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This is a panorama of a classic green auroral arc (with himts of red) across the northern sky defining the sweep of the auroral oval. I shot this in the early evening on November 9, 2024 at sea during a coastal cruise in Norway on the m/s Nordkapp, a ship in the Hurtigruten fleet of ferries and cruise ships. This is looking north from the bow viewing area of Deck 5 of the ship. We were between Trondheim and Bodo this night. A Kp5 level storm sparked bright aurora early in the evening. The seas were calm and smooth.

The Big Dipper and Ursa Major are at centre in the north. Vega is setting at far left.

Technical:

This is a panorama of 7 segments, each a 1-second exposure (short to minimize trailing from ship motion) with the Nikkor 20mm lens wide open at f/1.8 and Nikon Z6III at ISO 3200. Stitched with PTGui with manual control points needed to assist in the alignment. Shooting a panorama from a moving ship is tricky and has to be done very quickly, ensuring each segment is as level as possible.

This is a 200° panorama of the arch of the northern Milky Way rising over the Badlands landscape of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. This was the night of May 31/June 1, 2024, when from this latitude of 50° 45' N the sky is not fully dark even in the middle of the night, here at about 1:30 a.m. MDT. So the sky retains a blue tint, especially to the north at left.

So this records quite a colorful sky contrasting with the earth tones of the Badlands landscape of eroded bentonite clay hoodoos, iron-rich rocks, and sagebrush. And I like the field of white flowers mimicking the stars above.

Adding to the sky colours are bands of green oxygen airglow, especially at centre to the east, and perhaps yellow sodium airglow at right. At left to the north the horizon is tinted pink from a faint arc of aurora borealis. A Kp5 show of Northern Lights was predicted for this night but nothing of the sort materialized!

The mass of stars toward the galactic centre at right in Sagittarius and Scorpius also glow with a combined yellow light, in part due to absorption of shorter wavelengths of starlight by interstellar dust in the spiral arms of the Galaxy. It is that obscuring dust that creates the dark regions along the Milky Way, splitting the Milky Way starting in Cygnus at top and extending at right down into Serpens..

The stars also have their own colours, such as blue Vega at top and yellow Arcturus at upper right. Yellow Antares in Scorpius shines above the hoodoo at lower right.

But the most striking sky colours are the red and magenta from glowing hydrogen gas in star-forming nebulas along the MilkyWay and toward the galactic core rising at right. I emphasized those through the use of a filter that isolates that red wavelength of "hydrogen-alpha" emitted by the nebulas. The most obvious H-alpha feature is the large round nebula at right, Sharpless 2-27 surrounding the star Zeta Ophiuchi above Scorpius. The red nebulas in the Milky Way to the left of Sh2-27 are from Messier objects and other faint nebulas in Sagittarius and Serpens.

At the top of the arch is the constellation of Cygnus, filled with red emission nebulas in thespiral arm we live in, the largest and brightest being the North America Nebula near the star Deneb. To the left farther along the Milky Way in the northeast are numerous nebulas in Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, most in the next spiral arm farther out from us. Much farther away, is the Andromeda Galaxy just rising at left.

However, it takes long exposures and special techniques to bring out the colours in what to the eye would be a dim black-and-white scene.

I shot this from the Trail of the Fossil Hunters, a favourite spot of mine, on a perfect spring night — mild, no wind, no smoke, no dew, and no bugs! The trail winds off up the hill as if toward the galactic centre.

TECH DETAILS:

This is a blend of 3 different 200° panoramas, all with the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera on the MSM Nomad tracker, and with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and wide open at f/2.8 and with the camera in portrait orientation:

- A initial pano, untracked, of 16 segments 15° apart, each 2-minutes at ISO 3200, taken at night with just starlight and ambient sky light providing the illiumination. I shot an earlier "blue hour" panorama as well, shot before I could polar align the tracker, but I did not use it, as aligning it proved too difficult!

- Immediately afterwards, I turned on the tracker motor to take another 16 segments also at 15° spacings, each 1-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with no filter.

- The final panorama was again tracked, of 8 segments only 30° apart (still with sufficient overlap for stitching to work, and speeding up the shooting), and each 2-minute exposures at ISO 6400 with a 12nm bandwidth Astronomik H-alpha filter installed in front of the sensor (a "clip-in" filter). The lens has to be refocused after installing such a filter, no easy task with the heavily filtered image so dim.

Each pano was stitched in PTGui, then blended and masked with Photoshop, requiring a lot of manual warping to align them and to get the horizons to match. I used generative AI fill to add in content to fill otherwise blank corners in the ground pano. The H-alpha sky pano contributes just the red nebulas, via BlendIf and masking. I also used the StarXTerminator plug-in to eliminate the stars from that pano. A Nik Collection Color EFX filter added an "Orton" style glow effect. Adobe DeNoise AI was applied to the ground and unfiltered raw sky segments before stitching. Topaz Photo AI applied to the ground for some further mild sharpening. Most satellite trails removed with removal tools.

Again, all frames were shot in quick sucession from the same tripod position.

Photoshop Generative Fill

Created forPhotoshop Contest ~ Week 962 ~ Incubator

Thanks to Don for starter image

All work done in Photoshop Beta23

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AI generated farm scene

Created for Photoshop Contest ~ Week 973

Thanks to Amba Coltman for starter images

All work done in Photoshop 2024

Shadow Frames and PNG Images

65%-Art, Paint Splattering

Created with brand new Photoshop Beta - Generative fill function & PS manual postprocessing

After one of my most beloved old masters: AGNOLO BRONZINO (1503 Florenz 1572)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronzino

Thermal pool at Yellowstone National Park. I used Generative Fill in Photoshop to remove a sign & part of a boardwalk at lower left & to add additional space at the sides.

Original photo for reference:

www.flickr.com/photos/163940733@N02/53181016800/in/datepo...

The Trans Canada Trail runs 24,134 km (14,996 mi) from coast to coast to coast in Canada. No, Canada is neither that wide or long, but it goes from the Atlantic to the Pacific and also to the Arctic and has many twists and turns along the way.

A section of it, shown in the photo, runs through our town and very near our house. It is not all as typically trail-like as in this photo, for the route does also go through communities, such as ours, before it becomes more trail-like again.

In these two photos, I have used AI to add either a snowmobile or deer for a focal point of interest.

By the way, it has been officially dubbed The Great Trail, but I am not sure if anyone calls it that, and that is not what the trail signs describe when you encounter them.

©AnvilcloudPhotography

In 1952, Clyde Lee took the bus from Shoshone, CA to San Bernadino. He returned to town with this 1937 Chevrolet. Clyde and his wife drove the vehicle for several years until it fell into disrepair. Eventually it was placed with the Shoshone Museum. With the help of Generative Fill I placed it in a different environment. The original Chevrolet is below. The shadow across the vehicle was from a nearby palm tree.

Happy Slider Sunday!

I used generative fill in Photoshop to remove the tourists.

A sad day for me, as I leave this little home of mine as PaulOClassic on Flickr, where I have been since 2008 and move to my new Flickr home as Paul Cowie ~ The link is below. Please feel free to find me there and keep in touch. See you all on the other side!

YOU CAN NOW FIND ME AT MY NEW FLICKR SPACE RIGHT HERE

Wilhelma Stuttgart 2013

-Hintergrund mit Genrativer Füllung in Photoshop getauscht

-Background changed with "generative fill" of Photoshop

Created for Photoshop Contest ~ Week 966 ~ Flores de cactus

Thanks to seguicollar for starter image

All work done in Photoshop 2024

Have a nice easter (all others I meant of course)

Originally a large bundle of scrap paper and cardboard

shot on iPhone by Jan R. Ubels

a running monk was added with Photoshop AI

Portuguese water dog showing off his Christmas present, a fluffy Palm Pal taco. iPhone photo with added AI generative fill Christmas tree background, blurred and unsaturated a little to add depth.

25/12/2024 www.allenfotowild.com

Used generative fill to convert from portrait format to landscape & add a few additional elements.

Here's a link to the original photo:

www.flickr.com/photos/163940733@N02/53049907322/in/datepo...

Created for Photoshop Competition #967

Thanks to brillianthues for starter image

All work done in Photoshop 2024 with snips from MidJourney

In the original photo I cut the top of the girl's head off. So I used generative fill in Photoshop Beta to extend the top of the photo.

Throngs of tourists & modern signage ruining what would otherwise be a nice old world view of Vienna? No problem, this was an easy fix with Photoshop's new generative fill tool. I also played with the color tones to reduce the brightness & added a cloudy sky.

See my comment for the "before" version.

This version of a boat located in the Charleston Shipyard in Oregon was prompted in Generative Fill with a storm. This is my favorite of the three versions created in Photoshop.

Während ich so am Nebelmorgen einsam und andächtig über den Friedhof Cemiterio dos Prazeres schreite, fallen in meiner unmittelbaren Nähe plötzlich Schüsse. Großartig überrascht bin ich nicht, denn ich habe zuvor schon eine ganze Reihe alter Fahrzeuge auf dem Friedhof gesehen und mir schon gedacht, dass da vielleicht ein Film oder Ähnliches gedreht wird. Ein Blick um die Ecke und ich kann die Schießerei, einen davonrasenden Leichenwagen und schließlich die Verhaftung des Ganoven beobachten und, 450 mm Tele (KB-Äquivalent) sei Dank, auch fotografieren.

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This photo of a Rose-ringed parakeet was modified with help of generative fill in Photoshop beta. In the original photo the bird was in the top left corner with its head at the edge and the top of its wing cut off. With generative fill the canvas was extended to the left and it did quite a good job. Even the feathers look good.

I did a blogpost about it (in Dutch) pietersfotos.blogspot.com/2023/07/photoshop-generatieve-f...

Made with Sony A99m2 and Sony SAL 300mm f/2.8G SSM II

Towpath near Cleveland

Technical issues

Went on a photo adventure with my NEPA photo friends: Jim Cook & Lewis DeJoseph. They arrived at my house around 10:30am We drove over to Zoo Knoxville for lots of photographic opportunities with the varied wildlife on display.

Our very last stop at the zoo was getting a group photo in the Safari wagon (they have for kids to play on and take photos). We waited around hoping the kids playing would move on with their parents. So Lewis asked if the three little boys would let us take our two quick photos. So the one Mom told the boys, "We have to share with others". So we got our two photos!

I merged the two shots.. removing the one Mom out of background and using one pose of Me and Lewis and another of Jim. Oh, and I removed the original background and replaced it with a Generative Fill in Photoshop! The prompt I used was, "Safari grasslands with wild animals off in the distance".

We left the Zoo just before 4pm and headed West on I-40 to the newly opened Kpot : Korean BBQ & Hot Pot location (far West Knoxville / Farragut ) There was waiting list of 30-40mins before we were seated. All three of us got the BBQ and Hot Pot option. The food and service was amazing! It was my first ever Korean BBQ and Hot Pot experience. And I'll definitely seek out more Korean BBQ & Hot Pot options in the future!

Zoo Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee

Sunday, March 16th, 2025

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