Pentti (391) 2009-08-23 13:01:10

A very good shot. As stated the noise is no issue here, but when you asked so I at lest try.

Just added some tones and removed noise from the face by wavelet de-noising.

The original was only 120kb or so which made this a hard task. From the original the result would be better of course.

Pentti

noborders (14199) 2008-12-29 00:36:45

(Still confused by the colours of this camera, they are a bit too vivid although I turned down the contrast slightly).

Impossible to show all the funny elements of this carousel, which had such a success among the children, the parents admiring the fantasy of the whole thing. Many animals could be animated by the children themselves.

noborders (14199) 2008-12-29 00:32:13

Another view of the same carousel, the church sainte Catherine is not the most ancient in Brussels (building started in 1854 on the site of a chapel dating from the 12th century). Style is a mix of roman, gothic et renaissance.

noborders (14199) 2008-12-18 14:37:25

As it's impossible to post this in another place : here is my protest about what happened recently on TE, specially these last 24 hours... All the similar photos deleted, forum threads locked (maybe disappeared ?), convenient inaccessibillity of TE and TL at around 10:30 CET...

Feeling sick... Too much arbitrary censorship from censors who don't seem to understand what they are doing, who at the click of a mouse destroy the work of others, nothing to do with TOS...

It is now 24 hours that the whole work (more than 500 photos) of Polonaise (George Grabarczyk) has disappeared without any warning to us ("account disabled", I feel so sad and angry :
till his return, we are ON STRIKE. You are free to join us.

noborders (14199) 2008-12-01 01:41:48

... where you can see that this boy was not as naive or angelic as on the other photo - but still a friendly and mischievous child !

noborders (14199) 2008-11-28 23:47:35

the instrument in the front is very common in the whole Anatolia, the wooden structure more rare and in fact, typical of the area near Ardahan where it was taken as the Black sea and its forests is not that far.

noborders (14199) 2008-11-28 23:45:17

typical house in the area : here, the outside of the fire place, in fact a sort of chimney.

noborders (14199) 2008-11-24 12:27:38

I heard Marc clicking so often near me and I had thought that he would have one of those impressive beasts to present here as he was equiped with a big zoom...

Instead he prefered to post the same chihuahua (life sized and in colours), yes of course a cute little creature...
Maybe another day ?

Sorry that I did not have thought to take more photos "souvenirs", I was too captivated by these splendid canines in exotic Liège and also by their masters - certainly next time, I won't forget to snap Marianne and Didier and whoever joins us for you to see them at work as well :))

(Here : Marc, on one of the rare occasions that he was not shooting
- it was a pleasure to meet them all, great fun despite the cold !)

MarianneS (14262) 2008-11-24 11:53:59

Catherine en pleine action, Marc qui se précipite pour immortaliser la scène tandis que les passants, étonnés, se demandent ce que ces photographes peuvent bien vouloir à ce pauvre chien, complètement terrorisé!

MarcT (21079) 2008-11-24 11:44:00

Little but nasty dog ;o))