I'm not happy with any of the photos I took today but picked this one in the end simply because it reminded me of the exciting times on the main road going past our house last night. A young bullock escaped out of the field onto the road in the dark last night & the police closed the road & brought out specially trained police marksmen with guns to either shoot it or somehow bring it under control ! Poor thing, Harry said it was a real spindly little thing & was quite happily eating grass in a field this morning !!! A bit over the top I think !!!
Anyway it could have been a roastie dinner !!!!
This photo is taken in Kirkham after I had been to the vets for Jenny's medicine ( She is still hanging in there!! ).
All day breakfast..signs always make me smile..and with all the cuts maybe the coppers needed something for the canteen dinner ladies to play with that is of coarse if there are any dinner ladies left...as for slappies...years ago i was with a union rep from Wigan who told me that slappies are found in chip shops...in the town...it is a chip shop pie inside a muffin and given a good slap to break up the pastry..is all i can guess...however after walking through the town last sunday early morning the streets were littered with so many empty pizza boxes, i expect these days though..slappies have gone the way of flat caps and ferrets...
I really like this shot, it looks so natural and the people all look so relaxed. No one is looking directly at the camera, there are no false smiles and it shows true life. It's very good :-)
@shutterbugger@judithg@sarah19@jmj Thank you all !! I would be interested to ask anyone who knows about black & white photography if they actually shoot the photo in B&W or process the taken picture on something like picnic ? I never think my pictures come out sharp enough when I process them !! @phil_howcroft Actually Phil you are probably the best one to answer that question . Do you take your B&W shots in B&W on the camera ?
@tsingtao A ''slappy sounds a very Lancashire sort of dish & in this cosmopolitan world you are probably right & they are no more !!! Pity !! Britains national dish is reportably now a curry !!!!!
@happypat Pat ..all my B/W shots are 'post processed' in Photoshop Elements .....they have some nice B/W effects which you can tweak a little......
PSE is about £70-00 to buy, although there are some excellent free 'open source' photo editing software out there.........GIMP is probably the best, but is may be quite hard to get used to after using picnic
So in answer to you question, I shoot in colour and convert to B/W on the computer
@phil_howcroft Thats interesting Phil & I'm glad you film in colour because I want the option of posting in either . Jack my grandson says he is going to put me on Photo shop next time he comes so will hopefully be happier using more B&W shots ! Thank you for the reply 1
I always shoot in colour because I don't want to be limited to just a b&w. If you turn it b&w and you find it a bit dull, try bringing up the contrast a little bit in picnik. Works wonders!
Fabulous name for a shop - I think brekkie is the best meal of the day to have out - I do it on Saturday mornings with my daughter, after gym. Glad the drama with the little bullock was resolved without blood shed.
Looks good in B/W and I like those reflections in the window too. A busy Kirkham street scene well shot
PSE is about £70-00 to buy, although there are some excellent free 'open source' photo editing software out there.........GIMP is probably the best, but is may be quite hard to get used to after using picnic
So in answer to you question, I shoot in colour and convert to B/W on the computer