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Still working with the full spectrum camera. It's half learning IR and half learning how to get good results with a small sensor. It's about noise, dynamic range, white balance, and finding interesting scenes and subjects that work with IR/full spectrum. The camera has a surprising mix of capabilities and shortcomings.
Like many alternative forms of photography, there's something a little more hit-and-miss with full spectrum. So it seems anyway. But when things come together, the images are unique and the process is part of the fun.
— Theodore Tollefson @thetollart
Skyros (Greek: Σκύρος) is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea.
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I decided to look at my digital archives, to recover and reprocess some old straight-out-of the point and shoot camera jpgs.
I'll post one picture every thursday, with the motto "Great places, bad cameras"
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Ho deciso di dare un'occhiata nei miei archivi digitali, recuperando e rielaborando vecchie foto dei miei viaggi riprese con fotocamere "Point and shoot".
Cercherò di postarne una ogni giovedì, all'insegna del motto "Great places, bad cameras"
There is hardly any need to introduce this scene. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's two iconic structures (the Opera House in Sydney is the other). The "Coat Hanger", as it is affectionately known, was built between 1923 and 1932 and was at the time the largest such undertaking in Australian history. In this photograph (taken in 2012) I think I recall including the couple in the frame deliberately because they were looking in the opposition direction to just about everybody else.
Over the next few days I'll dip into the archive and look at Sydney, Australia's largest city. I have plenty of contemporary photographs to work with (several months worth actually), but this trip down memory lane is good for me to assess my compositional techniques with an inferior camera.
Hello my friends : )
There was a slight frost across this pier in the middle of May!
I walked onto it (directly after shooting) and it was very slippery as well.
(We had snow & hail just two days before I shot this photo!)
I left the house around 03:00 and was rewarded with some beautiful scenes early on : )
This predawn shot was taken at 04:24 and you can already see some small clouds beginning to glow from the coming sunrise.
Unexpectedly, a huge fogbank rolled in later that morning and completely enveloped the entire scene!
It was amazing!
I'm not really experienced with shooting heavy fog scenes, but I gave it a try and will upload some of those in the future too : )
This scene is SOOC (straight out of camera).
I wanted to leave it as it was, to try and show the early morning darkness still hanging on during the predawn stage...
and it shows in the darker water near the shoreline (and the pier reflection as well).
The place brightened up within moments though ; )
Hope you guys find something interesting or enjoyable here : )
I'll be around to visit soon... wishing all of you a wonderful day ahead!
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CRUSH
There's a nice clean and easy to follow instrument panel in the Jabiru. What struck me here was the note: "No intentional spins." I would have thought that was a given. And in the event of an unintentional spin, pray! Although seriously, recovering from a stall situation is one of the most important skills a pilot must learn.
This photograph was taken in February 2011 with my Panasonic DMC-FS7 compact camera.
#SlidersSunday
"Caleidoscoped" wooden roof of the gym at the Olympic Village in Elstal near Berlin for Sliders Sunday.
The finished image reminded me of a huge ship's hold - which immediately also reminded me of the story of Jonah and the Whale and also of Captain Ahab's eternal chase of Moby Dick. Since I've always loved the story of Jonah and the Whale when I was a child, but struggled to like (or even properly understand) Ahab's gruesome and cruel possession with the white whale called Moby Dick, I decided to use Jonah's story as my own imaginary backdrop for this image. Jonah and the Whale "inverted", if you like. I can't really remember when and where I heard the story first; it is possible that it was in religion class in elementary school, that my parents read me the story, or that I saw it in a children's programme on TV, but it fascinated me very much, and in my vivid childhood imagination, the whale eventually took a liking to Jonah (and vice versa), and, after passing their first "adventure" - the travel to Niniveh - together, the whale and Jonah became lifelong friends. I tried to visualise how Jonah would make himself comfortable inside of the whale's stomach, and I ended up with a fully furnished "room" with a comfy chair, bed and bookshelf, small kitchen (for both of them, since neither Jonah nor the whale could live on love alone) etc., and they experienced many more adventures together ever since ;-)
This is a very straightforward slide, I simply copied the single image of the roof to a second layer in photoshop, duplicated the workspace, mirrored one of the layers vertically and combined both layers. In Lightroom I then rotated the finished image. Some finishing processing touches here or there, like enhancing the structure, some HSL sliding for the colours etc. - done :-)
HSS, and stay safe, Everyone!
Mal wieder ein "kaleidoskopisiertes" Foto für den Sliders Sunday :-) Dieses Mal habe ich mit einem Foto vom Dach der Sporthalle im Olympischen Dorf in Elstal bei Berlin herumgespielt. Das fertige Bild hat mich dann auch gleich sowohl an die Geschichte von Jona und dem Wal als durchaus auch an Moby Dick erinnert, weil es für mich wie ein riesiger Schiffsbauch aussieht. Während mich aber Jonas Geschichte als Kind sehr faszinierte, konnte ich mit der ja doch sehr dramatischen Geschichte um Kapitän Ahabs Besessenheit von und seiner grausamen, unerbittlichen Jagd nach Moby Dick nur wenig anfangen. Jonas Geschichte ließ sich hingegen so schön weitergespinnen: Jona und der Wal werden auf ihrer dreitägigen, nicht ganz freiwilligen ersten gemeinsamen Reise nach Ninive nicht nur lebenslange Freunde, sondern bestehen im Anschluss noch viele weitere gemeinsame Abenteuer. Dabei reist Jona praktischerweise immer im Bauch seines Freundes - der in meiner Vorstellung bald wie ein sehr gemütliches "Zimmer" mit Lesesessel, Bücherregal, Bett, Lampe aussah - inklusive kleiner Küche, denn weder Jona noch der Wal leben ja nur von Luft und Liebe ;-)
Technisch ist dies ein sehr simpler "Slider"; ich habe einfach das Foto des Daches in Photoshop auf einer zweiten Ebene dupliziert, vertikal gespiegelt und dann die Ebenen zusammengefügt; in Lightroom habe ich dann das fertige Bild noch einmal gedreht.
Ich wünsche Euch eine angenehme Woche, passt gut auf Euch auf und bleibt gesund!
Starting right from my balcony ;) This fluffy-fleecy glow carpet of tiny clouds briefly appeared at the 18.59 Friday sunset last week. I did what I always do when I see a nice sunset from my living room window: I grabbed the camera and headed to the balcony for some photos. Not a second too early, because after only a few minutes, the clouds stayed, but the sunset colours were gone, and the sky was a drab, dull grey.
My MM substitute (because I couldn't participate and also was too busy yesterday) and Tuesday fun upload. Have a nice rest of the week, dear Flickr friends!
Sunny and short (brrrr temperatures) winter walk in Berlin's government district along the Spree, and more "This is a black and white scene" photography. I mentioned earlier that, most of the time, I just take the shot and decide later if I process an image in colour (most of the time) or black and white (more often recently). And here, I knew immediately that it's one for Donnerstagsmonochrom :)
HTM/HMT, dear Flickr friends!
I was (and will be for the next few days; hopefully not any longer) mostly off Flickr due to my first eye surgery five days ago. I had hope to be able to take part in the super interesting MM "Proverb" theme, but, knowing how my MM photo sessions can get a little out of hand, especially if I have a specific idea for a theme, I reluctantly decided to skip to not interlude in the eye's healing process (and am once again hoping for a Redux at the end of the year). I hope I will be able to partake in next week's MM.
So here's a friendly little interim flower from around the corner (it seems to invite us into its realm; at least it's what it looks like to me); and thanks to "circle to search," I know that, most likely, it's a Geum coccineum 'Borisii' ;)
So long, dear Flickr friends!
#WindowWednesday
Taken in a small street around the corner from where I live. The "Möbel Klinik" (= furniture clinic) has been there as long as I can remember, but it's the first time I saw this apparently fairly new, shiny Vespa parked right in front of the old workshop window. Its bright red varnish which corresponds so nicely to the somewhat faded red of the shopwindow sign immediately caught my eye. It also seems that I was able to avoid capturing my own reflection, despite the reflecting surfaces everywhere ;-)
Happy Window Wednesday, Everyone!
In einer kleinen Seitenstraße bei mir um die Ecke fotografiert. Die "Möbel Klinik" gibt es dort schon ewig, aber die Vespa ist wohl neu. Mit ihrer glänzend roten Lackierung fiel sie mir sofort ins Auge, und weil sie auch noch direkt vor dem alten Werkstattschaufenster mit der verblassten roten Beschriftung und den schön pittoresken, teils schon recht verwitterten Details drumherum geparkt war, erschien mir die kleine Szene auch durchaus "fotografierenswert" ;-). Ich habe es anscheinend auch geschafft, meine eigene Spiegelung hier gut rauszuhalten, trotz der vielen reflektierenden Oberflächen überall :-)
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Restwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
#Donnerstagsmonochrom
#MonochromeThursday
An attempt at street photography on the Marschallbrücke, one of the many heritage-protected bridges across the Spree in Berlin's government district. This bridge is located at the heart of the government district, with many of the most important government buildings (particularly the Reichstag building, the seat of our government) within walking distance.
On a sunny afternoon, the bridge's railing creates a nice shadow play. This was the day before the heatwave started, so many people were out and about, enjoying a work break or simply the sunny weather. I still managed to get a few shots of the empty bridge with only the shadows, but found the "human element" made it more interesting. I was kneeling to get a low POV and fill most of the frame with the shadow patterns, and when I saw a woman approach, I decided to include her walking legs ;) This also spared me from having to anonymise her face.
In case you are wondering what the round shadow behind the lady's shadow is: It's from a lifebuoy on the bridge's railing.
Happy Monochrome Thursday, dear Flickr friends!
Just a simple, sunny fun scene, a spontaneous wayside snap in the street right across that I took the other day on my way to the nearby supermarket. This is the good thing about really small compact cameras: I don't even have to think about taking it along. It's simply always in my bag, ready whenever something photogenic comes along. Like this nicely backlit foliage with its small yellow blossoms (does anyone have an idea what it could be? Edit: It's a peashrub/caragana arborescens).
It's also a search image of sorts, because there's a small critter on one of the leaves. If you zoom in, you can see it (hint: it's in the upper part of the frame, sitting on one of the leaves on the left; imagine a slightly bent line between the two blossoms in the upper and right edge of the frame; look for a darker green spot).
This also answers the question of whether the little Sony can do bokeh. It can, provided you zoom in (also the way to do "macro" with this thingy) and the background isn't right behind the subject. Those blurry, vertical dark rectangles are trees. In my area, all the streets are lined with trees, usually of the same kind on each street (e.g. chestnut trees in one street, lime trees in the next).
Have a nice Pentecost weekend ahead, dear Flickr friends!
This year, I really started to enjoy black and white photography. This is the weathered end grain of a post. It is a 720nm infrared photograph with black and white applied in camera. So it represents a mixture of visible and infrared wavelengths. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but infrared seems to give better dynamic range — even on a tiny sensor.
Is it perfect? No. Still too much to learn! Infrared seems to surprise me every time I think I have it figured out. And that's part of the fun.
Can't wait to upgrade the little camera, but for now it still has more to teach me too.
— Theodore Tollefson @thetollart
I had my second eye surgery last Wednesday, so I have to skip MMs again. Progress seems slower than the first time around, and my right eye still feels a little like the Dahlia bud on the left, but it's getting better. But my left eye is very good now, bright, and with excellent vision, and with a little more patience, it will be the same with my right eye.
I hope to be back soon :)
Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona, USA
Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, in the United States.
Horseshoe Bend is located 5 miles (8.0 km) downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Page.
It is accessible via hiking a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) round trip from U.S. Route 89, but an access road also reaches the geological structure, as it is part of a state park. Horseshoe Bend can be viewed from the steep cliff above.
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I decided to look at my digital archives, to recover and reprocess some old straight-out-of the point and shoot camera jpgs.
I'll post one picture every thursday, with the motto "Great places, bad cameras"
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Ho deciso di dare un'occhiata nei miei archivi digitali, recuperando e rielaborando vecchie foto dei miei viaggi riprese con fotocamere "Point and shoot".
Cercherò di postarne una ogni giovedì, all'insegna del motto "Great places, bad cameras"
And moments matter, too :)
Some street fun for Wednesday/hump day.
A few weeks ago, I had to apply for a new identity card. I don't know how it is in your countries, but in Germany, carrying an ID card with you is mandatory. And my ID card had expired, well, a while ago. What can I say? There's nothing more convincing than a friendly reminder in an official letter asking you to fulfil your duties as a citizen, garnished with a hefty fine threat ;)
So I hastily headed for the citizens' registration office, and on my way, I spotted this little scene. I nearly walked past it in one of those "I look stupid if I take my camera out now" moments (the tiny, nondescript Sony of all!), trying to convince myself I could still snap a photo on my way back. But then I thought, "Don't be silly. Who knows if that toy car is still there in an hour." The moment I had taken just two shots, the Mini drove away. And when I came back from the office, the toy VW Beetle "parking" next to the rusty dumpster container was gone, too...
This is the type of street photography I prefer, because no people are involved. And if this moment reminded me of one thing, it is that you should always take the photo, even if you are afraid of looking silly.
P.S. I manipulated/anonymised the license plate.
Enjoy the rest of your week, dear Flickr friends!
#WindowWwednesday
Taken from the balcony the other day. The trees had an ever-so-thin snow cover, so I thought I'd quickly snap a photo before the snow melts. But what really surprised me was that, actually, all the branches were coated with ice. I think they still are, since the temperatures haven't risen above 0 °C since then.
It's the house right across, at the small junction in my street, that you've already seen in various iterations of my "clouds from the balcony" series. The expected deeper DOF (it's a one-inch sensor, after all) makes the scene a tad busy, but the background separation is still strong enough that the ice-coated branches clearly stand out against the façade.
I also really liked the clarity of the expressive, grotesque stucco face on the façade. "Grotesques" on façades are usually depicted as a grimace. They often serve as defensive magic to ward off evil. The "not amused" look of this "stucco face" expresses everyone's feelings about these cold and particularly gloomy (and slippery) winter days so well ;)
HWW, and Happy Hump Day, Everyone!
IR photograph of the trees reflecting in a calm Rocky River. 720nm, red-blue channel swap.
— Theodore Tollefson @thetollart
Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona, USA
Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is located on Navajo land east of Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two separate, scenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as "Upper Antelope Canyon" or "The Crack"; and "Antelope Canyon" or "The Corkscrew".
Antelope Canyon was formed by erosion of Navajo Sandstone, primarily due to flash flooding and secondarily due to other sub-aerial processes. Rainwater, especially during monsoon season, runs into the extensive basin above the slot canyon sections, picking up speed and sand as it rushes into the narrow passageways. Over time the passageways eroded away, making the corridors deeper and smoothing hard edges in such a way as to form characteristic 'flowing' shapes in the rock.
L'Antelope Canyon è lo slot canyon più visitato degli Stati Uniti sudoccidentali. Si trova sulla terra Navajo vicino a Page, Arizona.
L'Antelope Canyon consiste di due formazioni separate, chiamate Antelope Canyon superiore e Antelope Canyon inferiore. I due tratti sono separati dalla strada 98. Il rift che ha generato i due canyon, nel suo percorso verso il lago Powell trova per primo uno sbarramento costituito da una formazione di arenaria posta trasversalmente al suo percorso. Qui genera l'Antelope Canyon superiore (Upper Antelope Canyon) lungo solamente duecentosettanta metri, più agevole e facile.
L'Antelope Canyon (così come gli altri slot canyon) si è formato nel corso di milioni di anni a causa dell'erosione dell'arenaria da parte dell'acqua e del vento.
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I decided to look at my digital archives, to recover and reprocess some old straight-out-of the point and shoot camera jpgs.
I'll post one picture every thursday, with the motto "Great places, bad cameras"
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Ho deciso di dare un'occhiata nei miei archivi digitali, recuperando e rielaborando vecchie foto dei miei viaggi riprese con fotocamere "Point and shoot".
Cercherò di postarne una ogni giovedì, all'insegna del motto "Great places, bad cameras"
I was going through some old photograph files recently and came across these. They were taken with one of my compact Panasonic cameras way back in 2013. Kudos to this little camera with the sensor the size of a little fingernail. But it does have a Leica lens.
This strange beast is Australian artist Patricia Piccinini's Skywhale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Piccinini
A registered flying hot air balloon, but not like anything you've seen before. As you can see the frost was still on the ground when I took these shots, and quite a crowd had gathered.
In 2019 the Skywhale became part of the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
nga.gov.au/knowmyname/events/skywhales-every-heart-sings-...
Channel swapped 720nm infrared landscape fun. IR is a great way to make pictures when conditions aren't right for other kinds of photography.
Also, using this old modified Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS6 really makes me want to try a newer camera in that line. It's very small and very straightforward to use.
Still have a lot to learn about editing though. [Edit] Workflow improvements have helped.
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— Theodore Tollefson @thetollart