Gypsy, your photos are fabulous.

Great Photos Gypsy

Fabulous work Gypsy! I love both of them. Both have such a peaceful feel to them.
The second one I can imagine as an oil painted landscape!

love these pics gypsy

I love your photos Gypsy! WTG!

Tiff..I have ACDsee that I use for photo editing. I hate taking pics of myself. Don't like what I see I guess.

heeeheee...........me too Julia!!

me 3. I do prefer to be behind the lens, not in front of it. But for the sake of the kids I do get in front of it, on the occasion.

I so know this!! I need discipline

thanks everyone

Mandy if my mum was still alive she would prabably paint it

not a BW but a way to get in the action is to put the camera on tripod and use a remote or the timer button. (and hiding myself behind my son )

taken 2 nights ago.

'With Julez's permission, I had a quick play with her almond blossom to show you the difference between 'grey scale' and BW.

Greyscale can look muddy. Like a lot of grey shades rather than strong BW contrast.

So thanks a big bunch Julez for letting me use your example. I love almond blossoms. Such a delicate flower.

the oringinal shot.


after a touch of sharpening and adjusting the contrast a bit so the whites are cleaner and the blacks are darker. I've also adjusted the colour a touch so its warmer (a bit more yellow for sunshine)


my BW. (I use Photoshop CS5) I've cropped a bit to lose some of the distracting background.


julez BW


Julez has vignetted hers (which I forgot to do ) which helps to hide the unwanted branches in the background and to keep your eye in the centre of the shot.

hey Tiff, heres mine, I was takign a photo of ROry who put his sisters pink pyjama pants on but had a great time in the end taking heaps of photos as he kept saying 'more'!!! the light of to the side of head is the sun coming in. critique away please

love what you did with Julez's photo, amazing the difference it can make. thnaks for showing us

Wow...the difference is amazing, Tiff...I see what you mean about my photo being dark. I did take the photo in the early morning and though parts of the tree was in sun, I was in the shade. The tree looks so pretty (and I got all "caught-up-in-the-moment) that I overlooked the shade

Oh ..it's a plum tree BTW.

thanks for shwoing us Tiff

thanks for letting Tiff use your pciture Julze

nice one Belinda