Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza

[Yorkie]

The "rapid" facility is very useful and I use it if I am tying to get a shot of an animal or bird because they are so prone to moving just as you're framing the shot..  Modern editting is very useful too, as you can crop out unwanted background and do 1001 other alterations if you want to.  In fact you can finish up with something that is completely different to what you started with!  Great fun!   

I'm not up to DaveR's standard yet though!   

[DaveR]

That's nice of you to say, Yorkie.    I think the best photo editing program is Adobe Lightroom:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

[Yorkie]

Don't give me ideas above my station - I'm just a happy snappy chappy!   

[Michael]

And don't forget that this whole idea of photo editing is considered by many photographers as a form of cheating

[Blodyn]

Thanks for all the Extravaganza photos, Dave.  I was away so it's nice to see what I missed. 

[Ian]

And don't forget that this whole idea of photo editing is considered by many photographers as a form of cheating

I don't think that's such a prevalent view any more, Mike.  And even in the old days, photographers were constantly tweaking their shots, using enlargers, hand shading, differential development times and such like;  now, it's simply a lot easier, and anyone can play.

And no amount of tweaking can make a bad shot decent.  The shot - focus, framing and composition - has to be right before the tweaking starts.  You can fiddle with the composition, but the focus is pretty well fixed.

[Merddin Emrys]

better late than never (just got round to getting pics back on the internet)  some pics of the transport festival

[DaveR]

I like the shot of the Bulldog mascot. 

[Merddin Emrys]

Thanks Dave,
      it's the mascot on this Mack Bulldog

[Merddin Emrys]

just had a play with the bulldog image, a pity I could not have got some chrome polish on it first

[Jack]

I like the photos of the flags    Bit breezy on the fields was it?

[Trojan]

I like the ERF with the Ruston engine on the flatbed.

It's a Ruston Model V.C.4
120B.H.P at 430R.P.M
Airless cold starting atomiser.

This engine was installed March 1926 to drive a 550 volt D.C dynamo supplying power to the slate mine on Honister Pass, Cumbria.

Last worked 1973 when it was replaced by a modern generator.

Restored to Full working order by the late T.Owen snr and T.Owen jnr, Penmachno, North Wales

[Merddin Emrys]

I like the ERF with the Ruston engine on the flatbed.

It's a Ruston Model V.C.4
Restored to Full working order by the late T.Owen snr and T.Owen jnr, Penmachno, North Wales[/i]

They had it running on the Sunday and it was very impressive 

[Merddin Emrys]

I like the photos of the flags    Bit breezy on the fields was it?

  yes breezy all weekend, but a great show!

[Trojan]

I like the ERF with the Ruston engine on the flatbed.

It's a Ruston Model V.C.4
Restored to Full working order by the late T.Owen snr and T.Owen jnr, Penmachno, North Wales[/i]

They had it running on the Sunday and it was very impressive 

I would have liked to have seen/heard it.  D)