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Paid a visit to my daughter's place and caught up with this spider in her front garden.
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Bernburg (Saale) / Germany
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“I’m very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I’m exploring.” – Tim Hetherington
I decided to do something different and exposed for the sky using a 10 stop ND filter. Then converted to black and white using Silver Efex to get the silhouette effect.
Minutes away from the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, Box Canyon feels like you are miles away from civilization.
Magdeburg / Germany
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After another weekend of wall-to-wall greyness, I've been keeping my eye on the weather and at long last I've managed to get out for the first sunrise of the year, just squeezing into January! Unfortunately it wasn't quite as nice as I'd hoped for (SkippySky had indicated more high-level clouds which generally means a bit more colour) but at least it's good to get a shot.
Chances are that you have seen a number of sunrises from me, but sunsets are quite another story. Very little sunsets in my photostream. The reason for this is simple. I am not discriminating between sunrise and sunset, of course - both are beautiful, peaceful, culminating moments. On the other hand, I quite often love to contemplate a good sunset - and I am one who loves to drive other people's attention towards the beauty of a sunset (for some obscure reason so many people do not look at the sky any more...). But shooting at a sunset usually is beyond me: work, family life... only rarely I really stand a chance to get ready to seriously capture a sunset - I mean, something more than point my smartphone and take a photo from my garden.
Sunrises are a fundamentally different matter: nobody wants anything from me at that time of the day, so my chances to enjoy a sunrise session are substantially higher ;-) This is one of those precious occasions: my family and I were on a brief vacation in Umbria (see my Then Someone drew the curtains and... or A gift of Gold & Silk for some detail about this beautiful region in Central Italy) and in those days we allowed ourselves to live at a pretty leisurely pace. This made the trick and I did not miss the opportunity when it occurred.
Beautiful, peaceful, even moving as sunsets go, I still have a problem with them. Sunset is the end of the day, the end of light. It marks the beginning of the night, that is true: sunlight dies, but the gentle light of the stars gets center stage. However I do not love endings in general - I even feel a touch of sadness as I realize that the end of a book I am reading is getting close...
Well, this is where the intimate, astronomical relationship between sunset and sunrise come to rescue the situation. Everyone knows that our lives and that of our Mother Earth are governed by the endless cycle of night and day. So the sunset is just a chapter of a predictable - yet wondrous - story where it is followed by a sunrise, in a neverending rhythm that is the very pulse of our awesome living home planet. So at last I can enjoy a beautiful sunset without longing for the day that is flowing past.
Incredibly and inexplicably this photo of mine has ended up in Explore on 2022 September 29<\a>, albeit in the long tail of the gallery, about 4 years after the date of posting.
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. In the process I used to great advantage a small trick of mine involving Nik SIlverEfex Pro 2. Another good contribution to post-processing came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web.
Post-scriptum
I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture are pretty close to the edge of looking overdone. It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good on the Samsung screen where I have processed it, but it looks a bit over-the-top on my other screen (HP), so I have rather subtly downtoned it.
Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it a bit more :-)
Thank you very much in advance!
as found during a recent urbex trip down to the Southern Tier of NY. 5 shot HDR made using the Hi Res Shot mode on my Olympus OM-D e-M1 mk2, the m.Zuiko 8mm f1.8 Fisheye Pro lens and meFoto Globetrotter tripod. Processed in On1 Photo RAW 19.6 with a roundtrip to Nik Silver Efex Pro.
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I was getting set up to shoot the supermoon on Nov 14th at Bronte Beach Park in Oakville, Ontario when the clouds started rolling in.
I wasn't able to shoot the moon, but did catch the sunset... The seagull was serendipitous.
The receding tide left fantastic bands through the dark sand on the beach at Staffin while the Quiraing played Peek-a-boo in the mist
Like a puppeteer,
he dangles and manipulates
worlds that would burn others.
Juggling, spinning,
whirling through life
with a focus, and intent,
understood by none.
- a fragment
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It tastes like acid
and burns like flame.
Feel that moment
and enjoy the pain.
Breathe the night air
warming your heart.
Let the flow move your
body's supple art.
- a fragment
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I've been hearing photographers rave about Nik Silver Efex for years. It was always one of those things that I said I would get around to trying it out 'someday.' Lo and behold, Google released the entire Nik suite for free download yesterday. 'Someday' had arrived in spectacular fashion.
And I have to say I get it now. The look from Silver Efex definitely gives me an end product that I feel would be similar to what I would get if I were in a traditional darkroom.
The downside to all of this is that this probably means the end of support and updates for the entire Nik suite. Thom Hogan made a good point, though. Enjoy the fruits of this release, but be sure to support other software companies like Topaz and such that are still creating new software.
For those interested in the free Nik collection, head over to www.google.com/nikcollection.
There were a number of things
Barrie got wrong in the tale.
Most importantly, Pan’s name was Petra,
Not the famous Peter
That we all think we know.
Pan lives wild, that much is true,
Flinging her lissom body
With a howl of exultant feedom
And an abandon second to none
As her shadow skims the night skies.
- a fragment
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Meer des Vergessens
Einfach mal abschalten...
Ich wünsche euch ein entspanntes Wochenende! :))
Let's just switch off... :))
I wish you all a relaxing weekend! :))
Tools: Aperture, Viveza 2, Analog Efex Pro 2, Pixelmator.
Entrance to the Village Mayang Mawang, Sarawak. Borneo
All villages have a similar sign as you approach the village.
Literally translated the sign says 'Safe arrival to village Mayang Mawang