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#sliderssunday
Please forgive the silly title. #2 of my mini series from maintanace work at the Olympiastadion Berlin; #1 is in the first comment.
The sliding part here is not only the selective colour. I had forgotten to activate the electronic level on my camera display when I had taken this bug's eye view shot and had relied on my eyes only to get a well aligned image. A big mistake, of course, because not only was the original image ever so slightly askew and off-center, but I had considerable wide-angle distortion in the background, the columns even looked a little fanned out. So I split the image in half in PS, foreground and background as different layers, and properly aligned each layer before I put them back together as one image.
One thing that I've learned by now about wide-angle shooting is: align and compose your image really carefully, take your time, it will spare you a lot of keystone correction work in post (and often a proper correction is impossible afterwards); unless you shoot deliberately at a dutch angle for a dramatic effect, of course.
I've also processed this photo as pure b&w, but I really liked the bright red colour dash of the cherry picker when I compared both final images. And I can already tell you as much: #3 in this series will be a selective colour image as well ;)
HSS, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
Nr. 2 meiner kleinen "Einsame Arbeit am Olympiastadion"-Serie (Nr. 1 findet Ihr im 1. Kommentar). Ich habe hier zwei Versionen fertig bearbeitet, eine als pures SW und eben diese mit selektiver Farbe, die mir im direkten Vergleich besser gefallen hat. Selektive Farbe funktioniert mit Rot ja besonders gut (aber nicht nur), finde ich, und der Hubsteiger hier war so schön leuchtend rot lackiert, dass sich diese Bearbeitung gewissermaßen aufgedrängt hat. Viel mehr Arbeit musste ich tatsächlich in die nachträgliche Ausrichtung des Bildes stecken: Ich hatte damals ausgerechnet bei diesem Bild aus der Froschperspektive nicht daran gedacht, die elektronische Wasserwaage zu aktivieren – ein großer Fehler, denn die zwei, drei Aufnahmen sind alle ganz leicht verzogen und gerade so nicht perfekt mittig, außerdem hatte ich im Hintergrund auch wegen der leichten Ausrichtung der Kamera nach oben starke Weitwinkel-Verzerrungen (die Säulen wirkten fast aufgefächert), sodass hier u. a. PS aushelfen musste. Dort habe ich das Bild zweigeteilt, in Vorder- und Hintergrund, habe beide Teile korrekt ausgerichtet und danach wieder zusammengefügt. Mittlerweile ist das erste, was ich einschalte, wenn ich mit einem Weitwinkel unterwegs bin, die elektronische Wasserwaage. Man lernt (zum Glück) nie aus ;)
Habt einen schönen Rest-Sonntag (der hoffentlich bei Euch nicht so trübe ist wie hier in Berlin) und einen guten Wochenstart; liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Crown Fountain Maintenance ~ Millennium Park ~ Chicago, Illinois
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 280, f/10.0, 48mm, 1/250s
For my video: youtu.be/U01vL0DlTmw,
Amazon construction May 2022
Riverbend Business Park,
Big bend, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,
“the primary Amazon distribution facility in Western Canada.”
Jumbo wall art mural, Uber 5000, Rush Lane ('Graffiti Alley'), West Queen West, Toronto
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Olympus 9mm 1:8 140° fisheye zone-focus body-cap lens
P7290712x Anx2 Q90 1400h
Jinbei Granse mit Klubb cherry picker at the Bauma 2019 in München, Germany.
Interestingly, this Chinese-made van was on display as a base vehicle for work platforms. The Granse is based on the Toyota Hiace Granvia and is produced by Jinbei (part of the Brilliance Group) since the early 2000s, recieving multiple redesigns over time.
Maz & Moritz 06/02/2020 13h09
A construction update of the new powered family roller coaster Max & Moritz of early February 2020, only a few months prior to the opening. The tracks have been completed. The construction team is busy phasing out the attraction and theming.
Max & Moritz
Max & Moritz are a pair of duelling powered roller coasters manufactured by Mack Rides set to open at Efteling in 2020. They will replace the former 'Bob' roller coaster, with both attractions utilising the station building of their predecessor.
Announced in October 2018, the roller coasters will replace the former Bob Track which closed to the public on 1 September 2019. Demolition of the former Intamin bobsled coaster commenced the following date to allow for construction on the new attractions to begin.
The roller coaster is especially intended for children between 4 and 10 years. The attraction is designed by Robert-Jaap Jansen, in collaboration with Karel Willemen for the station.
The theme of the roller coaster is based on the German children's story Max und Moritz from 1865. In this story two little bad boys play a total of seven strokes, the last of which ends badly for them.
FACTS & FIGURES
Manufacturer: MACK Rides
Opening: Sheduled Spring 2020
Type: Steel - Powered
Model: Powered Coasters
Lift/launch system:Onboard motors
Height: 6 meters
Speed: 36 km/h
Demolished a perfectly good bland office building to build another fast food outlet, this one is on the other side of the road to the others so they can catch you going both ways now.
Ancient Roman Temple of Hercules Victor (Tempio di Ercole Vincitore) in Piazza Bocca di Verità, Rome (Italy)
The temple is built of marble and dates from 2nd Century BC but the present tiled roof is much later. Without a supporting entablature (architrave, frieze, etc.) between it and the columns, the roof, though attractive in itself, has always struck me as a bit incongruous, perched on top like a quaint hat. This building has a long and complex history having also served as a church, but it's now an ancient monument. Here, a maintenance crew on a cherry picker (aerial work platform) and a 'portaloo' give modern context. Hercules probably wouldn't have needed a cherry picker.
The hedges are of box (Buxus sempervirens). The largest two trees (foreground L and behind the temple) are umbrella pines (Pinus pinea) and the small narrow trees are cypresses.
----- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Hercules_Victor
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LONDON - PARIS - CATANIA - ROME - LONDON ----- DAY 8
Photo from the eighth day of our crazy long distance rail trip from home (London) to Sicily. We had had an unscheduled but happy first night stopover in Paris because our Eurostar train out of London was badly delayed due to 'a fatality [unexplained - perhaps fortunately] on the train'. We therefore missed our onward sleeper train connection to Rome, so spent our second day in Paris. We left Paris that evening, on the equivalent sleeper train service a day later. We reached Rome during the third day, where we changed to a daytime train for Catania, Sicily, arriving there the same evening. Our fourth day was our first full day in Sicily, and we spent this in the centre of Catania itself. We spent our fifth day on an excursion to Mount Etna run by GeoEtnaExplorer. We chose this tour company because the guides are geologists. Our particular tour went high up on the flanks on the summit, but not to the summit proper. For this sixth day, our final full day in Sicily, we took the bus from Catania (our base) to Siracusa, in search of Ancient Greek remains, while also getting distracted by other interesting sights, and some excellent ice cream, at various points in the day. But perhaps the most spectacular thing was the huge thunderstorm which hit us in the early part of the afternoon. The seventh day was the start of our homeward journey, for which we took our sixth train of the trip, from Catania and ending with an overnight stop in Rome. We spent the eighth day on a long walk through the heart of Rome, where we hadn't been back since I worked there briefly many years ago, before continuing our way home to London by catching a sleeper train that evening to Paris.
By the end of the whole holiday trip we had seen things and sites from ancient Greek time to modern, so the trip felt like a mini Grand Tour. Or given the rich mythology of Sicily, Etna and the Straits of Messina (Odysseus, the Cyclops, Scylla & Charybdis, etc.) perhaps our trip was like a modern mini Odyssey of our times. Odysseus took ten years to get home. It took us ten trains - but no monsters.
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