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Korita Mostnice, near Stara Fužina / Lake Bohinj, Slovenia. I clambered up one of the side canyons to get in close to these waterfalls.
Polariser and 3-stop ND filter used.
This is a focus stack drawing from 4 sets of 5 exposures, merged/preprocessed with AuroraHDR, focus stacked (automatically) usign Photoshop, and some retouching using Lumenzia and Luminar (as a Photoshop plugin).
Between AuroraHDR's batch mode, and Photoshops automatic blending, focus stacked landscapes are a breeze. Previously I'd found the idea of blending in multiple images too much effort/daunting, so I was using just one bracket and ignoring the rest of the set. Likely makes little to no difference sharing on flickr/facebook with the current resolutions supported, but will be important for printing since I've captured all the distant detail, and now I can effortlessly pull that in to my workflow (takes more time, but is automated enough it costs me little).
I process once in AuroraHDR to produce a preset, batch apply it to all brackets (gives me a set of TIFs), which I pass the photoshop to work out which parts of the image to blend in to maximise focus throughout. Then I flatten the result to a single TIF, which is the starting point I would have had if I'd just used a single exposure/bracket, and can work from there.
'That tree' on Loch Lomond at Milarrochy Bay as the sun set and the sky lit with subtle hues reflecting the autumn colours on the distant hills.
the bike paths along the lakefront of Chicago offers one of the best views of the city skyline and of Lake Michigan.....pls. View On Black
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Still so busy ... and didn't get to catch up during my retreat because I was soooooo scheduled! It was wonderful - like a vacation from myself - because I had no time to dwell on all the things I normally dwell on. Ah ... sweet relief! :)
Hope to visit your streams soon!!! <3
I picked up a circular polarizer filter for the Nifty Fifty yesterday and this was the first image that passed through it's glass. I think I'm in love. (o;
Hello my lovely Flickr friends.
I'm still around ;) I'm sorry for my absence but life has taken over big time. I hope you are all fit and well and I look forward to catching up with you soon.
Much love.
An epic sunset from the Rialto Bridge few years ago. I had to "fight" with the crowd to keep my tripod still while taking a long exposure.
This is why I have decided to get shorter exposures of 30s and then stack all of them to create a longer exposure.
Stacking of 6 consecutive photos.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40
17mm - 6x32s - f/5.6 - ISO 100
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Milan is a city where is quite rare to see beautiful clouds. The sky may be either overcast or clear, but rarely with beautiful and defined clouds! Few days ago I was in the office and when I saw this awesome sky, I couldn't resist to shot a quick photo from the window. I hope you like the reflections and the hypnotic effect. :-)
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Il cielo di Milano ieri era fantastico... ci si arrangia con i mezzi a disposizione per fare foto in pausa pranzo... :-)
A qualcuno pare sia caduto un evidenziatore dalla finestra... :-)
P.S.: Le tonalità verdi sulla sx sono dovute al rivestimento dei vetri dell'ufficio...
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this is one of the many colorful lifeguard houses lined up along this long stretch of shoreline in South Beach Miami....pls. View On Black
i woke up at 0330am this morning, left the house at 0415am and reached Oak Street by 0525am and parked in front of Drake Hotel....had enough time to scout around Oak Street beach for the spot to capture that moment when the skies would explode in full color as soon as the sun starts to peek out....me and another fella at this point just started shooting away...i even had shots with a couple of early morning swimmers splashing thru my frame, will post those later....pls. View On Black
took my wife, Delight, to Lake McCullom today after we had dinner out to wrap up our weekend date with a beautiful sunset...i asked her if she would sit on the bench so i could get a silhoutte figure in this shot but she was a bit shy, so here i am almost on my belly with no tripod for this shot to get a different and interesting perspective....used a circular polarizer for this shot and then cropped the frame for a wide screen effect....pls. View On Black
Beautiful sunrise in Milan some years ago.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40
17mm - 1s - f/16 - ISO 100
ND 0.9
The Veteran's Memorial Highway between Summerside and Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. On this day, I was heading to the capital for a medical appointment. I've only done the morning drive in to Charlottetown on three or four occasions but the landscape and morning atmosphere have never failed to impress me.
just another shot of Cathedral Rock and Oak Creek as we explored this beautiful place in the desert right away as soon as we got checked in to our hotel....went over to Red Rocks Crossing as suggested by a personnel at the visitor center and spent a good 3 hours going up and down the creek just admiring all the beautiful landscape around us....
used a 18-105mm nikkor with a circular polarizer for this shot and then tonemapped a little bit just to sharpen the cloud details.....pls. View On Black
The rolling hills and prairie grassland on the surface of Wind Cave NP hides the intricate cave formations below.
A magnificent bunch of full size (the largest are over 20 cm) mature Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) was all over a stump of what left of an old cherry tree I believe. Henrietta Park. Bath, Bath&NES, Somerset, England
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Nikon F-801s
Soligor C/D Zoom+Macro 28mm-55mm ƒ3.3 + Cir. Polarizer
Adox Scala 50
homemade Scala Reversal kit – vers.18.5 – Blazinal
5-panel stitch
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Prints: www.silentgphotography.com
These clouds were a long exposure photographer's dream.
Explored Sunday, November 28, 2010
First outing with the 10-22mm lens that I dreamt about for so long.
I have much to learn and many great examples here on Flickr. Thanks Jess!
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Hope everyone is having a peaceful and restful day.
Anyone want to go to Venice?!!
I was tidying up my catalogue of photos earlier and came across this shot that I had previously overlooked. It's a throw back from my trip last summer but I thought it was worth sharing.
The light at sunrise is always very special but in Venice it's beyond words.
Hope you enjoy this image as much as I enjoyed taking it!
Sunset, high in the Ponderosa Pines of northern Arizona.
EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
0.033 sec (1/30) @ f/2.8
FL 17 mm, ISO 500
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Explored Friday, November 5, 2010
A glorious sunrise this morning made even the mundane look like something from heaven. I was stopped for this shot when I turned around and saw the shadows on the fog.
You can just barely make out the tugboat working on the other end of this huge container ship coming in to dock at the Port of Oakland.
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Angled stones, placed askew by long ago persons to form a disjointed low wall, frame the view toward the distant Sørfjorden on the route toward the summit of Utegardsnipa near Bruvik, Norway.
The trail from the fjord to Utegardsnipa is steep, gaining 2,500 ft (760 m) in 1.9 miles (3 km). As the boys appear to be made of muscle, rubber bands, and springs these days, they experienced no significant difficulties, and it was up to the older members of the party (i.e., my wife and me) to provide an example of what sweating, huffing, and puffing looks like. We encountered a single person on the trail the entire day, and he was a local from the town of Bruvik that is not far away. He mentioned that he climbs up here regularly and that he rarely sees tourists, and he wondered how we found the place. As it turned out, my wife had the idea to scour the web pages of companies offering walking tours out of Bergen, where we were staying, and I then matched potential destinations with pointy looking places on our topographic maps. I replied that this particular route looked promising, and the fellow indicated he thought we had chosen well.
Later in the day when we returned to the rental vehicle we discovered a singular downside to the day's adventure: dozens of sand-grain-sized ticks clung to the outside of our trousers, and a few had found their way inside the pant legs. This induced no small amount of queasiness followed by careful searching of all articles of clothing before climbing into the automobile. A quick internet search suggested that ticks in Norway are prevalent with Lyme disease. Some weeks later we have not seen the typical 'bulls-eye' on any of our persons despite having to remove several from my son and my wife.
Thanks for looking, and I hope to catch up with people's posts at some point!
Whilst post processing this image, which I found quite difficult, my wife said it looked magical, hence the title!
This was taken in the Waterfall Country Woodlands, near Ystradfellte in South Wales. If you review my photostream, you will notice that this is an area I have visited a few times now.
Thanks for viewing and please feel free to leave a comment, good or bad.
just another harbor shot in the city as we head for another gorgeous sunset here in Chicago...pls. View On Black
Explored!
Iconic bridge seen from a small boat on San Francisco Bay, enjoying the constantly changing mood at the Golden Gate. 2013.
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Tonight's sunset certainly drew a crowd at the Prospect Water Tower! While spring has arrived on the calendar, it certainly hasn't felt like it!
From the South Tower looking north to Kirby Cove and Ft. Baker.
A dream fulfilled.
EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
0.01 sec (1/100) @ f/4.5
FL 10 mm, ISO 100
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Autumn arrives at Fall Creek in the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, in Santa Cruz, California. This is a 6 second exposure, with circular polarizer to knock down the glare and help saturate the color.
Werbellinsee, Biosphere reservation Schorfheide Chorin, Brandenburg, Germany
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The Moab Rim separates Spanish Valley from the maze of curved fins in the Behind The Rocks wilderness study area. Here, a break in the rim reveals Spanish Valley and the La Sal Mountains beyond, near Moab, Utah.
When one arrives at the trailhead, the route is difficult to discern and it appears that the trail simply disappears into an off-vertical steep field of boulders and giant rocks. The trail climbs about 650 feet in 0.6 miles, and for those who enjoy Type II fun (i.e., suffering), the view you see here is the reward from the top of the climb.
i've been in a B&W kind of mood lately and have been doing a bunch of conversions with some of my old archives...this particular frame was captured last summer by Lily Lake in Lakemoor, Illinois...i really loved how this one turned out after the conversion especially the look of this bent tree and it's reflections...more to come...pls. View On Black
...will catch up with your streams later guys...got tons of paperwork right now :-(
'That tree' on Loch Lomond at Milarrochy Bay as the sun set. Reprocessed as a high contrast mono image.
By getting right up to water's edge and using a polarizing filter I was able capture the magnificent lake-bed colours and shapes, seen through the calm, clear Lake Superior water
blogged here: djenglandphotography.blogspot.com/2023/12/photo-of-week-2...