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The South Lake at Willen has a new landmark, the Willen Observation Wheel - seen here towering above the Lakeside pub on a very cold December evening before everything closed down again 😟
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Last year this time we still had feet of snow on the ground. Hyacinths are starting to bloom and the grass is growing!
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From Wikipedia:
Gullfoss is a waterfall located in the canyon of the Hvítá river in southwest Iceland.
The Hvítá river flows southward, and about a kilometre above the falls it turns sharply to the right and flows down into a wide curved three-step "staircase" and then abruptly plunges in two stages (11 metres or 36 feet, and 21 metres or 69 feet) into a crevice 32 metres (105 ft) deep. The crevice, about 20 metres (66 ft) wide and 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) in length, extends perpendicular to the flow of the river. The average amount of water running down the waterfall is 141 cubic metres (5,000 cu ft) per second in the summer and 80 cubic metres (2,800 cu ft) per second in the winter. The highest flood measured was 2,000 cubic metres (71,000 cu ft) per second.
During the first half of the 20th century and some years into the late 20th century, there was much speculation about using Gullfoss to generate electricity. During this period, the waterfall was rented indirectly by its owners, Tómas Tómasson and Halldór Halldórsson, to foreign investors. However, the investors' attempts were unsuccessful, partly due to lack of money. The waterfall was later sold to the state of Iceland, and is now protected.
Sigríður Tómasdóttir, the daughter of Tómas Tómasson, was determined to preserve the waterfall's condition and even threatened to throw herself down. Although it is widely believed, the very popular story that Sigríður saved the waterfall from exploitation is untrue.[citation needed] A stone memorial to Sigriður, located above the falls, depicts her profile.
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The case for HDR processing in Macro Photography
Macro-photography is one of my passions, and there is something fascinating about the natural world in its magnified state. Whilst a full explanation of what macro photograph is, is outside of the scope of this article it can essentially be summarized as any photo where the item being photographed equates to the same size (or larger) on the sensor. So for example if you were taking a photo of a bug that was 1 mm, then in macro photography it would be 1 mm on the sensor as well (or larger). This is often referred to as 1:1 magnification ratio.
Macro photography can show some incredible details within everyday objects like spiders, butterflies, reptiles and other creatures (and inanimate objects) because of the size of the item however there are often a number of post processing steps which are required to bring the best out of an image, such as focus stacking. In this article I wanted to talk about High Dynamic Range processing, this gets a fairly bad rap as it can often lead to cartoon-ish images however, when done well it has the ability to really enhance your images, and extract detail from the shadows and improve the colors.
So what is High Dynamic Range imaging (or HDR), in essence this is the method of merging or editing images to extract the details from the highlights and shadows (the light and dark areas) and taking this information and bringing it into a final photo which is more evenly lit and has more color and detail in these light and dark areas. Usually with HDR photos you would take what is called an exposure bracket, so you would capture one photo which is over exposed, one photo which is perfectly exposed and a final photo which is under exposed. The program then extracts the information it needs from the overexposed photo (usually getting shadow information), and from the underexposed photo (usually getting highlight information) and blends it into the perfectly exposed photo.
If you are capturing inanimate objects then you could try something like this, but in most cases with live objects you won't have the time to captured exposure bracketed shots, so you need to look at a tool which can pull the information out of a single photo. In my case I was using Aurora HDR which is a HDR program from Skylum, this uses the Quantum AI engine to get the best out of your images, and whilst it prefers exposure blends, it does work with single images.
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Walking back to the ferry late at night I stopped in St Marks Square to capture reflections. To get this shot, I held the camera right above the water.
Nowadays, days I use a Playpod which is similar to a tripod with a small base you attach to the camera. The first time I saw it I didn't know what to think, but I've had it for a few months now, and I take it everywhere. I like doing low perspective shots, and the Platypod excels at that, and it saves both time and the camera body. Before, I would use whatever I had in hand like a strap or iPhone to prop the lens up, and that takes time and patience to get it right. But the Playpod it's like having a mini tripod at ground level.
Anyway, we had a late meal along the canals and walking back there were fewer people than during the day. The next time I go back, I'll probably sleep all day and walk around taking photos all night. And you can be sure I'll be carrying my trusty Platypod.
Now and then, without warning, the view from a cruise ship can be over the top. This is why I like booking a room with a balcony.
The Oasis of the Seas was just leaving the dock at Cozumel, and everything came together. As the ships leave, smaller boats are returning to dock after depositing their tour groups. By six in the evening, all the ships have departed, and the little towns and villages become sleepy again. That's why I think Cozumel is the closest thing to Margaritaville.
My apologies if this image seems overly saturated. I've desaturated the colors a couple of times because it doesn't seem realistic. Every now and then that happens. More and more I pay attention to the levels of color saturation while I'm taking the picture, and sometimes it's quite high. Then I have to tone it down in post-processing because it can look fake. This is one of those cases, but I'm still not sure if it's enough.
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