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In the mornings I pass by store windows on my way to the light rail stop. When the seasons change I watch to see what kind of Consumer Pavlovian Response items are put out for display.
I am using these images as a way to test hand held automatic exposure bracketing. It's a technique I would like to deploy when traveling to Europe and Asia.
The rains come and go this time of year it seems. Breif yet frequent. Leaves everything with that darkened wet look early in the morning.
I wanted to take a moment and show the difference in output between two of the tone-mapping filters in Qtpfsgui.
This image was created using Fattal. This is the kind of images I've come to love. This filter really messes with the tones and colors. I think this is very "creative". It's really fun to see how these filters and setting help create an image that the "mind's eye" sees in the first place.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.03
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PreGamma: 0.7
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.
Up into the Superstition Wilderness.
From the desert to the pines in less then a half hour, unless you stop at every other switchback to take pictures.
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.
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.
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.
I enjoy the tonal qualities these images achieve. Back in the day, I worked as a photo-lab-rat in Hollyweird and Irvine, California. I used to do this kind of work, though I felt quite guilty. It seemed a sinful photographic pleasure, particularly given the fact that many of my friends and I were enamored with St. Ansel and his hyper-clear B&W work.
Wandering around an amusement park that's closed for Winter is really quite fun. You never know what you'll stumble upon, which way your head will turn, things the eye will find pleasing.
I gave these photos the treatment I did because I find amusement parks hyper-real in any event. This closely matches what my mind constructs whenever I visit.
All pose bright red
And witheringly enticing.
Be still, oh shivering recently
Unemployed fingers.
Money can not escape
The wallet if there was none
There to begin with.
Afterall, the economy is
Sound, says the Boy Emperor
I was asked about how these images looked in color. Well, here it goes.
In many ways, color adds dimension to the images that seems to be lacking in the B&W versions.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.5
Beta: 0.7
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.03
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PreGamma: 1
We walked this trail just to kill time before going to sleep after a long day. Turned out to be a series of wondrous sites and I had not brought extra memory with me or I probably would have taken hundreds more pics.
These looked like excerpts from a horror film. I really like the way T-Rex is lunching on My Little Pony. And the way that the Alien is just sitting there, rather beat up looking.
Some of the white in this image is snow, while the rest of it is what I call "not snow".
In the background you can see the San Francisco Peaks, and some other notable craters.
The sun is sinking below the horizon to the right of this image, I really should get some ND grad filters someday.
I think this is an adult juniper of some type judging from the scale leaves and what I could glean off wikipedia.
Lomaki Pueblo taken early early morning, thats key if you ever want to go here and get shots with good light and no people.
I stepped into the Men's Room for a quick p*ss and was struck by the quality of light. It was bouncing all around the white surfaces and I wondered how it might look with a little HDR and tone mapping. I got to find out.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.3
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.01
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PreGamma: 1
I have always admired artists who've been able to capture the "essence" of a bird. National Geographic and the Audubon magazines pointed the way and set the standard, back in the day.
Fast forward thirty years and I find I really enjoy watching the birds in our backyard. Such fun, these. I call the American Goldfinches we have my little piggies. They eat through a feeder of thistle a week. Happy we don't have children to feed too. :-)
I have always admired artists who've been able to capture the "essence" of a bird. National Geographic and the Audubon magazines pointed the way and set the standard, back in the day.
Fast forward thirty years and I find I really enjoy watching the birds in our backyard. Such fun, these. I call the American Goldfinches we have my little piggies. They eat through a feeder of thistle a week. Happy we don't have children to feed too. :-)
Up in El Morrow National Monument the hours ridiculously from 9am to 4pm which sucks as that cuts out a lot of the best potential lighting not to mention we got there at 6pm near sunset. I will find a way to get good shot around the area before 9 just not on the trails. Ice Caves and Banderas Crater is nearby also with somewhat better hours of 8 to 5, still not so great. I have no idea how this photo actually looks as this laptop im uploading from has a mediocre screen at best but in a week when i get back to my desktop hopefully I will find I havnt uploaded a bunch of odd colored blurry pics. Grants, New Mexico seems typical of the other towns we have stayed in but had the option of camping at El Morrow been more clear on the website would be much better to have stayed there overnight like the two parties that were there when we scouted the place out. Lucky folks.
Going back there tommorow, should be a beautiful sunday morning.
Not sure what this canyon is called, but will definately be going hiking down there sometime soon. This shot doesnt give the proper perspective to the scale of whats being shot here. I will have to post a full size on my website and link it when theres time. Seems a bit dark and contrasty now that its uploaded, perhaps I need to fix that also.
This is not actually in Sedona, its a place called Honanki outside of Sedona.
A little blending of exposures was done to bring out the pictographs.
They operate around Sedona give folks what has to be a very bumpy ride through red rock country.
I personally dont care for the color but they are very capable on the trail from what Ive seen.
Areas that were taking me some time to clean thes jeeps were scampering right up and over no problem.
Even better were all the Fire Danger signs that still said "HIGH" even a few days deep into this snowfall.
One of the hardest places, in my mind, to get an image that captures the scope and scale of this place and the ruins.
Walnut Canyon is like an ancient cavern of High Rise apartments with several floors and no stairs or elevator.
This is not one of the best preserved dwellings and as far as i know it could have been just a storage cave.
April has been very cold this year. Mount Shasta must have had some snow a few days after we passed through. It was bitter cold there.
Still, the clouds were lovely.
This image was processed from a stack of three images (+/-2EV, 0EV), put through Qtpfsgui, and then further processed using the GIMP. I have left the Qtpfsgui parameters in place, but please remember; these were just the starting place and the Gimp further modified the original source images.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.5
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 0.8
Noise Reduction: 0.04
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PreGamma: 0.3