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These boats are in Collioure in Southern France. It's a Catalonian village known for sardines, among other things.
After I took the photo, I saw a couple of street artists selling paintings of these same boats. They seem almost picture-perfect, almost as though they were placed here for effect. But that could just be my jaded view of things, and it's not something the French are prone to do.
One of the primary industries here is sardines. The last time we came through, I ordered a plate of them at a seaside cafe. For all I know, these may be sardine boats that returned in the morning. The rest of the day, they are click-bait for photographers like me. That was a lame joke.
7 exposures combined in AuroraHDR and then processed in Silver Efex Pro 2 with and Ilford Delta 100 Pro Preset
Beautiful seashells along the beach at COral Cove Park during sunrise on Jupiter Island with gorgeous sunrays. HDR image tone mapped using Aurora HDR software by Macphun.
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This photo is created with the 2019 version of AuroraHDR. Skylum, the company that creates AuroraHDR, has outdone themselves this time.
That's good for people like me that take a lot of bracketed shots. This is a three frame HDR that I processed with both Aurora and Luminar. Luminar is the other software from Skylum that is a lot like Lightroom, only easier to use and, in my opinion, better. In truth, I use a lot of different tools including Lightroom and Photoshop; it's all good.
I ran into a guy today that showed me some jaw-dropping photos of Iceland he took with his phone. The colors and detail were so amazing that I thought they were processed; no, straight-out-of-camera. That just goes to prove that the processing is not everything. Placement, composition, a sense of balance can produce better photos than all the processing in the world. All this hocus-pocus is just icing on the cake, so to speak.
#AuroraHDR is proving to be useful with old single images. I'm finally getting the hang of using the brush on individual layers in combination with presets and individual slider adjustments
After the last owner passed away, this building has partly been falling to pieces.
Hopefully it can find a new dedicated owner that wants to restore it before it is beyond repair!
Final three images from this sunset at Devonport from 2017.
Finally came away with edits that I'm happy with - one of the benefits of growing as a photographer and upgrading to a 5k iMac - the colour range and resolution has made such a significant change to my efforts.
You can say what you want about the operating system, for myself there are many pro's and cons to both and I'm still learning to 'think' Apple :-) But hardware is where the rubber meets the road and in pixel pushing it's hard to argue with whats right in front of you.
Anyhow the images ... arguably this would have been easier if I'd had 150mm filters to suit the DFA15-30/2.8 but they're bulky, heavy and unwieldy (also EXPENSIVE!!) - so I've been shooting brackets for years and blending in post.
All three, well two .. the mono is another take on "After the shadow..", are five bracket images -2,-1,0,+1,+2 ev raw developed to .tiff files from DxO PhotoLab 5. "Cloud Shadows" was blended in HDR Efex Pro 2 with absence of colour and After the shadow HDR blended in Aurora HDR. All three were colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5 with "absence of colour' travelling further into Silver Efex Pro 3 and Filmpack 6. All three did pay Topaz Denoise a visit - not for noise per se, rather smoothing sharpening.
Finally output from PhotoLab 5.
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8
ISO100 f/22 @15mm
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I spent a recent afternoon on some winding roads north of Toronto. Whenever I saw something I liked I just pulled over and took a shot out the window. That’s a lazy way to take photos but I couldn’t help it, I was in a lazy mood. Read more: goo.gl/mySBSv
The sunset was pretty good tonight though I missed the best parts. Regardless, pulled over to take this shot of the reflection off the downtown buildings. When I finally looked at the shot I found the ISO was 6400!
Not the best effort, but thought I would download Aurora HDR and give it a try. I'm fairly impressed, especially with a single exposure...