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Details and History
The datestone on this bridge abutment indicates it was constructed in 1837. A longer, evolving record of the identity and history of this structure is included in the description of this image.
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Other views of the 1837 bridge abutment.
Technical trivia
Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
Utata's Iron Photographer Challenge 295 requests:
1. Something Plastic (record, Ono band)
2. Something Metal (heavy metal)
3. Shot through glass (magnifying glass)
A skateboarder approaches on the road.
Background
A stationary camera shows a static background with a subject changing position in successive exposures. Muybridge's motion studies, in contrast, simulate a moving camera and show an effectively stationary subject against a moving background. These may be displayed as a polyptych or combined into multiple exposures on a single frame, as here, to emphasize the subject.
The goal was to capture the motion of the scene as we walked down the street. This solution selected three images with approximately the same subject orientation that were scaled and oriented for maximal congruity of the skater before stacking. This has the effect of making the subject clear while the remainder of the image becomes a blur of overlapped scenery.
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Composite images with a moving subject reference frame
A retail neighborhood beset by COVID Closures and protests in 2020 and 2021 has some businesses managing to keep going. I buy a book here, my local independent bookstore, every chance I get.
After 40 years, or so, the Flameburger in Little Canada will close this location and move next door in the coming weeks. Someone wanted the land enough to buy and refurbish the adjacent building for them.
Details
The Tamagawa University Taiko drum and dance corps performed for Sakura Sunday 2012 at Fairmount park in Philadelphia, PA. There was a sizable crowd, and almost every image showed the milling crowd. In some images people off stage draw attention almost as effectively as the performers.
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Tamagawa Taiko drum and dance corps in my stream or in any stream.
Images with a photographer in frame.
Technical trivia
Camera:
Autofocus and JPG necessitated by camera and conditions.
Processing
Correct lens distortion (Olympus Master) then use Noise Ninja to clean up images.
(note: this is in addition to blurry automatic noise reduction)
Black level enhancement
- Generate a copy
- Use 'curves' tool to set bottom 10% of colors to black (HSV color space, Picture Window Pro)
- Composite with original using soft light transformation at 50% opacity (note: order matters).
Observation
This approach also modifies colors in a pleasing (to me) way. Interestingly, photos not available for public viewing are given much higher 'interestingness' rank than comparable public ones with hundreds of views.
Tamagawa University Taiko and Dance corps (Tamagawa Taiko) performance 4/14/2014 at Ursinus College.
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Tamagawa Taiko drum and dance corps in my stream or in any stream.
Lewis Grizzard once opined, "Life is like a dog sled team. If you're not the lead dog the view never changes." Being in the back of an airplane feels similar. But it is still fun to look for the fleeting differences.
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A tree is reflected in the moving waters of a creek..
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Technical Trivia
Three sequential images were corrected for distortion, registered, and desaturated before abstracting red, green, and blue channels from different images. These were recombined to generate this image, where color indicates things that have moved. Contrast was enhanced using Jeff Masamori's quick method (generate a copy, equalize histogram, then blend with the original).
A higher resolution version exists.
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I also found an intermediate stage in which the red was receding, leaving an orange cap. Days earlier these mushrooms were a lurid scarlet color. These were found growing at the base of a sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatinus).
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All of my fungi images.
I thought the overhead lamps resembled UFOs when overexposed, minimizing the impression of supporting wires.
Natural light in a dim room is still several stops brighter than the shadows.
Contrast enhanced with a "Daidoish" preset (contrast 90+, clear view 50+, blacks -40 or less, yellow filter, tone curve adjusted to crush blacks and blow highlights)
A gray, cloudy day was ideal for shooting into the dark barn at Pawlings farm in Valley Forge National Park.
Striving, and yearning,
Searching, but not seeing
What is already there.
A love lost
To blindness
And dissatisfaction.
- a fragment
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Utata's Iron Photographer challenge 248 asked for compositions with:
1 - one or more shoes
2 - one or more roundish things (d-100)
3 - the color yellow (a plastic Easter egg)
Contrast enhanced with a "Daidoish" preset (contrast 90+, clear view 50+, blacks -40 or less, yellow filter, tone curve adjusted to crush blacks and blow highlights)
You don't know what you've got 'till its gone...
- Joni Mitchell
Utata's iron photographer 320 asks for photos with:
1. A headline
2. Household linens
3. Multiple light sources.
Minneapolis maker faire 2018
Details
Palette modification (DFT FilmStocks, Kodak 5219 preset) enhanced details reflected in the puddle.
Trains still rumble past several times daily, but no passengers disembark here any more. In 2009, two years after this photo was taken, the station was renovated as a visitor's center. The stairway down to the creek was removed and access to the other side of the tracks is prevented by a nice, new iron railing.
The Masonic temple in Atchison, KS was open for viewing one day in July. The main chamber has several stained glass windows and free standing Masonic themed pieces. The windows are not visible from outside nor are they lighted naturally due to protective exterior metal blinds, installed to protect them from breaking in high wind. This stained glass window was back lit with incandescent lights and front lit with fluorescent.
Tamagawa Taiko performance 4/6/2014 at Swarthmore College. Foreground elements combined with reflection in window.
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Tamagawa Taiko drum and dance corps in my stream, in any stream, or just those with reflections.
Details
The goal of this series of images was to seek interesting photos from a non-optimal location (too far away, partially obscured view) using sub-optimal equipment (a slow camera with a dim lens). The fastest aperture, lowest useful ISO and low shutter speed were used to maximize color information in the RAW file.
This group concentrates on the reflections seen in the windows behind the performers. The perspective is lower than what was seen directly and gives a different view of the drumming style and stance. Early evening outside light was bright, allowing the background to show through the image. Later, the outside was lit either by moonlight or dim artificial lighting (with a blue cast) and did not disappear completely. Reflections are apparent from the interior and exterior panes of glass.
Technical details
Photographed in available light. Raw files were generally exposed for foreground elements, rendering the reflections 2-3 stops underexposed. Aggressive processing (Adobe Lightroom) involved increasing exposure 3-5 stops, adjusting highlights and shadows, then using the 'curves' tool to darken the black edge of the spectrum. Desaturating blue reduced the distracting effect of night-time exterior lighting. Aggressive noise reduction (Lightroom, Noiseware) was necessary.
My current "exploration" of Provoke style involves people that are blurry or ephemeral, cut, or distorted yet integral to image structure.
For Utata's Weekend Project: "More Dots" (24th Apr-7th May 2023)
My garlic peeling tool, knobby on the inside, looks like dots with transmitted light.
Al's Breakfast, 6/21/2019
I was testing a recently found Agfa Super Silette-LK with an indefinitely long expired roll of Fuji 800 film (causing underexposed, "thin" negatives) for Utata's Thursday Walk # 687. This tiny, cramped establishment served thirteen people with strangers happily seated shoulder to shoulder. While taking photos I didn't imagine my nostalgia would arrive so quickly. Fingers crossed that they will be open on the other side of this.
F/4, 1/30s, focus point on foreground shoulder
Agfa Super Silette-lK (Color Apotar 2.8/45mm)
Expired Fuji 800 (should have added a stop for best exposure)
Walking the dog at Portstown park. View On Black
The Harris shutter effect combines different color layers from three successive shots to give colored ghosts to moving elements. A longer pause between frames would better separate the colored elements but the subjects walked into shadow, making them less bright.
An example of structured noise.
Details
This modified Harris Shutter Effect image of a road during heavy snowfall emphasizes things that move and other differences between three sequential photos while turning the background black. Falling snow acts as "white noise" against darker objects, like trees, rendering their outline in surreal, multicolored streaks.
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Read how to construct this type of image from three sequential photos.
Other subtractive filter Harris shutter effect images
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Tamagawa Taiko performance 4/6/2014 at Swarthmore College. Isolated reflection in window.
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Tamagawa Taiko drum and dance corps in my stream, in any stream, or just those with reflections.
Details
This is the piece titled "Chikara". Andrew Cheng has shared a short video of this performance here
The goal of this series of images was to seek interesting photos from a non-optimal location (too far away, partially obscured view) using sub-optimal equipment (a slow camera with a dim lens). The fastest aperture, lowest useful ISO and low shutter speed were used to maximize color information in the RAW file.
This group concentrates on the reflections seen in the windows behind the performers. The perspective is lower than what was seen directly and gives a different view of the drumming style and stance. Early evening outside light was bright, allowing the background to show through the image. Later, the outside was lit either by moonlight or dim artificial lighting (with a blue cast) and did not disappear completely. Reflections are apparent from the interior and exterior panes of glass.
Technical details
Photographed in available light. Raw files were generally exposed for foreground elements, rendering the reflections 2-3 stops underexposed. Aggressive processing (Adobe Lightroom) involved increasing exposure 3-5 stops, adjusting highlights and shadows, then using the 'curves' tool to darken the black edge of the spectrum. Desaturating blue reduced the distracting effect of night-time exterior lighting. Aggressive noise reduction (Lightroom, Noiseware) was necessary.
Utata's Iron Photographer Challenge 284 wants:
1. Something evocative of endings
2. An indoor plant.
3. Grain or Noise
I recently found an AGFA Super Stilette at the Salvation Army store. It seemed in good order and cost less than a roll of slide film. I chose a roll of film that expired a decade ago for the test run, and this is just after rewinding the last frame. I applied a Fuji Superia Xtra 800 grain pattern in DXO Filmpack 3, because further noise obliterated the details of the plant in the lens, changed the distortion to a more pleasing state, albeit unrealistic, then flipped the image to enhance the initial impression of "plantiness" for the central element.
Tamagawa University Taiko and Dance Group (Tamagawa Taiko) performance 4/03/2011 at Ursinus College. The original images were accidentally overexposed. One drummer bursts into motion as his companions remain motionless. The Harris shutter effect, done digitally, combines color layers from three different photographs. Things that move between exposures appear as colored ghosts. The lack of ghosts indicates the stillness of the drummer - compare the upper left to the lower right, for example.
This photo of red mushrooms, possibly Hygrocybe coccinea, was not as sharp as I wanted. Might the Orton effect used in the recent IP201 challenge make it better?
The elements of Utata's Iron Photographer 201 should include:
1 - something soft (green moss)
2 - something roundish (red mushroom caps)
3 - Orton effect (Picasa's Ortonish)
The original photo had the leaf and adjacent mushroom in focus. The "Ortonish" effect at default settings brings out details in the leaf, by increasing color contrast, while smearing away fine structure.
The vivid color makes it seem like an overdone HDR attempt because the natural color is lurid. You can view an example without the Ortonish effect. Aside: Google's image search returns only flowers and raspberries in the "visually similar" category.
The Tamagawa University Taiko drum and dance corps performed for Sakura Sunday 2012 at Fairmount park in Philadelphia, PA. The audience was dominated by amateur photographers, as recalled by these six images.
Technical trivia
Camera:
Autofocus and JPG necessitated by camera and conditions.
Processing
Correct lens distortion (Olympus Master) then use Noise Ninja to clean up images.
(note: this is in addition to blurry automatic noise reduction)
Black level enhancement
- Generate a copy
- Use 'curves' tool to set bottom 10% of colors to black (HSV color space, Picture Window Pro)
- Composite with original using soft light transformation at 50% opacity (note: order matters).
Observation
This approach also modifies colors in a pleasing (to me) way. Interestingly, photos not available for public viewing are given much higher 'interestingness' rank than comparable public ones with hundreds of views.
Details
Rehoboth beach surf vignette.
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View my Harris shutter effect images sorted by INTERESTINGNESS
Technical Trivia
Three frames taken hand-held were registered before abstracting red, green, and blue channels from sequential images. The color layers recombined to generate this image.
(repaired camera timer test)
1/500s approx F2.8 (shutter priority mode) self timer
Lomo Lady grey 400 (frame added to image as scanned)
at focus minimum (0.8m/2.6ft, a bit behind my face)
Camera Details:
I found an old Canonet Ql17-GIII I found in an estate sale that nobody wanted because it didn't seem to work. It was stored in aperture priority mode and would not work without a battery. Turning it to manual I got the shutter to fire once, then stick. They let me have it for for $5.00. A quick shutter cleaning gave photos like this:
www.flickr.com/photos/7726011@N07/43622291911/
The timer was not repaired at the time, and accidentally became engaged, locking up the camera again. Fortunately, a QL17 specialist started offering service on ebay (Alex Bonarski / rangefindercamera). Within three weeks he had fully CLAed (including timer and battery update) , replaced a defective lens element (for which he had spares) and returned the camera with a one year warranty. Highly recommended if you can afford it!
Utata breaks the rules: focus on the wrong thing or on nothing at all. In this case, on the ripples from a raindrop, somewhere between the subjects.
OIl (and charcoal) on paper. This was based on a detail of Velazquez' painting, I was using my winter painting palette and seeing I was in copying mode decided to have a go at this one (just a small study).This was done concious of Cezanne's baroque style.
Utata's Iron Photographer project 220 asks for:
1 - a snack (mini oreo cookies)
2 - what you're reading now (Dr. Seuss, at bedtime, occasionally)
3 - polaroid (poladroid)
The phrase "Oh, the plaes you'll go!!" is the title of a children's book by Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel). It is occasionally inspiring for the hand model holding the oreos.
Quoth Seuss:
"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose. "
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Kodak Portra 400
f/22, 1/150
B/W conversion: DXO Filmpack (Rollei Ortho 25 preset)
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Monotropa Uniflora, also known as ghost plant, corpse plant, or indian pipe, is a parasitic herbaceous perennial plant. As a parasite it needs no chlorophyll, instead deriving necessary energy from its host - commonly mycorrhizal fungi.
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Technical trivia
Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
When new it cost 30 cents for six frames on 116 (70mm film), according to the user manual "Picture taking with the Nos. 1 and 1A Pocket Kodak". The average hourly wage for a laborer was about 44 cents.