Any interest in a simple Photo thread?

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Everybody uses 'freezing' to denote uncomfortably cold conditions whether it is really below 0C or not. Why the fuss?

Not one of my photos! Just borrowed.

 

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@3dogs I was awaiting your comment about the picture above. Is it the old disused railway station?

I also note that eastern Australia has had a major storm on the coast, did it affect you inland?

 

[3dogs]

@3dogs I was awaiting your comment about the picture above. Is it the old disused railway station?

I also note that eastern Australia has had a major storm on the coast, did it affect you inland?

Sorry about that. It has the look of buildings seen here the verandah is seen often, as is that roof configuration........where was it taken.

We have steady but light misty rain with little or no wind. The East coast has been pounded by wind, rain and King tides. As I type this our ABC is putting to air todays carnage, few lives have been lost......still getting fools trying to get through water only an utter moron would attempt....There is vision of rivers tan in colour and totally destructive in its behaviour in steep ravines and vast lakes of flooded farm land.
The stock losses will be catastrophic, Insurance will be problematic, Companies are trying to define the damage as flood damage, not covered, pollies are calling it storm damage and that IS.

 

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Sorry about that. It has the look of buildings seen here the verandah is seen often, as is that roof configuration........where was it taken.

Supposedly, just down the road where the rail track used to be, then it became a hotel. (That is if I am viewing the right location, there seem to be several by the same name, in Victoria.)

 

[Shankar]

I like this photo.
How one gets such strong/vivid colors, I wonder.

 

[3dogs]

Supposedly, just down the road where the rail track used to be, then it became a hotel. (That is if I am viewing the right location, there seem to be several by the same name, in Victoria.)

I am near Tylden - which is on the Daylesford - Woodend Road. There is a disused rail spur was used by the charcoal burners in years gone by. Tracks are gone but the cuttings and embankments remain.

 

[PeterBJ]

I like this photo.
How one gets such strong/vivid colors, I wonder.

You might find a camera setting that increases colour saturation, or you could increase colour saturation in a photo editing program. I think all photo editing programs can do this, even free-ware. Of free-ware programs I recommend Irfan View.

 

[3dogs]

You might find a camera setting that increases colour saturation, or you could increase colour saturation in a photo editing program. I think all photo editing programs can do this, even free-ware. Of free-ware programs I recommend Irfan View.

Also can be controlled by exposure settings longer exposure gives more saturated colours........does not take much of an increase either.

 

[PeterBJ]

I guess that if you double the exposure time you close the iris one step to avoid overexposure, so the total amount reaching the sensor is the same, or you might reduce the ISO setting?

I remember something similar from the days of silver photography. But IIRC this worked the other way around, a short exposure time gave more bright colours. Maybe this was the Schwarzchild Effect? I didn't know that this or something similar also affected digital image sensors.

Many years ago the 35mm colour slide film preferred by my family was Agfacolor CT18. We found it produced nice, warm colours and greens in landscape photos were also very nice. We found that a Kodachrome colour slide film produced much "colder" and more blueish pictures. Now many years later I have learned a little more about colours, and I think that the Kodachrome slides probably had more true colours.

 

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I saved a view of the area, as below. The old station image is at Fern Hill. It is surprising the number of place names that are the same as in England, or perhaps it is not surprising!