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Trying to maintain a sunny disposition....despite the rain.
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About the photo:
Nothing you haven't seen before...just a water drop on a flower.
About the process:
Contrast and saturation overlays. Anti-noise filter (Neat Image)--the green leaves in the background had a high level of noise. High-pass filter for clarifying (no inverse high pass was used for softening).
More about these techniques: Tutorial
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Pretty flowers and shrubs add a lot to already lovely buildings! This structure houses the office of the campus head, the chancellor.
Yellow roses are a guaranteed cheerer-upper, in MY book!!
As a pilot I came to have a strong dislike for fog. Living in a coastal city I’ve had so many flights grounded because of dense fog at the airport. We would sit and wait for even a slight break so we could get on our way. Minutes became hours as we waited for the blanket of grey to lift. On the other hand, as a photographer, I love fog! It can give a scene a sense of mystery or in this case it has an amazing way of softening an otherwise normal scene, giving it an appearance like a pastel painting.
Fort Langley British Columbia Canada
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. Pubilius Syrus
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin
Kindness is like snow- It beautifies everything it covers. Kahlil Gibran
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
The moon gave off a beautiful atmospheric glow as clouds moved through making it hard to get a detailed shot so I went with the softened feel that nature provided.....and with snow underfoot, a snow moon up above, and the hooting ritual of a great horned owl pair nearby, I felt wrapped in the feeling of winter and lucky to witness such astounding beauty
Thank you for your visits and inspiration!
the way it works
1 a bad photo of a tree softened
2 an easy paint of oil
3 put on each other called textured or texturing , special thanks for Ipiccy to give all yhese possibilities for free.
Thanks for the visit have a wonderfull evening
I processed this the same as all the rest (in nik mid tones +11, sunlight at 20, detail extractor at 6%-0-0) for those that care, and thought mhh, I have a comp that I like better and pushed a couple of presets just to see what they'd do. This is a little something that they call warm sunset, some combination of vignette lens, polarization, and sunlight. It softened it and added warmth and saturation from what I can see, but I couldn't bring myself to delete it. I was thinking that I was going to wait until Slider Sunday, but I can't stop looking at it. Hope ya'll dig it too.
(you should see it in 'bleached portrait!' :-)
With the sunlight being softened by the incoming layer of haze DC Rail Freight 60046 "William Wilberforce" heads east through Barrow upon Trent hauling the Burton to Acton Yard on November 25th 2021.
So after a few slightly more clement days (False Spring as the pessimists are calling it), the Sqeerwolls were running amok in the trees just beyond my balcony, which I am thankful to have. Now, important lesson learnt, at full focal extension of a telescopic lens, it is vital you keep steady and DO NOT make over use of your VC, it can actually soften the image as what happened to me. My VC mode was set too high thus over compensating despite my over reach.
Funnily enough, I read in the Amateur Photographer Magazine a while back, when using a tripod switch off any compensation modes, as it will over compensate, I remember not really being able to get my head around this until I became the tripod myself, using a triangulation of arms and resting the lens on the balcony fence, bingo, softened image, you live and learn!
I hope everyone is well and so as always thank you! :)
Goodness, two weeks in a row I have a Slider for Slider Sunday group!
And, strangely enough, it is another flower in a bowl.
This was actually taken a long time ago, and I was never satisfied with it. But finding it in my archives again, I realized I liked this extremely softened version. So, here it is.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone!
The softening of color can give a whole new appreciation for a popular subject as seen here. Photography is such personal thing to every photographer. How we capture a subject or an emotion in a particular moment is important to us. How we pass along our interpretation can vary slightly or greatly, depending upon how decide to put forward a subject in front of appreciating and sometimes critical viewers. Enjoying the craft like we do can encourage us to tweak our work to our own liking. Thanks for viewing my work. Stay safe and continue to be kind. The World can get to be a dirty place so please take the time often to “Wash your 🙏’s.”
Vestrahorn is a wonderous site, it is blessed with an expansive beach and if you are lucky numerous pool in which to create reflections. I was a little late in arriving and only managed to capture the last few vestiges of the reflective pools as the tide receded.
This was captured using two shots stitched together, with a long exposure to soften the clouds. Both ND and graduated filters were used.
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Anyone who has ever seen a glassblower at work can only respect his or her craftsmanship. It is a spectacular process to see the shape and color given to hot (very very hot) liquid glass. Glassblowing requires fire, skill, muscle power, creativity and years of experience, but then a true work of art is created!
This photo shows a burner. Glass blowers use this tool to locally heat and soften the glass so that it can be given the desired shape.
This photo was taken in the glassworks in Leerdam, city of glass.
A lone figure stands in shallow water near the shore, silhouetted in black and white as they cast a fishing line into the calm expanse. A tree trunk anchors the left side of the frame, and a bush softens the foreground on the right. The water stretches into the distance, smooth and reflective—early morning light, I think, though I was too focused on not tripping over roots to check the time (with me this is a serious concern).
I spotted them mid-cast, perfectly framed by nature’s own composition. They had the kind of quiet focus that made me feel like I was interrupting a sacred ritual… with a camera. I crouched, adjusted, and took the shot just as the line landed, like a whisper across the water. It wasn’t about the fish—it was about the mood. The hush. The way solitude sometimes wears waders and doesn’t care who’s watching.
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The mist softened the contours of the mountains and created a bright contrast between the dark mountains, creating an ethereal, tranquil, and lonely atmosphere. The overall ambiance was calm, restrained, and had a poetic beauty.🌸
霧氣柔化了山脈的輪廓，並在深色山體間形成明亮的對比，營造出一種空靈、靜謐且帶有孤寂感的意境，整體氛圍顯得沉穩、內斂，帶有一種詩意的美感。
This is the kind of scene that drove me to plunge into nightscapes and Astro photography. I have taken/composed images I’m quite pleased with, but none have so many elements as this one. I was scouting locations proximate to Kanab, Utah where I was planning to attend the Nightscaper conference. I was a little sour on Lake Powell because the easy to reach locations are kind of “meh” at least if you are familiar. I wasn’t willing to spring for a boat rental, so I wasn’t giving it much thought. Then I learned about Alstrom Point.
Reachable with some ground clearance required. I was pretty sure my Prius wouldn’t qualify and was definitely not willing to chance it. Turns out the route is passable with a Forester if you are careful—most folks had even better clearance. As the crow flies, you are not far from Page, AZ, so despite traveling more than an hour off pavement, still sitting with full cell service.
All the nights away from home on this trip were clear, but I am glad this was the last location I visited. Having the car right there also lets me use all the hardware. I was using my tracker and telescope early in the evening to do some DSO imaging while waiting for the Milky Way to rise. I kept the tracker going for this composite - 4 landscape aspect images with the sky and land shot separately, but at about the same time.
Shot with a Canon EOS Ra and a Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens. Sky: Tracked, 20 shots, ISO 1600, 30s at each azimuth. Land: Single images, fixed tripod, ISO 1600, 300s. The 20 sky images are stacked using Starry Sky Stacker (appropriate for tracked sky). I process the sky with a modified DSO workflow that pays extra attention to color faithfulness (at least compared to earlier techniques I’ve employed!) and tries to keep the histogram from being blown out in stretching. I did emphasize the saturation of the H-alpha clouds in the Milky Way. The landscape was processed mostly in Lightroom and using Nik Color Efex mostly for contrast control and to soften some of it—very grainy from the long exposures.
May you too dream beneath the desert sky.
Peace & cheers!
I simply adored the way the two central trees appeared to be moving across the scene, framed nicely by the two tree trunks in the foreground. A delicate touch of mist in the air softening the background. Everyday life at Little Wittenham Wood, South Oxfordshire
"Like two cathedral towers these stately pines
Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones;
The arch beneath them is not built with stones,
Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines,
And carved this graceful arabesque of vines;
No organ but the wind here sighs and moans,
No sepulchre conceals a martyr's bones.
No marble bishop on his tomb reclines.
Enter! the pavement, carpeted with leaves,
Gives back a softened echo to thy tread!
Listen! the choir is singing; all the birds,
In leafy galleries beneath the eaves,
Are singing! listen, ere the sound be fled,
And learn there may be worship with out words."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
At a height of 1800m, flowers that normally blossom in April are three months behind and come into bloom in July. Seen here in Davos, Switzerland.
Straight out of the camera, taken with a Hoya Softener (A) filter mounted on an HD PENTAX-DA 55-300mm lens. Manufacturer's description: "Filter with randomly scattered lens shaped drops on the surface. Gives a soft gradation image with focal point somewhat retained." In other words, it's the next-best thing if you don't have a dedicated soft-focus lens, or don't have room for one in your camera-bag.
PENTAX K-1
HBW!
You can only see a tiny hint of a single step here if you look closely.
I've posted this image before, but as a triptych and without any specific description of what you're seeing.
In the past, my photos were often copied; people traveled to the same locations, which I didn't like.
So I gave very little information and added a few other things to make them less noticeable.
This way, a diptych or triptych often diminished the impact of the single image, and its quality couldn't be fully appreciated.
Double images rarely appeared in Explore. If I added frames to the images, they also appeared, for a while, either not in Explore or less frequently, because the algorithm usually excluded them.
I even left imperfections as they were so the images wouldn't stand out too much.
I only showed some of them to friends.
Speaking of "imperfections"... the younger photographers who often rise to prominence here with meteoric speed, never having any experience with analog photography but quickly honed their skills through YouTube tutorials and other new features that today's media world offers for self-improvement, produce overly perfect, almost synthetic images because they are so softened that they lack any character and edge, and are no longer interesting to me.
If you make a face completely symmetrical, it loses its personality and its appeal, its ability to convey emotion and character. It becomes inauthentic.
Of course, it depends on the artistic intention. It can also be intentional, but in my opinion, it's not a lasting solution.
Hilde still experiences this copying and retracing of my steps today and recently wondered why I disclose and publicize so much.
My attitude has changed. I now want to make places and connections more widely known and show more transparency. I provide more keywords, organize more into albums and groups, and am curious to see the results.
I believe I can now browse Flickr almost "anonymously" because photos that used to get thousands of clicks now generate, at most, a few hundred. The flood of images creates desensitization, and media like Instagram (which I always call "fast-food media") better cater to the ever-shrinking attention span of just a few seconds.
We are all subject to constant subconscious conditioning.
;-) ...
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A smoldering February sunset over an icy Lake Marmo lends some more heat the end of an unseasonably warm day.
Multiple image focus stack and bracket using luminosity masks to make this work, and echo what I saw. Then a touch of softening around the edges to give it a nice glow. :)
I like the bit of sunset reflection you can see along the shoreline, on the right.