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After going to a house warming party in Redwood City I went for a sunset shoot at Westpoint Harbor, a yacht harbor in the San Francisco Bay. I waited until the blue hour casted some nice pastel colors on the water.
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/8.0, 210 mm, 1/160 sec, ISO 800, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC1548_hdr1bal1pho1f.jpg
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I’m running short of floral wobblies, but I found this one in the back catalogue. This was taken in March and is of the purple and orange crocuses under my pear tree. They’ve featured in a wobbly previously.
I’ve only recently started using a variable neutral density (ND) filter or any ND filter for that matter. In daylight without an ND, the shutter speeds have to be too short for a complex camera movement, at least one you can control. This wobbly uses a different approach. It’s an in-camera multiple exposure of three ICMs, each using a different movement: vertical, horizontal and diagonal.
There was a little bit of magic in the processing using Nik Analog Efex. I want to play a little more with this filter because I am rather envious of the images that my friend Dagmar has achieved using it :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Freitagsblümchen and 100x :)
Garden flower.
This image started out with me playing with my camera phone in a garden centre. That’s part of a longer story I’ll save for another time.
I was entranced by the swirl in the centre of this unidentified flower - the photographed bit is about 3 cm across. I think it would look interesting as a straight image or as a B&W too, so I might try that later.
A quick one for Sliders Sunday though: 2:1 crop because I like the wide frame and wanted to enhance (ironically) the circular pattern, leaving it to our minds to fill in the missing bits.
The colours changed using curves twice: first in RGB and the second in LAB, in each case mangling the colour channels trying to find something pleasing and contrasty. A bit of HSL shifting once I had the basic colour contrast injected, to find pleasing colours (I like blues and purples and oranges and reds as you might guess :) ).
Then into Topaz Studio 2 for a bit of final work, not from a preset but just using filters. Firstly Abstraction just to get rid of a lot of the spurious detail and simplify the image to the main shapes. Some local contrast and a light colour edge were also added, but by then the main work was already complete.
The usual frame with a fill layer and layer Fx.
Is it just me, or does it look like the throat of a particularly nasty alien getting unpleasantly close?
I was really (in a totally out of date kind of way) quite impressed by the phone camera. It even does raw files (though this wasn’t one)… Hmmm must play more :) I was even more impressed by using a garden centre to provide loads of flowers to photograph: now I just need to perfect the art of looking as if I’m about to buy a plant while wandering around with a camera!
I’ll post a link to the original in the first comment so you can see how far we came.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image, and that you still sleep well tonight :) Happy Sliders Sunday!
En una mayoría de especies, cuando machos y hembras alcanzan la madurez podemos observar la diferencia de tonos de color que hay entre ambos.
En la imagen un apareamiento de Orthetrum trinacria.
Fotograma recortado un 6%
En el Parque Natural "El Clot de GalvanY". Elx (Alicante) España
In a majority of species, when males and females reach maturity, we can observe the difference in color tones between them.
In the image a mating of Orthetrum trinacria.
Frame cropped by 6%
In the "El Clot de GalvanY" Natural Park. Elx (Alicante) Spain
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This room took my breath away and was difficult to leave. The Chihuly glass artwork was supported by beams and clear glass with lights throwing amazing colors and patterns.
On Black is Best!
Am always amazed at the artistic aesthetic of Utah landscapes. The Badlands though have a special place in my heart. I will be sharing a series of images that for me showcase the attire of my mother. (Mother Earth). Please do stay tuned :)
Cross-polarised pen case.
Well so much for my foray into desaturated colour photography :)
This week’s theme for Macro Mondays was twenty-five [edited] themes in one. What a super idea… Well that’s assuming that, as you are trying to think of what you might take for the theme, you can remember the ten [edited] words involved. Which I couldn’t. Completely forgot about fuzzy, though I had broken toys, twisted plants, spotted this and that all in my sights (can’t even remember rest of the nouns either).
But then I really had to choose iridescent abstract didn’t I?
Why? Well, first, I can’t spell iridescent for the life of me, so the practice was meant to be character-forming...
And second, I really love abstracts. But they are a minority taste I think, certainly compared to landscapes or birds or even macros. So poor lost and lonely abstracts needed some support…
And did I mention saturated colours? No? Probably a good thing really...
This is a Staedtler felt-tip pen case opened out and sticky taped onto my PC screen and then photographed using a polariser. The little rectangles in the image are the pixels on the LCD monitor providing the source light.
I rotated the image in processing to get the diagonal for some compositional impact. Probably should have done it in camera, but then I would need to be a better photographer wouldn’t I? :)
The case is two inches across so well within the limits for the group's submissions. Yey!
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays everyone :)
[In case you would like to try it this is how it was done.
A lot of plastic objects work ok; some don't have any effect - plastic rulers and CD cases are a good place to start.
1)The PC screen acts as a polarised light source. Set it to mainly white e.g. open a new Word document and maximise the window.
2)Place the object in front of the screen. I taped the case to the top edge of the screen (I'd be careful not to damage the screen itself with tape). You might just want to hold the object or prop it up.
3) With a polarising filter on the camera lens focus on the object.
4)For most intense colours rotate the filter until the white PC screen appears black.
5)Capture. If you want to in the processing adjust the black point so the black surround is truly black, increase saturation and vibrance.
And there you are.
Try lots of clear objects. Glass doesn't usually work. Many plastic do; cellophane wrapping and some plastic bags do.
The plastic is, in effect, twisting the light a bit so that some of the light passes through the camera's polarising filter. The amount of twist depends on the colour of the light so you get a rainbow for exactly the same reasons that you get a rainbow :).
Have fun!!
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