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Canon 5D Mark2
Definitely not the best perfect ambient exposure taken from the electrifying growing mix city light but full frame sensor is much sustainable to produce an overall evaluative result with help n some 15 min tweaking as Image was process from just single exposure by Photoshop CS5.
Hi!
This is another picture of the London Eye. I shot a first one like this a
day that the wheel was blue-lighted. On this one, the wheel was red-lighted
and the sky was full of clouds, which were backlit by the city lights and
appeared to be red as well, that's why the red sky here :)
It kind of gives a surrealistic look to the picture! The big blue circles
in the trees were heart-shaped disco balls spinning around.
To get this rendering, I shot 8 RAW (-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3 and a very short
exposure to recover all the details of the light at the bottom of the wheel
and the reflections on the wheel axis).
I stacked these exposures in Photoshop CS5, align them and played with the
Blending Modes, Layer Masks and Opacity.
The differences Before/After are subtle but for me change everything, I try
to achieve here the naed eye vision. If you're interesting in a
Before/After post in Flickr or something, tell me in your comment!
I hope you'll like it!!
This shot made me feel good for a better day tomorrow.
So I dedicate this shot to everyone hoping for a better day tomorrow.
Sunrise @ Turrimetta Beach - Sydney NSW
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The Atrium of a hotel/office building in La Défense - Paris
Hi there!
I definitely prefer a manual treatment for HDR. Lately, I've been stopping using Photomatix Pro to merge my different exposures and get a high dynamic range photo. Now, I load them into a stack in Photoshop and manually merge my exposures to get a more natural feel in my picture. I think that this way the picture looks much more like how my eye saw the scene when I took it.
I took this picture on the Westminster Bridge last week while it was snowing in London. I took 6 RAWs with my Canon 5D MarkII and the 24-105 f/4 IS USM. I focused on the snowy bridge so the background is a bit out of focus (not much because I was shooting at only 24mm) but I like the effect it gives here.
I hope you'll like it, please leave me even a small comment, it really helps!! If you can tell me how to improve, better than better :)
Thank you very much!! :)
Boardwalk Inn and Villas
Walt Disney World Resort
This was our first time staying at an Epcot resort, I had always heard great things but did not think it could compare to a monorail resort. For my personal preference, I would have to disagree. I thought that the community feeling between the Yacht and Beach Club and Boardwalk along the lagoon was unmatched.
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help determine the type of beetle
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Stacked from 200 exposures.
Canon 5DmkII
Canon MP-E65 f3.5
Image taken under heavy rain and low fast moving clouds.
Location : Biwa Lake , Shiga Prefecture, Japan
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Do you know the Five Lamps?’ If you’ve heard this question before – and been foolish enough to answer in the affirmative – you’ll know not to answer it again.
Essentially it’s a peculiarly Dublin way to tell someone to shut-up or to feck-off: ‘Do you know the Five Lamps? Well go hang your bollox off them!’. No one actually knows how this old saying originated. Well, how could they? But hats off to whichever Dublin wit it was who came up with it. Now it’s part of inner city Dublin culture.
The lamps in question are in Dublin’s North Strand area, situated at the junction of five streets: Portland Row, North Strand Road, Seville Place, Amiens Street and Killarney Street. There it is, sitting an island in the middle of the road: a decorative five-branched lamp-post.
The structure was created around 1880 as a memorial to Lieutenant-General Henry Hall, a soldier from Athenry. He also had an address in Stillorgan. Merville House, his old house there, is currently home to NovaUCD, the university’s innovation and technology transfer centre. Henry had served in India with the Bengal Army and had been superintendent of the Merwara region in India for thirteen years. When he died in 1875 his will made provision for the erection of a drinking fountain ‘to encourage sobriety’: this is that fountain.
You can still see the four basins at its base which once held water. These were filled from spouts in the shape of lions’ heads, also still intact. Originally there would have been metal cups chained to the fountain to facilitate on-the-spot refreshment. The abstemious Henry would doubtless be pleased to see that the Five Lamps pub across the road has been closed for several years.
A local theory exists that there are five lamps because of the five streets which meet at this junction. Another theory is that the lamps commemorate the five major battles fought during the Indian Mutiny. Or that they represent the five lamps lit for luck during the Hindu Diwali festival. A more mundane explanation is that this is simply an example of an off-the-peg five-lantern design. The fountain was manufactured by the Sun Foundry in Glasgow; the two fountains in the People’s Park in Dun Laoghaire were also made at this foundry.
Joey from the Five Lamps Arts Festival
During World War II, three bombs were dropped by German planes in the North Strand area, killing 28 people, injuring 90, and damaging or destroying three hundred houses. But The Five Lamps survived the attack. They went on to get a mention in the Boomtown Rats song Rat Trap: ‘Just down past the meat factory door, The Five Lamp boys were coming on strong’. They’ve had a brewery (again, not especially encouraging of sobriety) named after them – and an arts festival.
The Five Lamps Arts Festival is an annual local festival in Dublin’s north city featuring a series of shows, plays, exhibitions, workshops and tours. From Dylan Joyce’s photographs of the daring antics of inner city swimmers to Julie-Rose McCormick’s puppet-show take on Beauty and the Beast (informed by NAMA), the festival celebrates the talent we have right here, at the heart of Dublin. It also brings Dubliners and tourists to the area – and a bit of a shine to the Five Lamps!
So next time someone asks if you know the five lamps, you probably shouldn’t respond. But sure, you can always ask them where the stag’s head is: it’s about five feet from his arse…
You can find out more about The Five Lamps Arts Festival at: www.fivelampsarts.ie
Qualche giorno fa è stato il mio compleanno....e salta fuori che la mia fidanzata mi ha regalato una tenda!!! Quale migliore occasione per inaugurarla..?!
Canon 5D2 + Samyang 14mm f2.8. Tenda Decathlon 2" Air XL illuminata dalla luce del cellulare dall'interno.
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Castle De Haar is one of the most famous and visited castles in all of Holland and was originally founded in the late 1300’s by the Van de Haar family, whose standing in society allowed them the comfort of building a fortified abode.
By 1449, the castle became the property of the Van Zuylen family thru marriage. In 1482, the castle was destroyed due to differences of opinion (quarrels) between the city of Utrecht and its bishop
By the 17th century, the Van Zuylen family line had become extinct and the castle was inherited by the Van Stembors, who originated from the south of Holland - present day Belgium. French soldiers attacked and damaged the castle during the years 1672 and 73.
In 1801, Castle De Haar passed to JJ.van Zuylen van Nijevelt, a distant cousin of the Zuylen family. JJ had inherited a castle that was in a poor state of repair due to 200 years of neglect. Upon his death, these magnificent ruins passed to his son Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt in 1890.
The rebuilding of the castle was started in 1892 under the guidance of one of Holland’s most famous architects Dr PHJ Cuypers. It is his influence on Castle De Haar that we see today. PHJ Cuypers rebuilt the castle as close as possible to the original outlines and were there was not sufficient material to work with he used his own ideas of what a medieval castle should look like. The interior was rebuilt to a luxurious standard with the inclusion of electricity. A new bailey with an entrance gate was built on its original foundations.
Today the castle is surrounded by parkland but this was not always the case. From the medieval period to the end of the 19th century, the village of Haarzuilens had been surrounded the castle. Haarzuilens was completely demolished and relocated some one and a half kilometres away to the west. The village chapel however was saved from this wilful destruction and incorporated into the new park.
Castle De Haar is now a museum and opens to the public except during the month of September when the Van Zuylen van Nijevelt family turn it back into a home for their month long stay.
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The adres for the car navigator, Kasteel de Haar,
Kasteellaan 1,3455 RR Haarzuilens.
Union Lane, Melbourne, Australia 14 Jun 15
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
EF17-40mm f/4L USM
30.0 sec; f/9; ISO 100
2 x Canon 600rx-rt Speedlites
Crawley Boatshed - Western Australia
Ventured out this morning to this location - I thought it would be a good morning - Amazing it was - The city in the distance looked like it was on fire..
A couple of drivers by honked there horns and giving me a thumbs up..