Hayling Huts

Alice M    says:

That's wonderful !! I love beach huts and all kinds of huts in the UK !!
and at night they look gorgeous ! (did you photoshop the sky , the grass, the road) ? it's eerie, the kind of picture I used to dream of when I came back from England.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

This is pretty much straight from the camera. It was captured in RAW format so I slightly adjusted the exposure and colour balance after shooting, but that was it. No fancy PhotoShop magic.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Alice M    says:

What does RAW mean ? surely an acronym, but which one ? (please not another riddle again)
Well it's beautiful. I suppose the eeriness comes from the great contrast between the mouvement of the sky and the perfect stillness of those quiet thoughtful huts.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

RAW means uncompressed, instead of JPG. The image is saved exactly as it is on the sensor in the camera rather than being converted and compressed in the camera. It allows you to make adjustments after shooting that don't work as well with jpg images.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Alice M    says:

Is RAW the same as "high definition" ? I mean, if I set my camera to take pictures with 6 million pixels is that pretty RAW ?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

_moonpie says:

Alice, when a normal (compact) camera takes a photo the CCD captures a bunch of values, but we never see these values. The camera performs realtime (i.e. near instantaneous) calculations based on perceived white balance measures, etc, etc. This is done in Canon cameras by the DIGIC II chip. This processed image is then compressed and written as a JPG. RAW is no acronym, is raw, as in uncooked. untouched, unprocessed. It's those actual values captured by the CCD. The processing that is normally done in realtime can be done on your PC to allow you to tweak those parameters which affect the image. Also to perform in realtime the camera has to take short cuts. After all you camera isn't as powerful as your PC. By doing this processing on your PC you'll get a better pic even if you don't tweak the parameters. Nearly all DSLRs allow RAW to be captured, and some, but very few, super zoom compacts allow RAW. Hope this helps.

Oh and nice photo Graham.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Alice M    says:

Thank you so much Moonpie ! (I'll flickermail you now because I don't want to bore everybody with beotian questions).
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

soozika    says:

FavFavFav, instantly and with raw passion!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Alice M    says:

AH ah ! soozika ! "with raw passion" !!! thanks for the morning laugh.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

declicjardin    says:

wonderful
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

AJ Franklin    says:

Helluva Shot!!

You are invited to add this image to www.flickr.com/groups/helluva_shot
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Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Thanks for the kind comments and faves! I am particularly pleased with this one.

Thanks for the invite AJ, but I can't be bothered with groups with comment & fave rules.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

zerajera    says:

Nice one.. Where's the water?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

I'm taking rule 2 seriously!

"2. Can be water in any of its forms gas, liquid or solid. Pure, poluted or enhanced but not with hops or we'll never get out of the pub!"

zerajera    says:

Hmm, need to call da management here - MIKE!!! :-)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Ok, you have a point. Water should be the main element of the shot. Here it is the second main element, clearly less dominant than the huts. I'll take this out of the competition pool.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

zerajera    says:

Ease up tiger - you don't know me and when you do you'll know I'm just winding you up. Follow your heart and let the others decide whether it's a winner using the voting system. It is a good worthy shot and captures the essence of Hayling.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Well I wasn't taking you too seriously, but you still have a point. Cheers!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Well you might say the essence of Hayling is water (you probably wouldn't, but you might) so I'll put this back in then, water vapour and all.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

soozika    says:

Please post this great photo to the Eye Candy! Group.
(no comment&fav rules :)
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Thanks for the invite sooz
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

doug_r    says:

Wonderful treatment; the light must have been spectactular.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Thanks. Actually the light was quite ordinary. Just some exterior lights on a building to the right and streetlamps on the road beyond. The long exposure reveals a scene that is invisible to the eye.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

F's Poetry    says:

beautiful! the light is so perfect and the colours as well.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Thanks F.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Alan Neal says:

Ok, now you have me curious. I don't know if the rebel 350 has built in noise correction as an option.... did you reduce all of the color noise and luminance noise in post processing? For a 30 second exposure at ISO 1600, you have done an incredible job eliminating the noise! That is, reducing noise and preserving detail.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

The 350D does have in-camera noise reduction and I use it. This had minimal post processing as mentioned above. No noise reduction on the PC.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

stewartpratt    says:

I thought I recognised the subject from the thumbnail - heh - I was down at Hayling only a couple of weeks back shooting the huts :o)

I love that sky. It's like molten chocolate (mmmm chocolate). The vanishing point is good, especially with the funpark at the focus, though I agree with that suggested crop - the green hut sneaking out the back door doesn't help and the fact that the purple one is perfectly end-on and has been lit from something out of shot on the right makes it look a bit like it's been rubber-stamped on.

But nice shot, I'll have to go down there at night sometime :o)

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Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Sam Wilkinson photo says:

Awesome photo, I don't think it needs a crop, the colors are great and composition is cool, only thing I can think of that would enhance this would be a small crop at the bottom. Awesome photo
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Alice M    says:

I just pop in to say that I completely disagree with all the cropping suggestions : the extra space, road and grass in the foreground are precisely some of the elements that give mystery and originality to the picture, enhancing the perspective with a unique point of view !
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

soozika    says:

... I second that! Especially since the leftmost wooden post nicely finishes off the wooden-post-diagonal running through the picture!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Obofili    says:

Hey,, this is awsome.. Extremely pleasin colours.. ive got one like that too.. but urs is better than mine.. and its not taken on RAW format and i used the lights of its environment.!! Anyways This Photograph Rocks.

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Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

I have looked at some alternative crops here
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

sashy... says:

niiiice.... it reminds me of a little toy town or something...
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

I have gone back to the original RAW and looked at a brighter version:

Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

sashy... says:

boo brighter version
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

karto gimeno    says:

veri nice!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Oesters    says:

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Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

chivas_regal says:

lovely.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

PhotoGraham    says:

Blogged
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

sminky_pinky100 (Busy In & Out)    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Beach Hut Elite, and we'd love to have this added to the group!


Beach Hut Elite

I have just today started a brand new group...never done it before...anyway, I would love to have your image added to the group. Do please join as well. Thanks.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

sminky_pinky100 (Busy In & Out)    says:

This Outstanding Beach Hut was seen in

Beach Hut Elite
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

k_stoilova says:

beautiful colours!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

redwine13    says:

This my favourite beach hut photo I have seen so far. Great light and colours - I wish I had taken it!
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )