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Kingdom Doll Vanbrugh
sculpt: Carvetii
resin: Cornish Sand
LE 30
03/2018
wig by Ilaria (Time of Doll)
lingerie by ´Zellstudio (Tender Creations doll old body)
Eve Studio cat 6cm
mold: Sphinx
head: Yawning
body colour: Gradients pink-violet
aerography: Lighter
07/2018
sofa, table and pillows by Julia Gartung
Kirkjufell, near Grundafjordur, Iceland.
I took this image shortly after 430 or so on one clearish dawn on Snaefellsness peninsula. The lighting was striking for a transition between red and blue across the horizon. The rocky beach on the coast is beautiful in the still morning air. I tried to capture the gradient (enhanced with a colour gradient layer) and the triangles in the scene from rock to reflection to mountain to cloud. Broke the rule of thirds but hey, I wasn't fussed this time.
EXPLORED! Highest position: 147 on Thursday, July 9, 2009
Still busy, these next two weeks will probably be even worse...
Getting stronger, on Thursday they scheduled me the final job interview (already succesfully passed through two) for a really interesting opportunity.
I will be meeting the General Manager of the company. Sounds good!
The shot
Another sunrise from my April Tuscany trip. Taken some minutes before "Tuscany Sunrise @75mm". Tighter crop, less contrasty.
I'm in love with that place.
The Processing
Photoshop: (SINGLE EXPOSURE)
- Duplicated the background layer, switched to soft light mode and applied a gradient mask (sky only)
- Switched to LAB mode and applied two curves to improve contrast and tones
- Back to RGB, added a vibrance layer to boost up minor tones
- Used color balance tool to improve colors
- Duplicated the background layer, switched to linear add and applied a gradient mask (foreground only)
- Created an Overlay layer to adjust light
- Resized
- Run Noise Ninja to reduce Noise
- Sharpening (Smart Sharpen + more accurate)
- Framing and signature.
Take a look at it, LARGE on Black :
The best is yet to come, on Black
@ You all
Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!
I wish you all a splendid sunday and a marvellous week ahead.
I will be checking your streams out tonight.
Not the image I had in mind, in fact, it was facing the opposite direction, but sometimes you just have to go with the conditions you're given. The plan was to photograph The Beehive, a mountain on the eastern side of Mount Desert Island near Sand Beach, as light caught the peak and reflected in the lagoon below. The image was there to be made, but for whatever reason, I didn't feel it was as strong as it could be. Maybe it was the lack of clouds in the sky or lack of water for the reflection, but I just wasn't feeling it. In any case, the light behind me, and particularly the gradient of color, was too good to pass up. I quickly found a composition, choosing a low angle to add depth and show some of the character of the area, all while the color intensified... and just before another photographer stepped in frame in the gap between the hillside and grasses in the distance.
But who is counting...?
Same data as the last two...but in this case I;
1)re reshot the flats (60)
2)applied NR to the master flat (new trick...pattern seen in the flats....odd,maybe because they are such high exposures ?)
3)applied a very extensive DBE extraction of the sky gradient (40 by 40 samples)
(Set the model to minimal smoothing...)
4) did this for each channel
5)combined the RGB and adjusted the color in Curves(PI)
6)Applied a wee bit of Decon
And voila...I am able to have a stronger nebula,darker sky, and do a bit more sharpening to it.
Using Decon on the linear master RGB images is an even better option....not done yet.
Edit;
That did not work at all....but I did think to apply linear NR to each channel using masked ATWT NR
Still some color gradient issues...blue on the left,green right..
Overall a good exercise all around...
May even retry M101...:)
Maybe an hour after sunset the sky was still light in the west. There was a storm approaching which made part of the sky very dark. I was hoping to catch lightening in the distance when it started getting closer. I took a couple photos and then fled.
I cleaned out some small bottles of shower gel the other day. Came up with this little idea last night. Different amounts of blue food dye in bottles.
Endless wasteland
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California-Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains. Death Valley is the largest national park in the lower 48 states, and the hottest, driest and lowest of all the national parks in the United States. The second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere is in Badwater Basin, which is 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. Approximately 91% of the park is a designated wilderness area. The park is home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to this harsh desert environment. Some examples include creosote bush, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the Death Valley pupfish, a survivor from much wetter times. UNESCO included Death Valley as the principal feature of its Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve in 1984.
A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7000 BC, most recently the Timbisha around 1000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains. A group of European-Americans, trapped in the valley in 1849 while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, gave the valley its name, even though only one of their group died there. Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined was borax, which was transported out of the valley with twenty-mule teams. The valley later became the subject of books, radio programs, television series, and movies. Tourism expanded in the 1920s when resorts were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek. Death Valley National Monument was declared in 1933 and the park was substantially expanded and became a national park in 1994.
The natural environment of the area has been shaped largely by its geology. The valley is actually a graben with the oldest rocks being extensively metamorphosed and at least 1.7 billion years old. Ancient, warm, shallow seas deposited marine sediments until rifting opened the Pacific Ocean. Additional sedimentation occurred until a subduction zone formed off the coast. The subduction uplifted the region out of the sea and created a line of volcanoes. Later the crust started to pull apart, creating the current Basin and Range landform. Valleys filled with sediment and, during the wet times of glacial periods, with lakes, such as Lake Manly.
In 2013, Death Valley National Park was designated as a dark sky park by the International Dark-Sky Association.
There are two major valleys in the park, Death Valley and Panamint Valley. Both of these valleys were formed within the last few million years and both are bounded by north–south-trending mountain ranges. These and adjacent valleys follow the general trend of Basin and Range topography with one modification: there are parallel strike-slip faults that perpendicularly bound the central extent of Death Valley. The result of this shearing action is additional extension in the central part of Death Valley which causes a slight widening and more subsidence there.
Uplift of surrounding mountain ranges and subsidence of the valley floor are both occurring. The uplift on the Black Mountains is so fast that the alluvial fans (fan-shaped deposits at the mouth of canyons) there are small and steep compared to the huge alluvial fans coming off the Panamint Range. Fast uplift of a mountain range in an arid environment often does not allow its canyons enough time to cut a classic V-shape all the way down to the stream bed. Instead, a V-shape ends at a slot canyon halfway down, forming a 'wine glass canyon.' Sediment is deposited on a small and steep alluvial fan.
At 282 feet (86 m) below sea level at its lowest point, Badwater Basin on Death Valley's floor is the second-lowest depression in the Western Hemisphere (behind Laguna del Carbón in Argentina), while Mount Whitney, only 85 miles (137 km) to the west, rises to 14,505 feet (4,421 m). This topographic relief is the greatest elevation gradient in the contiguous United States and is the terminus point of the Great Basin's southwestern drainage. Although the extreme lack of water in the Great Basin makes this distinction of little current practical use, it does mean that in wetter times the lake that once filled Death Valley (Lake Manly) was the last stop for water flowing in the region, meaning the water there was saturated in dissolved materials. Thus the salt pans in Death Valley are among the largest in the world and are rich in minerals, such as borax and various salts and hydrates. The largest salt pan in the park extends 40 miles (64 km) from the Ashford Mill Site to the Salt Creek Hills, covering some 200 square miles (520 km2) of the valley floor. The best known playa in the park is the Racetrack, known for its moving rocks.
Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in North America due to its lack of surface water and low relief. It is so frequently the hottest spot in the United States that many tabulations of the highest daily temperatures in the country omit Death Valley as a matter of course.
On the afternoon of July 10, 1913, the United States Weather Bureau recorded a high temperature of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Greenland Ranch (now Furnace Creek) in Death Valley. This temperature stands as the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth. (A report of a temperature of 58 °C (136.4 °F) recorded in Libya in 1922 was later determined to be inaccurate.) Daily summer temperatures of 120 °F (49 °C) or greater are common, as well as below freezing nightly temperatures in the winter. July is the hottest month, with an average high of 115 °F (46 °C) and an average low of 88 °F (31 °C). December is the coldest month, with an average high of 65 °F (18 °C) and an average low of 39 °F (4 °C). The record low is 15 °F (−9.4 °C).
(Wikipedia)
Der Death-Valley-Nationalpark (Tal des Todes) liegt in der Mojave-Wüste und ist der trockenste Nationalpark in den USA. Er liegt südöstlich der Sierra Nevada, zum größten Teil auf dem Gebiet Kaliforniens und zu einem kleineren Teil in Nevada. Die Region ist ein Hitzepol.
Der tiefste Punkt des Tales liegt 85,95 Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel. Es gibt zwei Haupttäler innerhalb des Parks, das Death Valley und das Panamint Valley. Beide Täler sind wenige Millionen Jahre alt. Das Death Valley ist von mehreren Gebirgen umschlossen, die höchste Gebirgskette bildet die Panamint Range mit dem 3366 m hohen Telescope Peak. 1933 wurde das Death Valley zum National Monument ernannt. 1994 wurde es, stark erweitert, zum Nationalpark aufgewertet. Eine kleine Enklave, Devils Hole weiter östlich in Nevada in der Nähe des Ash Meadows National Wildlife Preserve gelegen, gehört ebenfalls zum Park.
Am 20. Februar 2011 wurde der Nationalpark als Lichtschutzgebiet von der International Dark Sky Association auch als International Dark Sky Park (IDSP, in Gold) anerkannt, und nennt sich seither auch Death Valley International Dark Sky Park. Es ist das weitaus größte solche Schutzgebiet der USA und das zweitgrößte weltweit (nach dem IDSR Wood Buffalo in Kanada).
Das Tal erhielt seinen Namen, nachdem 1849 zwei Gruppen von Reisenden mit insgesamt etwa 100 Wagen eine Abkürzung des Old Spanish Trail suchten und dabei in das Tal gerieten. Nachdem sie wochenlang keinen Ausweg aus dem Tal gefunden hatten und bereits gezwungen waren, mehrere ihrer Ochsen zu verspeisen (wobei sie das Holz ihrer Wagen als Brennholz verwendeten), ließen sie ihre restlichen Wagen zurück und verließen das Tal über den Wingate Pass. Dabei drehte sich eine der Frauen aus der Gruppe um und rief dem Tal ein „Goodbye, Death Valley“ hinterher.
Trotz einer weitverbreiteten Legende soll niemand aus der Gruppe bei der Taldurchquerung umgekommen sein, bis auf einen Greis namens Culverwell, der schon beim Betreten des Tales sterbensmatt gewesen war. Als Teilnehmer der Reisegruppe beschrieb William Lewis Manly in seinem autobiographischen Werk Death Valley in ’49 die Begebenheiten.
Obwohl das Tal des Todes nur wenige hundert Kilometer vom Pazifischen Ozean entfernt liegt, ist es eine der trockensten Gegenden der Erde. Dies liegt daran, dass sich die feuchten Winde auf ihrem Weg vom Pazifik an fünf Bergrücken abregnen, bevor sie über das Gebiet des Parks ziehen können. Das Death Valley ist außerdem eine der heißesten Gegenden Amerikas. Am 10. Juli 1913 wurde bei Greenland Ranch (heute bekannt als Furnace Creek Ranch) vom National Weather Service eine Temperatur von 56,7 °C (134 °F) gemessen. Am 12. Juli 2012 wurde im Death Valley mit 41,7 °C (107 °F) die wärmste nächtliche Tiefsttemperatur gemessen; der gleiche Wert wurde vorher nur einmal erreicht, nämlich am 27. Juni 2012 am Khasab-Flughafen in Oman.
(Wikipedia)
Modéstia parte acho que de todas as unhas que eu fiz na vida essa foi a mais linda!
Usei:
Quase para sempre - Avon
Sweet Dream - Capricho
Estilosa - Lorrac
Branco para carimbo - Blant
Plaquinha M57-1
Extra brilho - Argento (não mancha o carimbo)
Ficou lindo demais!
A foto num tá aquelas coisas porque o dia tá super escuro hoje, mas pessoalmente tá muito lindo! Espero que vcs gostem tanto quanto eu.
Beeijos
Vertical panorama of the sunset at Sandy Point in Maryland, the photo still does not do the sunset justice!
I wonder if anyone else feels that urge to wind up their drop spindle in the prettiest gradient possible while spinning, or if that's just me being weird...
The Last train of the day, headed up by the NNR's 4MT attacks the climb over the coast road on it's way West to Weybourne on a moody January afternoon.
Experimenting with gradients at different angles and layers and blends. This is just gradients dragged and dropped at different angles and long and short drops on top of a marble counter top base picture.
Regalo 6 preset di mia creazione" Vintage Look" per Lightroom, se siete interessati richiedete il link per il download tramite flickr mail ; )
I give 6 free presets created by me, "Vintage Look" for Lightroom, if you're interested, ask the link for download, via flickr mail. ; )
W: 20.317 L:13.1 240PPi
Digital Traditional Photography
1/8| F/4.0| ISO-100| 105mm
I took this photo out on the stream near Sedona in Manresa. I wanted to try and get a photo of Brendan on the river with fog edited in to emphasize the loneliness. I think that this photo came out ok. It was pretty difficult to get realistic looking clouds because it is hard to get the clouds to have that 3D quality. I ended up rendering clouds and using a concentration gradient, then I warped it and used the screen blending mode. I then lowered the opacity and duplicated it and moved it to make the fog look thicker. I then used an eraser to clear up the details of Brendan to make it a clearer image.
This photo fits into my concentration because it uses the surreal editing of the fog to create the feeling of loneliness. Not only is Brendan on his own, but the creeping fog creates the feeling of isolation.
Primeiro vou contar que essas unhas causaram mais do que minha zebra tropical!!! TODO MUNDO fica olhando, a caixa do supermercado, as colegas do serviço, até minha sogra falou delas. Uma mina do trampo quer q eu faça igual nas unhas dela, só que em azul, pra combinar com o vestido da formatura!! Opa será minha chance de ganhar dinheiro com isso?? Ahahaha
Agora como eu fiz:
1. Passei uma camada de Coral Chic da Colorama
2. Com uma esponja de cozinha cortada(parte amarela) apliquei com batidinhas o Laranja CÃtrico da Colorama, da metade pra ponta da unha, deixando a "raiz" com o Coral Chic aparecendo
3. Com outro pedaço de esponja, passei(dando as batidinhas) o Atrevida, da Colorama, mais na ponta da unha, deixando o laranja e o coral à mostra
4. Passei mais uma camada de Coral Chic por cima de tudo.
5. Passei o Raio de Sol da Biguniverso por cima pq eu sou DragQueen e adoro um glitter, ok?
E ficou lindo assim!!
Fica como opção de unhas diferentes pras alérgicas, como usei praticamente só esmaltes Colorama. É só não passar a ultima camada "Priscilla a Rainha do Deserto" de breeeelho q eu passei!
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RD18951. The Schynige Platte Bahn (SPB) is a 4½ mile / 7¼ km long narrow gauge (800mm) rack railway near Interlaken in Canton Bern, Switzerland. It starts at Wilderswil just south of Interlaken and climbs to the station at Schynige Platte which is 6,520ft / 1,987m a.s.l. with gradients up to 1 in 4 (25%).
The line uses ancient electric locomotives which propel the two carriage trains up the gradient and this is Schynige Platte Station on a hot late summer / early autumn afternoon.
Monday, 17th September, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.