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I'm working on a theory construction paper using soft systems methodology, which requires creating "rich pictures" of the systems. The working research question for this project is, "Why is ongoing user participation required for open source software development projects to create desirable software?"
Active users do the same things as passive users, and also create request features, participate in email lists and forums, and submit bug reports.
Each time I work with the original images I find some new way to re-work them. Exploring possibilities is just too much fun! I'm hopeful that they'll look good in my hand bound books.
There are so many things to learn and experience. Each step I take seems to go deeper into the kinds of images I was only in my wildest dreams ever hoping to create.
Has anyone mentioned that image making can be fun? LOL!
I was asked to create a few more images of the troupe who couldn't make the original photoshoot. There were some pretty exciting things to come from this very very fast "line 'um up and shoot 'um" session. It's good to have a technique and style, because if I'd stopped to think about what I was doing, everything would have been lost.
Those who follow my work must at time feel I can't be "trusted" to work in just one style or one mode. All I can say is Guilty As Charged.
I enjoy working in so many different styles and on so many different subjects. People. Vehicles. Trains. Monuments. Abstracts. Wherever my eye turns it seems there's something to be explored.
Recently I saw three photogravure by one of the photo secession pictorialists. "Click" went the mind and suddenly I was creating yet another body of work in a different mode.
In my defense the best I can say is that I'm having one hell of a good time.
Lower ruins at Tonto National Monument, short hike up from the visitor center, the upper ruins is a longer hike and you need a reservation to take the guided tour.
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.
When Greg and I went to ride the Speeders, we took a moment to walk through Oaks Park. I put the 8mm Peleng fisheye on the camera to see what kind of distortions I could get.
After passing the image through Qtpfsgui, I continued to modify them using the Gimp.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
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Beta: 0.76
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.008
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I am continuing to work in a style of distressed old images. Recently came across a few nice images and am really enjoying how they meld into the final images. I worked on over 30 versions of this. Most are quite nice. Since this one is a little different than my other work, I decided to post it.
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 in pure color. Next, I'll post a few in pure B&W (well, OK, so they'll be tinted, still, they'll be monochromes, so how's that?). Afterward, 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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Lomaki Pueblo taken early early morning, thats key if you ever want to go here and get shots with good light and no people.
Well... for better or worse... here are my "final" results from working with these rather interesting squash.
I started with one to three exposures. I then HDR'd them using Qtpfsgui. Into the Gimp they went for contrast control, saturation enhancements, tinting, then balancing the various layers to get the "desaturated" yet tinted effects I was looking for.
In hind site, I rather like the pure B&W versions. Still, these are very attractive to me as they appear to have taken on an alien life form.
So there you have it. My mind. My process. Squashy results. I hope you enjoyed it.
They come out for breakfast and lunch at the Chaco Canyon campgrounds.
Just to see if you drop something.
When Greg and I went to ride the Speeders, we took a moment to walk through Oaks Park. I put the 8mm Peleng fisheye on the camera to see what kind of distortions I could get.
After passing the image through Qtpfsgui, I continued to modify them using the Gimp.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1
Beta: 0.74
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.008
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PreGamma: 1
I was in a workshop all last weekend. The place the workshop was held was just across the street from the Hand Built Bicycle Show at the Convention Center.
Finally, during lunch break on Sunday, I couldn't stand it any longer and headed over to the show. I went up to the window to buy a ticket and started counting out my change. D*mn! It costs $18 (yes, EIGHTEEN BUX!!) to get in and all I had was $12 and twenty minutes. No joy.
So, instead of oogling all the great stuff inside, I wandered around outside and snapped a few images. There was some fun stuff out there.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.3
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 0.7
Noise Reduction: 0.03
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The stallions around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico like to keep whats theirs theirs.
He kept an eye on us until we were out of sight.
The white in the background are badlands, this is close to Bisti Badlands.
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?
After working inside with artificial lighting, we moved down the road to a favorite site. Working out of doors under natural light was a challenge. I needed to find somewhere that the sun could be controlled. So we worked predominantly in the shadow areas.
For this series, I am working in muted colors and layered mono-tones. I hope these strike the right balance between the typical styles that folks tend to shoot in, and something that bubbles up through the multitudinous layers of my artistic being.
A passing policeman laughs at a quick joke made by a J'ouvert player in colourful hair. Carnival Monday, Port of Spain. 27th February, 2017. (Shaun Rambaran / Forge Business Imagery)
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.
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.
My wife and I went to Vancouver, BC to visit Desmo_Dave. He was over for a conference and being a friend of going on 20 years, I thought it important to pay him a visit while he was in my hemisphere.
After working inside with artificial lighting, we moved down the road to a favorite site. Working out of doors under natural light was a challenge. I needed to find somewhere that the sun could be controlled. So we worked predominantly in the shadow areas.
For this series, I am working in muted colors and layered mono-tones. I hope these strike the right balance between the typical styles that folks tend to shoot in, and something that bubbles up through the multitudinous layers of my artistic being.
I'm about to interrupt this sequence to share a few more mushrooms and some words from Alice. So here's one last shot at Lone Fir before the 'shrooms get uploaded.
It was sloppy wet the day I took these photos. It was all I could do to walk and plant the tripod. Then there was the small matter of keeping rain off the camera/lens.
Still, I came away with a few things that really thrill me.
I'm coming down to the last of the images from my Oaks Park outing. It was a LOT of fun seeing what I could see, and the processing the results. Sometimes photography is just too much fun! Makes me smile a whole bunch.
The Holiday Season brings out the lights. Businesses along Division in near-in SE are brightly lit.
I wanted to see what happened when I compared the output of a couple different tools using several different parameters. To my eye, these are the more pleasing results. I like the slightly desaturated effect along with the extreme contrast control and micro-contrast effects.
I took a table-top tripod and found suitable resting places. Then I used aperture preferred controls, set the A640 to f/2.8, then took three images, one each at +2, 0, and -2EV. These were then stacked and processed as a HDR tiff, followed by tone mapping.
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.
“An innovative open source software platform known as the Freedom Toaster has provided an opportunity to bridge the digital divide and make software available free of charge to the previously disadvantaged.”
Read more about the Freedom Toaster
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Every time I come here, things have changed. This grave wasn't nearly this ornate before. Of course, all the Chestnuts weren't on the ground either.
I'm about to interrupt this sequence to share a few more mushrooms and some words from Alice. So here's one last shot at Lone Fir before the 'shrooms get uploaded.
It was sloppy wet the day I took these photos. It was all I could do to walk and plant the tripod. Then there was the small matter of keeping rain off the camera/lens.
Still, I came away with a few things that really thrill me.
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.
Same snake as in the previous image in my stream.
As you can see its not as big as it may have seemed in the previous image, its head no bigger then the end of my thumb, still as small as it is its no baby.
The rocks you see are part of a dam in a water catchment at the Painted Hand ruins.
Not sure if its still considered part of Hovenweep or Canyon of the Ancients National Park.
The snake is in the very center of the image, after it became aware of my presence it went under the nearest rock and took its classic defensive posture seen in the previous image.
This is the last pass through these images. As you can see from comparing other renditions here, I like to work and work and work and image until I get several samples that appeal to me.
Working in the idea of living in a multi-verse, rather than a uni-verse, I thought it would be fun to see where the mind might take me. I'm sure for some folks the mind has taken me WAYYYYYYY out there. :-)
Seen at Painted Hand ruins.
These rocks are part of a water catchment dam just below the tower.
As with the steamlocomotives, these may evolve in directions not yet anticipated. So... well... this is a start...
I chose what happened to be one of the wettest days in November to head out to a local cemetery to snag a few photos. It was so wet that I sloshed and slipped, slid and mucked throughout the graveyard.
I was hoping to continue the image theme that I started with the steamlocomotives. Alas, the graveyard images became their own theme. Dreamy. Erie. Beautifully strange.
Canon 40D, 10-22 EF-S, Gimp, Sepia, etc...
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.
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.
Continuing with a series of store window images, I found a new set of models to photograph down toward a different light rail station than I usually board at. You can really get a sense of how different stores like to sell to different buyers.
Pavlov's Dogs are not all the same, are they?
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 0.8
Noise Reduction: 0.04
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PreGamma: 0.4
Another rendition of this image. You can see a little of how I tend to evolve these kinds of things. Already I have six or seven different versions that I work from. Will this be the last of this session?
After dinner one night we had to step into this really great shop and take a few photos.
Qtpfsgui and Gimp processing.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1
Beta: 0.9
Color Saturation: 0.7
Noise Reduction: 0.03
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PreGamma: 1
I have been riding my bike since Spring from the house to downtown to catch the light rail system out to work and home again. Each day I pass over the Hawthorn Bridge. I love the ride for its sights and smells. The water is typically crisp and beautiful. The breeze is many times nice and refreshing. All the folks riding and walking across the bridge are fun to watch and talk to. In short, this is a lovely well used bridge.