A fine ship. Nice detail in the reflections too.
Feb. 8, 2025
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No problem, hope it was useful in some way. Using a pan/tilt head with a levelling bowl has been a game changer for me, it's so much easier to setup and accurately adjust than a ball head.
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Yeah, that would be pretty scary. Er, hang on a minute...
The shadow man story actually sounded pretty terrifying, if there is any truth to it that is.
In summary, a guy who lived locally and was a seasoned camper, had been wild camping in the woods when he saw this flickery, humanoid shape in the trees that seemed to be just a dark shadow moving around. It freaked him out so much that he ran off leaving all his camping gear behind (which was collected at a later point by a group of people who tidy the forest periodically). A couple of times while running back to the car, he stopped to look back and saw this thing following him. Eventually he reached his car, thinking he was safe and turned around to see it right behind him.
The curious epilogue to this tale, is the guy was so freaked out by his experience and wanted nothing to do with woodland or camping anymore, that he relocated to Manchester city centre to get as far away from the countryside as possible.
Even before hearing tales like this, that area of woodland felt particularly creepy when exploring it during the day. I don't think I'd want to spend a night there. Mind you, I've never wild camped and tales such as this and the one about the big cats aren't really selling the idea to me either ;-)
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You can get excellent results scanning slides and negatives that way, you may even get higher resolution results depending on the camera used as most of the classic 35mm scanners are relatively low res by modern stands. My Nikon Coolscan LSIV produces 11MP images from a 35mm frame. The advantage of using a scanner like the Nikon is automated scratch and dust removal for colour film. This automated clean up doesn't work on traditional B&W film because the IR channel used to detect imperfections is blocked by silver halide particles, but on colour material it's great and really effective.
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Goos. Best viewed large. The pattern on the road is nice. Seems to point to mum & and daughter
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This one works well for me !
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Very good.
I think the close ups make for the best images. You can see the expression clearly and that gives a lot more emotion to the shot -
I am very sorry to hear abut your eye problem and hope that you will be back to normal asap!
David
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Nice set as usual, I liked this. If you can manage to capture the shadow men, you can get a big prize :)
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A nice boat with an interesting history. Reflection is a bonus!
