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Mountain Lake, nestled south of and below the summit of...
DeKalb County (Stonecrest ), Georgia, USA.
29 September 2023.
▶ More photos: here.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ On 12 October 2023, the administrator for the group North Georgia Mountains rejected this image AND summarily banned me from the group.
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☞ On 2 October 2023, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature.
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▶ Geographical/historical notes:
☞ Mountain Lake forms the headwaters of Crooked Creek, itself a tributary of the 63.5-mile-long South River. A 'lake-level' view: here.
☞ In the foreground are Porter's sunflowers (also referred to as Stone Mountain daisies): autumnal wildflowers native to the area. Closeup: here.
☞ At 955-feet high (290 m) high, Arabia Mountain is a geographical feature known as a monadnock: "an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. A monadnock (or inselberg) results when a body of rock resistant to erosion, such as granite, occurring within a body of softer rocks, is exposed by differential erosion and lowering of the surrounding landscape."
☞ Throughout the early and mid-20th century, the Davidson Granite Company quarried the Arabia Mountain area for its unique granite and migmatite (known as 'Tidal Gray'). In 1972, the DeKalb County Park system acquired 498 acres of Arabia Mountain through purchase and donations from Davidson Mineral Properties and area landowners.
☞ At the top center of this otherwise bucolic vista, notice the ironic gash of modern electrification.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R.
— Focus stack (4 images).
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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The morning after Thanksgiving Thursday, I had been googling for how to actually use the Stackables editing app. The interface and mechanism of using is so different from editing apps with which I was familiar.
Yes there are layers, and there is some rudimentary masking. But it was quite different looking from Snapseed which I've been using for a bit on and off.
Google is our friend of course and I found a blog in which the writer calls Stackables his favorite "grunge" app. By that, he means he uses it to add textures and colors in various layers.
This put it in perspective for me.
It's not like Snapseed where one can edit brightness, contrast, detail, etc.
But one can add in separate layers, textures and effects, and change blend modes from Normal to Overlay to Soft Light, basically all the blend modes one would see in Photoshop.
Getting a BFP (Big Freakin Phone), the iPhone 7 Plus, gives more screen real estate to see what one is doing. I don't have an iPad which would probably make more sense when using these apps.
This image started out being shot mid afternoon with the iphone, to catch the slanting light and barred shadows falling across the window and lamp (one of my favorite things in our house). This original image can be seen in the first comment box below.
The iphone's native aspect ration is 4:3 (I know, really?)
The image was opened in Snapseed and cropped to 3:2 which to my eye, suited the subject better. Because I would be adding "grunge," I figured I'd better make the image have less contrast. And Snapseed has great tools with which to accomplish this.
Each time I made changes, I'd export the altered image back to the iphone's gallery/albums. I'll talk about this more later.
Also in the first comment box below is the altered image from Snapseed that I imported into Stackables. It's been over a week now since working on this image, and the app was so new to me that I'm afraid I don't remember all the things that were done. Again after a significant change in the image's "look," I exported back to the gallery. Honestly, I do that more now that I've had more experience, but I did do it a few times that first day.
After adding various layers of tints and textures and playing with many different blend modes, it got pretty much to what we see here.
I've discovered that the AirDrop feature on my iPhone automatically notices my Mac computer. All I need to do is select which images I want to go to the computer, press the Share icon with which even fuddy duddies like me are now familiar, and send them via the AirDrop.
If I had been smart enough to save various iterations of travels through Snapseed and Stackables, once in the computer, I can open as many as I want as layers in one Photoshop document, do things with each layer, and mask and slide to my heart's content.
See, I told you there would be more later about the benefit of saving separate images as one goes.
But I really learned this after playing with this image.
It's been long enough that I couldn't remember what I had done in Ps with this image so opened it again.
It turns out all I had done in Ps was enhance contrast of mid tones using luminosity channels, and masking that effect from the center of the image, and adding a violet tint filter to provide contrast to the warmth of most of the tones, and masking so that only certain areas were influenced.
And there we have it. Since this image, I've been exporting from the editing apps after a significant change, so that eventually, quite a few different versions of each image are then imported back to the computer where they might be combined in Ps. This lends the ability to have a texture in one portion of an image, a green tone in another, a blue somewhere else, combining in ways that are more selective than what these phone and tablet apps can easily do.
What I think is pretty cool, is that some of these images I'm creating remind me of paintings I'd wanted to create decades ago when I thought I wanted to be an art major.
- hss!
No one said it would be easy to reach redemption...
Five Points Park.
Chinatown, New York
Taken with a 3Gs iPhone using Hipstamatic app (John S + Float) and processed with CameraBag app.
Last night's sunset timelapse over the Charles River in Cambridge MA. This bridge over the river is right by Harvard, at Riverbend Park. I set up my tripod on the bridge railing to watch the sunset.
This time, I set up both tripods - iPhone and Sony Nex 5T. And its a good thing I did! Because, after watching this spectacular sunset get recorded on both devices, my phone ran out of batteries and lost the whole thing. (I had plugged in my backup charger but not started it charging properly, so it was my own fault, but still - timelapse apps really ought to have an auto-save feature. I'm looking at you, iLapse.) So, that was disappointing, and I was worried because often the iPhone timelapse actually comes out much better than the one from the Sony - the iPhone often does a better job avoiding the "flickering" that comes from adjusting to the changing lighting conditions.
But, it looks like I lucked out, and this video from the Sony Nex doesn't have any big flickering either. I used Sony's timelapse app, taking a photo every 3 seconds in Program mode, and put them together at 30fps using Zietraffer on my computer.
I also cropped all the frames first in Aperture to zoom in on the part with the most action (and did some other minor adjusting to the batch) - since Aperture is getting discontinued and Apple Photos can't do that, any advice on a photo program that will be able to do big batch processing like that for me in the long run, once Aperture is gone? This is made from 810 frames, it wouldn't be realisistic to edit each one!
I planned out this location using The Photographer's Epehemeris to see where I could get a good view of the angle on the setting sun, and I also used their Skyfire prediction to see the sunset prediction was 80% for last night. (Also looking out the window made me think the sunset would be great - but you'd be surprised how often the sunset looks like it will be great an hour before and then all the clouds are gone by sunset.)
This was a full moon-set I took on Sunday morning. I used PlanIt app to calculate the camera spot, so the setting full moon will align with coit tower at some point. I used my second camera to take a time-lapse to record the whole process. And here is a short timelapse consist of 200 pictures before and after my final shot:
There are so many alternations on full moon pictures right now in photography community, since photoshop app is making the alternation much easier than before. However, I feel more joyful and satisfactory when I am doing the real full moon shooting and when everything is moving as my prediction.
All elements shot with an iPhone6 using ProCamera app.
Edited on iPad with Snapseed and Mextures apps.
To learn more about creative photography processes and art on an iPhone you might be interested in my book co-written with Bob Weil:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1937538184/spea06-20#cust...
and website: www.iphoneographycentral.com
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Iridescent clouds and sun rays during the wind/dust storm in Death Valley a couple of days ago, seen from Titus Canyon Road near Rhyolite, Nevada . The green and magenta colors are from sunlight refracted through ice crystals in the cloud (particularly clear towards the upper right).
The cloud cast a nice shadow in the dust cloud as well.