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St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
Храм Василия Блаженного, Москва. Россия
Cold, rainy and windy. This is one shot processed with Photomatix 5.1.3, as opposed to a 3 or 5 shot HDR process. The difference was minimal, so I went for this one, although the 3 shot gave the moving people the ghostly appearance which I thought was a bit more atmospheric. Might put that one up at a later date.
March 2024. With a very calm evening and just a little bit of sunlight. Personally I like the softness regarding colors and light.
AA071 - IT'S A BIT WARM OUTSIDE - a multi-coloured abstract acrylic painting. 28.5x20cms on A4 250gsm paper. A strident block of vibrant red, seen through curtains of layered colour - green, orange, blue, white and black. All seen through highlights of copper. The three-dimensional layers were completed using palette knives.
A full range of products using this design are available at Fine Art America at the following link: tinyurl.com/4bdd58f5
Serial Number: GSA-AA071
(C)2025-Artwork Copyright-Graham Seaman Art
Website at: www.grahamseamanart.co.uk
A bit more street after that little diversion into author portraits. I'll bring you all some more from my recent adventures in fulfilling the brief of others rather than my own whims but for now here's something that feels pretty recent really. November isn't that long ago yet is it?? Taken when out with the Nikon for one of the first and still only times. Look forward to catching up over the coming days.
It's worth lightboxing this and looking at it larger.
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A bit of LE fun. This is a toy my son received for Christmas in 2010. It has two LED lights that flash when the ball is bounced hard enough. It took me forever to get the flash to stop the ball mid travel.
OK, that last part is untrue. I figured it would be nearly impossible to do that, and it would be much easier to composite two shots. The first shot is a five second exposure which captures the light trail from the LED lights embedded in the ball. For the second shot, I placed the ball on top of an all black flash light to provide illumination.
I imported the images into Lightroom, then exported them as layers into Photoshop. In Photoshop, I performed a simple composite. Following the composite, I edited the ball to remove extraneous light from the flashlight from the bottom of the ball. I then mirrored the ball and applied a gaussian blur . Following that, I copied one of the red reflections and layered that with the ball reflection to approximate the texture possessed by the other reflections. I then added a slight motion blur to the ball in the direction of travel, even though I suspect that a true flash triggered behind the ball would stop the motion cleanly. Still, it looked better slightly fuzzy. The two base shots are in comments.
saw a duckling the other day with a bad flapper foot still runing about everywhere saw it again today with it 2 siblings its abit smaller than them but like i said still runs about
I am a bit of a food and beverage fetish. It was just a matter of time to combine this passion with my other one: Photography.
Now check out the Fludini. It's a drink to kickstart your day along with your immune system.
mauriceetoile.de/fludini/ Here's the blog article - it is in German tough.
Strobist
It's mostly available light from kitchen lamps. I wanted to have some light shine through the glas to light up the ingredients, as well as a reflection on the side. That's why I put a Yongnuo YN-160 II LED on the left of the glass. Unfortunately I lost the little stand of it, so it was quite a pain to have it stand there fixed.
Let's exchange on the other channels, too :)
A bit of a surprise to see this original-style E300 operating in Glasgow. Last at Dumfries (I think), it was new in 2006 in a green livery for the Winchester Park & Ride service. It was snapped in Cathedral Street, Glasgow mid-changeover and half way through service X19 (Easterhouse - City - QEU Hospital). The regular performers on the X19 are a batch of E300s from 2015 interspersed with the occasional E400MMC.
this one is a bit taller, and I was wearing killer heels that day.
his dancing is questionable though, but then I might have been a distraction
very touchy feely this lad is,I thought I would never escape his embrace.
I didn't try to hard in all truth, playing up to the observers outside looking in at us taking the photos
Had a great weekend painting and partying with cool people. A big thank you to the Def Kids for the invite and Sept for being a great host!
Years ago, I had a wonderful spring trip to the Okanagan. There I saw some special birds who all had a little blue to their color display.
Bit breezy today and took this one hand held using the 600mm lens as they were in a fenced off part of the pond. Not sure i would have done much better even if i could of used the macro.
In this shoot there is all that I wanted there was in my “blow-up photo of the West”: The Mittens, the red desert, the dirt track, the sun rising on the horizon, the sky flooded with warm tones, a couple of small pink clouds, the morning haze and the dust of the desert and finally, a lucky break, a person, small, alone, down there in the middle of the road, which helps to strengthen the feeling of how much everything is huge and majestic.
Bit of a cheat here :)
I carry a really cheap set of neutral density filters in my bag, just for this kind of shot. They have a magenta cast when several are used together, this shot used an ND4 (2 stop), a ND8 (3 stop) and a GND8 (3 stop graduated)
Looking forward to my salon opening up soon where i can give my epilator a rest and have a full waxing again. Yes she does do my naughty bits and believe me its not pleasant. But the feel is wonderful after a few hours calming down. Smooth is heaven. I was wondering if anyone else goes to a salon. Unfortunately I have to go into town for my pedicure and manicure but Honestly it's the best feeling in the world to pamper yourself.
Bit of indoor faffin' yesterday, using the lightpainting brushes system.
Lens Swap between the Sigma 18-35mm, and the Nikon 50mm.
Lightpainting only, no photoshop.
SOOC JPEG
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This is another quick and dirty edit. I don't really have the time to spend much time editing lately so took about five minute to throw about 6 curve layers on here and a white balance shift. My favorite shot of the day is going to sit dormant for a while until I can figure out how to process it.
I spotted Charlie Widdis, local photographer and only other yahoo to brave the -12f this morning out on the rocks. The breakwater is completely exposed to the wind and damn it was chilly. I was hoping that there would be some seasmoke coming up over the breakwater but low tides combined with biting winds kept the smoke from really rising up in this area. To the right, the bay was filled with billowing smoke but no real interest.
Spent the morning playing with the telephoto to compress the smoke for a little more drama. I only popped the wide angle on for a few shots including this one. I always forget that just because you can't see something on your 2 inch lcd (in this case the seasmoke or lighthouse) doesn't mean that it won't turn out when viewed on a 27 inch monitor.
Interesting tidbit that I have now learned about walking on breakwaters in the winter over the last few days. Make sure you are probing where you step ahead of you. Not sure how many near disastrous steps I almost took into the crevices between the rocks.
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
From Hurt by Johnny Cash. I have used this song before but I love it so much. There's so much feeling in it.
I'm thinking about doing a red cloth series. My dad has got to stop going to bed so early though. This was the first shot. I need my own place.
I went to the quarter finals of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam today! It was a lot of fun. We saw Mikhail Youzhny vs. Mario Ancic (I rooted for Youzhny, I could relate to him in a way, I was a bit of a 'temperamentful' tennis player once (I was never any good though :p). Mario won.), and Andy Murray vs. Marc Gicquel (rooted for Marc, who later gave up due to an injury). Also watched the doubles game between Coetzee/ Moodie and Berdych/ Melzer. Rooted for the first. I mean, how can you not like someone named Moodie? They lost though. I like an underdog. Or me rooting for you makes you loose. :p Also had a silly picture taken with Super Mario and ate a botox sandwich. Or something like that. Silly Dutchmen. ;p
A bit of door, a bit of window, a bit of brick and a bit of roof. The shed at the harbour end of St Andrews Cathedral grounds.
Efkechrome 100 35mm slide film, Olympus OM2SP.
Standard consumer E6 chemicals, processed at home.
Digitized using a Nikon D7000 dslr, Nikkor 40mm lens, JJC ES-2 adapter.
RAW file edited in Photoshop Elements 11.
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Made a bit of a schoolboy error this morning. Decided to get up early on my last day of annual leave to catch the sunrise in the lakes (after spending ages lying in bed deliberating!). So off I set, trundling up the motorway when a dawning realisation struck me; my memory card was last seen sticking out of my laptop rather than in my camera and I didn't have a spare one in my bag. Still, it was a nice drive in the dark for an hour to end up back at home...
Here's a shot that I didn't take today.
bitti gün ve yıkıldı sokak
şehrin ışıkları ufukta.
ben ardından bakarım gidenin
güneşin son demi yüzümde.
kahpe bir terk edişti bu sefer
sevdiğimi sandığımın nefesi ensemde.
Çökecek karanlık aydınlık caddeme
Ve yine ıslatacak gözlerimin nemi.
Sel olacak Yüreğimin Sesi
Sen Duymayacaksın sana yazılmış bu şiiri !
Ali AYDOĞMUŞ 23:54 18/11/09