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Optik: Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400 mm 4-6.3@150mm
For the Smile on Saturday group’s theme today I rummaged quite fruitlessly through my vast and, clearly, useless archive of past captures looking for any flowers I have taken in portrait mode. Flowers there were aplenty. Portrait images? Nope, nada, zilch, zero.
I like to try and be a creative photographer thinking of new ideas and trying them out (very trying as my mother used to say) but, evidently, I dwell in various ruts of my own making. I only take images of flowers in landscape format, then. What a surprise!
So what to do for the group? The options were to rotate or crop I guess or even take a new image.
This is a crop of a much bigger image, taken at RHS Wisley as was yesterday’s Friday Flora one, but a much more ordinary flower, quite possibly a marigold. You may think that it is a carefully contrived close-up, but it started out as a boring-but-it’s-the-way-I tend-to-do-it square-on straight-down image. And it’s handheld in ordinary sunlight too, not some carefully controlled lighting set-up (as if I could!). And finally, it’s taken with a vintage lens, manually focused.
I have this hunch that cropping is a long-lost photographer’s art. There’s an itch that continually tickles me to do a project that involves mucking about with cropping images. Why should we be limited to a 3:2 crop that was a whim of a film company when they invented 35mm? Why should it be oblong for that matter - our eyes don’t see things in oblong? Hmmm…
This was developed in Capture One and processed in Affinity Photo, and tweaked in Nik Color Efex. Finally because one of the sides was less than 2000 pixels I doubled it for those with large screens using Topaz Gigapixel, which seems to do quite a credible job.
Getting the crop right in a macro was a real pain. Getting the right petals in a pleasing composition and then trying to get whole petals… I started out with a 1:3 ratio but ended with something shorter, rotated, and probably flipped too. I’ll post a link to the in-camera image in the first comment so you can see the humble beginnings.
This little lens Zeiss works remarkably well if I focus it right. The softness at the bottom of the image was added in processing using a blur vignette.
I like the way the flower petals seem to be unwrapping themselves from the centre…
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday!
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Love her in this skin tone! !!! just wished we had more articulated bodies in this shade! Chandra doesn't like to share her Alvin alley body!
The Victoria and Albert Museum, otherwise known as the V&A, was founded in 1852, and today houses a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects, focusing on decorative arts and design across 145 galleries. It has an unrivalled collection of sculpture, ceramics, furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, but the building itself is also a remarkable example of great architecture. This image was captured on its second level, overlooking the Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery, with the top of a glass cabinet reflecting the museum's geometric roof and skylight.
My main aim with this image was to convey the elegance of the building and the airy ambience from the light streaming through its roof, as well as the rich character of a gallery devoted to large-scale works that were once part of Renaissance buildings. I liked how the walkway and gallery were faintly visible through the glass, and how there was a glimpse in the distance of the tip of the 17th-century choir screen from the Cathedral of St John at Hertogenbosch.
Seven bracketed exposures were shot while the camera was resting on the glass cabinet, with the exposures then blended in Photoshop using luminosity masks. The midtones and shadows were geared towards the brighter exposures to produce a high-key finish, and darker exposures incorporated to preserve highlight information around the skylight and its reflection. Once the exposures were blended, I used the Pen Tool to isolate portions of the walls and the choir screen in the distance, and then brightened these with the higher exposures by applying radial and reflective gradient masks.
I tried to keep the colour-grading as straightforward as possible in order to convey the modernity and simplicity of the museum's architecture, and to keep the focus on the light itself and the way that the building's design seemed to allow light to cover every corner of its space smoothly and gracefully. Using Hue/Saturation layers, I reduced the yellows, reds and greens along the walls, and pushed towards a colder finish with hints of cyan in the shadows. There are traces of warmth in the highlights, and this was achieved by using the Apply Image function to layer-mask two Colour Balance adjustments, and by using a Gradient Map, both of which helped to create a faint split-toned finish. After this, I used two low-opacity Colour Lookups with the Bleach Bypass and Futuristic Bleak presets and set to Soft Light, which gently enhanced the image's overall contrast and added definition to the shutters across the skylight.
The final adjustments I made were in Colour and Silver Efex Pro, where I added a vignette and lowered the midtones in order to emphasise the image's tonality, and where I reduced the shadow structure in order to play up the location's clean lines and smooth textures. In a building with a collection of objects representing 5,000 years of creativity, there was something riveting, abstract and very straightforward about this vantage point.
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Young canadian eagle owl. It is one of the largest species of owl, and females can grow to a total length of 75 cm (30 in), with a wingspan of 188 cm (6 ft 2 in), males being slightly smaller. It is a mostly nocturnal predator, hunting for a range of different prey species, predominately small mammals.
Besides, this shot was taken free hand with 1/20s at 300mm. Stabilizer is defintely working well... :o)
Canon EOS 700D | Tamron SP70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD
These two crocuses keep their focus towards the site where the sun will be and if that means they have to grow in this angle, it just happens. Fascinating how nature works ;-))
Young male leopard focussed on a group of impalas grazing
Kanana concession, Okavango Delta, Botswana
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I've been unable to edit or even open any of my photos all week. Finally got some photo editing capabilities back and I was so happy about this that I really wasn't concerned about the final product. ... here it is.
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Street and Reportage photography from Glasgow, Scotland. This was the Friday School Strike in George Square, Glasgow, as part of the climate change movement started by Greta Thunberg.
A hundred and more school children were engaged in good-natured chanting and singing in full voice directly opposite Glasgow City Hall, and guarded by a line of police officers who did not take too kindly to me walking in the road to get these shots (even though I was moving past stationary traffic).
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The Harbour shipping control tower, which is destined to be demolished.
As part of the redevelopment of Barangaroo the tower has ben decomissioned, but a long battle to save it from demolition has failed.
a 2 minute and a 1.5 minute exposure stacked for the cloud movement
My attempt to emulate Photographer Charles Brooks. His photos are so unique and impressive. This was such an excellent theme for Macro Mondays. It has really inspired me to look at things from a different perspective.
Focus stacking de 4 prises macros combinées par CombineZP. En fait 4 des 8 prises de vue initiales se sont avérées inexploitables pour le stacking en raison de décalages dûs au vent. Heureusement, une ouverture à 22 a permis de limiter la perte de profondeur de champ, mais le résultat à 8 prises aurait été meilleur.
Canon EOS77D + SIGMA 100-400 + Raynox DCR-150. Dijon, France 2022
[on Explore le 08/01/2022]