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In voller Fahrt schnauft 99 4802-7 am Selliner See vorbei und nimmt nun die Steigung hoch in die Granitz in Angriff.
I am investing a great part of my domestic quarantine in rummaging through my archives to unearth some forgotten, hopefully worthwhile shot to process. When this bracketing resurfaced from a stray nook of my hard disk, it struck some chords deep in my soul (most assuredly my brain was somehow performing an on-the-fly processing of those rather flattish, unassuming untouched RAW files). For a fleeting, precious moment I felt strongly the heartwarming sensation to be free to hug and cuddle again my wife, Laura, albeit at some indefinite time when Covid-19 will allow us to relish such an invaluable moment. Please do not ask me why on Earth this specific scene stirred this specific emotion inside me, so I will not be forced to admit that I have not the faintest idea. Rather, allow yourself the freedom to feel whatever emotion this scene will stir in your soul. I have got my own gift. I hope that this picture will gift you with the emotion you need most.
This picture comes from a sunrise session at the beautiful meanders of the river Adda, just a handful kilometers downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, dating from April 2016. That morning I arrived at the location a lot earlier than the earliest hints of dawn, so I took shooting the river by night - admittedly a whole bunch of utterly worthless bracketings, at least until proven otherwise (never say never). And I did a thing I do only in exceedingly rare occasions: I raised my sensor gain to a maddening 640 ISO. Of course, being used to shoot at a constant 100 ISO, I foolishly forgot to restore the usual setting as the light was growing and took my precious exposure bracketings at such high ISO till 8:00 AM. As a result of this sloppy attitude I had to fight a monster amount of chroma noise (I viscerally hate it)*. I found no way to get decently rid of that noise by using the rich armoury of denoising tools offered by Darktable - quite possibly because of my qualified failure to set them properly in such a demanding situation. Luckily, by mere trial and error, I got an almost decent denoising using DFine 2 and blending the denoised images with the original ones by the LCh Lightness mode (hope that my memory is not deceiving me); this, rather suprisingly, allowed me to retain most of the details while taking the greatest possible advantage of the denoising itself.
Incidentally, this picture has a closely related fellow image in my photostream, Awakenings: the same location, the same morning, just taken some 10 minutes after this one, some 20 meters downstream - ah, and one of the handful of bracketings of that session taken at 100 ISO, after I realized my mistake ;-)
* I am afraid I am being a bit unfair here, because the worthy sensor of my Nikon D5100 is quite less noisy than those of many other APS-x sensor cameras (and the in-camera management of thermal noise on long exposures is really good). The problem is, the less light you get from your subject, the more noise you get in the sensor data, the ISO gain magnifying an unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Of course an early, partly cloudy morning shooting session neatly falls into that sort of context.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and a selective bit of Orton effect as a final garnish to get the desired ambiance. RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising has been a vexing issue; I got the best results by courtesy of good old DFine 2 and the Gimp.
Westufer des Heiligen Sees in Potsdam, im Hintergrund ist die künstliche Ruine der Schloßkirche und der Turm des Marmorpalais zu sehen
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Holy Lake (Heiliger See), Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
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Am 22. November 2025 zieht die 1293 016-2 bei eisigen Temperaturen die Rollende Landstraße ROLA 53335 von Wörgl zum Brennersee. Bei Mühlbachl nahe Matrei am Brenner arbeitet sich der Zug auf der steigungsreichen Brennerbahn bergwärts. Der dichte Hochnebel betont die winterlich angezuckerte Szenerie auf dieser klassischen Nord-Süd-Achse und verstärkt den alpinen Charakter der Aufnahme.
Am Abend des 11. Mai 2019 bestritt die 110 383 der Cetralbahn AG die Rückfahrt mit dem DPE 349 von Minden Westf. nach Aachen Hbf. Die Aufnahme zeigt den Zug in Bielefeld-Ummeln. Auf der Hinfahrt war die 01 519 Zuglok gewesen.
an einem Parkplatz am Tegernsee nördlich von Bad Wiessee
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Frankfurt am Main, Juli 2020
Color by Photoshop. Will sagen: Der Ektar kommt eigentlich anders daher. :-)
scared squirrel. I think i scared this squirrel when i got too close to him to take a picture. Sorry my friend.