MWHCVT(Matt's) Challenge 365 - Completed

duttytd said:
Very nice matt, I like the motion in the bouquet but not keen on part of the sky as it looks a little blown.
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Thanks mate, actually I know what you mean about the sky having a blown look to it :shrug: unfortunately when detailing with distant white cloud there is not a lot that I could do, it was white, and lacking details so it looks blown :'(

I also hate having to write that because it sounds terribly like an excuse and it's not :naughty:

I to like the motion blur and that's exactly what I was going for :thumbs:

Matt
 
Day 233 - Moving Marge

This is a 121 second exposure taken this afternoon at the church in the in Wolston, Warwickshire, 5 points to the first person to get my bit of fun with the title :D


233/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Matt
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Just Dave said:
Well caught Matt, I dont see the ladies running to catch it LOL, were you the official tog on their special day?
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Thanks Dave, they weren't too keen on running, but this was the brides second attempt :lol: the first attempt the bouquet landed only a couple feet behind the bride :bang: so I think they were waiting to see the trajectory :lol:

Yes I was the official tog for the day, I do a few just to keep the bank manager happy and to allow me to buy new toys, I am 100% professional when I do it i.e. Insurance, tax and back up :thumbs: but seeing the way the threads on weddings often degenerate I tend not to advertise the fact on TP too much, I know I'm not the best but when I look at the standard of some that charge a lot more than I do I don't think I'm too bad :exit:

I may post a few more at some point, there are a few teaser images that I've put on my new Facebook page if your really board and want to see more :lol: see my signature

Matt
 
Ha ha Matt, not a good thrower then,

I didnt know you did the occasional wedding, Aye best not post on the wedding forum, asbestos jacket comes in useful on there :naughty:
 
Just Dave said:
Ha ha Matt, not a good thrower then,

I didnt know you did the occasional wedding, Aye best not post on the wedding forum, asbestos jacket comes in useful on there :naughty:
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:lol: :lol: yeah some of the wedding guys are very protectionist :lol: but they tend not to venture much out of that section so I should be safe in here :D :tumbleweed:

I might grab the asbestos jacket at some point in the future ;) I have to be brave or drunk when I do :lol:

TBH she was a real good thrower just not sure how much power she needed :lol: before the throw we joked about going very long to see if we could get anyone to jump into the late :naughty:

Matt
 
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^Joe said:
I am gobsmacked by some of these photo's, I am struggling to keep up with the Photo52 and it's only my secnd week.

Cognrats on the great pics and please keep it up.

Joe
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Thanks Joe, and best of luck with your 52 a challenge be it 52 or 365 is hard work and a big commitment, but I've found it great for pushing me to try new things :thumbs:

I'm very pleased that you have enjoyed my photo's so far and you've been impressed at the standard, I will as ever ensure that I keep up the standard that you have seen thus far :thumbs:

Matt
 
Day 234 - Taking it easy

It has been such a busy weekend that for this evening I decided to just make like easy for myself, and this is a result I wonderful almost completely white Dahlia from in my garden...

The only processing on this is a small crop, a small boost to the saturation levels and the a bit of vignette


234/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

I know I'm going mad when I a warm glow in side at a number in this case it was the day of the year, day 2,3,4 :bang: the men with white coats will be a long soon :lol:

Matt
MWHCVT
 
Hiya Matt, liking the church photograph, great exposure. The wedding photograph is excellent, I like it a lot and I think the black and white conversion suits it really well. Once again, I would like to say well done for doing so well indeed with this 365 project. :thumbs:
 
michael23 said:
Hiya Matt, liking the church photograph, great exposure. The wedding photograph is excellent, I like it a lot and I think the black and white conversion suits it really well. Once again, I would like to say well done for doing so well indeed with this 365 project. :thumbs:
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Thanks Michael, I don't think I could continue with a 365 without the support that I have received from TP and Flickr :thumbs: it is hard work but I am really enjoying it :thumbs:

I am so pleased with the wedding photo, I don't think that one could have worked out any better :D

The church is good, the sky could have had more interest but for a first attempt at that kind I thing I don't think it went to badly :lol:

Matt
 
Day 236 - White Diamonds

After the rain had stopped I went out to get a photo, I found these little white flowers in the garden with little glistening drops of rain on them, looking like little shining diamonds on the petals of the flowers :D


236/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Matt
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Hiya Matt,

Wow it seems like just the other day I was commenting on your thread and I can't believe how time has flown past .... so here I am doing a catch up:

216: Love the colour and detail of the flower and how kind of the hover fly to pop past for the shot :D

217: Your light trails always impress me ... and this is still something I have to try ... which is something on my to do list now that the nights are drawing in.

218: Yummy, now I wish I hadn't seen this as I could just scoff a piece of delish cake now.

219: Great macro shot of a Hawthorn berry ... I have a photo somewhere in my collection of these, but not as sharp as this one .... well done!

220: Love the first attempt at this steel wool thing, something else I still have to try at some point.

221: Good capture of the flower, although the flower itself doesn't appeal to me. Do you think we might still see more lightning this year? We don't seem to get much in this country. In South Africa we had to most amazing electric storms.

222: Ah yes ... I remember taking a guess at this one.

223: What a fantastic idea and love the composition and colours. Now this photo would be my son's fav as he loves tomato soup.

224: Now this I like ... it is the way I try to capture flowers. Normally I set camera to 1/200, F11, ISO 200 (depending on lighting) and -2 flash compensation.

225: Looks like you had a fun day ... and not a back shot of the duck for full manual.

226: Now that is a different perspective and I love the colours and detail you have captured.

227: Great shot of the moon .... a subject I enjoy photographing too ... when we get the clear skies ooop norf.

228: Another fantastic light trail .... I will have to follow you tutorial which I have subscribed to.

229: I don't actually mind the central composition and I like the way you have framed the subject with the wall and trees and the colour is warm. HDR processing is something I have tried a few times recently, but still trying to get my head round it.

230: Now this one has to be my favourite. I love abstract art and I think you have done a fantastic job with this. What was the subject that you photographed? And btw I don't care if people don't think this is photography .... I do! After all without the photograph you wouldn't have the image. So well done on being creative. This is the type of processing I like to do with photos ... as you may have already gathered :D

231: Another lovely photo ... and well titled too. Looks like the hover from 216 has brought a friend along :lol:

232: Great shot of the bride throwing the bouquet. It's a pity that the sky wasn't more in your favour, but still a lovely shot.

233: Not sure about the focus on this one ... or perhaps it is more to do with the contrast. So go on .... what does the title relate to? I was thinking it had something to do with the fact that the photo looks slightly off alignment, but there is nothing you could do about that :shrug:

234: Indeed the men in white coats will be coming for you ... as they are for a number of us doing personal projects :lol: Quite appropriate that you should say that when you have taken a photo of a white flower :D

235: Should the title not read 'In need of Restoration'? Indeed the flower looks past it's best ... but a great shot ... especially as I have found yellow to be a tricky colour to photograph so well done.

236: Beautiful photo and the little rain drops add to the pic.

You are doing a fantastic job with your 365, keep up the brilliant work.

Well done

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
drodd said:
Hiya Matt,

Wow it seems like just the other day I was commenting on your thread and I can't believe how time has flown past .... so here I am doing a catch up:

216: Love the colour and detail of the flower and how kind of the hover fly to pop past for the shot :D

217: Your light trails always impress me ... and this is still something I have to try ... which is something on my to do list now that the nights are drawing in.

218: Yummy, now I wish I hadn't seen this as I could just scoff a piece of delish cake now.

219: Great macro shot of a Hawthorn berry ... I have a photo somewhere in my collection of these, but not as sharp as this one .... well done!

220: Love the first attempt at this steel wool thing, something else I still have to try at some point.

221: Good capture of the flower, although the flower itself doesn't appeal to me. Do you think we might still see more lightning this year? We don't seem to get much in this country. In South Africa we had to most amazing electric storms.

222: Ah yes ... I remember taking a guess at this one.

223: What a fantastic idea and love the composition and colours. Now this photo would be my son's fav as he loves tomato soup.

224: Now this I like ... it is the way I try to capture flowers. Normally I set camera to 1/200, F11, ISO 200 (depending on lighting) and -2 flash compensation.

225: Looks like you had a fun day ... and not a back shot of the duck for full manual.

226: Now that is a different perspective and I love the colours and detail you have captured.

227: Great shot of the moon .... a subject I enjoy photographing too ... when we get the clear skies ooop norf.

228: Another fantastic light trail .... I will have to follow you tutorial which I have subscribed to.

229: I don't actually mind the central composition and I like the way you have framed the subject with the wall and trees and the colour is warm. HDR processing is something I have tried a few times recently, but still trying to get my head round it.

230: Now this one has to be my favourite. I love abstract art and I think you have done a fantastic job with this. What was the subject that you photographed? And btw I don't care if people don't think this is photography .... I do! After all without the photograph you wouldn't have the image. So well done on being creative. This is the type of processing I like to do with photos ... as you may have already gathered :D

231: Another lovely photo ... and well titled too. Looks like the hover from 216 has brought a friend along :lol:

232: Great shot of the bride throwing the bouquet. It's a pity that the sky wasn't more in your favour, but still a lovely shot.

233: Not sure about the focus on this one ... or perhaps it is more to do with the contrast. So go on .... what does the title relate to? I was thinking it had something to do with the fact that the photo looks slightly off alignment, but there is nothing you could do about that :shrug:

234: Indeed the men in white coats will be coming for you ... as they are for a number of us doing personal projects :lol: Quite appropriate that you should say that when you have taken a photo of a white flower :D

235: Should the title not read 'In need of Restoration'? Indeed the flower looks past it's best ... but a great shot ... especially as I have found yellow to be a tricky colour to photograph so well done.

236: Beautiful photo and the little rain drops add to the pic.

You are doing a fantastic job with your 365, keep up the brilliant work.

Well done

Cheers

Dawn :)
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Thanks Dawn, your are always so detailed in you're reviews it's brilliant :thumbs: I always look forward to your comments :D

Moving marge comes from the movement in the sky thanks to the long exposure and the name of the church :D

230 was a nice purple flower

I love the photo from the wedding and I know the bride is happy with what she has seen so far so that's the main thing :thumbs: I love shooting weddings it's such fun plus I thrive of the pressure :naughty:

Thanks for your on going support Dawn

Matt
 
MWHCVT said:
I love the photo from the wedding and I know the bride is happy with what she has seen so far so that's the main thing :thumbs: I love shooting weddings it's such fun plus I thrive of the pressure :naughty:

Thanks for your on going support Dawn

Matt
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i shot a wedding once.... that was in 1956 .. the bride is still deciding on what size, which photos and insisting that the unPP'd shots i gave her, WERE PP'd .... :shrug: i serious..i give up.... she's asked for all 250+ photos to be PP'd???? then in 6 x 4 ... then talked of canvas.... told her to go camping then...

always loving your shots Matt...even if they are of a flower with nice DOF :thumbs:
 
SamuelSlade007 said:
i shot a wedding once.... that was in 1956 .. the bride is still deciding on what size, which photos and insisting that the unPP'd shots i gave her, WERE PP'd .... :shrug: i serious..i give up.... she's asked for all 250+ photos to be PP'd???? then in 6 x 4 ... then talked of canvas.... told her to go camping then...

always loving your shots Matt...even if they are of a flower with nice DOF :thumbs:
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:lol: hopefully none of the couples I've done weddings for take that long :thumbs: thanks for your comments :)

^Joe said:
Day 236 - White Diamonds

Nice composition, maybe it's my work monitor, but are the whites slightly over exposed?

I like the DOF too, what lens are you using?
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The whites are a touch OE on the edges but it wasn't so bad as to put me off the photo :thumbs: and I'm really pleased with the DoF it works well :thumbs:

The lens is my 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS some don't like this lens but I love it :D

Matt
 
^Joe said:
It most probably is my work monifailtor. It's a great shot, the rain drops add to it nicely. Is that the canon lens? It seems to do the job very nicely.
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Yeah it's a canon lens it's brilliant and I love it, there are issues such as it does suffer from chromatic abbreviation at the edges but it's not too bad :thumbs:

I very large proportion of my photo's are taken with this lens :thumbs:

Matt
 
Day 237 - Unbeelievable

Taken this evening since the evening was nice and cool the wildlife was not very active but I did find this guy just having a late evening drink :D


237/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Matt
MWHCVT
 
duttytd said:
Really like that Matt :-D would comment more but I'm walking around Asda shopping lol
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: you'll crash your trolley if you concentrate on TP too much mate :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Hiya Matt,

Nice one .... so it is not just butterflies that like these plants :D

Did you add vignette in post processing? Only minor crit would bee :lol: .... what is the semi-circular thing lower left quad? ... it is slightly distracting.

Cheers

Dawn :)

P.S. ..... don't tell me it is duttytd with a shopping trolley :lol:
 
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drodd said:
Hiya Matt,

Nice one .... so it is not just butterflies that like these plants :D

Did you add vignette in post processing? Only minor crit would bee :lol: .... what is the semi-circular thing lower left quad? ... it is slightly distracting.

Cheers

Dawn :)

P.S. ..... don't tell me it is duttytd with a shopping trolley :lol:
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:lol: :lol: it's not just butterflies :D as a young child I used to call these butterfly tree's :thumbs:

Yes the vignette was a PP addition :) it was an attempt to hide the semi-circular thing that was my finger holding the flower in a nice position I couldn't totally crop it out so I tried to hide it :shake: not well enough clearly ;)

Matt
 
Day 238 - Really thinking of Ireland

This flower features as a macro subject earlier in my 365, but today was a time for a wider perspective :thumbs: with all the rain today it really did feel like Ireland :)


238/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

I'm going to dedicate this one to my big sister Helen over in Ireland, keep up the fight, stay strong and get well soon :love: :hug: :exit:

Matt
MWHCVT
 
Day 239 - Bring me Sunshine :D

It was a rather wet day again but had seen this field with a large number of Sunflowers in it a couple of days ago and wanted to get a photo of them before they were past there best :D


239/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Matt
MWHCVT
 
Hiya Matt

I was thinking of you today on my walk through the woodlands because I came across a lone flower as in your day 238 .... so thought I would take a photo of same for you. I'll post same to flickr later.

I like your 239 too ... sunflowers always make me smile. As you know I love yellow flowers ;)

Cheers

Dawn :)
 
drodd said:
Hiya Matt

I was thinking of you today on my walk through the woodlands because I came across a lone flower as in your day 238 .... so thought I would take a photo of same for you. I'll post same to flickr later.

I like your 239 too ... sunflowers always make me smile. As you know I love yellow flowers ;)

Cheers

Dawn :)
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I look forward to seeing your woodland photo's especially the orange flower :thumbs:

I knew you would like the sunflowers :D I liked the sunflowers with no sun and the moody grey sky :lol:

Matt
 
Day 240 - Nostalger at its best

This is G-LOFC of Atlantic Airlines its a Lockheed L-188 Electra operating into CVT - Coventry


240/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

I used a slow shutter speed to get some mice prop blur, I'm really pleased with this considering it was shot from the hand :D

Matt
MWHCVT
 
michael23 said:
Like the sunflower field. The plane shot is great, the motion on the propellers is excellent. A really nice image. :thumbs:
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Thanks, I'm really pleased with both the photo's from this weekend :thumbs: aircraft were my first love when it comes to photography so it's great to get such a wonderful old aircraft into the challenge :D

Matt
 
Day 241 - An odd one out!!

I have said in the past about my love of coinage, so I'm one of those odd people that likes to get the those interesting coins in my change, so the other evening this little coin came as a nice surprise, I wonder how it ended up in the UK and what hands it has been through before getting into mine :D


241/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Matt
MWHCVT
 
duttytd said:
I have some Canadian coins as I was there last year.

Nice shot.
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:cool: I love coin's as I've said in the past, I always check out my change when I get home just on the of chance of somthing interesting :cuckoo:

Matt
 
Day 242 - Ring it out Loud :D

Tuesdays are bell ringing practice so though out my time at the church this evening I had a wonderful cacophony of campanology to go along with my photography :D

A 75 second exposure of my local church, All Saint's of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. I think that this is a wonderful church with interesting features...I have levelled this image against the tower and specifically the flag pole...


242/365 by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Matt
MWHCVT
 
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