Thursday 9 February 2012

Now you see it...

Quick post before I go to bed - I've been working like a trojan today. I spray blasted the pavers on the porch to rid it of weeds growing between the pavers themselves - took me hours but by God we've got the cleanest pavers in Australia now. As I had the spraying machine out I thought I'd clean the batshitmobile too - didn't occur to me that it might be a bit too powerful for the car - but my wife rarely looks at the paintwork so hopefully it'll be sometime before she realises half of it is missing (I can always blame it on acid in bat crap or something).
But, but, but, the whole point of this blog post is to yap on about my favourite hobby - Photography! It's not just the taking of pictures I love - I love Post Processing (see, I am weird).

All tonight (and it's after midnight now) - I've been working on a picture of my eldest stepdaughter. I tried to catch her just 'naturally smiling' when she was with the dog that day we were all out together. Unfortunately that means you gotta take whatever else is in the picture at the same time too...if you look at the original example on the left you'll see a maroon pole which I hated, also on the left you'll see an elbow sticking in, and the roof of the cabin behind her points into her head. But I wanted to save it, I think I did. I took the pole out, smudged out the elbow and made the roof of the cabin appear to be behind the tree to stop it from 'pointing' into her head. I love Photoshop...

Did it work?


Oh, and so you don't think we are constantly lovey dovey like the Ingles' in Little House on the Prairie or the Brady bunch - on that same day here's how one sister totally ruined another sister's 'nice shot'...


G'night everyone - Great to be back :)

Rory


11 comments:

  1. You are quite the master at the photo shop Rory..good work. Of course, with such delightful subjects to inspire you.....
    It's great to have you back.

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  2. It's so good to be back Lawless that I'm already way past my bedtime lol...been excited at catching up with everyone's blogs and the time has flown by. I've even forgotten to take my silly pills, I'll take them now and in 20 minutes I should be seeing double or fast asleep. 1am - here goes.

    Rory

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  3. I think you have another career ahead of you... These are great shots. even with the dirty look shot at the other sister! lol!

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  4. Welcome back!

    Good job with the photoshopping.

    Pearl

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  5. Terrific save of that picture! By George, you said you wanted to be a photographer? I believe you ARE one.

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  6. Thank you everyone - been a long day today, not had much time to sit down and think let alone write. I'm stoned but happy lol.

    It's 11pm but I feel like writing a blog now...

    Rory

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  7. Every time I tried to reply today - I got an error 503 message from Blogspot - Maybe time I got my own blogging website and move all this to there - It can be really frustrating.

    Rory

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  8. Wow, excellent work, Mr Ingles. I need to learn how to do that in Photoshop. What a difference it makes. Glad to hear you're keeping yourself busy and out of trouble! :)

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  9. Your photoshop skills are awesome Rory! I loved the changes in the first photo (what a gorgeous pup too!)

    I know what you mean about error messages. For the longest time I wasn't able to comment on your blog unless I used my iPad or my phone. Now I can again from my desktop. Strange...

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  10. Rory- there's been issues lately. I couldn't comment for a couple of days. Must be widgeting around...

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  11. Thank you for your kind comments - Much appreciated. It was my step daughter's 22nd birthday last night. Unfortunately someone deposited a bottle of vodka right in front of me at the table - I now have the hangover from hell and spent most of the day with my head down the toilet bowl.

    Gonna try and eat something in a minute.

    Rory

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