Daily MWHCVT(Matt's) Challenge 366 - 2012 - Now with added 5D3 Goodness

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Day 80 - In need of modification :naughty:

I've found this wonderful old barn, that I can see featuring in a few photo's in the not to distant futures as I've a number of ideas for it already :D


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Matt
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michael23 said:
That's a very good looking site that Matt, nice pic too!
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Thanks Michael, I'm thinking that this location is working really well :thumbs:

Thedodo said:
That barn looks great, i can see lotsa fun there in the future!:thumbs:
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Thanks mate, is a great location and I'm sure it will work well for lot's of fun :thumbs:

Matt
 
Day 81 - All Saint's

I was passing the village church again this afternoon and this time I had my fish eye with me so I though that I'd go inside again an taken another interior photo..


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Truth be told I think that I've ever so slightly missed focus on this :( and I didn't have my tripod to it is a little noisy from ISO400 that I used. But I'm still pleased with the over all effect :D

Matt
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Hi Matt.

Just catching up on the last week. Particularly like the old barn and you light trails.
Keep up the good work.

Phil
 
phil_b said:
Hi Matt.

Just catching up on the last week. Particularly like the old barn and you light trails.
Keep up the good work.

Phil
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Thanks Phil to be honest it's not been the easiest of months so it's nice to start to get back into the swing of things :thumbs:

Matt
 
Hi Mat,

just checking in. Looks like your still busy which is good and hope life is...well, not too bad.
Love the barn image. I know your into architecture and buildings so might like a few i've done on my recent '52'.

Looking forward to seeing what you can do at the Gaydon V site - could be interesting !

cheers and best wishes,

Nick
 
Blank_Canvas said:
Hi Mat,

just checking in. Looks like your still busy which is good and hope life is...well, not too bad.
Love the barn image. I know your into architecture and buildings so might like a few i've done on my recent '52'.

Looking forward to seeing what you can do at the Gaydon V site - could be interesting !

cheers and best wishes,

Nick
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Hi Nick, I'm starting to come out of the other side, I'm taking my self of and having what I call a quite time, to be honest it just driving around listening to a Dance mix that TheDodo (Darrell) has done for me, and taking the odd photo :thumbs:

I'll call into your 52 later I'm going to head out soon :thumbs:

I'm looking forward to a trip to the gaydon location and may head over there in the evening tomorrow to have a quick look :thumbs:

Matt
 
matt... a lot of impressive landscapes.. and is that fisheye of yours getting a good outing? .. light trails impressive as usual. i keep meaning to get out there and try it.. maybe tomorrow? :D :thumbs:
 
SamuelSlade007 said:
matt... a lot of impressive landscapes.. and is that fisheye of yours getting a good outing? .. light trails impressive as usual. i keep meaning to get out there and try it.. maybe tomorrow? :D :thumbs:
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Thanks Kev, the fish eye has been getting a lot of use I love it :D let me know when you've done some light trails and I'll be sure to have a good look and if you need any help with them you know where I am :thumbs:

Matt
 
I want to combine them with the project.... But its finding a dark enough street with few passer bys to wonder what I'm upto... I'll let you know.. Thanks Matt..
 
MWHCVT said:
just driving around listening to a Dance mix that TheDodo (Darrell) has done for me, and taking the odd photo
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:lol: That's manic music that is in and in no way relaxing :lol: - just put Classical Radio on and chill out.... that will sort you can be very inspirational too when photography is concerned.

That said it is a 'Marmite' thing, you either love it or hate it, as for Jazz that's just screwed up Blues in my opinion :shrug:

Keep smiling and do what you do best - photography :thumbs:
 
SamuelSlade007 said:
I want to combine them with the project.... But its finding a dark enough street with few passer bys to wonder what I'm upto... I'll let you know.. Thanks Matt..
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That sounds very interesting :thumbs:

Blank_Canvas said:
:lol: That's manic music that is in and in no way relaxing :lol: - just put Classical Radio on and chill out.... that will sort you can be very inspirational too when photography is concerned.

That said it is a 'Marmite' thing, you either love it or hate it, as for Jazz that's just screwed up Blues in my opinion :shrug:

Keep smiling and do what you do best - photography :thumbs:
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:lol: I know it's in no way relaxing but for some reason I was finding too many of the songs that the radio were playing far too depressing :lol: :lol: and it's very hard to get that with dance music :thumbs:

Though some of it cold well get me a speeding ticket :suspect:

Matt
 
Day 82 - Spring Time

Alright so I've missed the boat on this one, as yesterday was officially the start of spring :bonk: but I thought that I would go out today and try and get a nice image of a spring lamb :D


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This was taken with my 70-300mm and to be honest I'm still not happy with it, the clarity is not very good and I have the feeling that it will soon be going to Canon :shrug:

Matt
MWHCVT
 
JohnN said:
Thats nice - spot on composition
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Thanks John, I'm pleased you like the composition as I went to this specific location to try and get this type of photo :thumbs:

I could have just walked up my lane and got a picture of a lamb but wanted a little bit special :thumbs:

Matt
 
Hello Matt,

Sorry for not posting. I've had a hard time trying to keep track of everything.

I've just gone through your slide show of your 366 to see your latest pictures so far and you've a cracking set of pictures. I love your churchyard pictures.

Very good work, hard work too, doing a 366.
 
Bilko said:
Hello Matt,

Sorry for not posting. I've had a hard time trying to keep track of everything.

I've just gone through your slide show of your 366 to see your latest pictures so far and you've a cracking set of pictures. I love your churchyard pictures.

Very good work, hard work too, doing a 366.
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Thanks Robert, that's really appreciated...I'm very pleased with my progress so far this year, I feel like I've kicked the standard up a gear :thumbs:

I appreciate that there is so much going on, on TP so thanks for taking the time to have a look and comment :thumbs:

Matt
 
michael23 said:
A lovely lamb Matt, which 70-300 have you got?
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Thanks Michael, I have the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM but I don't know if it's taken a knock or needs servicing but the focus is just not right on it at the moment when you shoot wide open :shrug: this was taken at f/8 so I had to bump the ISO to 400 to get the SS, wide open it's beyond soft to the point that it's OOF :shrug:

I'm pleased that you like the photo :thumbs:

Matt
 
Day 83 - Solid Gold

This is one of my favourite locations in Warwickshire hence why I spend so much time there with the camera :thumbs: it's just such a wonderful play thought this evening besides Darrell (thedodo) and myself it was surprisingly free of photographers, considering the sunset I'm sure there were a few around the area that we kicking themselves for not being that :shrug:


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Matt
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michael23 said:
Very nice Matt :thumbs:
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Thanks Michael :D

cotty332000 said:
Superb!!:thumbs:

I can see why you spend so much time at this location!:thumbs:
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Cheers Simon, I really is the most amazing location :thumbs: though I maybe spend a little too much time there, I think that they should give me a log cabin there or access to the room inside the windmill, I really must do a sun rise there soon :D

Matt
 
Super sky Matt, well done.
What processing have u done on it?

Phil
 
phil_b said:
Super sky Matt, well done.
What processing have u done on it?

Phil
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Thanks Phil, the processing on this is really quite simple, all I've done is drop the exposure back a little and boost the blacks, as that's given me the silhouette look, I've done this because at the moment the foreground is just a brown field of soil with northing showing up as growing, I also boosted both virbrance and saturation by about 5-10 percent, finally it is a custom white balance raised to about 6700k

I hope that helps and I'm pleased that you like the image :thumbs:

Matt
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Day 84 - Improved Skill

I think that this photo show the improvement that I've made photographically in the last 12 months, since that this photo is the same location that I did only my second proper star trail a little under 12 months ago :thumbs:


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This is 180 x 20 second exposures @ f/5.6 ISO400 this was a real challenge that I set myself as I did the trail while the church was still fully illuminated by sodium flood lights :thumbs:

Matt
MWHCVT
 
That's a really nice star trail Matt - a peach in fact, must try and do this one day !

Nick
 
Blank_Canvas said:
That's a really nice star trail Matt - a peach in fact, must try and do this one day !

Nick
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If your free tomorrow night your welcome on the star trails meet :thumbs: but it's a fair distance for you :shrug: I'm pleased that you like the image, I'm really very pleased with it especially when it's compared to the previous one I did from this location :thumbs:

Matt
 
MWHCVT said:
If your free tomorrow night your welcome on the star trails meet :thumbs: but it's a fair distance for you :shrug: I'm pleased that you like the image, I'm really very pleased with it especially when it's compared to the previous one I did from this location :thumbs:

Matt
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It's a possibility, sounds good - can you send me the Linky with the details ?

Cheers,

Nick
 
Blank_Canvas said:
It's a possibility, sounds good - can you send me the Linky with the details ?

Cheers,

Nick
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HERE you go mate, as I said it's a fair distance for you, as it's down in my part of the world, though we do have another Derbyshire resident attending :thumbs:

Matt
 
MWHCVT said:
HERE you go mate, as I said it's a fair distance for you, as it's down in my part of the world, though we do have another Derbyshire resident attending :thumbs:

Matt
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Many thanks Matt, going to get my head down and make a decision later on. Batteries going on charge... If I'm not to tired I just may :thumbs:

Cheers,

Nick
 
Blank_Canvas said:
Many thanks Matt, going to get my head down and make a decision later on. Batteries going on charge... If I'm not to tired I just may :thumbs:

Cheers,

Nick
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Fair enough :thumbs: I appreciate it's a fair old distance for you ;)
 
Day 85 - Windmill Wonder

Tonight with a number of other TPer's I attended Chesterton Windmill to have a bit of star trail fun :thumbs: this was shot with my fish eye lens and as such shows of a little bit of the distortion that you get with this lens :D

I'm very pleased with this as I've just managed to get polaris into frame :D and to top it off I've managed to capture an iridium flare :D


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This is made up of around 220 x 30 seconds exposures @ f/4 ISO800
 
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