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Taken a couple of days ago - my lovely Marnie, mother of three litters of 5 or 6 puppies each before we adopted her two years ago. Now she's my constant friend and I feel like she's almost my daughter too. I couldn't imagine a more loving, trusting and kind companion.
It's taken me a quite a long time to make this portrait of her, as I removed the background - something I've never done before with any editing tool - this one being PicMonkey. A little tweaking in Topaz Studio too.
We were out for a walk in a high wind - hence the even more 'windblown' look ! If you magnify by clicking twice, you may see my reflection in her eye 😃 .
Thanks as always for your kind comments, faves and support - each is so very much appreciated.
A re-edited shot I took in 2015. Always found it to be overdone. As photography improves with practice, editing is a neverending process too I guess. Hope you like this version, it's more realistic without background removal. Thank you for your time and appreciation!
Kind regards,
Christophe.
Here's something you can't shoot duplicate on CSX in 2017. Q243 has a pair of elephant style GE C40-8's in YN2 paint and a nice cut of stack cars on its headend. Aside from the wholesale retirement of the C40-8 fleet from the roster during the second half of 2016, the YN2 paintscheme itself is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Other changes include the removal of the pole line in the background, removal of the signal bridge off in the distance at FX, the closing of the 2 grade crossings also in the distance and closing of the road I had parked on to take this shot. Definitely lots of change in the 11 years since I took this shot. Louisville,KY 10-8-06
Another in the series of reworked Toronto Zoo shots. This one was taken when the Giant Pandas were visiting.
Post processing (including background removal) done in Luminar 4.2
This African Crowned Crane at the Toronto Zoo was in fine shape during my visit in 2018.
This version of the photo was with me playing with background removal in my editing tools.
KWP_4411-Enhanced-Edit-Edit_LuminarNeo-edit
Apologies for faulty background removal.
I've always wanted to make some small Japanese houses, like Ninjago City, but I never knew exactly how I wanted to go about it. Finally, I managed to figure it out! I tried to keep it small, while still detailed. Hopefully, I can make a full strip of these if I find the time.
This is a reprocessed version of my last image. This time I show the entire frame uncropped, and have taken more pains with light pollution background removal. Furthermore the color is that resulting from the Photometric Color Calibration process in PixInsight and then stretched with ArcSinhStretch process. I have also oriented the image to represent how it looks on the sky. I think I like the full frame version better since it shows the extent of the dust and creates a sense of place for the nebulae. The print is stunning.
Wherever you find Peony plants, you will find ants. It is said that these two have a symbiotic relationship where the ant 'frees' the flower by consuming the sticky sweet coating. Some have discounted this relationship, but I like to think the former is more accurate. Nature is wonderfully created with all kinds of symbiosis.
Some minor tweaking and background removal in Luminar3.1
I am currently familiarising myself with Luminar Neo, for which I have purchased a two-year subscription, having become a little tired of the increasing cost of maintaining my ON1 Photo RAW product for seemingly minor incremental gains in capability. As part of my familiarisation, I decided to look at testing background removal and layer masking by taking a previously posted shot (‘Done Shopping’) and making an ‘Adamski Effect’ image out of it.
The Adamski Effect uses multiple images, combined to create a single, composite image. The most common application is to render one element of the photo in focus, with the remainder of the image subjected to motion add/or gaussian blur effects. It is named after the Polish photographer and digital artist Antoni Adamski.
The original image was shot using a (manual focus) Samyang 85mm f/1.4 lens mounted to a A7 with using a Pentax K mount adapter form Fotodiox. It was shot at f/1.4 with and exposure of 1/400that ISO 400.
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This is the other half of a pair of images, which were recently created on a beautiful Saturday night, with a barbecue with friends from the Volkssternwarte München on the side. For the other image, see: Where the Telescope Looked...
This was the main course of the evening: NGC7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula, in the constellation Cepheus. It is one of the of the better recognizable shapes of all the nebulae out there. I had seen many beautiful examples of this object here on Flickr, and thought it would be framed nicely on the telescope and camera I had available here. Indeed, I think the framing turned out well!
In contrast to many other images of this object, this one was taken without any filters with a color camera, i.e., it's what the eye could see if it could see colours at night, and if it could do long exposures. Accordingly, the stars appear very dominant here, since they are not suppressed by narrowband filters. But I think it gives the image its own appeal and offsets it a bit form the others. Let's just imagine the many stars are the sparkles set off by the Wizard's magic! Also, I still find it fascinating what wonders you can wrestle from the light-polluted Munich downtown sky with (moderate!) digital post-processing.
Image information:
Acquisition: 345x 30s
Camera: ASI 294 MC Pro, Gain 120, Brightness 30
Acquisition software: SharpCap Pro, live stacking mode with sigma clipping and digital gradient reduction
Correction: 256x flats with flat-darks, 120x darks
Filters: none
Telescope: Meade LX200 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain, f/10
Reducer: Starizona SC corrector, x0.63
Effective focal length: 2524 mm
Mount: custom-built, stationary equatorial mount, no guiding
Post-processing:
SiRiL: Photometric calibration with plate solving, fine background removal, first de-noising step
Fitswork: sharpening, wavelet noise reduction
Luminar 2018: final touch (sharpening, saturation)
I use Adobe Photoshop CS4 but most all versions of Photoshop should have all these features. I am making the assumption that you already have a good understanding of how Photoshop works and how to set up layers and such. If not, there are plenty of tutorials on that elsewhere.
I'm not claiming that this is the best way to do this. This is just the way I do it. There are a ton of different ways to get the same results in Photoshop.
Tomorrow's Tutorial: Editing (Background Removal .cont)
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I use Adobe Photoshop CS4 but most all versions of Photoshop should have all these features. I am making the assumption that you already have a good understanding of how Photoshop works and how to set up layers and such. If not, there are plenty of tutorials on that elsewhere.
I'm not claiming that this is the best way to do this. This is just the way I do it. There are a ton of different ways to get the same results in Photoshop.
Tomorrow's Tutorial: Editing (Background Removal)
Including The Flame Nebula, The Horsehead Nebula, The Running Man Nebula, The Great Orion Nebula
Tracked Image with AstroTrac TT 320
280 * 30 Seconds @ F/5.6
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Background Removal in PixInsight
Final Edits in Photoshop
I use Adobe Photoshop CS4 but most all versions of Photoshop should have all these features. I am making the assumption that you already have a good understanding of how Photoshop works and how to set up layers and such. If not, there are plenty of tutorials on that elsewhere.
I'm not claiming that this is the best way to do this. This is just the way I do it. There are a ton of different ways to get the same results in Photoshop.
Tomorrow's Tutorial: Editing (Adding Effects)
Strobist: Single SB-800 Highish camera right.
Some Contrast, background removal and slight blue tint.
I think I like this one better?
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I've never spent this long staring at Photoshop before. By far the most difficult background removal I've tried! I don't think I want to see another layer mask for a least a few weeks, lol
OK well I used my recently new (fair enough) photograph skills on my Executor one last time.
A decent photo does not make background removal any easier though...
Building instructions and .ldr file available freely here. I strongly advise to have a look at it before doing anything.
Credits inside the building instructions. Enjoy!
Minor design changes may occur during the life of the MOC. When implemented, I make a new post in the album as soon as the building instructions are updated and available (the .zip file will indicate the date of the revision)
Equipment used, Fuji XT5 Fuji 80mm Macro, Photography light box. One Chain Saw Spark Plug.
Focus bracketing in camera 21 shots, Initial editing in Lightroom,Focus Stacking in Photoshop, background removal, engine background as replacement then a bit of jiggery pokery re blending
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I googled "random" then blended the images without any particular goal in mind. Basically wanted to play with background removal. The title is a reference to a semi-racist joke.
Noncitizen presenting for speech class: Everyone has cows in their life. Cows at home. Cows at work. Cows in our families. Cows can take over everything. But how do we get rid of the cows?......
Teacher:Chaos.It's pronounced 'chaos'..........
Messier 13, Hercules Globular Cluster
Getting used to the equipment - a quick test run.
Setup:
* Shot through the haze of fireworks
* 55 30-second exposures (lights only)
Equipment/Tech:
* Nikon D5300
* William Optics Zenithstar 73
* Skywatcher HEQ5 Mount
* KStars
Processing:
* Stacked and adjusted in Affinity Photo - levels, colors, background removal
This is a lot of firsts for me... my first tree, my first attempt to use super-basic photoshop for background removal (eye dropper tool and everything!), first attempt to use a pattern in something sort of real-life-ish. Anyway, I'm sort of trying to make a courtyard, but I'm waiting for more bricks to come in the mail. In the meantime, I liked my tree. :-) Oh, and I liked the filling for the spaces left by the arches, too.
Shot in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova (Bortle 6), during the nights of 8th, 9th and 10th of May 2021.
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (72/420mm)
IDAS LPS-D3 (formerly NGS1) light pollution filter
ES field flattener
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
KStars + Ekos for capturing (120s, 0 gain, 0 degrees Celsius)
Astro Essentials 32mm f/4 Mini Guide Scope
Logitech Fusion modded webcam
lin_guider for guiding
Pre-processed, registered and stacked all 200 frames using Siril
Siril for basic post-processing (photometric calibration, background removal, SCNR)
RawTherapee for advanced post-processing
Sent through starfixer
enfuse in 2 iterations to fixup the background
Final assembly in Gimp (2 layers, one for background sky and one for colorful galaxies)
RA: 19h 01m 38.54s, Dec: −36° 58′ 12.34″
www.astrobin.com/u8gdwt/#sky-plot
NGC 6729 is a variable reflection/emission nebula of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud in the constellation Corona Australis. The Corona Australis molecular complex is one of the closer star-forming regions of the galaxy, at a distance of 130 pc.
Source: Wikipedia
OTA: Quasar 12.5" f/9 Ritchey-Chretien (ATEO-3, Insight Observatory, Deep Sky Chile).
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 (10.7 MP)
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Total integration time: 21 hrs 0 min
Subs:
30 x 600 sec RED (bin x1)
28 x 600 sec GREEN (bin x1)
19 x 600 sec BLUE (bin x1)
49 x 600 sec LUMINANCE (bin x1)
Data acquisition: 19/09/22 - 24/09/22 (Franck Jobard www.astrobin.com/95ue3u/0/)
Starbase dataset: NGC 6729 - LRGB (2022)
Calibration, alignment, integration & initial image processing (channel combination, background removal, RC-Astro toolkit, non-linear stretch): PixInsight
Post-processing & finishing: Adobe Photoshop, Corel PSP2019 & Adobe Lightroom
reprocess of yesterday's image, after learning more tricks in Lightroom and applying Pixinsight's background removal tool. This is only 15 images of 30 secs, at ISO 3200, using the Sony A7s camera and Tak E-130D scope
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The first camera I bought still worth mentioning. Its a Nikon F-301 SLR, with a Nikkor 35-70 mm 1:3.3-4.5 kit lens (at least I think its the kit lens - I got it with the camera when I bought it.).
An entrance level SLR from Nikon at the time I bought it, in 1989. I had the choice between this and the more automatic F-501, and chose this - it does have a program setting, but has lots of manual settings, and the lens is all manual, of course - both aperture and focus. The camera was introduced in 1985.
I believe it set me back NOK 4,000 at the time, roughly EUR 500 today (or USD 750 with the currently weak dollar). Its about the same as NOK 5,850 today - roughly the price for a Canon EOS 400D with kit lens in Norway now.
I've not uploaded any photos taken with this camera to Flickr yet, but I've acquired a Canon MP-600 printer with scanner now, so who knows? :-)
Still my only SLR. I'm surrounded by Canon people and only have this Nikon lens, so the next one will quite possibly be a Canon.
(Yes, I know, the background removal leaves a bit to be desired here. ;-)
Some links about this camera, also known as the N2000:
- Reviews
- www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Nikon_N2000_(F301)
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RA: 04h 21m 47.46s, Dec: +19°30′28.3"
www.astrobin.com/qwf2le/B/?nc=user#sky-plot
Hind’s Variable Nebula is a variable nebula located 400 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. The nebula is about 4 light-years across. It is illuminated by the young pre-main sequence star T Tauri. Hind’s Nebula is a Herbig-Haro object, a bright patch of nebulosity in which new stars are forming. Visually, it changes in apparent size and magnitude over weeks and months. It varies in brightness because of material that occasionally comes between it and the variable star T Tauri.
Source: www.constellation-guide.com/hinds-variable-nebula-ngc-1555/
OTA: Dreamscope 16" f/3.7 astrograph (SkyPi, Pie Town, NM, US)
Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Pixel Size: 3.76 x 3.76 micron
Image Scale (1x1): x arcsec/pixel
FOV: 1.37° x 0.92°
Mount: Paramount ME
Guiding: Unknown
Imaging data: ATEO-1 at SkyPi, Pie Town, NM USA
Available from the Starbase website starbase.insightobservatory.com/inventory
Subs (9/11/21 - 12/11/21):
10 x 300 sec RED (bin x1)
10 x 300 sec GREEN (bin x1)
10 x 300 sec BLUE (bin x1)
10 x 300 sec LUMINANCE (bin x1)
Integration: 3 hrs 20 min
Initial image processing (channel combination, background removal, RC-Astro toolkit, non-linear stretch): PixInsight
Post-processing & finishing: Adobe Photoshop, Corel PSP2019 & Adobe Lightroom
RA: 05h 22m 37.23s , Dec: +33° 23′ 48.71″
www.astrobin.com/bobr7j/#sky-plot
The Tadpole Nebula (IC 410) is an H II region located approximately 12,400 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of ionized gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893.
OTA: AG10 CDK f/6.7
(Gemini Observatory - Lijiang, China)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ8RH
Guiding: Unknown
Total integration time: 10 hr 0 min
Subs:
14 x 600 sec SII (bin x2) mapped to RED channel
31 x 600 sec Ha (bin x2) mapped to GREEN channel
15 x 600 sec OIII (bin x2) mapped to BLUE channel
Data acquisition: 08/01/2021 - 05/02/2021 (Alpha Zhang)
Insight Observatory Starbase dataset: IC 410 - HaO3S2 (2022)
Calibration, alignment & stacking
Initial processing (channel combination, background removal, non-linear stretch, RC-Astro toolkit): PixInsight
Post-processing & finishing: Photoshop, PSP 2019, Lightroom
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RA: 20h 51m 18.52s, Dec: +44° 15′ 51.8″
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The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 and IC 5067) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name. The nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbour, the North America Nebula, by a foreground molecular cloud filled with dark dust. Both are part of the larger H II region of Westerhout 40.
The Pelican has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555.
Source: Wikipedia.
OTA: Dreamscope 16" f/3.7 astrograph (SkyPi, Pie Town, NM, US)
Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Pixel Size: 3.76 x 3.76 micron
Image Scale (1x1): x arcsec/pixel
FOV: 1.37° x 0.92°
Mount: Paramount ME
Guiding: Unknown
Imaging data: ATEO-1 at SkyPi, Pie Town, NM USA
Available from the Starbase website starbase.insightobservatory.com/inventory
Subs (19/05/20 - 22/09/20):
12 x 600 sec RED (bin x1)
13 x 600 sec GREEN (bin x1)
20 x 600 sec BLUE (bin x1)
10 x 600 sec LUMINANCE (bin x1)
28 x 600 sec Ha (bin x1) mapped to RED channel
Integration: 13 hrs 50 min
Alignment, integration & initial image processing (channel combination, background removal, RC-Astro toolkit, non-linear stretch): PixInsight
Post-processing & finishing: Adobe Photoshop, Corel PSP2019 & Adobe Lightroom
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A photo booth is a vending machine or modern kiosk that contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor. Today, the vast majority of photo booths are digital.
HISTORY
The patent for the first automated photography machine was filed in 1888 by William Pope and Edward Poole of Baltimore. The first known really working photographic machine was a product of the French inventor T. E. Enjalbert (March 1889). It was shown at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. The German-born photographer Mathew Steffens from Chicago filed a patent for such a machine in May 1889. These early machines were not reliable enough to be self-sufficient. The first commercially successful automatic photographic apparatus was the "Bosco" from inventor Conrad Bernitt of Hamburg (patented July 16, 1890). All of these early machines produced ferrotypes. The first photographic automate with negative and positive process was invented by Carl Sasse (1896) of Germany.
The modern concept of photo booth with (later) a curtain originated with Anatol Josepho (previously Josephewitz), who had arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 1923. with the first photo booth appearing 1925 on Broadway in New York City. For 25 cents, the booth took, developed and printed 8 photos, a process taking roughly 10 minutes. In the first six months after the booth was erected, it was used by 280,000 people. The Photomaton Company was created to place booths nationwide. On March 27, 1927, Josepho was paid $1 million and guaranteed future royalties for his invention.
PASSPORT PHOTO BOOTHS
Most of the photo booths are used for passport photos. They are coin-operated automated machines that are designed to print photo in specific format that meets the passport photo requirements. Multiple copies can be printed so users can save some for future uses.
Traditionally, photo booths contain a seat or bench designed to seat the one or two patrons being photographed. The seat is typically surrounded by a curtain of some sort to allow for some privacy and help avoid outside interference during the photo session. Once the payment is made, the photo booth will take a series of photographs, although most modern booths may only take a single photograph and print out a series of identical pictures. Before each photograph, there will be an indication, such as a light or a buzzer, that will signal the patron to prepare their pose. After the last photograph in the series (typically between 3 and 8) has been taken, the photo booth begins developing the film - a process that used to take several minutes in the old "wet chemistry" booths, but is now typically accomplished in about 30 seconds with digital technology. The prints are then delivered to the customer. Typical dimensions of these prints vary. The classic and most familiar arrangement from the old style photo booths is four pictures on a strip about 40 mm wide by 205 mm long; digital prints tend to have a square arrangement of two images above two images.
Both black and white and colour photo booths are common in the US, however in Europe the colour photo booth has almost entirely replaced black and white booths. However, newer digital booths now offer the customer the option of whether to print in colour or in black and white. Most modern photo booths use video or digital cameras instead of film cameras, and are under computer control. Some booths can also produce stickers, postcards, or other items with the photographs on them, rather or as well as simply a strip of pictures. These often include an option of novelty decorative borders around the photos.
PHOTO STICKER BOOTHS
Photo sticker booths or photo sticker machines originated from Japan, are a special type of photo booth that produce photo stickers. Still maintaining huge popularity in Japan, they have spread throughout Asia to Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, China, Vietnam, and Thailand. They have also been imported to Australia. Some have also begun appearing in the United States and Canada although they failed to make any impression in Europe when introduced in the mid 1990s.
In Japan, purikura (プリクラ) refers to a photo sticker booth or the product of such a photo booth. The name is a shortened form of the registered trademark Purinto Kurabu (プリント倶楽部). The term derives from the English print club. Jointly developed by Atlus and Sega, the first purikura machines were sold in July 1995. The purikura machines were developed in response to young women's interest in both photography and stickers.
OPERATION
After money has been inserted in the machine, multiple customers can enter the booth and pose for a set number of exposures. Some common options include the ability to alter lighting and backdrops while the newest versions offer features such as cameras from a variety of angles, fans, seats, and blue screen effects. Some establishments even offer costumes and wigs for customers to borrow.
Once the pictures have been taken, the customers select the pictures that they wish to keep and customize them using a touch screen or pen-sensitive screen. The touch screen then displays a vast array of options such as virtual stamps, pictures, clip art, colorful backdrops, borders, and pens that can be superimposed on the photographs.
Features that can be found in some sticker machines are customizing the beauty of the customers such as brightening the pictures, making the eyes sparkle more, changing the hair, bringing a more reddish color to the lips, and fixing any blemishes by having them blurred. Other features include cutting out the original background and replacing it with a different background. Certain backgrounds may be chosen so when the machine prints out the picture, the final sticker will be shiny with sparkles.
Finally, the number and size of the pictures to be printed are chosen, and the pictures print out on a glossy full-color 10 × 15 cm sheet to be cut up and divided among the group of customers. Some photo booths also allow the pictures to be sent to customers' mobile phones. Other photo places have a scanner and laptop at the cashiers desk for customers to scan and copy their original picture before they cut and divide the pictures amongst their group.
PHOTO BOOTHS FOR PARTIES
Photo booth rental companies allow a person to rent a photo booth for a short period of time (usually in hours) for a fee. Photo booth rentals have become popular in the United States primarily for wedding receptions, sweet sixteen parties, Bar and Bat Mitzvah parties, along with a growing number of other public and private events. In addition to the photo booth and the printing of unlimited photo strips, rental companies usually include a photo booth attendant to service the photo booth and to help guests construct the guest book of photo strips. Online image hosting, compact disks containing the images and related merchandise are readily available. Celebrities are frequent users of photo booths in parties,
Apart from traditional photo printing, modern photo booths may also include the following new functions:
- Animated GIF
- Flip book printing
- Virtual props, placed intelligently on the person's eyes or shoulders etc.
- Slow-motion video
- Green-screen background removal
- Fun costume virtual dressing
- Games - mostly Kinect body gesture controlled games, and print a photo of the person and his/her scores
- Facial gesture recognition
GROWTH OF PHOTO BOOTH RENTALS
As digital cameras, compact photo printers, and flat screen computer monitors became widely available in the early 2000s, people connected these together using a personal computer and software and created their own photo booths. Entrepreneurs began renting machines built along these lines at weddings and parties and the idea spread. From 2005 to 2012, interest in the United States for photo booth rentals grew significantly. By 2016 more people were searching for photo booth rentals than DJ rentals in 15 of North America's largest cities. Photo booth rentals have also become popular in other countries such as Canada, Australia, and the UK. So far in 2016 there is an average of 226,000 monthly searches for a photo booth globally, this has risen by 48.9% since 2015 (In the UK alone this is nearly 20,000 searches a month)
3D SELFIE PHOTO BOOTHS
A 3D selfie photo booth such as the Fantasitron located at Madurodam, the miniature park, generates 3D selfie models from 2D pictures of customers. These selfies are often printed by dedicated 3D printing companies such as Shapeways. These models are also known as 3D portraits, 3D figurines or mini-me figurines.
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