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No long exposure here, just quick-moving clouds, and I positioned myself to maximize the impact.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
No comments today – just enjoy :-)
Maximize all the pleasure
Even with all this weather
Nothing can make it better
Maximize all the pleasure
Maximizing the tulips that my daughter gave to me yesterday.
Thanks for visiting, stay safe. Ontario has put on an Emergency Brake and we are back on lockdown during this third wave!
As far as I can tell, sea otters have a well-refined process for eating crabs: (1) eat the legs first, so it can't run away (2) snap off and eat the claws second, so they won't pinch your face (3) pop off the carapace to eat all the insides and (4) rinse and repeat with new crabs until naptime. Sea otter and kelp crab, Monterey, California.
Estación de Chamartín. MetroMadrid
Wim Mertens - Maximizing The Audience 1988
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A very unique design that I had never seen before, a dual face searchlight that has all of the heads at different levels, despite direction they face. Still displaying a clear indication for CSX Q328, the train hustles through Grand Ledge, MI. as they prepare to stop and work Ensel Yard in Lansing before continuing east.
Maximizing the tulips that my daughter gave to me yesterday.
Thanks for visiting, stay safe. Ontario has put on an Emergency Brake and we are back on lockdown during this third wave!
Maximize The Trip. On January 20, 2022, Amtrak 100 (P42DC, 50th Anniversary, Midnight Blue) brought Amtrak Train 43 (Pennsylvanian)/Norfolk Southern Corp 07T across the Susquehanna River over the Rockville Bridge in Marysville, Pennsylvanian. Both AMTK 100 and 108 had been operating on this route that week, bringing a lot of photographers trackside. Amtrak has added its 50th Anniversary logo to 7 locomotives in its fleet. A visit to the Bridgeview Bed & Breakfast was a great venue to capture the scene.
The oak planks feature the Wane or Live Edge, woodworking terms for the boundary with the bark, and come from a large oak which died on the mountain-top years ago. I carefully positioned the log when we sawed the planks, to maximize the wavy edge to add to the effect. Cathie designed and largely built it....no surprise there, if you have seen her tree house shown earlier in the photo stream. Originally made as a grand-kids play house, it now houses a nice porta-potti for use when visitors swarm the pond-park area. I don't think there are any 90 degree right angles in the little building.
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1997 John Deere 'Maximizer' 9400 walker combine harvester
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Nikon Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S DX
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Kicking off the 2023 fanning with another exciting black Gevo! Of course back in January NS still had a bit over a month to go before they became a lot more famous and even turned into fodder for the late-night shows.
Looking closely you'll notice that the Opelika siding is no longer intact, and just this short piece through the crossing was left in place (surely just due to someone not wanting to deal with the trouble of digging up the crossing). Last year NS ripped up every other siding on the CofG district, surely in the name of "maximizing shareholder value." ETTS.
1997 John Deere 'Maximizer' 9400 walker combine
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Nikon Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S DX
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I love these windows angled in such a way as to benefit from morning and evening sunlight. Located in Richmond Centre, BC.
A shot above Manhattan's Times Square at Night. Many combined exposures were used to maximize tonal range and detail. Moving electronic billboards were added individually, as their motion needed a still capture.
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Several vultures have been hanging around on some dead tree branches on our property in the past few days (maybe a carcass is nearby that they are feasting on?). This one stayed on this branch for around an hour, just cleaning up and stretching in the sun.
North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains, California.
April 27, 2019
I know I am going crazy for this minimalism when it comes to the maximum strength?
This stalk is less than 1 cm long and it has four drops on it i.e. two more than the last one. I was thinking it may not be as minimalistic as the last one? :o)
The meaning of minimalism is the meaninglessness and emptiness ….
Have a great Friday and great weekend! We will have rain through the days!
The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image. – Anne Geddes
JUSTICE Yasmin Outfit
Hi There! Justice is participating in the August Round of FaMESHed!
We're kicking off our very first Infinity Project Outfit this round, and I am so excited to tell you about what I have been working on.
The Infinity Project seeks to maximize the use of your wardrobe by making the most out of each piece.
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FaMESHed Opens August 1st @ 12 Noon! ♥
Camp Adventure Forest Tower
Denderupvej 9A, 4683 Rønnede
Camp Adventure welcomes you to the spectacular 45 meter high Forest Tower in Gisselfeld Kloster's forests close to high Forest Tower in Gisselfeld Kloster's forests close to EFFEKT Architects and completes an ambition to create an aesthetically beautiful construction and a unique experience of nature.
The cylinder shape was starting point for the construction, maximizing the base and the top while minimizing the center. The structure is a so-called hyperboloid form. The long vertical steel pipes aren't bent, but rotated 120 °, giving a curved expression, like an hourglass. This not only increases stability, but also enhances the experiencer, as the tree tops come close to the narrow middle piece. Moving up, the view tower broadens and the landscape opens as the distance between the ramps increases. It all culminates at the top with a 360° view of the landscape.
The main structure is made from corten steel - its reddish brown color fitting well with the colors of the forest. The oak boards on the ramp are made from local South Zealand oak trees from Bregentved and Gisselfeld Estates. All timber is PEFC-certified.
"Kreative Kollaboration" Challenge No. 1 found in the Kreative People group, on the front page;
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Thanks to plumnutz for the starter image which you can see in the first comment box below.
I do love a picnic! Best viewed in fullscreen on black.
Maximizer runner
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Maximizer comes with 9 color tones for 5 costumizable faces for mix and match as you wish :)
Fitted for Signature Gianni & Geralt, Maitreya lara & Belleza Isis Freya and Venus.
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I really hope you like this new one :D
If you maximize the pic will notice a tracking metal ring in the left leg.
El Copal, Cartago, Costa Rica
Since the birth of our daughter one year ago my time trackside has been limited to a a few short hours in the month. With sunny skies finally in the forecast, I stole a couple of hours after work to intercept westbound A411 near Lamont Alberta. With a short train behind the single SD75I, A 411's crew will make it into Edmonton in good time, while I head for home after making the most out of the short time I had on this fall evening.
I drove to the waterfall. I climbed the treacherously slippery rocks. I posed the action figure. I made my way home and sorted through the photos until I chose this, the best of the Dutch portraits. Finally, I edited the photo and used various effects at PicMonkey and Pixlr to maximize its strengths and obscure its failings.
...and now all I can see is the pouch unnaturally protruding from its place at his side.
Oh well.
The title is a Metallica lyric.
A coffee cup being used as an ashtray.
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Zuiko OM 35mm f/2.8 + Olympus OM-2sp : Kodak Tri-X 400 : Epson Perfection V850 Pro Photo Scanner.
After not seeing the sun for at least a couple of weeks, I wasn't going to let frozen fingers keep me from capturing some nice sunrise images. I promise that this is the last sunrise photo for awhile :)
Mobile phone cameras go along way towards making photography simple and easy, but as with any camera, there are a number of ways you can improve the quality of your results. Here are some of the steps I take with my iPhone 5S:
1. Control the exposure. Touch the part of the screen where you want the camera to sample it.
2. Leave HDR mode turned on. The small sensors in cell phone cameras have small pixels, so they don't gather a lot of light and don't operate well in low light. That reduces the dynamic range, of mobile phone cameras, the range of light that they can resolve detail in. In a single exposure you'll often end up with blown out white highlights or blackened shadows, but HDR mode takes multiple exposures and tries to bring detail from the lighter and darker exposures into a single image. If the single exposure works, by all means use it, but it's great to have the additional HDR result as a backup in case it handles shadows and highlights better.
3. Just like with film and DSLR photography, post-processing is important. For quick field editing and online sharing, try Google's excellent and free Snapseed app., which enables you to make critical adjustments to brightness, shadows and contrast, and you can post the results to a number of social media sites or for sites not yet supported, save the adjusted images to your iPhone's Camera Roll. For even more control once you get back to your computer, bring your iPhone images into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and adjust them on a high resolution PC monitor, using even more features such as noise reduction which can help bring your image up to a printable quality. If you don't already have Lightroom, version 5.3 is available as a free trial.
Those are just some basic tips on getting a decent image, but the most important thing in your photography is your subject, and the composition you capture it with. So for even more photographic freedom and more compelling results, exercise as much control as possible over composition, as described in the rest of this post on my blog:
www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2014/03/14/maximize-...
This snowflake is a number of firsts, it’s quite imperfect compared to others but it’s the earliest I’ve ever photographed a snowflake in the season, and it was done using a micro four thirds camera. Mistakes were made, and definitely learned from, when shooting this snowflake. Read on for the advantages of using a small sensor and the pitfalls to avoid!
This photo was made with a Lumix GX9 and a Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 1x-5x macro lens with a Metabones 0.64x adapter. This combination can yield wonderfully sharp results, but there’s a key ingredient here that I didn’t originally account for: diffraction.
One of the subtle benefits of a full-frame camera for macro work is that at extreme magnifications, you can avoid issues with light bending off course too far. From shooting with 20 megapixels on a full-frame camera (from the years spent with a 1DX mark II), I found the sweet spot for certain sizes of snowflakes to maximize detail. Using smaller apertures causes light to bend farther than desirable when passing though the aperture, effectively colouring outside the lines. While this image was taken at a 5x magnification at F/5, that’s the equivalent of just shy of F/45. The simple equation is to add one stop for every magnification factor you have.
20MP on the GX9 normally perfect, and I’ve used this camera for the past year of my professional shooting so the proof is there – but physics can be a bee with an itch sometimes. Tread carefully or you’ll get stung. Had I widened my aperture to F/2.8 as I normally would for even higher magnifications, I’d have even more detail in every focus slice. I’m walking you though this because it’s important to see my learning process – this image isn’t a failure, it’s a very important stepping stone towards better images during the next snowfall.
A pleasant surprise, however, was the number of frames required to make this image. Only 12. Twelve! Normally this would be a 30+ shot snowflake, and even with lightening my aperture up by a stop or two I’d have MUCH fewer frames required to get the snowflake completely in focus. SO long as diffraction can be kept at bay, I’m looking forward to using these cameras to make more magic.
Another point of failure here was the Canon MR-14EX II flash. Canon engineers decided to put a thermal limiter in the flash to prevent it from overheating, but they cut corners: they assume the temperature is relative to the aggregate flash output over time. They used a counter, not a thermal sensor. I’m outside in freezing temps and getting overheating warnings from my flash. Ugh. I also have the original MR-14EX that does NOT have this problem, and neither does the Yongnuo YN-14EX (Canon) or K&F Concept KF-150 (Nikon). Use these instead, and save some money in the process. I’ll be selling my MR-14EX II if there are any buyers interested!
Welcome to my world. Problem solving, experimenting, and stepping stones towards what will be even better images. It’s all part of the process, and I like to be transparent about how it all comes together. I hope that makes your own photographic journey with the subject even more fruitful! Yes, this isn’t the most beautiful snowflake, but it was perfect for the practice needed to learn. Never stop learning. :)
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