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I took this picture on Baddesley Common this day 5 years ago.
It’s a boring sky today, no clouds so I thought I’d rework this very busy skyscape from 2015…always looks like a flock of sheep running through morning mist…
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The Photoshop “Oil Paint” effect works really well on a dense bed of ferns and little Molly of course…
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You mean Furzley, Minstead…they won’t let me into the gardens there.
Sure I saw you out and about today
Ah yes it was me I was en route to a “Pride and Joy” car gathering at the “Empress of Blandings” at Copythorne via a roundabout route through Wellow, Furzley and Newtown. I haven’t done those pictures yet, just a three from the meet…
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I think Admin should suspend you for that homophobic remark, some of my friends are non-gender specific. 
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Nice beetle!
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Yes it is. Bit of a gay colour I thought.
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What do those pics look like before PS effects/ edits ? Would be good to understand what you then do with the shadows and highlights etc to get that ‘50s postcard’ saturation?
How many hours a day does Chambers spend polishing the bloody thing?
He spent all fuckin’ day yesterday washing it, drying it, before using a “clay bar” to remove any residual traffic grime. Then buffing it with a resin polish. Then he worked on the chrome-work, cleaned the whitewalls before pumping the tyres up.
Needless to say, dinner was late yesterday. 
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I always shoot in .raw which is an uncompressed file, it retains all the captured detail. I then use the “Camera Raw” Photoshop add on.
Although there’s the bottom slider on the “Camera Raw” interface for “Saturation” I never use it…it’s a bit of a “sledge hammer” I use the “Dehaze” slider that acts like an on-camera Polorising filter. I then adjust “highlights” and "Shadow"and finally adjust the “exposure” all by the simple use of the sliders.
I then open the picture in the normal Photoshop window and “burn” and “dodge” areas of the picture I think need closer attention. It’s not magic, the aim is to simply recreate what the eye sees rather than what the camera sees. It usually means I like to resolve more detail in the shadows that a straight camera shot would present.
The top picture is the unadjusted picture , the one below is finished article…
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Same as me then.
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I was trained in Photoshop 23 years ago…I’ve used it virtually everyday since and even now my knowledge is limited. You take from it what you need to suit your style of photography so you get to know what you like and how to get it…it’s very easy once you know what you want.
Yeah.
How many photo comps has he won? Let alone National Press Photo of the year?
How many entire front pages of a National Newspaper have been his photos.
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I would have missed out half the tyres.
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