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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | A new angle on Lanyon Quoit, with the Ding Dong mine engine house in the distance. Old photo, or digital photo put through the 'old photo' effects mangle? |
| Posted Comments: Nick-
(2006-10-29) | Nice photo : Digital--- something about the feel of it.....and the very dark speckling on the stone. Also "modern looking" (??) sign and post in the background. An older sepia photo may have had more contrast also-I'm not sure... Also people usually took more conventional angles, often putting people in the shot...;
| JimChampion
(2006-10-29) | yes - perceptive comments, thanks for the input. The pic was taken just after sunset and while I was fiddling around with levels and so on I ended up turning it into this. Funny how the low angle is perhaps the giveaway that its not old. (If you know how, the EXIF data is still attached to the jpeg so you can find out a lot of detail about the camera, time, exposure and so on). Where's the sign and post? | Nick-
(2006-10-29) | The (possible) sign and post , on the horizon between the uprights...
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| Nick-
(2006-10-29) | Oh yes, he (me) has put his foot into it again, I just saw in your description "with the Ding Dong mine engine house in the distance"; (my sign and post.....)....Right! | JimChampion
(2006-10-29) | And you had me scrutinising the background for give-away signs ;) The engine house has been there for a while, not as long as the quoit mind you. I see your capture of my photo EXIF is a little bit french - and that my Source de La Lumiere is inconnu. Its usually le soleil, although in this case it was sunlight scattered by the upper atmosphere (and I don't know the french for that). | JimChampion
(2006-10-31) | Domestic discoveries #122 - I have a rather cheap and ugly tea-towel with the theme 'Cornwall - Land of Legend'. On it is a very crude depiction of Lanyan (sic) Quoit, composed in the very same way as this photo so that the mine-house is visible between the uprights. The horrible truth is that I got the tea-towel before I took the photo, so perhaps I (subconciously) chose to photograph from this angle because I'd already seen it done on this tacky piece of kitchen linen? | thecaptain
(2006-10-31) | I have one very similar I took several years ago Jim, although in misty day green and grey, and not sepia. I remember walking around the quoit making sure I could try and get this shot - I guess I had seen the image somewhere before (a postcard perhaps) but could not say where. Getting the picture I wanted was not easy, and I was never very happy with it, apart from it being a grotty day. I suspect that the image I wanted had been put together with some trickery, although not digital in them days. | JimChampion
(2006-11-01) | "Getting the picture I wanted was not easy" - the above pic was taken by lying on the floor, if I remember correctly, using my mini-tripod. |
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