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Thorgrim
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|  Posted 21-04-2004 at 07:46
One of the greatest features of the Portal is the pop up local maps showing sites in red and green. I would like to suggest that this year we really go out to visit those green dots and turn them red by providing photographs of them. Many of our more popular sites have been photographed to saturation point and I am now more than ready to accept no more of such unless they are truly breathtaking or are from a new angle. I see no great merit in amassing yet more photos of the same sites from the same angles. I'll mention no names.
The real challenge now is to go out and find the unphotographed sites. Sure, they will be harder to find and more difficult to reach. They won't be on the tourist trail and may not be particularly photogenic - but that is all part of the challenge. They are there and waiting to be found.
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ocifant
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| Posted 21-04-2004 at 12:10
Agreed. I've certainly baulked at uploading pictuires of sites that already have a lot of photos against them.
In fact, I generally try to look for the ones (eg in Cornwall) that *don't* have photos. I'm down there again in a couple of weeks, and will take a list with me although I can't get to the more remote sites for various reasons I won't go into....
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| Posted 21-04-2004 at 12:11
Oh, and as for the green and red, some of us are colour blind...
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| Posted 21-04-2004 at 18:48
Hi Peter
Absolutely, I totally agree. Paul and I always try to avoid uploading pics of sites we already have on there unless as you say they show something different. Think we've photographed all of the obscure lumps and bumps around us in the last year or so, time to move onto the Greater Manchester area 
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kelpie
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| Posted 21-04-2004 at 19:23
Absolutely, I have loads of shots of sites that are already well represented and so have not uploaded many of them.
I'm concentrating on howes at present, very few of them have photos - but then again they're not usually photogenic 
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Thorgrim
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| Posted 21-04-2004 at 20:33
Thanks for the support. I know where to seek refuge when I next delete someone's favourite shots.
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| Posted 21-04-2004 at 20:34
Thanks for the support. I know where to seek refuge when I next delete someone's favourite shots.
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| Posted 16-05-2004 at 21:55
Absolutely. Turning the green dots red is a great 'sport'  Then we can always add more green dots.
Alan - can you tell the difference in shade or is it really bad for colour blind users? We could change one of the colours - any suggestions?
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| Posted 17-05-2004 at 06:57
I can tell the colour if I look *really* closely, but it's not immediately obvious. If only one colour is showing, then I have difficulty deciding which colour it is
Not so much colour blind and lack of colour recognition!
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| Posted 26-06-2004 at 22:38
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The real challenge now is to go out and find the unphotographed sites. Sure, they will be harder to find and more difficult to reach. They won't be on the tourist trail and may not be particularly photogenic - but that is all part of the challenge. They are there and waiting to be found.
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I just had a go along these lines to populate some of the Suffolk barrows. Here in East Anglia that'll be the major type of prehistoric remains - no actual stones in this rock-free landscape...
Looking back at my photos, for example
http://www.megalithia.com/sites/tm242461.html
I figure I could really use some tips on how to shoot round barrows so as they look like barrows rather than indistinct lumpy foliage. It's all very easy when English Heritage mow the grass so they stand out, but this one is just in some random undergrowth. The barrow is on the left, btw and it's higher than the first floor of the adjacent houses.
Any tips?
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Thorgrim
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| Posted 26-06-2004 at 23:20
Barrows are difficult to photograph and henges even worse. As another East Anglian, I know how you feel. Best tip is to go barrow hunting in winter and try for low raking sunlight that will give light and shade contrast and modelling. Even more difficult when the barrows are in woodland - see my dull efforts of Troston Mount and Black Hill in Suffolk. Should be more rewarding if you can find any barrows on heathland. Good hunting!
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kelpie
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| Posted 27-06-2004 at 08:43
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On 2004-06-26 22:38, ermine wrote:
I just had a go along these lines to populate some of the Suffolk barrows. Here in East Anglia that'll be the major type of prehistoric remains - no actual stones in this rock-free landscape...
Looking back at my photos, for example
http://www.megalithia.com/sites/tm242461.html
I figure I could really use some tips on how to shoot round barrows so as they look like barrows rather than indistinct lumpy foliage. It's all very easy when English Heritage mow the grass so they stand out, but this one is just in some random undergrowth. The barrow is on the left, btw and it's higher than the first floor of the adjacent houses.
Any tips?
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That's probably the best you'll do with that one. I have similar photos of barrows (howes) up here. I found photographing them in early spring meant there was a little less foliage and the light was still quite good with the sun low. However, with some of them I don't think you'll ever get a truly informative shot but any shot is better than none, they're all good for the record.
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