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My wife and I went for a rather nice, if not a little damp, walk through the redwoods at Humbolt State University. This is second growth redwood. Even at that, the size of some of the trees was truly impressive.
For this series, I used an HDR technique to make sure I captured the complete dynamic range, then made sure the blacks and whites were of the proper tones. Also, I added a green filter to lighten to foliage. Finally, adding a handmade sepia tine, I think I've come close to achieving the "look" I was after.
The Festive Atmosphere was contagious. This little girl was having the time of her life. She wanted to "go over there" and off she marched. Literally.
The Mt Tabor Adult Soapbox Derby competition pits men and women again science and cheap risk it all low ball designs.
There is a timeless feel about how little value is placed on human life after a few beers. Mad-folk rushing downhill at a great rate of knots slamming pell-mell into the final turn as they whisk their conveyances toward the hay bales that mark the finish line and the lack of brakes.
Lightning may have caused a brush fire burning in the west Valley.
Strong winds are fueling the 20-30 acre fire burning just east of the Phoenix International Raceway.
Afternoon thunderstorms rolled through the area near 91st Avenue and Dobbins Road around 4:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
Most of the storm dissipated by 5 p.m. and is expected to remain north of Phoenix, the National Weather Service said.
The area in the Gila River Indian Community is reported to be fairly remote, according to the Gila River Fire Department, who is now requesting air support to put out the blaze.
No injuries or structures in danger were reported.
by Ali Pfauser - Jun. 25, 2008 05:17 PM
The Arizona Republic
From what video I have seen there seems to be no structures in danger.
Trying my hand at images a little less distorted. I believe this role lends itself to a more formal approach.
Please see the Bogville Creature Show.
[Strobist Info: AB800 with shoot-thru umbrella close high camera left, AB1600 with reflected large umbrella level with camera far right, white cloth backdrop, wee-bit-o-processing to taste.]
I wanted to revisit some of my earlier images from the Roundhouse. I was disappointed in Canon's pano-stitching software and looked around for something from the Open Source community.
While I was at it, I thought I'd work on a couple more images. This is a straight 3 exposure HDR with tone mapping.
While visiting my brother and his family in Napa, we took a quick spin over to an abandoned railway. There was a building on the site, so it could have been a small station back in the day when the line was operational. I have been "eyeing" this particular locomotive for as many years as I've been traveling to Napa. I was happy to finally get a chance to work with this engine.
Of course, after I'd taken enough time to make the images of this GP9 that I wanted, I looked down the tracks to the other side of the road. Bad move on my part. I spied, about a half mile away, a rather long line of GP9's all hooked up and sitting.
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: 1
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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.
Trying my hand at images a little less distorted. I believe this role lends itself to a more formal approach.
Please see the Bogville Creature Show.
I have to smile. A friend who I ran into at the Antique Powerland Steamup said the light was too bright and there were no photos to be taken. At the time I felt that maybe something good could still come from the event, bright sunshine and all.
After applying the ever evolving processes to the original images, I remain stunned! This stuff is so much fun to me. Its whimsy and innocence and art and raw beauty all rolled into the kinds of images that thrill me.
After photographing the new mural across the street, I took a very quick moment and grabbed a few images of this really huge Cadillac that we'd parked in front of.
For this I varied the tone-mapping parameters and played with the 3 image layer alignment from handheld AEB. I think this will work.
Now... off to Paris and London sometime soon... handheld DHR will be possible... just need to figure out if the 40D needs to go... or if a new G9 would be more appropriate (ie: better hidden from the throngs and masses of humanity)...
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.5
Beta: 0.7
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.05
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PreGamma: 1
Call me wonky. Call me strange. Call me an "artist". Or call me "Without a Clue". But I LOVE this kind of image manipulation. It reveals an image that enhances the micro-contrast in the most delightful ways.
This kind of tone mapping makes the sky and shadow areas do the kinds of things that it used to take me a month of hard work using traditional film, pin registration, and heavy copy/manipulation work.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.3
Beta: 0.84
Color Saturation: 1.5
Noise Reduction: 0
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PreGamma: 1
I nearly didn't take this photo. I saw the brightly colored bike and wondered how I could render it. Well, I'm glad I stopped to think about this for a moment or two. The hyper-reality of this image rocks me back on my heels just a bit.
Whee.... (^_^)
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 to the left with AB1600 umbrella'd 30 degrees to the right, with photonic image creation liberally salted and processed to taste
I enjoy wandering the local cemeteries. I seem to uncover or finally "see" something new to me every trip I make.
The Gothic iron and stone work really attracted me the last time I was there.
After seeing the results of my first work with the Japanese Anemones, I felt there might be a little more to say.
During the processing of this image I found nearly twenty different renditions of this scene that expressed some aspect of how I feel.
This work really excites me with the sense of art, drawing, light, and composition. I love it!
Down by the river bank near the Recapture Lodge in Bluff, Utah.
We had just arrived and unpacked for the first night of our vacation.
A short hike down to the river and you can watch the sun paint the bluffs not seen in this image.
After seeing the results of my first work with the Japanese Anemones, I felt there might be a little more to say.
This work really excites me with the sense of art, drawing, light, and composition. I love it!
When I discovered a technique that expressed what I felt about steam locomotives, I was excited. The original work is published in what I feel is the finest photographic arts publication in the world, LensWork Magazine.
Over time I have worked to refine the technique and process further. Each step takes me deeper and deeper into the kinds of art I have been hoping to create for over 40 years. This is so THRILLING to me! This kind of subject matter just shouts at my and tickles my silly-bone to absolutely no end!!
I had never seen one of these before. This is a steam powered railroad crane. The boiler also drove the platform down the tracks. On this unit the drive gear was stripped off and used elsewhere. But the crane works! and they were giving demonstrations.
I wanted to see how I could use, mix, and blend Gimp G'Mic Engraving filter with certain kinds of coloring.
The idea came from Patrick David (one of the G'Mic developers) and something I saw over on Google+.
After a quick comment from one of the G'Mic developers, I realized my image file size was too large to control the amount of swirl effects on the skin. I downsized my files to 1000 pixels on the short side and tried again. Of course I forgot the ->Art->Photocophy step that David originally described. So I'll go back and have another try soon. In the mean time, these are looking more promising.
I can feel another project coming on. :-)
If ever man wanted a mate, here is culture's best offering. Plastic. Non-emotional. Cold. Aloof. Beautiful, even if in a sinister, evil way.
Thank you, Corporate Amerika, for pointing the way to h*ll!
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.3
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 0.7
Noise Reduction: 0.01
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PreGamma: 1
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.
When I discovered a technique that expressed what I felt about steam locomotives, I was excited. The original work is published in what I feel is the finest photographic arts publication in the world, LensWork Magazine.
Over time I have worked to refine the technique and process further. Each step takes me deeper and deeper into the kinds of art I have been hoping to create for over 40 years. This is so THRILLING to me! This kind of subject matter just shouts at my and tickles my silly-bone to absolutely no end!!
On 2nd and 3rd July 2011 Coventry Linux User's Group ran a stall at the 2011 Coventry Godiva Festival. These are the photos I took on the Sunday (3rd).
This computer was originally a Windows computer until a friend of mine installed it with Linux Mint. He also installed a variety of Open Source applications so this older computer is usuable.
Swarms of vultures around Canyon Lake flying around hoping to scavange leftovers from a picnic area, i was lucky to get at least a couple good shots.
Battery died just before this shot, I shut the camera off for a few seconds and turned it back on and got a couple more out of it before I was forced to search for my other battery that was not in its usual place for whatever reason.
Poor preperation screwed me out of a few good shots as the light kept changing during the golden hour.
It will be very interesting to see what stands the test of time. I am enjoying this approach to image making. Even as it differs from images actually made during the period of the war.
The complex layers of false stress and age give my eye rich detail to see. It also gives my brain something to think about. Could this really have been? How do I like the colors? How might I process these differently next time? Where might artistic considerations lead me in the future?
More images have crossed the vast divide between the Ages in our incredible Multiverse. These just arrived.
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. The scroll work looks to be mid-1800's French, perhaps from Paris.
Original photographs from the era are seldom this distressed and faded. Yet, from the perspective of my eye in current times, it wouldn't surprise me to someday find images in worse shape than this. Its the feeling and expectation of age that drove me to make the images in this manner. I hope it "works".
Where has the toilet paper been going?
After trailing a recent lead I came upon the culprit who was stealing the toilet paper. To eat it. Yuck.
With each step that delves deeper into the possibilities presented by modern tools and processes, I know with greater and greater certainty that there is no going back. Each lesson brings new teachings and new visions and new possibilities.
When I photographed these skulls, I hoped that I would have the strength of vision to reveal what lay seemingly deep and buried in the creative mind. As I work through the photos from the Sunday morning shoot I behave more and more like a child who is thrilled with something new. Something exciting.
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.
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.
At Sunset a cloud that once stretched from horizon to horizon in the morning was now but a saucer shaped oddity in the sky. Traveling among the Indian ruins around Sunset Crater just north of Flagstaff, Arizona this cloud continued to shift from one odd shape to another.
When I discovered a technique that expressed what I felt about steam locomotives, I was excited. The original work is published in what I feel is the finest photographic arts publication in the world, LensWork Magazine.
Over time I have worked to refine the technique and process further. Each step takes me deeper and deeper into the kinds of art I have been hoping to create for over 40 years. This is so THRILLING to me! This kind of subject matter just shouts at my and tickles my silly-bone to absolutely no end!!
My favorite cemetery called to me earlier this past Spring. I wanted to see the massive and very beautiful Copper Beech in full leaf. I wanted to study the headstones for their bas-relief and details. I wanted to enjoy the peace and quiet of this old place.
I have to smile. A friend who I ran into at the Antique Powerland Steamup said the light was too bright and there were no photos to be taken. At the time I felt that maybe something good could still come from the event, bright sunshine and all.
After applying the ever evolving processes to the original images, I remain stunned! This stuff is so much fun to me. Its whimsy and innocence and art and raw beauty all rolled into the kinds of images that thrill me.