Didacus67 (mostly off, my friends...)
The secret
I have been able to set for a another sunrise session along the river Adda (see Rising soul and her companion Silence inside).
The branches of the poplars were rich in fresh buddies, with their varied, unique greens. The air was veiled by a thin haze. Silence reigned absolute, aside from the birdsongs - which are an integral part of silence, to me. While waiting for the sunrise I was listening to the low murmur of the water telling her ancient secrets.
This image is derived from an experiment. I have downloaded a software called Chasys Draw, to look at one of its most interesting features, image stacking. I created an image stack from my bracketing and tried the denoising feature. Interesting result, from an interesting technique from astrophotography. Then I imported the image in the Gimp and created a monochrome version. I applied wavelet decomposition and retained only the residual layer (that with no detail) and blended it with the original image by "grain merge". This is the result :-)
P.S.
Just for the sake of being honest, I would like to clarify that the soft and silky mood of the water is not a result of long exposure or any other choice/trick/ability of mine: it was just so: the riverbed widens a lot in that spot and the river flows very quietly, meandering through the plain. There was a thin layer of mist hovering just above the water, and this did the effect.
The secret
I have been able to set for a another sunrise session along the river Adda (see Rising soul and her companion Silence inside).
The branches of the poplars were rich in fresh buddies, with their varied, unique greens. The air was veiled by a thin haze. Silence reigned absolute, aside from the birdsongs - which are an integral part of silence, to me. While waiting for the sunrise I was listening to the low murmur of the water telling her ancient secrets.
This image is derived from an experiment. I have downloaded a software called Chasys Draw, to look at one of its most interesting features, image stacking. I created an image stack from my bracketing and tried the denoising feature. Interesting result, from an interesting technique from astrophotography. Then I imported the image in the Gimp and created a monochrome version. I applied wavelet decomposition and retained only the residual layer (that with no detail) and blended it with the original image by "grain merge". This is the result :-)
P.S.
Just for the sake of being honest, I would like to clarify that the soft and silky mood of the water is not a result of long exposure or any other choice/trick/ability of mine: it was just so: the riverbed widens a lot in that spot and the river flows very quietly, meandering through the plain. There was a thin layer of mist hovering just above the water, and this did the effect.