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So I have been a little quiet this week, it was a busy and slightly hectic week.
My computers' harddrive also "crashed" and I am trying to recover from it what I can.
Yesterday I have installed a new hard drive and loaded Windows 10 (where I used to have Windows 7).
I have loaded some of my workflow software but still need to do quite some bit of configuring before I am there yet.
I also did not take a lot of photos this week and could not participate as I would have liked to, but I hope this comming weeks will get better.
This photo was taken on a rainy day while it was overcast and actually still slightly raining. It was very late already with very little light (for my liking).
Photo taken at Randfontein in South Africa.
Using the Nikon Nikkor AF-P 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR DX (kit) lens.
I Shoot Raw and edit in GIMP.
Feel free to criticize or just comment.
Here is a little behind-the-scenes of my creative process. With every one of my designs I try to flush things out early on with quick sketches and color studies before diving into generating the assets.
This is an example of my Signalera piece, where I started with a very quick sketch of composition, then a study in Illustrator, and the final piece.
You can see a larger version right here.
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Bored? Killing time at work? Here's the way I see it:
By liking the Blame The Monkey Facebook Page or following me on Twitter, I'm helping you, help me, help you, by helping (us) waste a few more pesky seconds at work before the end of the damn day.
Other time killers: Google+ |-| Smugmug |-| 500px |-| HDR Tutorials |-| Technical Mumbo Jumbo |-|
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Soft sounds and distant memories:
Venice is one of the most beautiful cities in Italy and arguably one of the most beautiful in the world. It has it’s issues just like anywhere else but there’s something romantic about it too, especially when you can break away from the crowds.
I found this spot a few nights ago and instantly fell in love. So much so that I returned each night to watch the light fade from the sky. -- After a few nights, Not only did I accumulate many different photos, I also finished many bottles of wine.
Since each shot seems to have its own personality, I decided to release a few of them as a series. The following photo is part 1.
Check out some more photos of Venice, Italy
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Back from Easter vacations, with a picture of the side entrance of Palazzo Ducale, Genova.
This door is really interesting, I have several shots of it. In this one, I tried to split the frame in 2 halves: one with the door, the other with the square (Piazza Matteotti), keeping a foreground interesting element.
From today, I decided to start a "sabbatic month", without posting my pictures on "post 1 / award X" groups, except for HDR ones. I would like to detox my pictures and, even if I know I'm giving them less visibility, I would like to read more "sincere" comments.
So this is my Day 1 of my detox therapy experiment :-)
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LOCATION AND DATE - DATA e LUOGO DI SCATTO
Genova (Liguria, Italy), 16th June 2011
CAMERA
Nikon D5000
LENS - OBIETTIVO
Fisheye Samyang 8 mm
SHOT DATA - DATI DI SCATTO
ISO 200; f/8
HDR from single raw file, handheld
Other EXIF on flickr / Altri EXIF su flickr
WORKFLOW - FLUSSO DI LAVORO
° Rename: XnView
° HDR Processing: Photomatix Pro
° Noise reduction / Riduzione rumore: Noiseware Professional
° Cropping: GIMP
° Curve correction / Correzione curve: GIMP
° Resizing, watermark: Fastone viewer
Unglaublich wie schnell die Kreuzspinne ihr Netz baute, ich bin sehr froh das mir diese Aufnahme gelungen ist.
Unbelievable how quickly the cross spider built her net. I am very glad that this picture has succeeded me.
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Do you get intimidated or overwhelmed by complicated image editing software? Relax. I’m here to walk you through the process step-by-step. By the time you’ve watched this series of video tutorials you’ll be processing your images with confidence.
please note: simple invites to post an image to a particular group are always welcome but no pictures, awards, or badges in comments. i call it dumping on the lawn. thanks very much for understanding, and I sincerely appreciate your visits.
for those interested in iphonography, the itemization of the workflow used for the images in this series might prove helpful.
oh, and i've created a group for black and white images. you might wanna join.
Le Suquet is the old quarter of Cannes, probably best known to tourists as the climbing, winding cobbled lane lined with local restaurants, Rue St Antoine. Le Suquet contains a clock tower and church that sit high facing east overlooking the Bay of Cannes and Cannes itself. At the bottom of Le Suquet on Rue Dr. P. Gazagnaire is the Marché Forville, where the market is held in the mornings and early afternoon.
This area is the original fishermans' residential area of Cannes. The houses are all very old. The streets were laid out at least 400 years ago. It is a 5-minute walk from the beach and is full of restaurants around the Rue Saint Antoine and the Rue du Suquet. A lot of the area is pedestrianised and is a major tourist attraction for visitors to Cannes.
The rue du Suquet is the original main road into Cannes. It came in below the walls of the castle (for defence reasons). It is a pedestrian street again and has plenty of restaurants [Wikipedia.org]
Edited this one in CS6 with nothing more than a pass of noise cancelation, slight curves adjustment, and sharpening on only the red and green channel.
First, Happy Thanksgiving To Everyone. Second DO NO TRY THIS AT HOME.
The following is how I edit my photos from my camera to Flickr.
1. Take an insane amount of photos of everything that you see in burst mode. I shoot everything in raw and large jpeg. I usually take a burst of 3 photos for every subject. For something like a marathon, my trip to San Francisco, or my day at the Lone Star Rally that would translate to 5000 photos. I took close to 30,000 photos in Japan. If we hadn't had 2 typhoons move through while I was there it would have been closer to 50,000. If you have quit laughing now please read on.
2. I transfer the 64 gb sd cards to my Windows 7 desktop. I usually do this one card at a time since I never have more than a 100 gb of storage left.
3. After uploading a sd card I go though and delete each out of focus shot or anything that just looks really off. Hopefully I cleared up enough room to upload another card. If not I try to see what I can part with and delete that. Eventually I will get everything into my Windows photo editor. The editor only sees jpegs and I have to move the cards over to my Mabook Pro in order to see the raw files.
4. The next step is to pick the best photo out of each burst. Sometimes the tired X-T1 misses every shot in a burst but really that is mostly my fault.
5. Go through the best shots and decide what to actually keep and edit in Lightroom. I try to remember that Lightroom can work wonders on some photos. Hopefully, I culled heavily but that is another problem that I am working on.
6. Rename all of the keeper photos so that I can find them in Lightroom. I am sure that there is an easy way to do this. This actually takes a really long time for me.
7. Transfer all of the photos to be edited onto another sd card.
8. Finally, turn on the Macbook Pro and import all of the photos into Lightroom.
9. Apply some sort of edit to the first photo and hopefully that can be applied to most of the photos in the upload.
10. Go back over every photo and make any minor adjustments that are necessary.
11. Go back over the photos one last time and cull any if necessary.
12. Finally, they can be uploaded to Flickr.
And that is how not to do it. (I actually really, really do it this way. It is possible that I even left a step or two out.)
Located in the heart of the glamorous city of Cannes —close to the Palais du Festival and famous Croisette walk— the Vieux Port de Cannes has been a long time favourite port of call for boats of all sizes. A wooden quay in front of the Capitainerie can accommodate yachts up to 40m there (50m upon request)
[yachtinsidersguide.com]
This is not an image I would normally post, but having decided a while ago to document my workflow (I’m an engineer…. I like to document how things work!), I thought it might be useful to post it and see if it draws any comments. I am often curious about what other folks do and sometimes think my own workflow is somewhat over complex.
I used the following:
•Adobe Bridge CC; ou can get this with a FREE Adobe CC subscription. I use it to provide a centralized way of browsing and managing my files and launching all my other applications.
•DxO PhotoLab; for me the best RAW developer out there, and I’ve tried most of them.
•PENX DCU; if I really must develop using Pixel Shift, I sometimes use this. However, I really don’t like it. Please DxO, give me Pixel Shift support!!
•ON1 Photo 2017; there are some nice filters in here. I had high hopes that the RAW developer would be awesome, but its simply not a patch on DxO, especially now DxO have finally added selective development.
•AuroraHDR; I’m really on the fence with HDR packages. This seems to offer good results and a lot of control, but I’ve only been using it for a few days.
•Afinity Photo; I ditched my Adobe subscription in favour of using Affinity Photo. It is excellent value for money, powerful and extremely stable.
•NIK filters; barely ever uses them as ON1 filters are so much better.
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Digital blending or DRI or Exposure blending.
NO HDR.
First day of work after nice and sweet holidays.
I'm back in urban flux, trafic, polution and stress.
Work= End of contemplation. End of liberty.
This photo shows how we miss the beauty of the world and nature when we work as robots.
Drivers in foreground drive so fast they can't see beautiful landscapes in background.
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