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... And here it is another shot from my archives (Summer 2016). I had thought to process it so many times, but I was deterred by some blown out highlights in the sky. Not worth the effort. However I have made up my mind at last and, after recovering what was recoverable, I have decided to accept some blown out highlights instead of give up forever.
What I like in this scene is how the two twin, arching series of low waves create a kind of (frozen) dance. They are trying to touch each other and dance together, but a minimal rise of the sand in between prevents them from embracing. Not for long however, since the tide was quietly rising and the sea was taking its little secrets back again in its womb. We can be sure that soon they have been able to reunite.
It was my second sunrise session at Rosolina mare - not really as good as the first one, to be sure (here it is an example): the sky was overcast, the light was hard, and a high-altitude sheet of clouds gave uniform highlights where the sun was. I was a bit tired - more on the morale side than physically, since I had walked some 23 km only to take a mere handful of second-rate photos. As I was returning to the "civilised" part of the beach, at last the sky started turning into something really interesting. Lots of clouds of different shapes and sizes, and piercing sunbeams at leisure. I took some photos, but my discouraged outlook resulted in self-defeating choices - no tripod, no exposure bracketings, no real concentration on framing and exposure. While processing this shot with Darktable I created a "virtual" exposure bracketing from a single RAW, and this helped a lot to get a decent result (including some details gained in the blown-out areas).
I have obtained this picture by blending a "virtual" exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files processed with Darktable. Denoising with Dfine. Smart resize (stretched to 16:9 format) with Chasys Draw IES Artist.
I used the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a final contribution to the processing of the lighter parts. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwith standing, 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.
Scaleber Force, is a 40-foot high waterfall on Stockdale Beck, later the Long Preston Beck, that feeds into the River Ribble between Settle and Long Preston in North Yorkshire, England. The waterfall is the result of geological faulting and is a popular tourist attraction.
Where better to take some 'me time'. Read and let the world pass by in peace and quiet.
Bridge 160 on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, also known as Old Hall Bridge, is a historic, semi-elliptical stone arch bridge near East Marton in North Yorkshire, built around the 1790s by Robert Whitworth and widened later, featuring distinctive rusticated stonework and a plain band, offering a classic picturesque view on the canal.
The Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus Psittacidae) are a beautiful colourful bird to have around.
Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6 lens at 290mm.
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Another image for my current personal project around the recent gale force storm that hit the Buffalo area in early December. This breakwater is normally a walkway positioned 6-8' above the waterline.
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Google is now offering the Nik collection of plug-ins for free. These are advertised as working with Photoshop, Aperture and Lightroom.
www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3983752
has the information to run them from Gimp. Thanks Lylejk and the other contributors who worked it out and explained how to do it!
They can be run as stand alone applications too but you might want to read this before trying.
photo.stackexchange.com/questions/75907/can-the-nik-colle...
Take 2 of Tom Fruin’s Stained Glass House Installed at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
I've been experimenting with the multiple exposure option within the Nik Collection and it's definitely challenging to find the right subject, thoughts?
These colorful mountains lie within Denali NP in Alaska. Though Denali did not grace us with her presence the day we visited, these lovely views with the storm clouds looming kind of made up for it... Kind of.
When it comes to landscape composition, you are usually told to put an interesting feature in the foreground and/or have some kind of leading lines to capture the eye of the beholder and drive it to the focus of the scene. But then, sometimes you feel that you simply must overrule those sacred rules... ;-)*
So here it is a new scene to enrich my Rosolina sunrise series: a unique sky bathed in a unique light, endowed with a rich tapestry of clouds of varied kinds and funny shapes... I received a beautiful gift that morning and there is something more to tell about it (for the future, folks...), partially compensating for the fact that I have not been taking photographs for about 5 months. Yes, this is it. I would like to say that this regrettable situation is due to lack of time and opportunities, but there is more than that... Lack of motivation. Perpetual exhaustion. Stagnation. Maybe midlife crisis - which, curiously, I have always believed to be Someone Else's Problem, if it existed at all (please concede me this small tribute to Douglas Adams). However I have somehow processed this exposure bracketing where that incredible sky is the main and only character at the center of the stage, trying as hard as I could to offer you this gift of quintessential beauty.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4
* I feel it could be worth stressing that the picture is not cropped: I have purposely captured it at 55 mm, as EXIF data testify :-)
"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost."
~Erol Ozan~
Hagan Stone Park, Guilford County, NC
7DWF, Sundays: Fauna
This fly was lazing in the late summer sun at the Natur-Park Südgelände where I was looking for rust for MM's "Rust" theme (I found plenty, because this park located on a former railway property is *the* place for rust). The fly wasn't bothered by my camera at all, it was probably taking a nap on the nicely warm rusty metal surface of an old fence.
Have a beautiful Sunday and great week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
Thank you very much for your comments and faves ;-) They are much aprecciated !!!
Ich wünsche Euch einen schönen Rest-Sonntag und eine tolle neue Woche ;-)))
Lieben Dank für Eure Kommentare und Favs ;-)!
Something a little more relaxing than my usual shots... a 60 second exposure from Portwrinkle beach from my pre-dawn excursion on Boxing Day.
I do love a bit of long exposure photography, but unfortunately my telephoto lens is the wrong size for my 10-stop filter so I had to hold the filter just in-front of the lens for the full 60 seconds without knocking into the front element. Time to invest in a step-down ring I think!
Malham Cove is a large curved limestone formation 0.6 miles north of the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. It was formed by a waterfall carrying meltwater from glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age more than 12,000 years ago
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While going through my archives, I stumbled upon this Shutter slider I created nearly five years ago. I must have been sidetracked when I finished it and never got to posting it, until now.
A Little Wattle-bird captured in our back garden.
Many thanks to all my Flickr photo stream followers I have now more than 1.9 million views, thank you. Thanks for viewing my photos and for any favourites and comments, it is very much appreciated.
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One thing I love about wide open vistas is that the sky seems to go on forever. When clouds are present, the drama to the scene goes up 1000%. These shots were all taken from the road.
“Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans.” Mehmet Murat Ildan
End of day along the banks of the Neuse River outside New Bern, NC.
Schwaneberg / Germany
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Don't mind the clover invading my lawn when these cute critters come to enjoy it! This rabbit was taking in a snack as the light ebbed on the day...
Schlossansichten
(3 single shots)
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Cascais / Portugal
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