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Another wet miserable day so just grabbed this shot of a shop window when I went to town after work.
The January sales have started.
There was a time when I would eagerly waited reductions like this
but now I realise I have a wardrobe full of clothes and don't need any more especially as I'm mostly working from home.
DCR's 60046 crosses the River Trent at Trent Lock, with Ratcliffe Power Station looming to the rear, working a Brandon Down Goods Loop to Chaddesden Sidings, Wednesday 28.2.24.
It really was getting quite dark waiting for this working to come through, hence 4,000 ISO was needed, but fortunately the grainy RAW file cleaned up pretty well with Lightroom's new noise reduction tool.
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I made this shot during a very wet camping trip along the North sea with my Nikon D7100 and the 24-120mm VR lens.
Stitched 6 hand held photos with panorama factory. Tonemapped with photomatix. Imagenomic noise reduction. Perspective correction and further processing in PS.
Trunk of a dead tree at F 0.95. Just a demonstration of what a close-up at a super fast aperture means focus-wise.
Four of Jupiter's Moons. L-R: Callisto, Io, Europa and Ganymede. A single image, edited, heavily cropped and noise reduction applied in Lightroom
Councils are doing hazard reduction burns in Brisbane's bushland areas in preparation for an expected hot summer.
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Christmas Lights at Oxfords Street, London’s premier Shopping Street. Not before time in 2018 it is planned to pedestrianise much of the street whose pavements are packed. This shot was taken on Saturday 16th December. There is a story to this. I had planned to visit on the Friday when it would hopefully have been a little less busy. However the forecast was for rain so I swapped plans to come on the Saturday when the forecast was sunny and dry all day. That forecast held on Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon the first shower arrived with more in the evening. Soon after this picture was taken the light rain turned to snow for 5 minutes before turning to heavier rain and I retreated to a shop, no shortage of those. Soon after I set up the Tripod the couple arrived and stayed put, providing a good point of interest. The lady was engrossed on her smartphone oblivious of the camera, maybe browsing for bargains before going to the shop in Oxford Street?
The picture was taken on a tripod with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 13mm. No HDR but one image RAW processed in Capture One including Dynamic range editing. Then processed in Photoshop include Topaz DeNose and Adjust. As it was not perfectly straight at taking stage I corrected with the lens correction tool. Some distracting lights on the edges removed with heal and clone tools. Also copied in a minus 2 EV image with a layer mask for precise reduction of highlights
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During one of the annual Doors Open days in Hamilton, Ontario, I joined a troop of family members exploring the Auchmar Mansion at 88 Fennel Avenue West. As I was walking along the main hallway of the upper floor, I spotted an electric wall-mounted candle fixture on a section of wall clearly in need of some restoration. The look of the spot reminded me of images taken by English photographers in the mid twentieth century so just for the nostalgia factor I framed it up. – JW
Date Taken: 2024-01-23
Date PP: 2026-01-23
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Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm 1:3.5-5.6 lense set to 25 mm, ISO180 (Auto ISO), Matrix metering, Auto WB, Auto Exposure mode, f/4.0, 1/80 sec with an EV-0.33 Exposure Bias. PP in free, Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW.NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px high, apply Tone Mapping at default levels, use the Tone Equalizer tool to recover Highlights (the burning lamp ) as well as a little of the Shadows, use Shadows/Highlights in Parametric mode to further recover some of the lit lamp detail, apply a little noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: sharpen, save, scale image to 6000 px high, sharpen, save, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2500px wide for posting online, save.
A beautiful morning hike at my favorite wetlands. As Fall begins its takeover, I love the subtle color changes in the foliage, as well as the reduction in humidity.
Orlando Wetlands Park
Christmas, FL
227 of 365
Taken at Koolpin Gorge campsite, Kakadu National Park.
First attempt at this - learnt a few things... Focus on your desired tree/hill/foreground focal point before it gets dark! I had a lot of trial and error in manual focusing trying to get the tree sharp enough. It's definitely far from perfect. If anyone can suggest some good noise reduction techniques/software, please share! I am not happy with the my technique here. The noise was quite bad, and I am not sure how this image would go grain-wise if I tried to print it.
Striking sculpture by Kondō Takahiro displayed at the Minneapolis Museum of Art. It was created in 2013, in response to the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Although the figure is seated in the timeless guise of a Buddhist holy man, the “silver mist” glaze is intended to refer to the radioactivity, while the title "Reduction," suggests the diminishment of an entire race as a result of the disaster.
142036 rolls past the semaphores controlled by Rainford Junction signalbox on the approach to Rainford station on 13 September 1996. In an effort to reduce costs along this little used line B.R. had proposed removing the Down Main line (which the Pacer is on) between Rainford and Wigan Wallgate thus saving on maintenance and staffing the last remaining box on the line. Thankfully this never happened although the two signals here were replaced in early January 2016 with slightly less exotic examples.
I never do reduction prints, I carve several blocks which register, and print them over each other. This time (with an 'ok' from 'Gidzy') I am using a photo and plan to print 3 colours - blue, grey, black - and white paper with the single block, carving more lino away between each colour. Have no idea how successful (or not!) it will be... (I might space it out over several weeks, as it makes my brain hurt a bit!)
So first step, black out the white :-) so I can see more clearly the first parts to carve away... this WILL be confusing - that's why I don't usually use this method!
The Tintic Standard Reduction Mill—also known as the Tintic Mill or Harold Mill—built in 1920, and only operating from 1921 to 1925, is an abandoned refinery or concentrator located on the west slope of Warm Springs Mountain near Goshen, Utah, in the United States. Metals processed at the mill included copper, gold, silver, and lead, all of which were received from another mill near Eureka, Utah. The metal content of ore was increased through the process to make transportation less expensive. The reducing process used was an acid-brine chloridizing and leaching process which became outdated, leading to the abandonment of the site in 1925. At the mill's highest productivity it processed 200 tons of ore yearly from the Tintic Mining District.
What remains of the mill are foundations for water tanks, crushers, roasters, iron boxes, leaching tanks, and drain boxes. The site dominates the surrounding landscape with its size and unique colors and shapes.
It was designed and built by W. C. Madge. It is significant as the only American mill using the Augustin process during the early 1920s.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
It has been speculated that the mill may be the contributor of heavy metal pollution in the Goshen Warm Springs which lie below it.
An interesting discussion grew out some comments under the photo "last summer" I posted on Instagram a few days ago, I thought I'd like to share with you as it is relevant to this image as well as the series of images I posted recently.
Excerpt
thenumber3implieschaos @minghuanie: I like the feeling of infinity and the unknown that I get from both silence and dark. So it's not necessarily dark emotion, but I find darkness captivating... how about you?
minghuanie @thenumber3implieschaos: I believe the darkness you are talking about is very different from dark emotion, which I am not a great fan of. Darkness here is about not revealing. I have been giving much thought about what you have said about "art is all about filtering..." For many of my newer works I found myself dimming the image, reducing contrast, and filtering out colors (except for one main color for a specific mood). It has much to do with my interest in expressing the feel of memory. As I am watching my daughter growing up (so quickly!), I feel a strong need to hold onto certain memory, which is beautiful, yet always fleeting and quickly fading away. So darkness here is not about dark emotion, but rather an attempt to accurately (very ironic word here) portray the feel of memory being held onto while it's fading away. Perhaps it is about the reduction of experience, or purify and focus it as you remove all the distractions.
lenscape315 @minghuanie: ... I find I edit in a similar manner at times- attempting to portray the places I photograph as I experienced and remember them, less so representing the scene as it really was. This too includes darkening the image at times, bringing down contrast and softening, but sometimes enhancing the color.
minghuanie @lenscape315: ... indeed both darkening, and brightening sometimes. In fact, this particular image has both.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQokvDMdR9U&feature=share&...
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اختزلني يا أيها الجدار
خفف من تفاصيلي .. وابتلع تاريخ حياتي
وخلّ بيني وبين الخفة من جديد
فأنا مصنوع من غيوم
وقلمي من خشب
وصبري من حديد
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امسح المعنى الواضح في عيني ..
واجعله حكرا على الطيور وما أكثرها
أوعلى الإنسان وما أقل معناه
ارمني بسهم من نسيان أبيض
وشتت تفاصيل الأحداث السود
فالحدث الأوحد في حياتي اليوم .. أني فكرة ..
من دون قيود
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ارسمني سيد نفسي ..
بلا سيد ولا سرب ولا صنم
حرفا من تناغم النفس ودقة الفكرة واتساع المعنى
مسيرة بلا تراجع
مشيا حثيثا بلا ندم
صبرا جميلا
وموتا قصيرا بلا ألم
اهرب من الألوان
فاللون قد يعني الشتات
خطط الشكل العام
وافتح الحدود كي لا تنتهي اللوحة
فجمال الكون قد يكمن في أمل التتمات
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Another capture from my first venture out in 2014 yesterday. Again I am happy with the improved focus and sharpness from the microadjust on the 7d. My images dont have any sharpnening or noise reduction applied in case you wondered and this is almost straight from camera, just a bit of cropping and a play around with levels in PS.
I took my fisheye with me, and I did well. Even if I shot for the 70-75% of the time with the wideangle (the 8-16 zoom allowed me more versatility), in locations where I stayed more time I switched also to the fisheye.
This pagode has 6 levels if I don't remember bad, and the stairs from each level to the superior one are narrow and narrower. I think I took this shot from the last one ;)
Thanks to my friend Mento who went there one month before me and was so kind to advise me to go to this location!
This shot have been processed with Machinery HDR software, which I used also for the toning.
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LOCATION AND DATE - DATA e LUOGO DI SCATTO
Chanteloup pagode (Loire region, France), 8th August 2012
CAMERA
Nikon D5000
LENS - OBIETTIVO
Fisheye Samyang 8 mm
SHOT DATA - DATI DI SCATTO
ISO 200; f/8
HDR from 3 exposures (-2; 0; +2), handheld
Other EXIF on flickr / Altri EXIF su flickr
WORKFLOW - FLUSSO DI LAVORO
° Rename: XnView
° HDR Processing and toning: Machinery HDR
° Noise reduction / Riduzione rumore: Noiseware
° Cropping: GIMP
° Curve correction / Correzione curve: GIMP
° Resizing, watermark: Fastone viewer
may I help you?
yeah, is jimmy home?
no he ain't. whaddya want?
I'd like to borrow one of his records.
you and everybody else in this neighborhood. can't you see he's using them?
c'mon, please?
which one you want?
it's up near the roof.
that figures.
Rail way crossing!
Two Water Rail, Rallus aquaticus, pass each other in passageway through a reed bed.
Canon R5 MkII + Canon RF 200-800mm, 1/400th, f9, ISO 3200. Edit colour correction, levels and RAW conversion to 16 bit .tiff in Canon DPP4, re-sized and converted to a web ready .jpeg in Photoshop CC. There is no noise reduction applied, I can't get over how clean these images are considering the ISO and horrible flat lighting they were taken in! _J9A0082
One of my favorite pieces of modern art in Kobe. It's chrome, which is cool, and it provides some perspective bending reflections, which is also pretty cool.
I've been waiting for a nice sky to have another go at it. What wasn't cool was that I couldn't quite get the angle I wanted - you can see a hint of burning sky at the base - but there was a lot more, and it was very nice, and I just couldn't capture it without capturing elements I didn't want (buildings, the fence, myself...). Nevertheless, I'm not too unhappy with the end result.
Explored, highest position: 94