Rye House, Hertfordshire

Real ducks or flown in from Shepperton?

The latter. The sky, too.

The sky definitely looks out of place.

It shouldn't, because it's similar to, but without the cables that stretch across, the real one.

Maybe that's because we have a different light on the pond.

Not very different from the unedited original, here:

The original is a lot more natural looking, with the sky matching the river.
The new sky is very nice, but it doesn't fit.

I don't know why you wanted to insert ducks into what is a nice cloud reflection in the water.
The white square around one of the ducks tends to show up the fakery.

Without the ducks, to me the picture looks a little dull.

To a pictorial photographer, whether or not a picture looks natural is unimportant, and if the pictorial effect can be enhanced with a little "fakery", I'm all for it.

I agree that the original is a little dull, but the fake ducks are just a distraction.

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When the actor Bernard Youens (who played Stan Ogden, Hilda's husband) died, they wrote him out of the series and re-cast Hilda as a widow, with that large framed photo always prominently displayed on her table. But it always struck me as silly, the picture very obviously being a professionally-taken stage portrait of the actor, whereas the "Hilda" character, if she'd even had a photo of her husband, it would have been a small, blurred amateur snapshot at best.

Don't be such a snob. Working-class people do sometimes go to professional photographers.

Not the penniless Hilda character (her husband was unemployed and a gambler), and even if they had gone to one, the portrait would have been formally posed, not with the subject gurning theatrically at the camera, and would have been of the pair of them. And if she'd gone to the trouble and expense of having a professional portrait taken just of him, why did it appear only after his death?

I have no idea, since I wasn't a regular viewer. Perhaps he had it done in a photo booth after he'd won on the horses, and that would account for why he looks so happy. Hilda wouldn't have needed to display it in a frame when she was seeing him every day, but could pretend to miss him after he'd gone. Where was the muriel taken?

No way that could have been taken in a photo booth.

Muriel who?

The 'muriel' on her wall what the ducks are flying across. Where is it, do you think?

If it was me (and it isn't) whilst I like your photo's I like as is and would have left the the wires and stuff in!

I can't see any wires!

Presumably in Granada Studios in Manchester. It was supposedly a downstairs room in the Ogden's 2-up-2-down in Coronation Street.

There are eight or more cables running near-horizontally across the lower part of the sky behind the building.

What is the muriel depicting, you berk? Dorset perhaps?
Coz they don't have cliffs like that in Manchester.

I've no idea what or where it depicts, but it could be (like traditional Chinese landscape paintings) somewhere purely imaginary.

Glad I'm a berk. I could be in line for a peerage.

There's enough berks in the Lords already

Stunning capture and lighting! Stay well!

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Happy sunday evening

Merci. Et vous.