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I decided to process the DSS version again (last image posted was stacked using Nebulosity) the galaxy now spans edge to edge almost. This time I tried to retain the galactic bulge without blowing out but in doing so some of the core detail is lost in this version. This is a planned 20 hour project, I will post a 10 hour version soon after the moon wanes weather prevailing and I dont get hit by a bus.
I hope you comment good or bad.
Thanks for looking.
Clear Skies
Terry
Date of Shoot 19th, 21st and 22ns July 2010
Camera: modified Canon 5D Mark II
31x10 min sub exposures with 20 each flats and dark frames.
Scope: TMB130SS F7 Refractor using WO/TMB 2.7" Field Flattener.
Auto-guided with Orion Auto Guider on TMB 80SS
Mount: CGE PRO GEM (pier mounted)
Image Acquired using Nebulosity II, stacked with Deep Sky Stacker and processed with Photoshop CS3.
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Location: St Petersbourg, Russia
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED@24mm | f/16 | ISO 200 |
Exposure Fusion: Manual adjust
HDR 5 RAW bracketed @ 1 IL
Tripoded
Ver en grande sobre fondo negro
Esta toma se la quiero dedicar a una gran amiga en este día especial que espero sea el más feliz de su vida y que a partir de ahora le deseo que cada día lo sea un poco más.
¡Que tengas un cumpleaños muy feliz!
Te regalo la rosa acompañada con la canción de Fito dos cosas que creo que te gustan
© Billy Wilson 2010
A long exposure of a moving ferris wheel.
I just started using Google+ and its a great place to show your work and find great photographers, here's an invite.
About the Photo
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS *Shutter Speed: 20.0 Sec. *Aperture Value: ƒ/22.0 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 18mm (28.8mm Equivalent in 35mm Film)
I shot this on a tripod, using a polarizing filter to make the sky a darker blue to contrast the bright lights, and a 2 Sec. selftimer. I like the diffraction stars created by the small aperture that I used.
I opened the RAW file in ACR and used a new preset I made to give an image a slight HDR feel by increasing the contrast and recovering the highlights and adding detail to the shadows. Pretty well it increases the fill light and recovery sliders, then compensates for lack of contrast by increasing the blacks. The detail is added by the clarity slider and the tone curve is manipulated to tune the global contrast of the image. Since I agressively increased the contrast of the image I decreased the saturation and increased the vibrance to compensate and tweaked each colour's hue to make them look the way I wanted.
I opened the RAW file in CS4 and blended it using luminousity blending mode with another layer that didn't have the ACR adjustments that I had done, I lowered the layer's opacity to control the HDR-like effects to the image and removed some of the annoying halos around the shadow areas. I used the patch tool to remove a large pole to the left of the frame and finished it off with the cloning tool. I cropped the bottom of the frame slightly to remove a boring portion of the image. At the end I saved a 16 bit TIFF file, converted to sRGB colourspace and saved as a JPEG to upload to the internet.
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One of our tours in northern Spain along the Atlantic coast brought us to the fishing village Bermeo, which still preserved the atmosphere of a typical fishing port.
As I discovered the ropes with the boats in the background, they encouraged me to play with the depth of field. You can see the second picture in my comment.
If you like please tell me .... which one do you like more?
Bermeo is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, which lies in Northern Spain. Bermeo has 17,049 inhabitants, and it is the most important fishing port of the Basque Country.
Bermeo is linked by EuskoTren to Bilbao. Bermeo - en.wikipedia
Nice to view Large On Black
Eine unserer Touren in Nordspanien entlang der Atlantikküste brachte uns nach Bermeo einem Fischerort, in dessen Hafen die typische Fischereiatmosphäre noch erhalten ist.
Der Anblick der Taue mit den dahinter liegenden Booten reizte mich zum Spiel mit der Tiefenschärfe. Das zweite Foto seht ihr in meinem Kommentar.
Wenn Ihr mögt, verratet mir welches Foto euch besser gefällt ....
Bermeo ist eine Stadt mit 16.932 Einwohnern (2005) im spanischen Baskenland.
Sie liegt direkt an der Atlantikküste, etwa 25 km nordöstlich von Bilbao, in der nordspanischen Provinz Bizkaia.
Der Küstenort verfügt über einen wichtigen Fischereihafen. Durch eine Eisenbahnlinie ist Bermeo mit Bilbao verbunden.Wikipedia
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I took this shot during the channel boat parade that the city of Amsterdam organized for the Dutch (orange) soccer team for reaching the second place at the Fifa World Cup 2010. It was an amazing party and I had a lot of fun. This shot was taken just before the boat with the players arrived and as you can see the people where ready for them. Oranje boven!!!!! (Translated: Orange above all)
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: sec 1/500
Aperture: f/ 5.6
Focal Length: 400 mm
ISO Speed: 400
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View On Black - to see the stars.
Technique/Processing
Two exposures (one shorter one longer) for the buildings and the statue. The exifs you see on flickr are for those shots.
The sky has been shot at ISO 3200 and f/2.8 to get as much stars as possible.
Blended in Photoshop manually
What:
A very full Finch feeder with a couple on the "waiting line" :-)
About:
My buddy has always had quite a few birds at his place about 1/2 hour outside the city in Beaverbank (don't laugh) but after he installed this funky new feeder they just come in droves!
I've only ever had one pair at my place!! sheesh...
EXIF:
Canon 7D : EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS : 1/250s @ f/8 ISO 200
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" ... Quando encilho meu mouro,
busco a volta e alço a perna...
A alma xucra governa
a ânsia bugra de andar,
talvez buscando um lugar
pra erguer rancho e galpão,
um amor pro coração
e alguns potros pra domar ... "
Fragmento de "Um sonho para viver", de Jairo "Lambari" Fernandes
Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
this sunset scene was captured about an hour ago at Lily Lake in Lakemoor, Illinois......this frame is my favorite shot from my sunset shots this afternoon at Lake McCullom and Lily Lake....will have more to share later.....have a good night flickr friends!!!!
shot with a nikkor 18-105mm lens and circular polarizer, handheld and then processed as a single file pseudo HDR image.....View On Black
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Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones
You can put me out
On the street
Put me out
With no shoes on my feet
But, put me out, put me out
Put me out of misery
Yeah, all your sickness
I can suck it up
Throw it all at me
I can shrug it off
One of our tours in Northern Spain along the Atlantic Coast ended in the aquarium Donostia-San Sebastián. I haven't been in an aquarium for some years.
There are a number of tropical aquariums, an oceanarium, a Caribbean reef with toxic fishes. Exciting was to be inside the Ocean (see in my comment) ... a huge tank with a multitude of marine life species - which can be seen from inside an acrylic tunnel . Going through it you can see for example shark, ray or eel next to you and above you. The visit was worthwhile and very attractive!
I don't like all photos I've taken because it was really dark for my little Canon. I want to show you those from which I hope you like them ;-).
Starfish or sea stars are echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. The names "starfish" and "sea star" essentially refer to members of the Class Asteroidea. However, common usage frequently finds "starfish" and "sea star" also applied to ophiuroids which are correctly referred to as "brittle stars" or "basket stars".
There are 2,000 living species of starfish that occur in all the world's oceans, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian as well as in the Arctic and the Southern Ocean (i.e., Antarctic) regions. Starfish occur across a broad depth range from the intertidal to abyssal depths (>6000 m).
Starfish are among the most familiar of marine animals and possess a number of widely known traits, such as regeneration and feeding on mussels. Starfish possess a wide diversity of body forms and feeding methods. The extent that Asteroidea can regenerate varies with individual species. Broadly speaking, starfish are opportunistic feeders, with several species having specialized feeding behavior, including suspension feeding and specialized predation on specific prey.
The Asteroidea occupy several important roles throughout ecology and biology. Sea stars, such as the Ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) have become widely known as the example of the keystone species concept in ecology. The tropical Crown of Thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) are voracious predators of coral throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Other starfish, such as members of the Asterinidae are frequently used in developmental biology. .... read more Starfish - en.wikipedia
The details from the backside are worth to view Large On Black
Eine unserer Touren in Nordspanien entlang der Atlantikküste endete im Aquarium Donostia-San Sebastián. Ich war schon etliche Jahre nicht mehr in einem Aquarium. Es gibt dort viele tropische Aquarien, ein Ozeanarium, ein Karibik Riff mit einigen giftigen Fischen. Aufregend war "im Ozean" ... ein Tunnel aus Acryl. Geht man durch ihn hindurch findet man neben und über sich z.B. Hai, Rochen, Aal und vieles mehr. Der Besuch war sehr lohnenswert und interessant!
Leider sind nicht alle Aufnahmen mit meiner kleinen Canon so geworden wie ich es mir gewünscht hätte, da es doch sehr dunkel war. Ich möchte euch die zeigen von denen ich hoffe, dass sie euch gefallen ;-).
Der Seestern (Asteroidea) (abgeleitet von gr. aster, Stern) gehört zur Klasse von Eleutherozoen innerhalb des Stamms der Stachelhäuter.
Seesterne sind weltweit in den Meeren verbreitet, wobei die größte Artenvielfalt im Küstenbereich vorkommt. Sie bevölkern nahezu jeden Untergrund wie Fels, Sand, Kelp oder Seegras und wurden bis in eine Tiefe von 9.000 Meter nachgewiesen.
Fossile Aufzeichnungen belegen das Auftreten der Asteroidea vor über 300 Millionen Jahren; innerhalb von 50 Millionen Jahren entwickelten sich deutlich unterschiedliche Arten.
Ein bekannter Vertreter der Seesterne ist der Gemeine Seestern (Asterias rubens). Mehr: Wikipedia
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We spent the night in this beautiful, isolated virgin Island called North Cay. The Experience was grand!
Handling
The car's suspension will feature double wishbones at the front and a multi-link set-up at the rear, coupled with E-Diff and F1-Trac traction control systems, designed to improve the car's cornering and longitudinal acceleration by 32% compared to its predecessors.[4]
The brakes include a prefill function whereby the pistons in the calipers move the pads into contact with the discs on lift off to minimise delay in the brakes being applied.[2] This combined with the ABS has reduced 100–0 km/h (62-0 mph) braking distance to 32.5 metres (107 ft).[6]
The adaptive magnetorheological dampers were co-developed with Delphi.
The 458 Italia will use Bridgestone Potenza S001 tires.
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So this was taken in Engalnd. :) And that is my nephew Alex,, he is 14 and now looking to buy a camera haha.
The camera he is holding is a new film camera my grandad gave to me, it's a nikon f65:D:D, so expect some film pictures in the next few weeks :D.
He also gave me 2 lenses, :D :D:D so i'm pretty chuffed :D
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It's lights down low as Danbo and the Twins make this Sunday a movie marathon!
Lots of Hayao Miyazaki to gobble up!
Finally got a tripod too! After much debate and persuasion and convincing and begging (actually mostly begging), the Wifey finally approved my nagging request for approval to purchase a tripod! Very timely too as I wanted to shoot this one in really low light where hand holding it will be virtually impossible!
Many thanks to your views and comments!
A very large snapping turtle enjoying the spring sunshine along the Blackstone River Bikeway in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
#nature
#cumberland
#snapping turtle
#blackstone river bikeway
© Jeff R. Clow
Wil Bloodworth and yours truly got up at 4:00 a.m. last Thursday morning and headed off to Oxbow Bend from downtown Jackson, Wyoming.
That early morning wakeup call was well worth it when we arrived and found almost perfect conditions - great light, great color in the sky, and even some striated clouds that added another twist to the scene.
I've photographed this location several dozen times and conditions were as good as I can ever recall on that chilly June morning last week....
(I'm considering putting together a Fall tour of the Tetons for a small group of Flickr shooters - drop me an email if you're interested)
If you have a moment, I hope you'll view this at the larger size linked below:
Hello again everyone. This is a sunset shot from Buffalo Point on Antelope Island on the eastern side of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. This was a shot that came at a very heavy price! Numerous Biting Gnats and mosquitoes were hungrily attacking me as I shot this series of photos! They did not only have me to dine upon, but my nephew and my nieces!
Behind us was a great thunderstorm show, and I kept rotating my camera around to try and catch the lightning! Dang it! Every time I moved it or repositioned my camera, a lightning bolt would strike! Oh well not in the cards for this time.
Tomorrow starts my 5 day photo tour of the Palouse region in eastern Washington. I am extremely excited about that. I have just spent the last day and a half in Glacier National Park. Hopefully I can get a shot or two posted later this week in between all of the awesome crop shots I am about to get.
This is a combination of three exposures (+2, 0, -2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I then used Topaz Adjust to help bring some pop to the exposure and final adjustments in Lightroom 2.
I hope everyone is great and I will be able to catch up on your photo streams later in the week. Thank you for the visits, the comments and faves. Have a great Sunday!
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This is Matt..... standing on a stump, in sandals, in a frozen field of long grass.
Taken this morning.
6:35am, 4 degrees Celsius. Fog, mist and light.
Enjoy.
- Canon 5D Mark II.
- ISO 100, f9, 1/600, 18mm.
- Canon 17-40 f/4 L Lens.
- Tripod.
Processing
- Off Camera
- Colour shift added in Lightroom 2.2.
About a Silhouette
A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. The term was initially applied in the 18th century to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card.
The term has been extended to describe the sight or image of a person, object or scene that is backlit, and appears dark against a lighter background. Because a silhouette emphasises the outline, the word has also been used in the fields of fashion and fitness to describe the shape of a person's body or the shape created by wearing clothing of a particular style or period.
Silhouette images may be created in any artistic media, but the tradition of cutting portraits from black card has continued into the 21st century.
@ Bundi, India
Got to be an advertisement for spectacles.
Old lady was sitting there and didn't really care how many shots we took. I love the colour here - all I did was adjusted the levels
T: FM3A, VC 40f2 SLII pancake lens, Fujifilm ProPlus II negative
(BTW, my wife said she's had enough of my India photos)
This is by far my biggest project/photo to date. It consists of 35 RAW/NEF Images stitched in photoshop. Its original size is a whooping 1.2GB . Not to mention all the warping, distortions and perspectives :) LOL
Special thanks to Mr. Alvin Lamucho for being such a great friend :)
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Ex #18 FP Explore ! Thanks for all the comments !
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This picture was shot on a tripod with three exposures (-2..0..+2..EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tone mapping and detail enhanced. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. 1 layer mask for the sky to increase color and contrast. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Used Nik Sharpener Pro to sharpen image.
Another perspective of the Jamison Square Water Fountain. Presented in full HDR!
To view my other HDR images, click here.
The joys of heated mirrors :D!
This is what happens when you custom order something at a drive-through; You create a lineup. lol
Looks like a rainy weekend coming up. Bah... Well... At least it's not hot and humid :)!
Wishing everyone a happy end to the week!
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Sonalu – golden shower – cassia fistula
Location: Ramna Garden, Dhaka-Bangladesh
Inspired by the works of H G M, Smritimala and Naheed, to compose this shot.
Quando i bambini ci mostrano come si ama e come si affronta una vita dentro la sofferenza....è ora di imparare a crescere.
Andrea è un pezzo del mio cuore che è volato lassu'...........
Cerchero' di dissetarmi
se
mi mostrerai
come si fa.
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Last week, I received my "big stopper" and I was itching to get out and use it; so, I headed out to the coast and eventually landed in Pacifica, CA. This city is usually blanketed by fog so I was really crossing my fingers for some nice clouds. As I arrived it started to sprinkle, so I pulled out my golf umbrella and shot away. The rain continued so I had no choice but to shoot the pier from this location. The rain eventually gave up and I shot other comps, but to be honest I liked this one the best. Long exposures (B&W) are not as easy as you think and takes lots of patience. By the way, the "big stopper" is a must in every landscape photographer's bag. It's so much easier then the round screw on type.
Here in the bay area, we are lucky to be schooled by local black & white master, Steve. Click here for some serious black & white inspiration.
Hope you all have a great holiday weekend and may you and your camera find some beautiful light. As always, thanks for your support and visits. Jave
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Campos encarnados llenos de amapolas moviéndose al compás del viento, sintiéndose libres como el signo de Sagitario.
Las flechas del arquero se sentirán cautivadas por el embrujo que se desprende de la fragilidad de esta cautivadora y pasional flor roja.
Morfeo, dios del sueño, era representado llevando esta flor. De aquí que la amapola sea símbolo del sueño.
Quizá por su parentesco con la adormidera, los sueños en que aparecen las amapolas suelen presagiar un pronto consuelo del dolor, tanto del cuerpo como del alma.
Su nombre también está muy ligado en la mitología a Deméter y Perséfone, hija de Zeus.
Un día Perséfone estaba en un campo recogiendo amapolas, de repente se abrió la tierra ante sus pies y apareció Hades, dios del mundo subterráneo, y la llevó consigo para hacerla su mujer por la fuerza. Su madre Deméter salió en su busca y prohibió a la tierra producir ningún fruto hasta no encontrarla.
Zeus, al ver lo que estaba ocurriendo, ordenó que Perséfone pasara seis meses con Hades y otros seis con su madre.
A partir de entonces, la tierra duerme durante la ausencia de Perséfone, y se despierta con la llegada de la primavera al regresar con su madre.
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This was a shot I came across while my sister was getting dressed; the sun was shining on this side of the house. So as soon as she got here wedding dress on I told her to stand at the window. I had to use the flash in this cease because of the major over lighting, this made the back of her dress light up so that you can see some of the details.
I my (sort) experience I found out that photos with just the bride that are over lighted have a great result. The only thing I don’t like is the dark speck on the right side, but there is nothing I can do about that.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/ 5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 2000