Chaos in motion
Wow, this week has just flown by for me, we have just had our kitchen redone from scratch and the ovens and plumbing work finished the main section of the works on Friday. After three weeks making do with camping stoves and a small oven/ microwave and bottled water it is BLISS to have a kitchen again. This weekend we spent cleaning and trying to get back to some semblance of normality by filling the cupboards with all our things! I am LOVING my new kitchen so far, we only have the touching up and floor tiles to go now, so the end is really in sight ๐
The theme this week for the weekly photo challengeย is MOTION, we are encouraged to share our photographs that have captured motion, and tell the stories behind the images.
Well, the above photo was taken in my garden late on a summer afternoon, the weather was glorious, so warm. My daughter was making a coaster out of Hama beads, she had placed a variety of colours into a small IKEA pot. Luckily I was sitting beside her snapping photos for my Project Life layouts for the week when my sons football hit the blanket we were sitting on. Lets just say, my daughter was not at all happy as the beads went flying, but I was was very pleased that I captured the moment. The shot is quite cropped from the original, but I loved the way the Hama beads were caught in motion as they flew out of the pot.
What a wonderful colourful picture that just makes you smile. Good crop. Wonderful composition.
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Thank you, these Hama beads sure are colourful, glad it makes you smile, it definitely was a fun afternoon and I am so glad I caught it on camera ๐
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Nice catch.
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Thank you ๐
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brilliant! ๐
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Thank you ๐
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Great photo!
What size are the photos you take, in order for you to be able to crop a small area and have the final image come out so clear and detailed? (For example, the largest photo my camera seems to be able to take is 2816 x 2112 pixels.) Do you shoot in raw mode? (I’ve never tried that.)
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Thank you. I always shoot in RAW and then edit in Lightroom mainly, gives me so many possibilities. The photo sizes are quite large, this one was 5472 x 3648 pixels, image size 57.1M
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Nice. I need to see if my camera can shoot in raw.
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It is worth if you can, which editing program do you use? you would need to make sure it can deal with RAW images.
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I’ve been playing around with the free versions of PicMonkey and Pixlr. I have a Printshop program, but it’s too old to do much of anything worthwhile. Are there any free programs that could handle it?
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If you have a Canon camera that shoots RAW, you should be able to download Digital Photo Professional for free from the Canon website, I used this before I had Lightroom and Photoshop. I have not used any of the free programs in a while, but have heard that rawtherapee is quite good, another that looks quite interesting is darktable and also Scarab Darkroom. A classic one is UFRaw and of course Googles Picasa. Maybe one day I should try them out and do a post on how I find them!
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Thanks for the great info. I’m looking through my camera manual and it seems that it will not shoot in RAW. I did discover that, though I had set my images to the largest size, there is also a image quality setting, which I had on the middle setting. Looks like the best I can get with this old camera is 2816 X 2112 pixels that is estimated to be saved at around 2720 KB on the “super fine” quality setting. Oh well, that will work for a newbie like me. ๐
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I know PicMonkey let me make a custom canvas that was 5,000 by 3,000 when I was combining some photos, so I guess it could download a photo that size, but it was slow on making editing changes at that size.
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It is a huge file, I know my hard drives are testament to the ever increasing image sizes!
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Love the colours in this, and the fact it reminded me of using those beads as a child, such fun!
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Thank you, my daughter loves them and this was such a fun afternoon that ended in fits of laughter as the beads flew everywhere ๐
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A lovely example of being in the right spot at the right time ๐ Good shot!
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It definitely was, thank you for the compliment ๐
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Great shot.
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Thank you ๐
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I love that serendipitous catch! ๐
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๐ Glad you like it
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wonderful chaos
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It was fun chaos as well :-). Thank you so much for commenting
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