My Garden Seat

My favourite seat......in the summer! Found the lighting really difficult today, no amount of fiddling with White Balance would help at all!

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

Aww! That's lovely. A fraction of over exposure would have made the snow a bit whiter but you can tweak that in Photoshop if you want.

[Nicola Eastwood]

@steampowered okay.....will give it a go - I'm sadly lacking in "editing" skills! :0) Thank you.

[Boo]

I can imagine myself sitting there even in the winter...cup of hot chocolate in hand

[Nicola Eastwood]

@huvesaker C'mon over we even have marshmallows! :0)

[Boo]

@nicolaeastwood how cool would that be!

[Nicola Eastwood]

@huvesaker ....about -2.0 degree cool right now ;0)
@steampowered ....you were right, thank you.....now furiously tweaking exposure in all today's shots!

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

@nicolaeastwood Hi Nicola. Take a look at http://snapchap.weebly.com/for-nicola-eastwood.html to see what a tweak in levels can do.

[Nicola Eastwood]

@steampowered wow, thank you so much for taking the time to do that. (I am genuinely surprised how lovely and helpful everyone is on this site! restores your faith in humankind and all that!) :0)

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

@nicolaeastwood My pleasure. Are you going to give it a go? If you have Photoshop Elements then there is a slightly different route to get to the levels command and I can't remember what it is! Youtube or Google will be able to help.

[Nicola Eastwood]

@steampowered yes I have Aperture though, but have tweaked the exposure slider - it seems to work really well, have often fiddled with saturation and vibrance, but oddly (and I don't know why not exposure!) Probably a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing! :0)

[Nicola Eastwood]

@steampowered question if I may!!.......this was a top tip, thank you, and am now looking at other pictures, on some I have a bit of a double peak, do I go to the tallest, one, the first one or just what looks best?!

[Emma Durnford]

This makes me think of two people with the covering of snow! I must admit I always 'up' the Aperture slider for exposure (between 50-70 depending) and also the contrast and saturation to about 4. I sometimes warm up the image a bit as well but your colour seems spot on.

[Nicola Eastwood]

@emmadurnford thanks Emma, have been tweaking and editing away, turned some of the photos that I thought were rubbish into acceptable! Hurrah!

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

@nicolaeastwood Hi Nicola - I will talk you through it if you like. The histogram is an all important bit of digital photography. Once understood then it is never forgotten and can be so useful.

[Nicola O'Connor]

Have made notes of all of this, so helpful as so many of mine were really dark. Lovely seats, they look very regal with that snow.

[Nicola Eastwood]

@steampowered that would be great, I'd appreciate that very much!

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

@nicolaeastwood Hi Nicola. I will see what I can put together for you because these histograms are all important and you will meet them all over the place. It might take me a couple of days though so don't hold your breath!

[Nicola Eastwood]

@steampowered wow, thank you so much. I know that I have another friend @oconnor71 who will be interested. :0)

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

@nicolaeastwood Hi Nicola. It is quite simple but I need to make it understandable to other people! I might put my video making skills (such as they are) to the test and see what I come up with.

[📸 Bulldog 📷]

What a great shot, I have just looked though you pics, there are some great ones in there. Welcome to 365.

[Nicola Eastwood]

@gphelps5 thanks that's big encouragement.......I'm completely hooked and my family think I've lost it totally!

[📸 Bulldog 📷]

"My family think I've lost it totally!"

Now where have I heard that before... :)