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Photo taken for Flickr Friday's Redo/Repeat theme.
Found our way to the old boathouse at the Entrance today. And yep, there were plenty of old boats there! Going to go back after school holidays have finished and hire one for some relaxing floating about the lake. Will be very different to my kayak!
3 bracketed exposures combined in Photomatix. Haven't done a HDR pic for a while, was quite addicted to them years ago.
Happy Wednesday out there :)
Hii ALL =D
Lyoum yablkom 9ora '3aiR 3an kel el 9waaR ele fe my Photo stream ..
Huum hatha el edit esma HDR edit ele ho
High Dynamic Range .. ele Tkon feeh el pic 32-bit .. By Grouping 3 pics and edit them BY Photomatix .
oo BTw :P el moon rakbta .. :P
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Taken By : me in Jumairya beach from el balakona :P
Date : in 1-1-2008 = Pp
HoPe u aLL LiKe it = D
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Last year I bought a Nikon D300 with only 8400k shutter releases, I wanted a pro body for my Laowa macro lens. Because my Nikon D5300 doesn't recognize my fully manual lens, I'm not saying I can't use it but issue I have with it is that 1 I can't use my external flash and 2 it doesn't recognize my lens there fore I need to use the histogram and the Lcd screen to get a feedback of how the picture is exposed... but after a while I got used to it. But in a pro body ( like the D300 ) I don't have these issues because it recognises the manual aperture ( the lens mount is for nikon f mount ) and can get a somewhat good exposure feedback. As for the sensor... the d5300 sensor is better than the d300 but.... to be honest I don't really care, If I want more dynamic range I'd put the camera on a tripod and do HDR pics. Although the main reason I like the D300 more than the d5300 is because it has 12 mpx ( ironically ) because I want to perfectionate my stacking photography technique and 24mpx vs 12mpx.... It kills my pc with 50 picture stack my pc freezes and I got 16GB of ddr4 ram, It show me that it needs 20+ ram for 50 pics ( 12 mpx )... so that is why I use a 12 mpx sensor. Now.... I bought two lenses the sigma 70-200 f2.8 and the sigma 24-70 f2.8 ( the D300 and these two lenses was my childhood dream setup ).
The issues :
pfff the 70-200 f2.8 works good my D300, mostly getting the focus ok..... but sometimes it doesn't.... But I am used to focus manually ( I got used to it while doing macro pics.. again, my macro lens is fully manually )
The autofocus DOEN'T WORK ON THE D5300.... I mean I don't understand the logic why...
The 24-70 f2.8 on the d300... well it has autofocus, but I don't really know if I have a issue with lens of it is in conflict with the D300 but... it hunts allot and doesn't get the focus right ( if it even gets the focus right ) and for that reason I use it on manual focus ( the barrel distortion is terrible at 24mm (34 in aps-c)
The autofocus DOEN'T WORK ON THE D5300.... Again I don't understand the logic why...
So mostly I manually focus my shots, and in these scene I just did that. And I missed, The scene was beautiful but I missed the focus... oh well. But in every bad thing there is a good. and I imagine this pic as more a painterly-photo rather than.... well it is what it is the scene was beautiful. I must do it again someday. Thanks for the visit and have a nice day 😊
I have returned to the fields of gold,.....in my Pakistan!
This is a HDR, pic taken while fishing this morning at Rawal Lake, Islamabad.
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Since my shoulder's injured and I can't lug around my 500mm for birds, I went out yesterday and with my tripod and my 300mm for a short walk and shot a few HDR pics. Arthritis is eating me up. Damned cold. Anyway, I don't know when I'll take my birding lens back out, so the stream, when and if I get a chance to get out and shoot, will be mixed up some.
Thanks for Viewing.
this is a six shot hdr - its actually 2 separate 3 shot hdr pics that I photo-edited together to make a new scene. the tree and sky are from one picture and the field is from another. The field is from little wenlock and the tree and sky are from charlton hill. lots of post process stuff to try and create a hazy misty day - did it work?
would just like to add thank you for your interest in this picture
I spent a few hours at Minnehaha Falls trying to get the last of the fall colors. If you look on black, you can see the suns rays shining through the water. I took 3 bracketed shots of this hoping for a nice HDR pic but it was so windy it just turned into a blurred mess after combining the pics so I just used a single raw and tomemapped in Photomatix. Pretty soon this will just be a solid block of ice.
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EXPLORED - Highest position: #2 on Sunday, January 29th, 2012
The story of this photo:
I have been exploring macro photography lately. You probably know me for my HDR work, and don't worry, I will keep on creating HDRs. But I was always fascinated with macro photos. However, I was fully aware that creating stunning macros is very difficult. So I studied macro photography (without practicing it) until I had a pretty good idea of how to approach it.
A few weeks ago, I bought myself a Nikon Micro 105mm lens (also a nice portrait lens), some flash equipment and a few other thing, and I started exploring the world of the small actively. This is the very first macro shot I publish. It was set up using a blue cardboard as a background, three flashes, and a Gerbera flower (of course) on my table top.
Find more details about the setup at farbspiel-photo.com/view/images/four-in-a-row.
How it was shot:
> Taken with a tripod
> Single exposure
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm 1:2,8G VR
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz DeNoise
> Topaz Details for bringing out the details in the petals and some basic color correction
> Topaz Infocus for sharpening
> Saturation adjustent layer (master)
> Vibrance layer (vibrance)
> All the adjustments above grouped and opacity of the group set to 60% (original exposure on background layer)
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An image from summer north rafting tour. It was a quiet night, ideal for fishing and meditation. My friend stood still for some minutes and let me take an HDR pic with long exposure.
Hope to have a little spare time for treating my new photos soon:-)
Thank you for all your comments and favs, my friends.
I'VE BEEN TAGGED !!!
.. tagged by Flickr™ <<
i noticed how u like MIA ..
so this pic is for you .
Flickr™'s link:
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Museum of Islamic Arts ...
Doha, Qatar ...
HDR .. Pic taken yesterday by Canon 50D
and Super Wide Angle
So .. 14 facts about me :
1. i'm 19 ( D.O.B : 16.12.89 )
2. Currently studying at the A.B.P
3. I <3 Al - Khisa (S.B.J)
4. .. i'm kind & polite
5. Canon guy .. hate Nikon (sorry Nikon ppl ..
like u guys but not ur cams ..)
6. love hanging around "our" majlis
7. OASIS .. Gallegher brothers .. Guitar Hero (Drummer)
8. Cocaholic .. Nokia person ..
9. Macbook .. Mac .. Mac .. <3
10. Sleep early .. wake up early ..
11. 3baadi iljohaar, 3bdelmajeed , nawal <3 them all ...
12. I'm not very photogenic .. & very rare pics of me
tend to be nice .. xP
13. I miss all my friends studying abroad ..
allah yofgkom oo yrj3kom bilsalama ..
N.B.M, Nawaf, Jassim, Yazeed, Bo sh-haab ..
14. quote : " <3 kbeeeeeeeer " ----> SharkoOo
I would like to tag :
Brightside ..
ولـد قطــر
Mr.Hamad
The Shamefaced
so guys .. you should right 14 facts about urself o tagg 6 people o
illy maybbee its OK =P
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Wednesday was the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
That was the day when the sun was rising from the southeast point possible. That can make some interesting compositions in some locations.
I was lucky that it combined to an interesting sky that morning on my way to work.
This is a panorama made of 2 HDR pics done with my Sony A7 and 24mm f/2.8 Canon FD @f/8 + a couple of filters.
Hope you enjoy it
Two HDR pics photomerged in PS CS6
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A Tribute to all amateur photographers struggling to overcome their best photo each day. Taken in the highest mountain in Barcelona "El Turo de L'Home" 1,712 m.
It's not an HDR pic. Maybe the incredible prime lens Nikon 18mm
Thank you very much for your visits, comments and faves.
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The story of this photo:
I am revisiting the shots I took in Thailand earlier this year. Unfortunately, many of the exterior shots suffer from a very misty and dull sky. So I processed this interior shot of Wat Phratat Doi Suthep. What bothers me about his shot though, is that it is not perfectly symmetrical. I did not pay enough attention when shooting - an illness from which I suffer quite often. But it is getting better slowly. LOL
This scene had a very high contrast, and I only had a monopod with me. So no chance to do more than 3 exposures. Also, I had to step up the ISO quite heavily. Thus, there was quite some noise in the final tonemapped image. I decided to turn this bug into a feature and cleaned up the noise quite aggressively with different tools. Afterwards I merged the outcome with a charcoal-like version of the image to get more of a painting-like look.
I hope it works for you!
Take a look at my "HDR Cookbook"! It contains some more information on my techniques.
How it was shot:
> Taken with a monopod
> Three exposures (0, -2, +2 ev) autobracketed and merged to get and HDR
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here
How it was tonemapped:
> Preparation: developed the raw files with ACR mainly in order to reduce the CA [details]
> Photomatix version 3.1 (Detail Enhancer)
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise [details]
> Topaz Clean to clean regions of excessive noise
> Topaz Simplify on a copy of the original image layer to create a charcoal drawing look
> Blended the charcoal drawing layer with the original image to enhance that painting-like look
> Selective masking of the charcoal layer where it did not produce a good look
> Saturaton layer on the golden elements (yellows)
> Levels layer on the ivory (increased brightness)
> Global saturation and levels layer to tune the colors, contrast and brightness
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
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The story of this photo:
The Torra di a Parata is a Genoese tower in Corsica, located in the commune of Ajaccio. This tower was built in 1550 and is only one of many such towers all around the cost line of Corsica.
Take a look at my "HDR Cookbook"! It contains some more information on my techniques.
How it was shot:
> Taken handheld [details]
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3,5-5,6G ED VR
> Details can be found here
How it was tonemapped:
> HDR creation and tonemapping using Photomatix version 3.1 (Detail Enhancer)
> Saved as 16bit TIF
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise (on two separate blended layer copies - more aggressively in in the sky) [details]
> Levels layer on the sky (brightening)
> Gobal Levels layer (increased contrast and brightening the mid tones)
> Global Saturation layer (increased master)
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
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EXPLORED - Highest position: #3 on Sunday, July 15th, 2012
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The story of this photo:
This is my latest macro shot. Over the last few weeks, I have been spending my time doing a lot of stuff that did not have too much to do with taking or editing photos. It did have to do with photography, but just not with the creative part of it. Anyway, yesterday, I got fed up with this stuff and I started messing around with my macro gear. The sun just went down and I found this tiny foilage with those delicate little hairs. I figured that this would look great against the sun. So, I got out my little syringe, applied a few droplets and took a whole bunch of shots with the sun in different spots relative to the foilage.
Initailly, I went with an aperture of f/20 to f/25 to get all of the leaves in focus. But that brought parts of the background too much into focus too. So, I went with f/8 which blurred the background entirely, and I took different shots with different foci. Then I used focus stacking in Photoshop to blend those images together. Et Voilà, subject in focus, background blurred.
And here is the lesson for you: Always know what you can do to an image in post-processing while you are shooting. This may help you solve problems and lets you create images that may be very difficult to create otherwise.
How it was shot:
> Taken with a tripod
> Three exposures - used focus stacking to bring the whole subject into focus
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm 1:2,8G VR
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz DeNoise
> Topaz Infocus for sharpening
> Topaz Details for bringing out the details in the petals and some basic color correction
> Saturation adjustent layer (master)
> Vibrance layer (vibrance)
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Watch the Before-and-After Comparison to see where this photo comes from!
Success story:
> This shot is the 2nd most interesting photo uploaded on February 12th 2011 - has not been explored though
> It is among the top 10 HDR uploads of all times (last check: May 2011)
> It is an Editor's Pick at "HDR Spotting".
The story of this photo:
This HDR vertorama was taken in the Basilica St. Martin in Weingarten, Germany. This wonderful church was built between 1715 and 1724. The white interior creates a fantastic light, and when the sun is shining, this place lights up. This is a classical example of a scene that requires HDR. In a normal shot, you could never capture how the sun shines on those pillars without the rest of the shot being hopelessly underexposed.
While processing this shot, I discovered that my usual HDR Vertorama technique lead to a strange problem: Usually, I stitch the 32bit HDRs in Photoshop before the tone-mapping. However, I found that Photoshop drastically loses details in the highlights during this process. I tried it with this shot and the spots where the sun shines on the pillars became big ugly white blobs without any chance of recovering details. The information in these spots was just lost. Strange! I did not find any explanation or a way to cure this yet. Photoshop just mysteriously loses this data. If you have an explanation, let me know. To avoid this effect, I have tone-mapped the individual images first and then stitched them in Photoshop.
Take a look at my "HDR Cookbook"! It contains some more information on my techniques.
How it was shot:
> Taken handheld (Read more about the technique!)
> 5x3 autobracketed shots (three exposures each with 0, -2, +2 ev)
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here
How it was stitched and tonemapped:
> Created 5 tone-mapped images directly from the RAW files using Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)
> Saved the images as 16bit TIFs
> Stitched the 5 TIFs using Photoshop
> Take a look here for a more detailed description.
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise (more aggressively on the white walls) [details]
> Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
> Saturation layer on the white regions (desaturation)
> Saturation layer on the windows (master and blues)
> Levels layer on the upper middle part of the ceiling (masked with an oval selection to brighten this area)
> Saturation layer on the paintings (master and reds)
> Vibrance layer on the paintings (for a more even saturation)
> Color balance layer on the paintings (for cooling the colors a bit)
> Curves layer on the floor (enhancing the reflective look)
> Curves layer on some parts of the ceiling (more contrast)
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Watermarking
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Explored! Highest position #426 on October 10th, 2010
The story of this photo:
Today, I am posting a photo that is a bit more abstract than normal... well, a lot more abstract. I shot this in a staircase in the Bardo museum in Tunis, Tunisia. I think the interplay between light and shadow is really nice, and I tried to enhance it even more in post-processing. I tried to avoid noise as much as possible, so this is an exposure fusion, not an HDR. Also, these are not the natural tones in this place. The original color was white. I added the golden tones in post-processing for no particular reason other than I think it looks nice. So don't travel to Tunis and search for it, you may not find it. ;-)
Enjoy!
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How it was shot:
> Taken handheld, three exposures (0, -2, +2ev) [details]
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here
How it was tonemapped:
> This is not an HDR but an exposure fusion using Photomatix version 3.1.
> Saved as 16bit TIF
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to enhance the lighting (very subtle) [details]
> Topaz Denoise [details]
> Black and White adjustment layer with an orange tone as tint
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
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The story of this photo:
This was shot as we slowly floated into the harbor of Palermo, Italy on the AIDAbella cruise ship. When I was shooting this, I was bracketing the shot as usual. But I did not think that I would get these shots aligned properly as there was a parallax effect since I was moving. I was quite surprised that Photomatix somehow managed to cope with this. This is another proof for my most important rule: Always bracket, no matter what! :-)
Enjoy!
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How it was shot:
> Taken handheld [details]
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3,5-5,6G ED VR
> Details can be found here
How it was tonemapped:
> HDR creation and tonemapping using Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)
> Saved as 16bit TIF
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise on the water, the sky and the rest of the photo with different strength [details]
> Saturation layer on the sky (master)
> Saturation layer on the clouds (slight desaturation)
> Levels layer on the clouds (increase of contrast)
> Saturation layer on the water (master)
> Curves layer on the water (more contrast to enhance the reflective look)
> Levels layer on the docks etc. (slight increase of contrast)
> Saturation layer on the docks etc. (master)
> Saturation layer on the foreground dock and some ships (slight desaturation)
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter (different strengths on the water and on the rest of the photo) [details]
> Watermarking
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Watch the Before-and-After Comparison to see where this photo comes from!
Success story:
> This photo is an Editor's Pick at "HDR Spotting"
The story of this photo:
This was shot in the beautiful Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg). The paintings you see on the walls belong to the ancestral portrait gallery depicting all the emperors of Württemberg.
The reason why there are no people on this photo is that they were all standing behind me waiting. So, this was a really quick shot. :-)
Enjoy!
Take a look at my "HDR Cookbook"! It contains some more information on my techniques.
How it was shot:
> Handheld [details]
> Three exposures (0, -2, +2 EV) autobracketed
> Camera: Nikon D7000
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here
How it was tonemapped:
> Preparation: developed the raw files with ACR mainly in order to reduce the CA [details]
> Created one additional exposures in ACR (-4EV) to preserve highlights [details]
> Applied noise reduction (Topaz Denoise) to each of the source images [details]
> Resulting TIF images were then used as input to Photomatix
> Tone-mapping: Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz InFocus for sharpening
> Curves Layer on the floor (more contrast)
> Saturation layer on the floor (reds, yellows)
> Vibrance layer on the ceiling
> Saturation layer on the ceiling
> Saturation layer (desaturating some areas on the walls)
> Curves layer on the marble walls (more contrast)
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Watermarking
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This is a 6-exposure HDR image of the Metéora World Heritage site in Greece.
Visit the photo page at farbspiel-photo.com to get all the information about the post-processing, a before-and-after comparison, and my HDR Cookbook that teaches you how to do this yourself.
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