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On the way up Bennachie in Aberdeenshire, stopped to talk in the beautiful countryside and let a long exposure play out.
The spring is so quick here in Vyatka. Nature wakes up and breathes almost like summer. Thunderstorms come together with warmth. We can watch some great cloud scenes these days.
Many photographers are now refusing to geotag their landscape photographs. That has it downside, of course, but this photo shows why they have made that choice.
Tahquamenon Falls State Park in Michigan's upper peninsula is not convenient to get to. Most visitors have driven at least 4-5 hours out of their way to get here. The park has two main parking lots about 4-5 miles apart for the upper falls and the lower falls. The volume of water flowing over the upper falls is said to be second only to Niagara Falls of all waterfalls east of the Mississippi and the visitor is able to view it right at the brink. But now there has been a game changer at the lower group of falls (just one of those falls is shown here).
In the past, at the lower falls, visitors were required to row a boat out to the island shown here in the middle of the Tahquamenon River. Too much work for most visitors. A couple of years ago the park service constructed a footbridge over the river to the island. Now any of us can walk down a boardwalk trail for about 1/2 mile to the bridge and walk over to the island (this photograph was taken from one of the observation decks along the boardwalk to the bridge). Once on the island, the visitor has access to about 4 or 5 separate small falls that are collectively called the "lower falls". And believe me when I say they are magical. The loop trail around the perimeter of the island is about 1/4 mile long and is awesome because now you can see all these individual lower falls up close, instead of from a distance. But this photo shows a problem that is developing. The island, the falls, and the river are being overrun by all of us visitors, who are showing little respect for the terrain . . . and this is just at one section of the trail around the island, at one moment in time, as observed from the boardwalk.
Tahquamenon Fall State Park is not a secret location, so now when photographers find a special lesser-known spot, some are declining to geotag to avoid the sort of result shown here.
Being with a number of family members, I did not bring my camera because I did not want to slow our group down. But I did have my trusty cellphone and couldn't resist this one. If you visit during the summer, get here early in the morning for your best chance of enjoying the true magic.
This image was taken in March this year at Downside Abbey in Stratton-on-the-Fosse. It’s a relatively modern, beautiful Gothic church built to serve the abbey and the school. It’s a photographer’s dream kind of place.
This image was of one of the long side aisles with the font right at the end and some tombs on the near right. Like most church designs, the font is by the entrance and signifies the start of the Christian life, leading forward towards the altar (and tombs and crypt).
It was quite tricky to process. First, the perspective was corrected using DxO's Viewpoint to make the verticals parallel, and then it was denoised in Topaz AI (the lighting was difficult, so it stretched the camera, especially when shooting handheld).
The rest of the effect was achieved in Nik Silver Efex to increase the sense of light and contrast and emphasise the aisle flagstones. The original was much plainer, though it had a good basic structure. Silver Efex is magic at this sort of thing…
The monochrome conversion was toned in blue to give a cooler, contemplative feel. The main downside to the Downside image was the narrow crop, which buys you very little real estate on Flickr. I hope you can see it OK. Ah well…
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Donnerstagsmonochrom :)
As I came across this scene, several options to immortalize it sprang to mind. I could invert myself and the camera and thus obtain the right-side-up version of this White-breasted Nuthatch. Intriguing, but given my advanced age and continually decreasing agility, I decided against this. Another, equally important, reason against this approach was that I did not want anybody to get the idea that it would be a good thing to come up with a new helmet law for photographers out in the field. Yes, you are welcome. The other option, naturally, was to just take the shot and then invert the image in Lightroom or similar software. Much more appealing. Well, I did end up using this option but decided to leave things in their natural state, mostly for documentation purposes. The advantage here would be that if I ever decided to join a group, the image would be less likely to be rejected due to my obsessively fiddling with the settings in Lightroom. This just recently happened to a bird photographer Down Under and has been weighing heavily on my mind ever since :-)
Mr Spock has a way of positioning himself to stetch out different muscles at different times, including upside down and propping his feet against the back of the chair
The downside of not having a garden is that I can't easily photograph the more common birds but I've found a spot to go to, that's regularly fed by someone. By this spot is a stone wall and I first glimpsed something moving last year but it was too quick for me to see what it was. I assumed a bank vole. Recently, I put down a little bit of seed by the 'entrance' and continued watching/photographing the birds. After a while, I noticed the food had gone, so I placed a bit more and waited. After a while, this still hungry woodmouse cautiously crept out to nibble on the offerings. At least I think its a woodmouse from the more pointy ears.
I’m back at Downside Abbey for this Sliders Sunday play. Downside is a relatively new building, started in 1873 and still unfinished, but it is a beautiful church that was home to a thriving Benedictine monastic community. Sadly, the monastery is largely empty now, and the surviving community has moved to Herefordshire. It’s a beautiful place to visit and photograph.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment. This isn’t a monochrome conversion, merely heavily desaturated and then played with using black and white filter and inversion layers with different blend modes and opacities. That was after quite a bit of perspective correction using a Perspective filter layer.
The bulk of the work, though, was done with an HSL filter layer using minus 59% for the saturation slider. I’ll post the interim version, which is a half-decent image in itself. (flic.kr/p/2rAgZqZ)
I increased the size of the image canvas by two in each direction. I then duplicated the image layer three times to create extra layers, and then I flipped the copies both horizontally and vertically and arranged them so that you get a two-way mirror effect.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
Tripod mounted downside. Focusing rail. Self made 3d printed feeding unit with embedded adjusting screw. Feeding steps of round about 0,05mm can be achieved. Tamron 90mm Macro lens is mounted. But also my old lenses are usable for the focus stacking purpose. Sony A7II is used.
Photos shot with this lens can be found here --> Mushroom - Focus Stacking or here --> Tiny Tree Fungis - Focus Stacking Details
Mittens in her usual upside down pose, makes me happy because I think she’s happy. Posted for Happy Caturday’s theme of “happy.” Happy Caturday!
That is the downside-up flower that intrigued me to do the moist garden umbrella macro session in the first place.
After not having used the 55mm Micro-NIKKOR for a while, it still, once again, amazes me how sharp this vintage gem is, distortion free with this natural and consistent color rendering. No wonder that the latest AI-S version from 1979 is still manufactured today (as far as I know; new copies are available at least), unmodified in it's original formular, for 45 years. 😳
I understand that companies want to sell new gear, but to break with backwards compatibility in the Z system, not having a native adapter with mechanical aperture coupling for all the stellar AI and AI-S lenses? But hey, at least the SLR design still does it, which I am personally preferring anyway.
This lens has been and will be around for a long time to come, for photo people to enjoy, which I find great. 😊
Nikon D7200 (APS-C crop sensor / DX)
Micro-NIKKOR 55mm f/2.8 AI-S prime
(thus ~82mm full frame equivalent)
ISO100, 55mm, f/8, 1/250sec
single shot, extension tubes, flash, DIY
medium size paper diffusor, umbrella :)
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Street photography book...
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The Nuthatches are busy, quite a few around now and some of the males are nice and dark in their color
Downside of shooting ICM at incredibly small apertures is the number of dust spots you see for the first time. Got rid of about 20 - if I decide to print it I'll have to get rid of the other 200.