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Inspired by Simon Jowett's www.flickr.com/photos/sjpowermac innovative take on York station, and notably this wonderful old timepiece, I couldn't resist having a go myself during a visit earlier this week to meet an old college friend.
In fact the clock is ideally positioned to exploit several angles and I came away with at least two or three usable images, I think! This one catches a lady snapping the departing London Kings Cross train - and well, I just had to capture the event myself.
For the avoidance of doubt it's 11.37am - a timely reminder I need to reset my camera clock!
11.37am, 25th June 2018
I got a new (to me) camera, basically upgraded the xe1 as it stopped working - shutter curtain stuck down and not worth sending for repair but may have a go myself. I got out this afternoon and set off with tripod and ND filters. It was only as I got home and had a look that I realised the setting was jpeg!!! so no raw files to work with.
Could have kicked myself but it's a good lesson in impatience Would have only taken a couple of mins to realise . Lovely to escape to a quiet beach too - this one is mobbed in summer and getting busier every year
As it is such an awful day today I am stuck indoors go going through my archives and came across this long exposure shot taken at Laugharne. Not sure I would be able to stand up there today with the storm raging!
When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
A mistake happened while working with my archive: I forgot I already selected and processed a similar view and posted it here a year ago. Now I think this version (slightly different color correction, tone, framing and trace of light) works better. I might be mistaken though.
This photo is all about exposure – timing was critical to capture the two sailing ships between the piers ( a combination of luck and visually seeing what I wanted). Next to get the smooth water on a day when the water was choppy, meant a long 30 second exposure. If it was all one photo – the sailing ships would be a blur if anything.
This is two separate shots, one for the sailing ships and one for the water and rest of the scene.
Long exposure a fascinating and unique images, especially when showing elements such as flowing water,
Manarola, one of the towns of cinque terre . late blue hour with my camera wedged under the guaed rail for the LE . Such a beautiful location in Italy
Sunlight, shadows and the sea.
And your eyes and brain cope with it without you even noticing (most of the time).
The human eye can adapt to a massive range of light intensities, from very dim to extremely bright, allowing it to perceive a dynamic contrast ratio of about 1,000,000:1
Dynamic Range vs. Contrast:
While often used interchangeably, dynamic range refers to the amount of tonal information a camera can capture, while contrast refers to the difference between the brightest and darkest parts of an image.
Pafos, Cyprus.