Got up early this morning, and went dragonfly hunting. As usual, the perfect specimen with dew covered wings was not to be found this time eighter, God knows where these guys sleep, but it's not in the grass where I was looking. Found this little damselfly though, that was at least a bit lathargic still. It will just have to do for now :)

Shot on tripod in marsh, better than handheld ;)

Saved in LR3, noisereduction and sharpening does miracles now!

Et eksperiment med kamerascanning med efterfølgende rensning med AI noisereduction i Lightroom.

Taken under challenging light but happy with the different perspective this bird in flight was offering. I have said that I do not find these ducks to be very gracious flyers but I like the way they look in that position. Again not much time for editing... I suspect the post editing could be a bit better with a bit more time spent ont it.

ISO 5000 600 mm F5.6 1/1600s

Pretty happy with this image. Its a stitched panorama. The images were taken hand held using the Sony NEX-7 and Sigma 60mm F2.8 DN lens. I used the multi image noise reduction mode for sharp, relatively low noise images. Lovely colours and so much detail.

I used a 990 pixel motion blur on the water to smooth out the pano stitch seems and fake the long exposure effect I love so much.

Colour processing and noise reduction in NIK.

Shot from Ballarat Park, Pyrmont.

Noise reduction software rescued this shot from a panasonic camera.

Sometimes even with very good camera photographer is forced to use extreme shutter speed, exposure and aperture - because of the lighting and motion - and in spite of that it ends up being too much noise there. But generally I manage to correct it all pretty well.

The Douglas DC-8-60 series was a stretched version of the DC-8-30 and DC-8-50 models.

The stretched DC-8-63 was about 2,5 meter longer then before.

Other improvements of the 63 model concerned also the engines.

The aircraft was powered with four Pratt & Whitney JT3B-7 turbo fan engines. These had a specific shape, small and long engines as shown at the photo.

It is a typical shape too, before the noise reduction on engines made the engines wider to reduce the noise level.

The aircraft could fly without problem and full pay load non stop from Europe to the America west coast or Anchorage Alaska to continue from there to Tokio.

In that period first flight spring 1967, till the wide bodies came a few years later, she it was the largest commercial jet passenger aircraft.

This specific DC-8 63 was KLM PH-DEC, 45999, named Marco Polo in between the clouds on approach to Amsterdam airport. This aircraft was delivered to KLM july 1968, sold in spring 1984.

Original on slide

Photo by frolair

I was at Chicago for work recently when the Cubs were still in the baseball playoffs. Hence the blue color on top of the building.

I did some shots of this steaming lane right after a warm summer rain.

And it became an even better scene... when this little family appeared out of the mist.

Unfortunately they look a tad to clear here... maybe due to the flickr sharpening.

I prefer to view this one on black

The almost Full Moon beside Jupiter as they rise out of clouds and are reflected in Maskinonge Pond at Waterton Lakes National Park on June 16, 2019. I shot this during a photo workshop I was conducting that night. This was a very contrasty scene requiring HDR techniques (what I used here) or luminosity mask blending.

This is a 5-exposure HDR stack to record the dark foreground and bright sky, merged with Adobe Camera Raw with ghost removal off – with it on it left patches of high noise areas where the image came from only one exposure. Vignette applied with Zone System Express, noise reduction with Neat Image, and a soft Orton glow applied with Luminar Flex.

Estava guardant fotos antiques i ha aparegut aquesta. Primera prova amb el Noisereduction (gracies alfanhui)

A bit of noise reduction on an old shot of mine.

Test showing the results of using NIK Dfine, Noise Ninja and Noiseware to remove image noise from an ISO 3200 image captured with the Canon Digital Rebel (300D).

Default/Automatic settings were used for all plug-ins. Photo was shot Raw and converted using Adobe Camera Raw 4.4.1.

View On Black

Object: NGC7635 Bubble Nebula

Optic: CA300 (300/1200mm Newton f4), GPU Corrector

Mount: Skywatcher EQ8

Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM-C @ -20°C, Gain=200, Offset=10

Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, Baader 36mm Filter

Exposure: total 10.9h , Ha 69x4min, OIII 49x4min, SII 39x4min,

R 21x30s, G 17x30s, B 16x30s

183xBias, 51x Darks, 41x Flats per channel

Color: SHO

Date1/Location1: 2018-10-15, Zirndorf

Date2/Location2: 2018-11-05, Zirndorf

Capture: INDI Lib, INDI Starter, CCDCiel (Sequencing, Autofocus, Dithering, AutomaticFlat)

Guiding: TS-OAG 9mm, ASI120MM, PHD2

Image Processing:

PI:

BatchPreprocessingScript, Blink, CosmeticCorrection, ImageIntegration,

MaskedStretch, ChannelCombination, DarkStructureEnhancement Script

Starnet from Nikita Misiura:

Starless Image, Mask

Startools:

Ha-Channel: DDP, HDR, NoiseReduction, Magic

PS:

CloneStamp, 4xSelectiveColors, Ha as LuminanceLayer, Dynamic, Levels,

color enhancement with CameraRAW, ColorBalance, maskedDynamic, Levels,

Curves, NIK Dfine2 NoiseReduction

HLVG, Dynamic, CRAW, 2x maskedDynamic, maskedMinimumFilter

EDITED SUMMER PHOTO: I edited the photo by using "Noise Reduction", "Lens Distortion", and "Colorization" on the window to make the panes of glass look blue. I done all this in a program called "PhotoPad Image Editor". I also corrected a flaw on one of the leaves with a program called "Paint".

Happy Bokeh Wednesday!

(Though I'm still not in the official group. T_T sniff.)

Er...Bo-key?

Luminance testing with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta 2! Pretty smooth!

I shoulda made a heart filter though. Heart filter bokeh is like Flickr gold! ^O^

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Object: NGC6888

Optic: CA300 (300/1200mm Newton f4), GPU Corrector

Mount: Skywatcher EQ8

Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM-C @ -20°C, Gain=111, Offset=10

Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, Baader 36mm Filter

Exposure: total 14,6h, Ha 128x4min, OIII 91x4min

183xBias, 51x Darks, 41-51x Flat per channel

Color: Bicolor HOO

Date1/Location1: 2018-07-03, Zirndorf

Date2/Location2: 2018-07-06, Zirndorf

Date3/Location3: 2018-07-07, Zirndorf

Date4/Location4: 2018-08-28, Zirndorf

Capture: Sequence Generator Pro (Sequencing, Autofocus, Dithering, AutomaticFlat)

Guiding: TS-OAG 9mm, ASI120MM, PHD2

Image Processing:

PI:

BatchPreprocessingScript, Blink, StarAlignment, CosmeticCorrection, ImageIntegration, PixelMath

DBE, HistogramTransformation, MaskedStretch

PS:

Levels, maskedDynamic, selectiveColors, maskedMinimumfilter, maskedHueSaturation, NIK Define2 NoiseReduction,

ColorBalance, maskecDynamic, Curves, maskedSoftLight, maskedSelectivColors, unsharpMasking

CRaw:

final tweaks

Conowingo Dam