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This gate, fashioned from arbutus branches, is at the lower end of my meadow and opens onto the Galloping Goose Trail. It embodies the rural nature of where I live as well as my own, somewhat quirky, nature. Many people walk or ride along the Trail and I can always pinpoint my property by saying: "It's the one with the arbutus gate."
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The Golden Gate Bridge shortly after sunset from Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands in California.
All Saints' Church tower and churchyard gate Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire.
Mamiya RB67 Pro S with Mamiya Sekor C 90mm f3.8, Ilford FP4 Plus, f22 at 1/15 sec, yellow filter.
Located on top of the Great Escarpment in Kaliphlin, the town of Sultan's Gate guards the only scalable path up on top of the Escarpment for many miles. Within the safety of the walls of Sultan's Gate, space is precious enough that most houses are built with at least two or three stories. This section of wall is built upon the old walls of the great ancient city built in the times of the Sultan.
This section of the wall is facing the Great Escarpment, and a father and his son are spending the afternoon caravan spotting from the roof of their house.
The gate posts leading to the Sarasota, FL sculpture park have alcoves where purple Bougainvillia and other flowers bloom.
The underside of the Golden Gate Bridge, shot looking up through the crisscross of the red steel. The sharp lines and the soft sky give the picture a strong graphic quality. The bridge is a National Historic Landmark.
It's hard to believe that this was the main street in Old Nottingham ... a stagecoach route between London and Leeds (up North). I was struck by the colourful appearance of the central building on the street.
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Jordan Pond gate house, one of the two such gate houses designed for the carriage roads and built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., this one near Jordan Pond. Acadia National Park, Maine.
One of the most unique and interesting features of Acadia National Park is the network of 57 miles of gravel and crushed rock carriage roads built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. beginning in 1913. Originally conceived as a way of preventing the intrusion of the automobile into the interior of the island, these roads are designed and carefully engineered to provide easy access to many parts of the park to pedestrians and passengers in horse drawn carriages. They're built to provide especially outstanding views of park features, from wide angle panoramas to intimate views of forests and lakes, while having a minimal impact on the visual integrity of the park. They provide an excellent opportunity for hiking, running, biking, and cross-country skiing in the wintee.
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Darkness all around me, my spirit is finally free and doomed eternally.
My soul is ready to enter the iron gates of hell - and I can hear the bell.
At the iron gates of hades I`m burning for you.
At the iron gates of hades, why is it me, not you?...
(Angry Angels)
...taken at the Suadiye train station...
Istanbul, Turkey...
The Golden Gate in Gdańsk, Poland, is one of the most notable tourist attractions of the city. It was created in 1612–14 in place of a 13th-century gothic gate, the Brama Długouliczna. Wikipedia
Lateral (North) gate of the Cathedral of Saint Sebastian. Ponta Delgada, Ilha de São Miguel, Açores (Azores).
View from the north looking south of the Golden Gate Bridge.
HDR Techniques and tutorials:
I used a technique on this photo which I initially heard about from Trey Ratcliff. Two of my other favorite HDR photographers, Cliff Base and Brandon Watts also use this technique. You will find tutorials online from both Trey and Brandon.
Another incredible HDR photographer and one of my heroes on flickr is Artie. In every HDR photo he posts he puts details of how he did it. He also have a really good photomatix details enhancer tonemapping tutorial.
A short description of my current technique:
I start with three exposures at -2, 0 and +2 since my Nikon d5000 supports three shots with AE bracketing. I would like to do more exposures, but I am worried about bumping the camera to adjust EV to take another set.
I then open the RAW format into camera raw and set the white balance of each image. I then save out copies in jpg form. I read in Trey Ratcliff's tutorial that photomatix suggests this method.
My settings in Photomatix are usually very close to:
Strength: 100
Color Saturation: 40 - 60
Luminosity: 5-10
Microcontrast: zero or higher
Smoothing: 0-10
White Point: I look at the histogram usually and try to move the bell curve into the middle. Sometimes I will just go with what looks best.
Black Point: Same as white point, but after I adjust Black Point, I might go back and adjust White Point and repeat until the bell curve of the histogram is in the middle or it just looks right.
Gamma: 1.0
I usually don't mess with anything else because I will end up doing adjustments in Photoshop.
Sometimes I will tonemap two or three versions of the image depending on if I like the way the sky turned out or the details.
I will group up all the tonemapped versions and the original shots into a group in Bridge. I will then use the Bridge command to open up all of the shots as layers in Photoshop.
Once in photoshop, I will usually decide which of the tonemapped versions is the best overall. Then I will mask in the parts of the other tonemapped images that I like. Then I will mask in anything from the original images that I like. Along the way, I might have to apply a curve adjustment layer to individual layers that I masked in. I do this to match the overall brightness or darkness of the image.
Once I have masked everything in, I usually do a unsharp mask on the details, and a denoise on the sky. The HDR process creates a lot of noise and especially creates noise when using just three images. This is one of the reasons I would like to use more exposures. I use masks to control where the denoise and sharpening happen in the photo.
Once I am happy with the entire composition, I will try a few Topaz Adjust filers in Photoshop. Usually I just use exposure correction on the default setting. The other settings are a bit too much for my tastes. If I don't like what it comes up with, I usually will do a curves adjustment layer with the "S" curve in order to add a bit of contrast.
I might add a hue/saturation layer to take out unwanted yellows or reds. I might also bump up the vibrance a little bit if needed.
In this photo Specifically:
I masked in the 0 EV shot for the foreground. It was really windy and the details of the grasses were too fuzzy after the tonemapping.
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TOKYO GATE BRIDGE
Tokyo Gate Bridge (東京ゲートブリッジ ) is a truss cantilever bridge across Tokyo Bay in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It opened on 12 February 2012 with an estimated total construction cost of ¥113 billion for the Stage II section of highway including the bridge.
A 2,618-meter span, officially named the Tokyo Gate Bridge, was given its nickname Tokyo's "Dinosaur Bridge" because of its shape, which resembles two dinosaurs facing each other.
The height of the bridge was limited because it is situated on the approach path to Haneda airport. It also needed to be wide and high enough for ships to pass underneath, leading to the final design that has been likened to two dinosaurs facing off.
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