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Looking like tha bomb with baked on mesh on Slink Redux. Alpha making couple of minutes per outfit in photshop, hopefully future clothes will include alpha
Thought I'd re-do week 51/52 making the most of the Christmas tree. No flash this time, just a good slow exposure on F.5.6 (with a macro extension tube fitted). HMM :-)
B-29 Superfortress "Fifi," one of two air-worthy B-29's in the United States, lays over at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, WI, as a rough-looking thunderstorm is about to roll in. "Fifi" was on layover in Janesville for the Commemorative Air Force Gathering of Warbirds, en route to the giant EAA spectacle in Oshkosh just a few days later. This is a multi-shot panorama showing the shelf cloud just before the thunderstorms rolled in, with high winds and a 30-minute period of very heavy rains.
***This is a re-edit of a previously-uploaded image. The re-edit is for the Flickr Your Best Shot 2019 gallery. The original can be seen here:
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"Awe"
This image is being submitted as part of the #Flickr21 Photo Challenge, celebrating Flickr's 21st anniversary on February 10, 2025. The theme for the 21st day of the 21 day photo challenge is "Awe." I chose this image for the final theme of the #Flickr21Challenge because it fits on at least 3 different levels. First and foremost is the airplane. "Fifi" as she is known is a B-29 Superfortress built by Boeing in 1945 at the end of World War II. The B-29 was one of the largest aircraft built that served during the war and were the aircraft that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Fifi" never served in combat, with the war having ended before she could be delivered. Today, she is based in Dallas, TX, and flies all over the United States as one of only two airworthy B-29's in the entire world. And don't let her size in this image fool you. She is BIG, dwarfing the other aircraft that were on display this day.
Second is the storm. For as powerful as the B-29 Superfortress was, it pales in comparison to the power of Mother Nature. This was a mean-looking storm because it WAS a mean storm. It rolled in fast, forcing the airshow crews to scramble to get the airplanes tied down and the public off the tarmac before it hit. As it rolled over us at the Janesville Airport, the National Weather Service would issue a severe thunderstorm warning for this storm. It would go on to produce quarter-sized hail as it rolled further east.
And third, what is NOT visible in this image. Because the storm rolled in so fast, the few of us photographers who remained until the raindrops started falling were scrambling to get our shots as the shelf cloud overtook the airport. In my desire to capture the entire shelf cloud, I switched into 3-shot bracketing, with the intent to create an HDR panorama. What I failed to do was to change my camera settings to compensate for the loss of light. So when I got home and uploaded by photos, I was horrified to see how underexposed they were. Fortunately, the final shot of the HDR sequence was bright enough for me to salvage the sequence. In a way, this was probably beneficial. When I did the panorama merge in Lightroom, I was blown away by how dark and moody it turned out. With very minor additional editing, including a monochrome conversion, this ended up being the result. The color version of this image would go on to win the Best of Show award at my local fair's photography competition (the biggest competition of it's kind in Illinois), an award that I had been chasing for exactly 20 years at that point.
This is a 'do over' trying to do justice to Senhor Vicente. Lightroom has new features that allow for more 'nuance' when 'developing' and 'printing' the 'negative.' The new tools are especially useful when working from photos made with a phone camera. :)
- Praia das Maçãs, Portugal -
to do the things you want to do!
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Monday, January 1: Redux 2017--My Favorite Theme of the Year
I tried a few things (so many choices) For this photo I was inspired by these two themes.
January 9: Member's Choice--Inspired by a Song and
January 16: Just White Paper (the white paper in the bottle and parchment paper, cut with pinking sheers in the background)
Meanwhile, back in London town and another from the Alexandra Road estate collection.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 18-35 f3.5-4.5
A good example of the compression effect a telephoto has on a scene. This was shot @ 135mm, while the previous image was shot @ 28mm; both with the same zoom lens standing about twenty feet further back (this shot) vs closer (previous image). Notice the size difference of the background mountains.
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Yes, the barn yet again. I kind of liked this edge treatment as the barn paint was flaking off in much the same fashion. Wasn't this color though. Sigh.
This one was taken during a day trip with my wife this past Autumn. The location is just off the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy 1), in the foothills East of Canmore, Alberta. The view is West-Northwest. I particularly liked the layering of the colors and the DOF, so I thought I'd reprocess and re-release it.
Last year I took this B&W HDR nightshot of a frozen lake and put it up on Flickr but I never was really satisfied with the final result. So I decided to process it again. I think I'm satisfied now.
f/7.0
ISO 400
Multiple exposures: 6, 20 & 30s.
PS CS3
Photomatix
Silver efex Pro - Selenium tone
Note: Yes, this time you're right: this is an HDR shot
(Rodenstock Trinar 1:4,5/75mm + bellows)
MM contribution "Redux 2021": "Sidelit" + "Holes".
(Tops of two memorial lights; size 5,5cm)
2006 Summer
@Roppongi Hills
EXAKTA 66 TypeII + Schneider Xenotar 80mm f2.8 + Kodak E100GX
Redux.... the bits and pieces of Outtakes from the first session with Kinako in 2006
EXAKTA 66 with XENOTAR was one of the best combination of the Body and Lens I've ever used among the entire arsenal of Medium Format Camera, even until now. Some people here knows that I made a big decision at that time comparing EXAKTA(Xenotar) VS Hasselblad(Planar) and choose EXAKTA to go with myself.
Too bad I sold this away a couple of years ago(because of a critical malfunction).
Now I miss it more than anything else...
Magura village, again, on a different trip. Tell me how the processing looks, I dunno if it looks natural or not, I tried to cut down on the atmospheric haze in the background mountains but I'm afraid I may have overdone it.
Personal snapping styles tend to change over the years and, when I started to seriously take up railway photography again in 2012/2013, I took on a more arty approach focusing on colour patterns and shapes. Since then I've lapsed into a style that tries to capture the railway in its environment - at least for the most part, sometimes successfully and sometimes not.
A visit to the GCR Gala Weekend in January 2013 resulted in a set of images that were almost all 'arty' in style - again some reasonably successful and some outright failures. This one has long been a favourite so I thought I'd share it again to see whether it gets any different reaction this time around. Depending how this one goes down I might, or might not(!), share one or two others.
Original commentary
Have to own up to posting a shot of these dollies before but possibly prefer this different angle. I was keen to get the round-roofed hut in the frame which, I think, provides a bit more substance to the steam-era theme. No apologies for doing "the treatment" thing.
Taken at the GCR Gala Weekend, Loughborough.
25th January 2013
Bisque head of the complex Hardanger tree-topper Deb made about 20 years ago. Hairdo is 2" wide.
Redux theme - curves
I had not checked this week's theme until Monday morning. Figured there would be something on the tree to fit. Sure enough!
It's winter and nothing is going on ... delving into the files and playing with old shots. Looking forward to spring as I'm counting down the remaining days until the winter solstice. I don't look forward to the 'holidays' as much as I do the end of short periods of daylight. Most likely were blossoms from one of our fruit trees brought inside for a still-life.
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This is one of the first photos I uploaded to Flickr when I created this account back in January. I had taken a pre-dawn drive out to Robert Moses State Park to photograph the wildlife that feed around the boardwalk, but the 17〫temperature and wind coming off the ocean kept all life, except this intrepid photographer, away. As the sun started to rise, my finger's numb with cold, I decided to return to the car. As I turned to leave I caught the sun's first light shining on this American Holly. I was so excited and happy with the shot that I posted it the minute I returned home. It received 3 comments and 2 favs..... I hope it does better the second time around.
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Nikon D700
70-300mm f/4.6 lens
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