna]

I think I died and went to heaven. lol Your birds are beautiful! I take it you breed the peafowl? Do you sell/ship any birds?

 

[Sanna]

I have taken probably about a good 700 pictures in the last 3 days.

So....I'll be editing for weeks. LOL
Here's a few I've made through so far.

There's more of Coco, as promised! She's a little shy still. The other two Cochins are getting used to her and she's getting used to them. My dopey rooster kept attacking her so we did the introduction in a cage, instead. Coco stayed in a cage inside of the pen for a few days and I let her out while I was supervising so idiot Beaker couldn't hurt her.

And all this girl wants to do is eat! She could use some weight on her body.


Then there were the two PMU geldings, Romeo and Ranger, watching me crawl around the chicken pen taking pictures.

And then, we had a photo shoot day with two of our barn rats and Connie the Haflinger mare and Raisin the PMU gelding. lol















Who has the biggest smile?







Oh, and this is Race Car. He loves to perform.










That's it for now!

 

[showbarnmom]

Can I PLEASEEEEEEEE have Connie?!?!? I want a haffie so bad. I think Connie just replaced my horse crush, previously on 3acres Jasmine.

 

[AccidentalFarm]

Anyone know a good program to use to blur? Gimp is just not doing what it should. Wish this background wasn't like it is, but the Houdan is cute, so I thought I'd share.

Please note: Free program.

I'm surprised you're not having success with Gimp. I used to use it for everything and LOVED it. Even after I had gotten Photoshop (back when CS3 came out), I still found myself using Gimp more. Blurring the background (or any area) of a photo is fairly easy with either program. You probably know this already, but in case you don't, just mask off areas you want left in tact and then run a gaussian blur over it to whatever degree of 'blurriness' you like. You can tweak the edges, say around feathers, by using a soft brush at around 30% opacity on the mask.

If that's not working for you, there are probably dozens of Gimp plugins available for this effect. It's commonly referred to as 'Bokeh', but I do know that many of the bokeh plugins will give too harsh an effect when you just want a bit of background blur...you'd just have to try a few out, I guess.

There are some free online image editors that get decent reviews. I haven't tried them, but maybe one will work for you:
http://www.splashup.com/

http://pixlr.com/

http://www.fotor.com/features/blur.html

 

[aoxa]

I'm surprised you're not having success with Gimp. I used to use it for everything and LOVED it. Even after I had gotten Photoshop (back when CS3 came out), I still found myself using Gimp more. Blurring the background (or any area) of a photo is fairly easy with either program. You probably know this already, but in case you don't, just mask off areas you want left in tact and then run a gaussian blur over it to whatever degree of 'blurriness' you like. You can tweak the edges, say around feathers, by using a soft brush at around 30% opacity on the mask.

If that's not working for you, there are probably dozens of Gimp plugins available for this effect. It's commonly referred to as 'Bokeh', but I do know that many of the bokeh plugins will give too harsh an effect when you just want a bit of background blur...you'd just have to try a few out, I guess.

There are some free online image editors that get decent reviews. I haven't tried them, but maybe one will work for you:
http://www.splashup.com/

http://pixlr.com/

http://www.fotor.com/features/blur.html

Did not realize gimp had additional features you could download. Yes I knew about the gaussian blur, but selecting around it can be time consuming.

I like doing just the blur, but have found even after using it heavily - I still see lots of pixels. I will check out those plugins

 

[what's kickin' chicken]

nice pics ---