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I tried to do some levitating stuff in the Friedwald of Heiligenberg / Germany. I am not so excited about the picture but if we will get better weather and a bit of sun i will go out and do some shots again because the shooting action was quite funny ;)
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Not to be outdone by Nikon Nigel I present my heavily cropped slightly photoshopped splash experiment. I can take no credit for the set up and flash trigger that helped create this.
…graphic experiment
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Colors have been an existential crisis lately.
Lately I've been on a film emulation kick, and it feels like everything I touch ends up all filmulated, and way too trendy. I'm wondering if there's a way to buck this.
This photograph is somewhere in the middle. While I definitely shot for something a little more vintage, but at the same time I wanted an extreme effect.
I've been realizing the thing I love the most is innovation. I really want to do everything in a new way, even colors.
An experiment - and a short break from the gloom of the winter Gormleys ...
I recently found an interesting link on *kday*'s page to the Orton technique. It looked like a nice soft effect so I thought I'd give it a go. I know I haven't got it quite right yet, but I think it might be worth experimenting more.
But I'm still not sure ...
What do you think?
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Thank all !! GRAZIE
My most favorite shot flickr.com/photos/valpopando/sets/72157594327558179/detail/
One more Fullspectrum Experiment:
I try to make the best of these days with the same subjects over and over again ... And I'm lucky I have a lot of things to do on my list: It's almost 2 years ago I got some rather strange IR-block filters.
Here I used the B+W #470. It's a blue-greenisch color, pretty dark. It's actually a technical filter, to be honest I didn't understand what exactly it was used for (maybe 40 years ago?), but I understand it blocks IR. On the Fullspectrum camera it's always easy to check this: If you see green more or less normally, IR is more or less blocked.
I needed to custom white balance there photos, again simply on the birches bark. A litte tweaking was necessary. What I get are very rich greens. Magenta comes bold, also, red is more subdued here, but it's not absent. I like the colors quite a bit, I tried to get away from a too extreme rendering, but still the cooler tones are somewhat dominant (or is it just me imagine that?)
I only used this one filter on a Minolta 70-210/4 (the manual focus variant of the famous beercan) and used it wide open (the filter needs a lot of light) and at it's minimum focus distance. Not too bad for an old zoom wide open!
Spheres experiment: testing algorithms for complex docking operations
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/3...
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Right, some more experiments in B&W with the Cyber trio. I am completely undecided on which is best, all have their merits.
Because I was a teacher, 95% of my 'work' (LOL!) falls into 'experiments','doodles',or demonstrations.
Only on extremely rare occasions have I set out to do a piece of work with serious intent. The nine Fruit of the Spirit hangings fall into this last category. You can see them in my Church banners set if you are interested. see here www.flickr.com/photos/16054928@N07/albums/72157625102416370
This above was a demonstration/experiment, one of many "Blind leading the Blind" experiences so familiar to my pupils: we all enjoyed the frisson of 'Miss' not having a clue what she was doing, as it was for the first time!
Inks blown with a straw,then upended in PS with ink outlines filter to make reflections.
Very shiny card. A3
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So, this was an experiment: it was my first time shooting in very low light with a person. I used 800 asa film, hence the grain. The photographs were as correctly exposed as they could have been in the conditions, I believe, but in some there was too much noise. In addition, the start of the film had wound on half a frame too early so for example, in some instances the photograph would have been salvageable from the noise, Sophie's head was cut off. Anyway, the photographs, as you can see, were grainy and I expected nothing less, but my scanner and my DSLR are picking up more noise than there is in the original and I've spent too many hours now try to fix this, so I've given up. The original isn't this grainy, but here you go. I like the original amount of grain, I like the atmosphere it adds. I mean, would you believe that this was taken in a car park?!
Anyway, thank you to Sophie for helping me as she was very cold and gets next to no results. Despite the displeasing (but not disappointing outcome - I knew it was just to see how much I could get away with in the light conditions, which I knew wouldn't be a lot, if anything! - I was actually very pleased with this shot) - this was the most fun I've had in a long time. The uncertainty that comes a long with film, for the most part, fizzled out for me a long time ago, so I actually thoroughly enjoyed the exciting anticipation and nerves in taking and developing these photographs.
My first experiment with HDR. I like the look, but I might have over-done it in post processing. What do you think?
Experimenting with black and white again :) I am amazed how many things that you can do in BW!
One of my favorite bw photo. I just wish that this hibiscus had a longer staminal column :)
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Taming Light #4.
Deep in space a new star is born.
A very Merry Christmas and a New Year full of Joy and Happiness to all my friends on Flickr.
For new viewers: these are analog images formed directly on to film without the use of a camera lens (in the same way as a photogram), of the refraction patterns of light passing through formed and shaped plastics. Normally a b/w image, colour has
been added directly into the plastic. The fine detail of the diffraction patterns and the rainbow colours can be seen when viewed large.