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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!
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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.
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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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... and stand in awe... Listen to the secret song of the life of the world, and let it sink in the deepest of your soul...
I was exploring the wild dunes during one of my sunrise sessions in Rosolina Mare (see my What a meaningful world... for information about that peculiar location). This was sort of a discovery for me - a whole new world I had previously seen only through the work of several of my Flickr friends, mainly from Northern Europe.
It has been an exciting experience... The place could have been two light-years far from the nearest touristic beach - yet it was just a stroll! The sun was wrestling his way between the clouds. The world was bathed in a soft, golden light and the grasses were full of glittering raindrops left by a thunderstorm the evening before. And as I was enjoying (and capturing as well) the silent miracle of the sunrise my soul was singing.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposition" shot).
As I uploaded a full colour sister shot some time ago (see Beach Morning Glory, taken some ten minutes before this), since the beginning I have intended to explore that wonderful sky and some interesting textures in monochrome (Nik Silver Efex Pro 2).
The processing of this bracketing has been rather long and tormented, since it was plagued by many ghosts created by the grasses curving at the gentle breeze. Although I have done my best to get rid of the most intrusive ghosts (gasp, this sounds like one of those youtubers blablaing about some mindsucking videogame :-(... ), I am well aware of the imperfections due to this issue. Even so, I must confess that I love so much this particular scene that at last I could not avoid uploading it :-)
The pier at Pier Park in Panama City Beach Florida.
Processing:
- Three shots of varying exposures (EV -2,0,2).
- Adjusted temp of all three photos and lens corrections in Lightroom.
- Used Define 2.0 from Nik Collection to remove noise from the three images.
- Created HDR from the three photos of varying exposures using default selection in EasyHDR.
- In Lightroom, lighting adjustments were made.
- Being unsatisfied with the remaining ghosting in the sky from the HDR process, I loaded the HDR image and a single exposure image of the sky into Photoshop. Used Topaz Remask to remove the sky from the HDR image and used the sky from one of the single exposure images.
- Finally back in Lightroom, I carried out some remaining lighting adjustments.
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