Software, photos on Flickr

It's been ages since my last upload... too much to do, no mojo, you know how it is. But I dusted my camera down today and spent a little time in the sun. And played with Google's Nik software (which is available for free now). I'm hoping for more days like this!

Software manager by Philip Male

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Bittern, Slimbridge.

Portrait by Bill Anderson

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Clouds - Fort Beach - Salvador/Bahia-Brazil by Enio Godoy - www.picturecumlux.com.br

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edition close to human eyes by eagle1effi

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1365 mm

handheld

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Software - Snapseed 2.0

software by Fotoristin - blick.kontakt

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Technical Difficulties by Michael Peverett

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On Tuesday morning I tried to get a drone photo of a stopped train at Bena and discovered a major software glitch made it impossible to get it off the ground. I stopping at Starbucks in Tehachapi during a break in the action to grab a coffee and re-download the DJI drone application onto my phone. I was able to mess around with it between trains and get it back up and running in the afternoon. In this shot a northbound BNSF stack train is running downhill as it passes through Tunnel 9 with the head end crossing under the rear of the train at the Tehachapi Loop at Walong. Since the last time I was in the area four years ago, the siding at Walong has been connected to the siding at Marcel making it possible to meet long trains at the loop.

September 17, 2019

Keene, California

The Triangulum Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) by Tom Wildoner

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I have photographed the Triangulum Galaxy over the years, but this is the first time I have attempted it with my Meade 12″ telescope. The galaxy extends further than what is shown in this image. I’ll attempt a mosaic image as I add more data to this view. Technical details: Total exposure time was 26 minutes using 20 second subs at ISO 6400. Images were stacked using DeepSkyStacker and adjusted using the software packages ImagesPlus, Adobe Lightroom and Corel PaintshopPro X5.

Software Engineer by Doug Leany

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This was a different type of engineering than I'm used to. :)

No, not Depeche Mode....Depth Mode by TranquilCacophony

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So, the new iOS software is running the "portrait" mode in the camera now.

This shot is from that mode.

No editing, just my sig added in PS.

It does a decent job IF.... I repeat IF.... the subject is fairly simple in shape and the colors are different.

Hair is tough. It doesn't work very well unless the person has a very short, tight cut.

For simple still life, this will work very well. For people, it'll be a roll of the dice.

=]

Prix de consolation, journée peu fructueuse by jacques sauvé

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Corneille- Crow - Cuervo

Darktable et Lightzone free softwares

Moving Along Set I - Natural by Peter Whitfield

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It’s been a while since I have done a set for Sliders Sunday.

These were all based on my panning experiment in Cambridge recently. The car is going through some road works so we have red fences and high-viz jackets in the background.

All the variants were made with Topaz Studio. It was a really interesting image to play with in the software. The basic subject was easily defined by blocks of colour and needed little detail to convey what it was about (it was an impression of a car effectively). But the panning created quite a bit of variation in detail and blur and it’s that that gave Topaz so much to work with.

For each variant, I started with one of the presets that looked interesting and worked from there. In two cases I used my own presets. If you would like the Topaz presets for any of these just ask - your mileage will vary but that’s the fun of it all...

I tried to create a range of effects for the set. I’ll post one of them for the Sliders Sunday group and also for my 100x motion project. I’ll also do a natural version which is how I would normally process the image. Three of the versions are effectively monochrome.

As usual, I am really interested in which ones you like (if any!). My personal favourite (as I write anyway!) is the painterly one with the textured canvas, but the sketch one is intriguing.

It's the same commentary on all the variants so you don't have to read them all... or any :) For those who like seeing things in images (am I alone in that??) you can play spot the driver's hands and a set of chimneys, and you can work out where I am standing in the road (it's the UK remember ;) ).

I’ll post a link to the in-camera rendition in the first comment so that you can admire the sensor dirt!

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x

Bokeh Wednesday – Blue Heron edition by Wes Iversen

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This is a zoomed-in view of a heron that surprised me at Chicago Botanic Garden recently by landing on a fence very near to me. I posted a full view of this guy a couple of weeks ago for Fence Friday.

HBW, everyone!

Flickr friends, since I’ve been complaining about PC problems for the past couple of days, I’ll mention that the tech guy took a look on Tuesday, and informed me that I’ve got operating system problems with my Windows 7 PC that will likely require a reboot of the OS to get things working properly. I would have to back up all of my images and data first, and then reload that along with all of my application software after the reboot. Fortunately, for now, my photo processing and Internet functionality have not been affected, so I’ll take a little time to decide how I want to handle the situation. And now I'll shut up about it. :-)

The Barney-sphere by ! Polyhedra !

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Geodesic Sphere (Icosahedron freq. 2)

Paper model engineered and folded by Arturo Pascalin using modules by Heinz Strobl.

It has 80 triangular faces (Only 20 of them equilateral) 120 edge struts. 42 vertices, 12 pentavalent, the rest hexavalent. Builded from 200 modules in total. Geodesic chord lengths were calculated using an excellent software program called Stella

I folded this model to give as a present to dear friends of mine, Doug & Leen Tucker. (I love you guys.)

I thought that it resembled a bougainvillea flower but my wife said it looked like Barney the dinosaur (because of the colors). Since many care about this character, either hate him or love him, but few are indifferent, I decided to call it Barney-sphere. Let me know what you think.

May-Day Parker II by greyloch

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Cosplayer: Amor Cosplay

Two views of Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS in an Ocean of Galaxies (System 1 annotated) by Terry Hancock

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Two views of Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS from Grand Mesa Observatory 6/19/2020.

Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS Captured using data from Grand Mesa Observatory's System 1 the Takahashi FSQ 130 (available on our subscriptions) using the QHY367 Pro C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera. Captured on the 19th June 2020 for a total acquisition time of 1.5 hours.

This field also contains 6 galaxies from the NGC catalogue; NGC 4088 intermediate spiral galaxy estimated 51 million light years distant, NGC 4187 elliptical galaxy estimated 340 million light years distant, NGC 4157 near edge on barred spiral galaxy estimated 55 million light years distant, NGC 4100 spiral galaxy estimated 67 million light years distant, NGC 4085 barred spiral galaxy estimated 60 million light years distant, NGC 4026 lenticular galaxy estimated 50 million light years distant, and 303 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.

View in High Resolution:

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Technical Details Captured and processed by: Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of Capture June 19th 2020 RGB 90 min 30 x 180 sec

Camera: QHY367 Pro C Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5

EQ Mount: Paramount ME Image

Acquisition software Maxim DL6

Pre Processing in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker Post Processing in Photoshop CC

Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS Captured using data from Grand Mesa Observatory's system 2 the new William Optics FLT 156mm F7.8 APO Refractor (available on our subscriptions) using the QHY367 Pro C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera. Captured on the 19th June 2020 for a total acquisition time of 1.5 hours. grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment

This field also contains 2 galaxies from the NGC catalogue; NGC 4088 intermediate spiral galaxy estimated 51 million light years distant, NGC 4085 barred spiral galaxy estimated 60 million light years distant, and 92 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.

View in High Resolution

www.astrobin.com/strx0b/

Technical Details Captured and processed by: Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of Capture June 19th 2020 RGB 90 min 30 x 180 sec

Camera: QHY367 Pro C Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: William Optics FLT 156mm F7.8 APO Refractor

EQ Mount: Paramount ME

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker Post Processing in Photoshop CC

by Pattys-photos

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taken near Blackfoot Idaho

Software Freedom Day #SFD2015 #curitibalivre by Claudia Archer

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20160806-DSC_9928 by the Mack4

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Milky Way over Hemlock Lake in Western New York.

It's A New Day's Adventure by Mike Kaser

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As the early morning sun's flames reached over the high mountain tops, it's golden rays of light wound it's way through the slats in my window and slapped me awake. Would today be the day?

I quickly showered, got dressed, petted a mound of cat hair I swear was a cat and grabbed my trusty compass I purchased from a vending machine for a dime in front of a grocery store over two decades ago. I hoped today would be the day.

With compass in hand, I headed North by Northwest. I was looking for something local, something new. It's a new day's adventure and today HAD to be the day!

Finally, I came across some of the native wild life. I slowly approached, hoping not to startle it. It was a fine specimen too. Slowly. It looked up at me, our eyes met. I was afraid it was going to run but it didn't. Closer. It showed signs of running but held it's ground. Finally, I was close enough. "Excuse me sir, Could you pull my finger?" Today wasn't the day.

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Our Daily Challenge: Discovery

Software Test-1 by Jim Lowe

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Using Topaz Noise Adjust 6 for the first time.

This shot of a Beach Staggerwing Replica was very noise on the underside of the aircraft. Not a very good capture but a great candidate for the test.

Aerith (Final Fantasy) by greyloch

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Aerith from the Final Fantasy series. Gilian was kind enough to remove her mask for a few moments so that I could capture some nice portrait shots of her.

Cosplayer: Gillian Foxglove

The Extinction of Man- For the Worlds more full of weeping than you can understand... by Rorie Craigmyle

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Yellow Bliss ii by Lisa

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Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's & Claude Monet's impressionist sunflower paintings.

Finished using Alien Skin Software.

Thanks for viewing :)

Final Blend Lace Aloe 16-4-2020 by Bo Hanson

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