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Pine cone day today init?
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Cheers Terry glad you have such confidence in me init?I reckon that Charly did that cone for you Brian as turning it would be a little bit beyond your capabilities !!!!
I was expecting to see Charly today, got all the gear out for her and no turn up init?
Ear yar Peter I chucked that blank on a proper kit and it all fits perfick init?
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I agree entirely Brian !!!! LOL
You are too damn right Terry, I reset my camera to factory default and snapped this one this moaning much more of a true likeness.
Only adjustment made was to put it in macro mode and crop the image and resize to upload.
I'll put it next to my best effort yesterday for comparison init?
Yesterday's pic was under daylight bulb and today's was in daylight by a window behind me.
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So that's why your white balance is screwed you use a Daylight bulb, the daylight bulbs are not really daylight balanced as far as white balance is concerned, they are okay for fish tanks and growing illicit plants.
Peter
Peter
Added another pic to reproduce it.
It didn't matter what I tried Peter I couldn't get a picture anywhere I had totally buggered the settings up, it was getting bluer the more i played with it.
I went in the garden in bright sunlight yesterday and shot pics everywhere, the camera kept picking up a blue hue, I got better pics from my phone.
My Drain came out with her little toy camera and got better pics than me, I was so bloody frustrated with it I started looking at cameras to buy a new one.
It was only later I thought the camera is fine it must be something I have done to it.
Sure enough a reset has it back to normal.
It didn't matter what I tried Peter I couldn't get a picture anywhere I had totally buggered the settings up, it was getting bluer the more i played with it.
I went in the garden in bright sunlight yesterday and shot pics everywhere, the camera kept picking up a blue hue, I got better pics from my phone.
My Drain came out with her little toy camera and got better pics than me, I was so bloody frustrated with it I started looking at cameras to buy a new one.
It was only later I thought the camera is fine it must be something I have done to it.
Sure enough a reset has it back to normal.
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They are spot on now. Although that doesn't account for why the bad ones looked good on your desktop. There's no holding you back now, I think you should re-photograph everything you have done in the last month
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They are spot on now. Although that doesn't account for why the bad ones looked good on your desktop. There's no holding you back now, I think you should re-photograph everything you have done in the last month
Peter
He has done Peter they are on the post above yours !!!!! LOL
Looking at the new photo of the pine cone pen, It is even more spectacular, because that white mass that looked like it may have been CA shavings mixed back in is actually the core of the cone which you wouldn't get to see if it was drilled right through the centre. So I must have drilled off centre, which would make it much harder to keep together, but the result is fantastic. I cut through a cone on the bandsaw and could see the core which is quite spectacular. I have done some pine cone veneers going from the centre outwards and the central ones are by far the best. So you see even though you got substandard cones, that one turned out superb.
Peter
Peter
It is magic to see the "Great Grumps" coming unstuck like the rest of us !!!!! LOL
You don't see the half of it I am pleased to say.
The fly on my wall is in historics init? 
I bet they do make lovely veneers Peter and yes pics please, two of the cones were quite a way off bonkbut I was too polite to mention it init?
That wasn't a mistake, it was a feature, so that you would have the best blanks. I played around for hours to get them off centre
Peter
Here's a few pics of what I have close to hand, all done recently Terry.
This was gonna be Charliy's birthday prezzie to me which I finished off myself cos she was off the planet.
Might have taken more care if I was doing it with her.
This was the wooden painted pen just messing around and yes the chip was done deliberately to prove it is wood.
Only still here because it is gonna be stripped to redo in something more fitting of the crap kit.
This is a desk pen I made for myself when messing with bullet pens, I use this one all the time init?
One of the kits that had no middle joint in it.
The point of this exercise is to show the blue tint has gone and the focus is back, sort of ish init?
This was gonna be Charliy's birthday prezzie to me which I finished off myself cos she was off the planet.
Might have taken more care if I was doing it with her.
This was the wooden painted pen just messing around and yes the chip was done deliberately to prove it is wood.
Only still here because it is gonna be stripped to redo in something more fitting of the crap kit.
This is a desk pen I made for myself when messing with bullet pens, I use this one all the time init?
One of the kits that had no middle joint in it.
The point of this exercise is to show the blue tint has gone and the focus is back, sort of ish init?