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The Moscow Region Government House is a complex of government buildings in the Moscow Region in Myakininskaya floodplain on the banks of the Moskva River, in the city of Krasnogorsk..
I make this image public in the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive
The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.
Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.
This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.
I used this parameters:
avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif
The result is:
- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)
- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)
- 12 bit per channel
Beautiful view of Dubai Marina from Palm Jumeira, The first man made island in the world.
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I recently went on a Cityscape course run by Nigel Forster (www.creativephotographywales.com) and using Nisi filters (www.nisifilter.co.uk). It was a lot of fun using a 10 stop ND combined with a graduated ND to create some dramatic long exposures. This was one of my favourites.