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16, 12, 19, 36, 20, 19. The temperature forecast (Fahrenheit) for the next six days. I keep telling myself that I'm coming out swinging photographically the minute the weather breaks this year, but the weather has been throwing some serious punches without letup. Several hours of planned shooting quickly becomes 20 minutes of shooting, an hour to warm up at a coffee shop/bookstore, then back to the refuge of a warm house. But I'm telling you, when the weather breaks - and it will - oh, it's on.
Now, back to my coffee... ;)
I love how the magic of digital technology can create what the mind's eye can "see". For more than a decade, I have wanted to capture a meet at this location, between a Union Pacific's LUL41 local and a UTA commuter rail train. The location is in Orem, Utah at "Lakota Junction". The opportunity presented itself on Monday, but the timing was off, by only four minutes. Queue the magic of Adobe, helping create in a composite image what time would not allow.
We had rain and overcast conditions the whole day yesterday... but we got three minutes of great light at sunset.
Fortunately I was in the right place at the right time to be able to capture it... in the middle of a wheat field, on a farm near Durbanville.
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/15th second exposure.
Click here to check out my Vertorama tutorial.
It's 11:53 p.m., and the deadline is 11:59 p.m. I had a lot of fun with this entry.
Built for Round 2.5 of the ABS Builder Challenge as seen here: www.flickr.com/groups/abs-builder-challenge/
Please check out and support the three outstanding builders in this round!
A 2 minute sunrise in the snow. Tests if your fingers are still working. F25.0 to burst the sun as it peeped over the horizon.
The sun slipped from behind the clouds for just a minute this evening. So much for the "golden hour."
Concentração total, pausa e uma tentativa de se esconder para ninguém perturbá-la nessa hora .
Total concentration, pause and an attempt to hide from anyone disturb it at this time.
Glover Trophy - a 25 minute race for 1.5 litre Grand Prix cars which were raced between 1961 and 1965.
A 1964 BRM P261 raced by Philipp Buhofer.
Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie, on a wet and stormy day.
It rained all day apart from a brief 5 minute window with a little break in the cloud towards the end of the day
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I was sitting on the ground of the parking lot watching the Mountain Bluebird pair gathering food for their babies. They spent more time on the ground so I sat down and watched waiting to get a shot. About a minute later, I looked up and this Rock Wren was right in front of me.
I knew Rock Wrens had been seen up there but I was not expecting to look up and see it staring at me. Surprised and delighted me! No calls played.
Photographer: Jason Paparoulas.
Model: Anna Pembroke
Make Up Artist: Anna Pembroke, Erica Stagg
Designer: Erica Stagg
Stylist: Tahnee Medina
Assistant: Erica Stagg, Tahnee Medina
Location: Milton Bowl, Milton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Strobist Info (this ordering may or may not have changed throughout the shoot):
- 1 x Bowens Gemini Esprit 500WS – shot through softbox camera left
- 1 x Bowens Gemini Esprit 500WS – shot through softbox camera left
- 2 x Bowens Travelpacks – powering 2 x 500WS strobes each
- Canon 5D Mark II w/ BG-E6
- 50mm f/1.4, 35mm f/2.0
- Elinchrom Skyport Universal Triggers
Ok here are the shots from a very recent very out of the blue last minute shoot with designer and all round sweet heart Erica Stagg. Prior to the shoot I think we’d talked once I’d never seen the collection and had no idea what I was shooting and went out on a whim hoping the location was well, more than suitable and turns out it was more than adequate, so here are the shots from Erica Stagg’s 2009/2010 summer capsule range…
I know I say this all the time for a lot of the shoots I work on but Erica’s range is nothing far from amazing, the concept behind each piece is clear in plain sight and well executed, with each piece really speaking for itself, and Anna our model despite coming straight from a viewing and been dead tired pulled of every shot and let both herself and the garments equally as powerful frame after frame, and let’s just say wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty…
Big thanks to Erica for letting my concept to come through in the shots and having it been a little bit more collaborative than usual and letting me try some new techniques, regardless of how the shots looked these were shot in full daylight in the middle of the day and mid afternoon using a kind of light masking technique I’m trying much like they use in the twilight movies only a little different and my own creation…
Big thanks to all the girls for putting up with me as usual I know it’s a hard task and they did without complaint, so here are the shots enjoy…
and alternatively feel free to stalk my life THE BAKE HOUSE @ WORDPRESS
Hong Kong this morning. Every morning well before sunrise the city gets this amazing glow which only last a few minutes.
Check out the super large size. www.flickr.com/photos/xavibarca/4859252775/sizes/o/in/pho...
This is how Hong Kong looks with a Southwestern wind. The remarkable thing is that the wind changed this afternoon to a Northern wind. Within a matter of hours clean skies were replaced with dirty polluted skies from the factories just across the border in China. Visibility is less than a few hundred meters now. This is the kind of pollution we are in about the whole winter period with wind blowing from the North in that season.
6 image panorama with my new Zeiss 35mm lens. Starting on the right with a 55 sec (exposure) @ f/6.3 (it was near dark 40 minutes before sunrise) and moving to the left progressively shortening the exposure times. Blown out skies were blended in as well in some frames from a 6 second exposure each. To do pano's as these Prime lenses that are sharp at larger apertures are key.
Still need to match the skies between some frames a bit better and fix it up slightly.
N.B. The image is unprocessed. No saturation or vibrance adjustment have been made.
Getting this shot cost $50 for a three minute ride....and it was totally worth it!
In 2014 the North Carolina Transportation Museum held their biggest party ever and in my humble opinion the single greatest railfan event I've ever attended before or since. Following up on their wildly successful heritage unit family portrait event for Norfolk Southern's 30th anniversary they planned something even bigger.
Gathering 26 surviving freight and passenger diesels from the classic first generation era, they all came together for three days of festivities centered around the old Southern Railway 37-stall roundhouse that was constructed in 1924 with a 100 ft turntable.
The structure replaced a smaller 15-stall roundhouse that had been built in 1896. The new building was more than twice the size of the old and remarkably, the former structures were demolished and the new ones erected within a span of only 10 months. The new 120,000 square-foot roundhouse and turntable cost approximately $500,000. Railroad officials named the new facility for roundhouse supervisor, Bob Julian.
Everything seen here was once the principle steam shops of the Southern Railway having been opened in 1896. Original buildings included a machine shop, storehouse building, office building, wood working shop, boiler shop, a power plant, and the roundhouse (purportedly the largest surving in the US). Although Spencer Shops survived into the diesel era, the facility was outdated by the early 1970s and shuttered before being donated to the state of North Carolina in 1977. Gradually restored over the past 45 years it is now nome to the fabulous North Carolina Transportation Museum.
The large building partially visible on the left of the frame is back shop erected in 1905. At 150' wide by 600' long it is the largest building on the site and once the largest industrial structure in the state. But with the Southern being one of the first major Class 1s to fully dieselize this building was completely shuttered by 1960.
This view was not taken from a drone but actually from a helicopter. For $50 you could take an approximately three minute ride looping up over and around the complex and shoot as much as you could out the open sides. This was I think only the third time in my life I'd ever been up in a chopper and while the price was steep it was just too cool to pass up!
I won't single out the specific visiting and resident equipment you can see in this photo, but if you want to learn more about this railfan event of the century in case you weren't there this gentleman has a fabulous overview on his site: www.wvncrails.org/streamliners-at-spencer.html
Spencer, North Carolina
Saturday May 31, 2014
A 4 minute exposure shot taken few months back in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai. Hope you will like it. As always appreciate your share and feedback.
Quick workflow overview (Video)
Set the camera on Orion as it was rising last night, unfortunately the wind decided not to cooperate and I had to throw out ~90% of my subs. Despite this all of the highlights of the region including some fainter dust and nebulosity can be seen.
Acquisition Info:
HDR image
13x30"
3x10"
ISO 1600
f/4
Daylight White Balance
Gear Used:
Canon 350D unmodded
Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM
NyxTech NyxTracker V2
Software Used:
PixInsight 1.8
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
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Wait a minute!
I think I left my conscience on your front door step
Wait a minute!
I think I left my consciousness in the 6th dimension.
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Jussa lil picture, I'm still alive; for now. ♥
A last minute decision to travel down to Corfe Castle before attending Camp Bestival the following day.
Initially I wasn't too keen on the results of this shoot, as the moolight was very bright and drowned out the star light. I'd also set the white balance to 5500k (daylight) Which looked far too warm to my eye.
After somewhat increasing the exposure, re-darkening the sky, increasing the contrast and cooling the white balance, this one is starting to grow on me, but I know there is much better to be had at this iconic location.
If you look very carefully at the top window of the castle, there is a tiny 'object' that sticks out from the upper right side. This was an owl that I has seen flying in the dark and settle on the castle.
*First shoot with new 5D3 and 16-35 f/4 lens
M27 can be found in the constellation of Vulpecula, which is high overhead in summer months. This planetary nebula lies at a distance of about 1227 LY from earth. It's a very bright object easily visible in binoculars. As a result, it's a favourite for stargazers. What we see is the remains of a star like our sun that grew through its red giant stage and cast out its outer shell, leaving little more than its core behind as a white dwarf to irradiate and illuminate the expanding shell of gas. This will be the fate of our own sun in a few billion years.
Since it's cold and the weather is not conducive to going out into the field, I'm looking back through older data I'd collected to process with new tools and techniques. In this case, I combined data from 2 separate sessions shot in the summer of 2019.
-=Tech Data=-
-Image Details-
Hα & OIII: 252 minutes of 3 and 5 minute exposures
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Focus: Pegasus Astro Dual Motor Focus Motor & Controller
Guide Camera: Orion SSAG
Guide Scope: Orion mini guide
Filter: STC Astro Duo-Narrowband filter (Hα and OIII)
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
-Software-
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
-Location-
Shot at the Dark Sky Viewing Aread and Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow in South Eastern Ontario.
Another shot from a few days ago, I thought about cleaning up the the dock in post - but I think the bird crap gives the photo character. :)
This looks better large on black.
Long Point State Park on Cayuga Lake
3 exp HDR || Photomatix +1 extra exposure for the dock that was blended in.
Karma Photo of the Day 10/15/08! Thanks so much beejayge and everyone for your lovely comments!
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on March 7th 2018
CREATIVE RF gty.im/925773952 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 9.90s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 14.60s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 38.40MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D7200 Firmware versions A 1.10 C 2.015 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
Mamiya 645J. 55mm 2.8N (I think ... it might've been the 45).
Exposure unrecorded, but probably a minute and half at F8ish, on Portra 160.
Scanning: Epson V600.
If you scroll back through my photostream, there are a couple of digital takes on this house. I like this film version, but it's edging close to straight-up Todd Hido territory. (Honestly: I'd been doing the Suburbs At Night thing for a couple of years before I found out about him)
This fence is one minute from the main street, and from it, we look down some steep embankment to a little stream.
While Miss Woolly is content to saunter around up on the high ground with me, Pip slips straight under, to race down to the water's edge, eager to persuade any sunbaking water dragons that they'd like a swim, LoL ;)
It's only a little bit of parkland, but being so close to home, we do drop in quite often, as it has a surprising amount of photo opportunities.
Parrots, lizzies, cows, greenery, interesting old farm gate, the girls mooching around, of course ... and the angle of late afternoon light here can be wonderful to play with too.
But this fence ! It really had me stumped.
Been trying to get a nice pic of it for months, to show how high the paddock grasses were caught up in the wire from the last flood.
We had an unseasonal Autumn deluge back in about last April, so you can imagine how much was caught up on it back then.
These are the 2nd & 3rd wires off the ground, about hip high on me.
Which may not mean much until I tell you that we are not down in a small gully here, but out in open country, surrounded by expansive paddocks, which all go under water.
But before that can happen, beyond the fence is a very deep drop of about 30 - 40 feet down to the stream, and the same in width, so that all has to fill up first.
The surge of run off from the nearby mountains was strong enough to take a huge chunk of the emabankment with it this time, and completely wash it away, leaving a black clay cliff face and a few tall gums still standing wonky down at the water's edge, 20 ft from where they originally grew.
I was playing around with more settings, capturing the backlit grasses, so decided to try it out on the fence - one more go, I said - and bingo, finally scored one I liked.
Taken with macro setting, for shooting with a macro converter, but used zoom lens instead.
sooc..
HFF !