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291106, originally uploaded by sephiroth.blog.

What it looks like at 4:55 PM in late November in my part of the world; this is a 4/5ths second exposure, at F2.8 and ISO400; taken with no support other than my hands. :)

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2811, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

28th November 2006

1st Photo Here

This is pretty much natural color (maybe I increased saturation slightly), down at a local marina on the St. Johns. I'm a bold color sort of guy (sometimes). Thanks for the invite to post.

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2711, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

27th November 2006

I enhanced this photo with PhotoImpact's enhance option, which made more of the green in the water appear.

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2611, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

26th November 2006

We went to the beach and these gulls were just hovering above our heads, a huge flock of them. They didn't have to fly, the wind was doing everything for them.

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2511, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

25th November 2006

This is my cat Snee, she climbed in under the runner cloths my other half bought in Thailand. Check out the eye reflection!

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2411, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

24th November 2006

My cat Gir was lying in such a cute pose. I hoped she would still be there when I got back with the camera. Alas no but this pose is fairly nice anyway! ;)

Wanted to share this one, its one of my favorites

These are my girls at Easter, I played with the pic in Photoshop. I posted all 3 versions on my blog page if you want to see.
Cheri

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2311, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

23rd November 2006

One of the flowers you see here was not originally in this photo - I edited it in afterwards. It's the little one in the bottom right corner. I did this with PhotoImpact's clone airbrush function. I learnt how to use this during a scambait, where I progressively edited the scammer out of the photograph he sent me, I told him I had put a curse on him and once he vanished out of the picture completely, something really terrible would happen to him. So every day for 7 days I sent him a picture with less and less of him in the photo, and on the 7th day there was none of him left. I got the idea from Back To The Future. :)

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2211werri, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

22th November 2006

Werri Beach - South Coast NSW

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2111, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

21th November 2006

2011

2011, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

20th November 2006

1911

1911, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

19th November 2006

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1811, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

18th November 2006

This is another time I used the enhance feature because the original was really dark, and it makes this shot look a bit arty but what I really wanted to get was the slight green around the irises of my cat Gir's eyes. You can't use a flash on a cat's eyes without getting that strange eye effect, sort of like red eye on humans. Note the reflection in her eyes too. I like shots where you get a really good eye reflection, it's an effect I try with most animals I take pictures of since I saw it done by another photographer a while back.

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1711, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

17th November 2006

This photo was enhanced using Photo Impact. You can get free photo editing software called GIMP which may do similar things for you. The original photo was quite dark because I did not want to use the flash. Enhancing this shot makes a huge difference to it. Sometimes you may have a photo you think is bad, but if you use the auto enhance it can turn out to be stunning.

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1611, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

16th November 2006

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1511, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

15th November 2006 - different coloured star effects. If you have an SLR you can do this too - just use the smallest aperture you have available. This will mean a slightly longer exposure and sometimes you may need a tripod to get the best effect. With this one I used the flash and this is a photo of sequins. They are actually not black, they are coloured.

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1411, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

14th November 2006

How do we do it?

People have asked how they should be blogging this - once a day, every few days, once a week maybe, or should they wait till the 1st of January or start now? I guess the answer is, whatever makes it easier for you, and you can start whenever you like. :) There's no rules, and though the vague concept is to take one photo a day and post that, we can all interpret that in the easiest way for us - some days you might not feel like uploading the pics, and instead of letting that stop you or make you throw in the towel, upload them when you like. If you missed a day of taking photos, make it up another day. The only important thing is, don't give up, keep trying.

I'm going to start getting into practice for this. It's probably easier if we're all doing it on our own blogs, but who cares about easy.. I've already got something like 4 blogs and I can't see me making another one, so my pics will end up here.. ;) But another way to categorise them is to put them on flickr with tags, and then you can make a slideshow of the 365 pics.

As far as this blog, anyone I'm linking to has been invited as a contributor, so you can post photos or thoughts here every so often, if you like. You're welcome here. ;)

So let's have some photo fun! ;) And welcome to our two newest contributors, when they accept their invitations, vamom7678 and Cheri ;) They each have their own blogs by clicking on their names in this post, or usually you can find links to them in the sidebar. We also have Me, who I have welcomed previously but twice is nice as well.

Thanks for joining in. It's not long till the 1st of January now, but feel free to get into the swing anytime you feel like it! ;)

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pool2, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

I tried a few tricky pool shots ;)

A New Path

A New Path, originally uploaded by sephiroth.blog.

Just a test to see how it works with my settings: 500px with center tags around the photo and pre-installed caption. ;)

Welcome to Me.

No, not me, This me! But welcome to myself and Sephy as well. :)

Apologies while we're testing and tweaking and stuff. Once we work out the best way to post pics, we'll write a how to guide with screenshots. In the meantime, sit back, relax, and giggle while we mess stuff up. ;) We'll delete the tests later, so if you want to test stuff go ahead!

This one is familiar

tiger1, originally uploaded by sn0skred.

Recognise this? ;)

Test

zbutterfly
Originally uploaded by sn0skred.

This is a test

Ok, we're going to do this..

Starting January One, a photo a day. Anyone who would like to be involved, shoot off an email to me, or comment here with an email address for me to invite you on.

What's this? Look here..