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Based on the feedback and number of views of the earlier work, it seems that people respond better to image with color in them. So I think I'll continue to head down the tone-mapped color route to see what I can come up with.
There is one exception. I have a 300+ degree panorama what I will work on sometime. For that, I think a straight brightness map would work out well. There will be enough other stuff going on in the image that altered tones might get too congested, visually.
Between the arid desert and a water hole thats covered with bees these doves are on the fence.
Dashing in to take a hurried drink until they can no longer stand the bees then they head back to the fence.
After visiting my brother, we headed over to see my wife's daughter in Petaluma. The rail station there has been completely renovated. However, the old rail lines sit out back in an open field largely ignored. On this latest trip I noticed how a large construction company has put up a fence along the south side of the property. This made photography rather difficult of the old engine.
I have worked these with Qtpfsgui and the GIMP. Still, I wanted to include the Qtpfsgui parameters. They are only a vague starting point for where this image ended up.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.001
Saturation Factor: 0.8
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PreGamma: 1
This is one in a series of 6 leaf images. It's getting pretty late in the Fall season, yet there are all these wonderful leaves still laying around. Even after all the leaf blowers and gardeners have plied their craft all these wonderful little worlds of beauty are still to be found.
I have studied hand coating collodion, the making of tin-types, albumin, ferrotype and platinum prints. As they age they tend to deteriorate much more gracefully than the images I have re-created here. My work and "take" on the subject is unlike any of the originals you will ever see from the time period. Rather, I am attempting to touch at something a little different.
To me this looks like the headstones are emerging from the earth.
I'm really enjoying the tone mapping technique. Add a dash of sepia tone. Et Voila! Images that come closer what what I've _wanted_ to create than I've ever come in 40 years of clicking a shutter.
Whenever I travel I find many things that attract my "eye". On this trip I realized that there must be just as many interesting things in my home town. If only I looked with a different "eye". I noticed how much my "story" of where and how I live narrows my participation of a place. Seems to me that maybe I need to be more curious and open to the world around me so that I can experience things like I do when I travel.
I wanted to try out a new lens. So, I stopped the bike on the bridge and tried my hand at something new. The Sigma 12-24 EX HSM rocks hard! I love this lens. Of course, when have I not liked a lens? LOL!!!
This series of images has several inspirations. I like the wood cut or engraved feel of these. We see these kinds of images around so many of the Paris flea markets. Alas, I can't afford them and all too often they're not of a subject I'm interested in.
My many thanks to the G'Mic developer, David Tschumperle and to David Patrick for providing a kewl new tool and for sharing what's possible.
I needed to clean up my light/darkroom. Boxes and storage junk was piling high. To motivate myself to the task of cleanup I decided to work a bit more on on skulls and still life.
Strobist Info -
Light Setup - Alien Bees B800 with 3x4foot softbox, a large sheet of glass, and 6 sheets of variously sized white rag board (for light control). Resting one edge of the softbox on the floor and using a very short AB light stand to point the light toward a 4x5foot 1/2 white foam core reflector. I used this to knock the light intensity down, even after setting the AB800 at it's lowest power setting.
Over the foam core reflector I built a three sided white reflector box (rag board laying against two tables). Then I suspended a glass sheet between the tables so the light would come up from below.
Lastly, I rested three sheets of variously sized rag board against each other to form a three sided reflector cavity above the glass to spill just a bit of light around the edges of the subject.
Camera setup - Canon 40D set to manual. Chimped the light curves in camera to find that 1/200th sec at f/11 was just about right. Used a very sweet Canon 28mm f/2.8 optic to minimize the number of glass elements bouncing the softboxes intense light.
First snows of the entire winter came during March, before that nothing.
Phoenix Arizona hadnt seen rain in 144 days straight and down there they were not only getting rain finally but snow fell as far down as the northern city limits. Snow actually accumulated in the areas where sonoran deserts start, blanketing saguaros and other cacti in snow.
This image taken in Utah you can see snow has fallen on the Sleeping Ute Mountains, and on the other side of those mountains Mesa Verde had so much snow falling the plows were going up and down non stop as we made our way slowly to the Spruce Tree House ruins, one of the few sites they kept open during that snow storm.
Just a few days before we were down in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico wearing tshirts and breaking the occasional sweat hiking to the Palo Alto ruins.
On our way back to Phoenix we were snowed in at Payson Arizona, forced to stay the night in a hotel and then the next morning dig our car out with a jumbo dust pan I hiked to WalMart to buy, they didnt have snow shovels at the time.
Weather makes things interesting now and then.
As I round the final bend and enter the home stretch I found an interested technique. What I like about this approach is the layered black and white tones with textures that remind me of aging etchings.
The work was done in support of Bogville's Sub Lunar Servitude show that's coming up soon.
After working through the Bogville series, I wanted to return, briefly, to an earlier set of images and re-process them using my newly developed techniques.
When I return, these will be bundled and shipped off for publication. It may take a few months to hear something, but I'm hopeful that I get to share these with a wider audience.
[Strobist Info: AB1600 with cone over left camera shoulder, AB800 with cone on white backdrop camera right, liberal processing to taste.]
A lot of fiddling around with layers in the gimp to bring out the definition in the background where ship rock can be seen in.
Visiting with Desmo_Dave was great. My wife and I hadn't seen him since he made the trek to Paris a couple years back when we were there.
Vancouver is reportedly the highest density city along the West Coast. Still, there was plenty of room to move about and the traffic was better than anything I've ever experienced in Seattle or San Francisco. Oh, and the people there tend to be slim, trim and fit. Very unlike in the US where 60%+ of the population is overweight.
When I can work out the story without digressing into an angry rant about finding and destroying whoever was responsible for her situation I will.
For now the story is "small female pup tossed out into the the desert, or tied down with a peice of chicken wire(part of which is still hanging from that collar) and after walking in several small and maddening circles the chicken wire broke and she went in search of food after a period of obvious neglect."
More to come.
We started calling her Koki because we found her near Wukoki Pueblo Ruins.
Those are my wife's feet, we are trying to gain her trust and slowly we do get it, mostly won by the several emergency dog biscuits we keep stashed in the xterra.
I have stumbled upon something of incredible rarity. Images from across the gap between various Ages have, unexpected, become available to me. They have withstood the incredible stresses of Multiverse time sharing to be revealed here for perhaps the first time in this Post Modern Age.
I would like to thank all the Bogvillians who were able to make the photoshoot. I want to thank them for their time and fun preparation. Their efforts helped make the photoshoot a success (well, at least from this perspective).
All the recent work posted here was done in support of Bogville's Sub Lunar Servitude show that's coming up soon.
Vertical Stitch achieved with Hugin.
I couldnt get it all in with the lens I was using with the room afforded me.
Not long after sunrise I found myself laying on the ground for this one.
In the background are structures known as Castle Hovenweep.
I wish I could "see" my own city and living place as well as I "see" other places. There must be equally beautiful scenes in my area. This exercise has given me "juice" to explore something I'm very familiar with.
I'm really enjoying the tone mapping technique. Add a dash of sepia tone. Et Voila! Images that come closer what what I've _wanted_ to create than I've ever come in 40 years of clicking a shutter.
After working through the Bogville series, I wanted to return, briefly, to an earlier set of images and re-process them using my newly developed techniques.
When I return, these will be bundled and shipped off for publication. It may take a few months to hear something, but I'm hopeful that I get to share these with a wider audience.
[Strobist Info: AB1600 with cone over left camera shoulder, AB800 with cone on white backdrop camera right, liberal processing to taste.]
I keep searching for new ways to express the themes of Steampunk, Tribalism, Noir Victorian Goth. The Multiverse appears to have room for a wide variety of photonic creations. Images that pass across the "Seam" is un-predictable.
This is not the sharpest of vulture shots I have ever taken, but really I was just looking for an excuse to use that title.
I learned something rather interesting. Scots in America did not want to stand out as being foreign. So, they did not wear kilts, except for special occasions. Here I thought I'd see proper fighting men in kilts waging war on a battlefield. It was not to be.
I find I am very much enjoying making images in the style and idea we have of old photographs.
This series leans heavily on my own ideas of photographic history. Early images are typically much more stable than what I am presenting here. Yet, hand tinted, stressed and distressed photos are easy to find in antique shops around the country.
It is with this that I pay homage to all those wonderful photographers who helped capture images in the past. I hope to do them and our ideas of history justice.
The air has been bright and warm the moment the sun peeks up over Mt. Hood. The air has also been quite smoky from fires and the grass field burning that farmers do down valley. Despite the reduced air quality, its been a joy to ride out in the morning. The Fall crispness is just on the edge of sensation. As I say, its a great joy.
As I tore the last vestiges of photonic creations from across the Gap of Ages, I could see where the mending in the Fabric of the Multiverse was making itself known. The Multiverse was healing quickly. Too quickly, in fact, for me to gather much more information about our parallel Ages.
Alas, I can only hope that, with time and luck, yet another sharing between ages will be possible. Until then, perhaps we can glimpse the possibilities from these, the very few, photonic creations I was able to collect.
Obligatory Strobist Info - AB800 softboxed nearly over center to the left with AB1600 umbrella'd 30 degrees to the right, with photonic image creation liberally salted and processed to taste
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
- Lewis Carroll
We interrupt our regularly scheduled release of Oregon Country Fair Gypsy Caravan Indigo Bellydance textured layer images to bring you the following service announcement:
Portland is beautiful!
Technique - Handheld Canon A640 point and shoot, +/- 1 2/3 EV in five (count 'em: FIVE) steps, seven (count 'em: SEVEN) image segments captured, each segment individually aligned in Qtpfsgui v1.8 (v1.9 alignment crashes on me), HDR tone-mapped in Qtpfsgui v1.9, stitched with LDR exposure balancing in Hugin using the auto-stitch function, tif (8-bit) outputs stored and opened in Gimp v2.2 (stable), light curve manipulation, layered, toning the top layer with Ken Lee's Quadtone Bronze, fiddled the opacity, cropped, then fuzzy bordered to taste. Whew!
As I round the final bend and enter the home stretch I found an interested technique. What I like about this approach is the layered black and white tones with textures that remind me of aging etchings.
The work was done in support of Bogville's Sub Lunar Servitude show that's coming up soon.
After working through the Bogville series, I wanted to return, briefly, to an earlier set of images and re-process them using my newly developed techniques.
When I return, these will be bundled and shipped off for publication. It may take a few months to hear something, but I'm hopeful that I get to share these with a wider audience.
[Strobist Info: AB1600 with cone over left camera shoulder, AB800 with cone on white backdrop camera right, liberal processing to taste.]
This series is the result of a failure to execute the original idea. I was rushed, what with the BBQ waiting on the dry rubbed pork, and the beers still in the 'fridge.
I layered up a few things in the Gimp, fiddled a WHOLE LOT with textures, applied four different BW tints to seven different layers, added a border to match the old traditional "show black" cut-out negative carriers, and... well... here's what came out... in spite of my intentions... I'm thinking this is the start of a whole 'nother body of images for me...
The intended setup was this - two off camera Vivitar 283 strobes, one with a peanut (which triggers nicely in full daylight) mounted on a light stand, the other mounted on a bracket near the camera plugged into the 40D. I wanted to blur the background so I set the 100 f/2 wide open. I let the AV figure out the shutter speed after applying a -2ev exposure reduction.
What I failed to remember was that the shutter only syncs at 1/200th or less. All the images were shuttered around 1/1000th sec. YIKES! I blew it!! Still, this image appears to have sync'd close enough that I got a bit of rim light on my subject. Pure luck, I say.
Penasco Blanco at Chaco Canyon.
Just a small portion shown in this image, wife made me get out of there before the clouds got closer, something about not wanting to die from lightning with my big steel tripod.
These may be a little difficult to look at when compared with the strong color saturated versions I recently posted. But hang in there with me. I'm attempting to illustrate how my mind works as it "processes" images and comes up with the "final results".
Last Fall someone grew this fabulously shaped squash. I tried looking at "straight" photos of these, and they just didn't excite or move me. So... I went back to the hyper-real technique I've been playing with.
These are tinted B&W images. I LOVE the way the light bends and twists through this plant. Soon I will post a few images that show the final results of my messing around with squash.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.3
Beta: 0.78
Color Saturation: 1.3
Noise Reduction: 0
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PreGamma: 1
I find that it takes me longer to process images that involve complex scenes and contrast. I keep working at it until I finally "see" something that might work. I guess not everything has to be 100 percent "on". Or maybe it does?
Large view here.
The San Franciso Peaks and even Sunset Crater are visible on the horizon looking west from the ruins at Homolovi just outside Winslow. To look east one would see bands of light and shadow from this "eclispe" play upon the painted desert.
The winds were high and the temperature cooling. Great place to camp on the last days of May in Arizona.
As I round the final bend and enter the home stretch I found an interested technique. What I like about this approach is the layered black and white tones with textures that remind me of aging etchings.
The work was done in support of Bogville's Sub Lunar Servitude show that's coming up soon.
Once I realized I had all the resources and tools needed to create unique one of a kind hand bound books of my images, I knew I had to re-process my rail images. The preparation for publishing has been a long process. I think I'm nearly there.
Quite a few people comment on my flickr Icon, so I thought I would post what it looked like actual size. I created it as part of a larger graffic for a website I am working on. Using gimp and other open source tools on linux.
My apologies to any of the groups who might have a "photo's only" clause in their rules that I missed when reading them.
This series of images has several inspirations. I like the wood cut or engraved feel of these. We see these kinds of images around so many of the Paris flea markets. Alas, I can't afford them and all too often they're not of a subject I'm interested in.
My many thanks to the G'Mic developer, David Tschumperle and to David Patrick for providing a kewl new tool and for sharing what's possible.
After working through the Bogville series, I wanted to return, briefly, to an earlier set of images and re-process them using my newly developed techniques.
When I return, these will be bundled and shipped off for publication. It may take a few months to hear something, but I'm hopeful that I get to share these with a wider audience.
[Strobist Info: AB1600 with cone over left camera shoulder, AB800 with cone on white backdrop camera right, liberal processing to taste.]
Kin Klizhin
Chacoan Great House
Occupation AD 1000-1150's
Somewhere in New Mexico along the Chaco Wash.
The previous image in my stream shows a panoramic view.