To achieve a good catch, several parameters are needed:

be there at the right time and when the light is beautiful, finding the best angle of view

and adjust the camera properly, the camera is not everything, in fact:

I saw photos "breathtaking" with a compact device.

The last part of the miniseries focuses on the "Style" parameter in the Niji・Journey Bot.

Here, as a grand finale, we have a small experiment incorporating the chaos parameter "C25" and the "style" enhancement set to "Style very high."

Here, the prompt is "--expressive ."

Same prompt as in first image

and second image

and third image

and fourth image

and fifth image

IMAGE: Skull-Clown:: Woman, A Dark Celebration of Día de los Muertos | STYLE: Lilia Alvarado meets Aztec Art | MOOD: Eerie and Intricate | COLOR: Vibrant and Grotesque Palette | INSPIRATION: Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton | DETAILS: Elaborate skull-clown:: makeup, intricate costume, sculpted elements | RENDER: Dark, Mysterious, and Whimsical | LIGHTING: Dramatic and Shadowy | COMPOSITION: Dynamic and Visually Striking | CAMERA Sony A1 | LENS 50mm portrait | TAGS: Día de los Muertos, Skull-Clown, Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Lilia Alvarado, Aztec Art, Dark, Intricate, Grotesque, Sculpted --ar 16:9 --q 2 --c 25 --style expressive --s 400 --niji5

Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk06

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 1

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PreGamma: 1

The Macro Mondays theme for 1/10 is corner and this is one of the possibilities. This is a box that held Christmas cards and the vertical measurement of the corner is just over an inch and half. This may be my favorite, followed by the lighted tree base (unique), the gift box noir (closest macro) and the tiny duckies in a blue pond.

……Btb, for those who had seen this before, I cropped this down so it definitely would be within the 3” parameters!!

The fifth part of the miniseries focuses on the "Style" parameter in the Niji・Journey Bot. Here, the prompt is "--expressive ."

Same prompt as in first image

and second image

and third image

and fourth image

and last image

IMAGE: Skull-Clown:: Woman, A Dark Celebration of Día de los Muertos | STYLE: Lilia Alvarado meets Aztec Art | MOOD: Eerie and Intricate | COLOR: Vibrant and Grotesque Palette | INSPIRATION: Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton | DETAILS: Elaborate skull-clown:: makeup, intricate costume, sculpted elements | RENDER: Dark, Mysterious, and Whimsical | LIGHTING: Dramatic and Shadowy | COMPOSITION: Dynamic and Visually Striking | CAMERA Sony A1 | LENS 50mm portrait | TAGS: Día de los Muertos, Skull-Clown, Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Lilia Alvarado, Aztec Art, Dark, Intricate, Grotesque, Sculpted --ar 16:9 --style expressive --niji 5

Luminance HDR 2.6.0

Tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Fattal

Parameters:

Alpha: 1

Beta: 0.9

Color Saturation: 1

Noise Reduction: 0

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PreGamma: 1

The Macro Mondays theme for 2/14 is love. This is one of the many pieces of art made by my DD for various occasions— this one is a stylized daisy, which is my favorite flower. Only captured one quadrant in order to stay within the size parameters. This is probably going to be my posting for the day!! (there were six i posted :)

.......…..💙❤️HMM❤️💙

All My Links

I think this is about as dark as my photography has ever gotten for the Dark City Deutschland collection, but I like to experiment and push boundaries; comfort zones are for the uninitiated! This is a skyward LE of the commercial Novotel Tiergarten Hotel in Berlin, taken on a dreary late night and a very light drizzle was present, hence the few drops on the lens, which at first I was objecting to, but Vera, my sexy partner in crime, said it made for an interesting feature within the image so I kept it.

I look at this and I think of dark alternative / parallel dimensions, a co-existence of sinister parameters where all is devoid of recognisable life, yet, all things are consciousness in the darker and more evil sense, if you ever have seen the movie Event Horizon you'll know what I mean; for another words, the building itself is a "living" entity, perhaps even demonic.

So on that delightful and cheery note, I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)

The Macro Monday theme for 1/30 is screw. This wee little man is sitting on a bottle cap bench. Am wondering how many ppl think I’ll choose this one for posting?

This probably would be my choice for posting but I wonder if the threads are enough to satisfy the 3 parameters stated in the theme? If not, could one of the admins let me know so I can shift focus? I can also provide a size verification later. He is a tiny wee bench sitter!

…..💙HMM 🔩💙

posting for music to my ears in Saturday Self-Challenge today

I could write much on what makes my heart sing but I'll keep to photographic parameters and say that the possibility of a macro flower shot does it for me.

Often, my significant other half being a keen gardener, I will find the opportunities at home and, if there has been a recent shower of rain, the raindrops are always welcome.

Waiting for the sun

Luminance HDR 2.6.0

Tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Lischinski06

Parameters:

Alpha: 1

PreGamma: 1

Ai work created in Deep Dream Generator - Text 2 Dream using my image below as a source and jim373's prompt and parameters.

Thanks for your visit, faves, and kind comments!

Ludwigshafen, Bahnhof, Germany

Man made - German linearity.

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 9.007

Saturation Factor: 1.872

Detail Factor: 1

I fear it´s pure kitsch... but the scene was a great view as well !

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PreGamma: 0.636

Playing around again with the Spiral Cut Mapping tool parameters in Ultra Fractal on an artwork I created in Photoshop. There was no-one sitting on my photo of the carousel - I put the mannequins there! :-)

Something different today. Something dark and eerie:

Here, as always, is the MJ prompt.

The images are the result of refinement with the help of weighting "::2 and ::3". The chaos parameter c30 in combination with s1000 makes for a certain self-willedness of the AI.

..........

IMAGE: a semi-transparent ghost::2 appears | GENRE: Horror | MOOD: Eerie, Disturbing | COLOR: Desaturated with a spectral blue tint | BACKGROUND: Decrepit room with peeling wallpaper and shattered furniture | SCENE: A distorted found footage image capturing a realm where the living and the dead::3 In the corner an antique mirror::2 | DETAILS: Dust-filled air, foggy::2 twisted and contorted shadows | RENDER: Disturbing and nightmarish | LIGHTING: Flickering, eerie light casting long, unnatural shadows | COMPOSITION: Disorienting and unsettling | FOCUS: In the corner, an antique mirror::2 reflects a twisted reflection::3 an apparition with hollow eyes that seem to penetrate the very essence of one's sanity | SHOT: Close-up shot | CAMERA: DSLR | LENS: Focal length 50mm | TAGS: Horror, found footage, paranormal::2, apparition, descent into darkness --ar 16:9 --s 1000 --c 30 --v 5.1 --style raw

The macromonday theme for 2/22 is slices of food, so I decided to go with the Dagwood, a sandwich made popular in the comic strip Blondie, and created by the husband/Dagwood of things he found in the fridge. Mine has slices of banana, strawberries, grapes, orange, and pecans on two slices of swirled rye. (This has been cropped down so it is under the 3 inch parameter.)

.... see the first comment box for a screenshot of Dagwood and one of his sandwiches

ODC food

Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk06

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 3.1

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Martín pescador común

(Alcedo atthis)

Common kingfisher

Dos images, mismo parámetros. Unidos por photoshop

Two images, same parameters. United by photoshop

Ziva (the weather girl) applied the algorithms to selected input variables for predicting weather parameter.

It snowed again today Dec 28th, 2020 ❅

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 7.95

Saturation Factor: 1.118

Detail Factor: 1

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Macro Mondays theme for 7/4 is transportation. I had to crop this down to be sure it fits within the parameters. It looks better in all its glory. Photo in the photostream. I’ll put the size verification shot up in a little bit

Btb, this Matchbox car is 50 years old!! See the photostream for a picture of the undercarriage.

…….💙HMM🚙💙

ODC toys

a possibility for the Macro Mondays theme of swag.

cropped it down to be sure it fit the parameters-- it's 2 and 3/4th inches or 7 cm- size verification picture later.

btb- was going to use the comb/ruler but someone, who shall remain unnamed, thought it looked a bit like a nit comb-- giggling.

……💙 HMM 💙

I make this image public for getting an impression of the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive

The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.

Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.

The uploaded JPEG is about 17MB in size, the AVIF 1.9MB.

This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.

I used this parameters:

avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif

The result is:

- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)

- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)

- 12 bit per channel

Link to Windows encoder binary

Alternate (2x as fast in my benchmarks)

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 1

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PreGamma: 1

Let's what sorta reception this gets.

Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Fattal

Parameters:

Alpha: 2

Beta: 0.801

Color Saturation: 1.14

Noise Reduction: 0.031

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PreGamma: 2

It all depends upon the timing. I should know, I am a drummer. There were so many times I would be stopped at the beginning of a song and told it's too fast or it is too slow.

Then upon some study I found out that almost, or the majority of songs were in the same speed. Very little differences.

Happy Whatever day it is.

A watch, especially a complication like this one, comes with many labels to identify the various parameters of time. This Oris moon phase, dual time zone complication is powered by the Calibre 581 developed in 1991 by its watchmakers in Holstein, Switzerland.. This particular watch has performed flawlessly through many time zones for many years. Submittal for the 6/15/20 Macro Monday's theme of "Label.”

• mount : Takahashi NJP driven with Astro-electronic FS2

• guiding : off-axis guide with PHD2.

• Telescope / Lens : Takahashi TOA-130S (F = 1000 mm, f = 7.7)

• camera : EOS 60Da

• camera parameters : ISO 1600, and 360 sec x 5 frames (stacked and trimmed).

• processing : Adobe Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC

At a not-so-busy night, I went to dark mountains and tune my larger equatorial mount (Tak's NJP) with a telescope 1m focal length.

Guiding parameters for diurnal motion is not completed yet and star image is not true circular in this photo. The problem, however, gets gradually to converge, I think :-)

DDG Text 2 Dream using another DDG Ai work as a source and Dottie Matrix's prompts and parameters: White lion with flowing hair, intense eyes with a handsome face, an elaborate surrounding of winter white roses, pearls and diamonds. Insanely detailed fur made of velvet. Ice crystals...

Filters: PSE21. Some hand painting.

Thanks for your visit, faves, and kind comments!

The fourth part of the miniseries focuses on the "Style" parameter in the Niji・Journey Bot. Here, the prompt is "--style original."

Same prompt as in first image

and second image

and third image

and fifth image

and last image

IMAGE: Skull-Clown:: Woman, A Dark Celebration of Día de los Muertos | STYLE: Lilia Alvarado meets Aztec Art | MOOD: Eerie and Intricate | COLOR: Vibrant and Grotesque Palette | INSPIRATION: Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton | DETAILS: Elaborate skull-clown:: makeup, intricate costume, sculpted elements | RENDER: Dark, Mysterious, and Whimsical | LIGHTING: Dramatic and Shadowy | COMPOSITION: Dynamic and Visually Striking | CAMERA Sony A1 | LENS 50mm portrait | TAGS: Día de los Muertos, Skull-Clown, Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Lilia Alvarado, Aztec Art, Dark, Intricate, Grotesque, Sculpted --ar 16:9 --style original --niji 5

DeepSkyStacker + Lr - my first attempts to stack photos. Photo consisting of 21 photos with exposure parameters 12 mm, f / 2.8, ISO 3200, 5s - OBO tripod + Manfrotto XPRO 3W.

I have calculated that for an observer using a 12mm lens (MFT) and an eye resolution of max 1 "angle (this is for a person with great eyesight and for good eyesight it is 2" angular) - the maximum exposure time for getting the view of unmoving stars is about 4,33 s. Such photos without visible foreground can be snapped and then folded as panels with the foreground not moved into a mosaic.

I wanted to check if (O-MD E-M10 Mark II) M.Zuiko 12-40 mm f / 2.8 could work in the landscape field Astro (with the subject of the foreground on the ground) without a head with guidance (sky with stars as mosaic panels ) - please give me an opinion.

I am thinking of using Star Adventurer or iOptron Skyguider Pro, but since the results of star formation are punctual, does it make sense to use the head leading to the astro landscape with the subject of the foreground on earth?

The blurred glow at the bottom of the photo comes from slowly flowing clouds gently lit by the glare of lights from a city 20 km away (Opoczno).

This just happened to be an over exposed shot that I made use of by expanding the parameters. Voila! Mistake looks intentional.

Happy Window Wednesday

The macromonday theme is knolling or arranging items in spatial order. Am not sure if this passes muster but if not I have another one that I’m cogitating on. i have a shot showing that the beads, arranged this way, are well within the 3 inch parameters-- will post it later.

ANSH scavenger15 "Self portrait through objects or reflected"

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 1

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PreGamma: 1

Digital work, designed and generated by digital filters and

parameters chosen by me, created with the name of WORMOD, which is

an acronym I used in RPGs, and it means: Wizard Of the Rain Master

Of Darkness, other similar compositions, I sign them with other

aliases such as Anubi, Anubis, Anpu, Inepu, Inpw and many others.

Good vision.

The second part of the miniseries focuses on the "Style" parameter in the Niji・Journey Bot. Here, the prompt is "--style scenic."

Same prompt as in first image

and third image

and fourth image

and fifth image

and last image

IMAGE: Skull-Clown:: Woman, A Dark Celebration of Día de los Muertos | STYLE: Lilia Alvarado meets Aztec Art | MOOD: Eerie and Intricate | COLOR: Vibrant and Grotesque Palette | INSPIRATION: Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton | DETAILS: Elaborate skull-clown:: makeup, intricate costume, sculpted elements | RENDER: Dark, Mysterious, and Whimsical | LIGHTING: Dramatic and Shadowy | COMPOSITION: Dynamic and Visually Striking | CAMERA Sony A1 | LENS 50mm portrait | TAGS: Día de los Muertos, Skull-Clown, Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Lilia Alvarado, Aztec Art, Dark, Intricate, Grotesque, Sculpted --ar 16:9 --style scenic --niji 5

For the Necklace theme of Macro Mondays. HMM! The entire necklace did not fit within the size parameters. This image was edited to ensure it was within the 3 inch limit for MM images.

Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters:Operator: Mantiuk06Parameters:Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1Saturation Factor: 0.8 Detail Factor: 1 ------PreGamma: 1

I didn't have time to adjust all the parameters when I took this snapshot, and my moving subjects were a bit "erased" by the shutter. But on this picture, it creates something special. Sometimes what you think you missed can still work!

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 1.504

Detail Factor: 2.8

PreGamma: 1

Part Two of Three

I have changed the parameters, added hyperbolic paraboloids and changed the settings to Niji.

Niji does not work with "style"

the prompts:

in the style of hyperbolic paraboloids::3 z=x²-y², a black woman on sunglasses in black with golden shimmering skin, neonpunk, high dynamic range, modern jewelry, dark yellow and gold, background vantablack::2, monochromatic mastery, 8k --ar 2:3 --niji 5

Upscaling with PS

Luminance HDR 2.3.1 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk06

Parameters: Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1,Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 1.7, PreGamma: 0.3

Luminance HDR 2.3.1 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk06

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 1

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A slightly different version of an Ai work created in Deep Dream Generator - Text 2 Dream using my artwork below as a source and Darlene's prompt and parameters:

Snow Queen with blonde hair, intense eyes with a beautiful face, an elaborate headdress of winter white roses, pearls and diamonds. Dressed in an insanely detailed grown made of lace, pearls and diamonds. Ice crystals...

and... Adelheid's prompt and parameters for the castle layers: Beautiful dreamy magical castle at winter in the barren, rocky mountains in a snowstorm, hyper detailed.

Filters: PSE21.

Three layers.

Thanks for your visit, faves, and kind comments!

Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk06

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 1

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Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk06

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 4.2

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PreGamma: 1

Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:

Operator: Mantiuk

Parameters:

Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1

Saturation Factor: 0.8

Detail Factor: 1

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PreGamma: 1

a beautiful morning to capture a rare event, all the parameters in place to get this picture, worth a revisit for my daily picture

This is a taken from some parameters that I thought I found in Facebook Mandelbulb Maniacs, but now I can't find it so it probably comes from Deviant Art. If you recognize them yourself then I'll tell the world otherwise after a short rest I claim to have made then up myself.