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Der Esel
Es stand vor eines Hauses Tor
Ein Esel mit gespitztem Ohr,
Der käute sich sein Bündel Heu
Gedankenvoll und still entzwei.
Nun kommen da und bleiben stehn
Der naseweisen Buben zween,
Die auch sogleich, indem sie lachen,
Verhaßte Redensarten machen,
Womit man denn bezwecken wollte,
Daß sich der Esel ärgern sollte.
Doch dieser hocherfahrne Greis
Beschrieb nur einen halben Kreis,
Verhielt sich stumm und zeigte itzt
Die Seite, wo der Wedel sitzt.
Wilhelm Busch
This is an animation that shows two versions of the same photograph, one of which has been downsized and sharpened by me,and the other by flickr. Mine looks just like a small version of the original, flickr's looks quite different from the original with artifacts and general appearance I don't like and don't want in my image.
View the animation by clicking HERE and if you're on a slow connection, wait until both halves of the image download
There are two versions of the image in the animation. The first is the original 1200 pixel image I uploaded to flickr, but downsized by me to 800pixels and then sharpened SLIGHTLY to remove the SLIGHT edge softness introduced by downsizing. To me it looks exactly like the original, but smaller of course. I wanted it to look soft and lush as it did in real life.
The second part of the animation is the flickr 800 pixel version of the same original 1200 pixel image.
As you can see the flickr version is very different, I call it UGLY, from the properly downsized version. At the very least it is 'different' from the original and does not represent my intent. It is outside my control and I strongly object to flickr's obligatory and gratuitous modification of images. I believe the flickr version would be rejected from any publication or quality website and I don't want viewers to see my images mashed like this. (I don't mean I'd submit such a small image for publication, I mean that if I presented a print-size image that looked like this, it would not be accepted).
Unfortunately flickr continues to drag its tail on this issue (that means, they are doing nothing visible and they say nothing at all ... there is no meaningful communication on the topic resulting from my complaints or anyone else's complaints) and they have done so for years, when the sharpening was first implemented and the complaints started. People who raise the subject in the Help Forum get squashed and intimidated by a few forum permanent residents.
Some images show the effect more than others, but in any case it is not flickr's job to be making aesthetic decisions and trying to 'improve' people's images. If flickr want to provide optional sharpenening for people who think it improves their photos that's fine, but not if it's also forced on people who do their own processing.
In the interests of demonstrating that there is significant concern about this issue, below about a page down I post a collection of comments I found by googling on "fllickr oversharpening". This is the first 100 posts I found (less a few that turned out to be duplicates) but there are many more. If you search the Help Forum on 'sharpening' you'll get a different set of returns, many of which are not in my list.
For the record I have no disagreement with the idea of offering sharpening to people who want it, but others prepare photos in a particular way or of particular subjects that do not suit arbitrary additional sharpening. It should be optional, or not at all.
That there, that's not me / I go where I please
I walk through walls / I float down the Liffey
I'm not here, this isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here
In a little while, I'll be gone / The moment's already passed
Yeah it's gone...
And I'm not here, this isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here.
(Radiohead, How to disappear completely)
One day, suddenly.
In the shadows of Manchester Cathedral, Uk.
How many times has this door knob turned inside this small church?
How many hands? Tiny hands of young children, weathered hands of old farmers, smooth hands of young women, gnarled hands of elderly women who hand washed tons of laundry.
How many?
Strange how
My heart beats
To find myself upon your shore.
Strange how
I still feel
My loss of comfort gone before.
Cool waves wash over
And drift away with dreams of youth
So time is stolen
I cannot hold you long enough.
And so
This is where I should be now
Days and nights falling by
Days and nights falling by me.
I know
Of a dream I should be holding
Days and nights falling by
Days and nights falling by me.
Soft blue horizons
Reach far into my childhood days
As you are rising
To bring me my forgotten ways.
Strange how I falter
To find I'm standing in deep water
Strange how my heart beats
To find I'm standing on your shore
Enya
Catch a piece of bread:
Some babies couldn't believe it and some just watched at the lilies.
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Canon 7D & EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM ▪ 1/400s à f/9 ▪ Iso 200 ▪ 105mm ▪ Handheld | aperture priority |Raw|
I can understand that it is possible to make a lovely park of swamps and steep stony hills, but how do you remove the wind and clouds? We visited Lake District some rainy and foggy october days, still Tarn Hows was like a mirror and the sun was bright and warm - magic?
when I create photos i treat them like paintings, where I always draw a sketch first and then compose the photograph depending on the sketch idea. Of course sometimes the idea changes slightly from sketch to final photograph, but most of the time it stays pretty close to the original idea.
How a flower looks
Depends very much on where it appears.
Will you go near a flower
Blooming on a cow dung’s heap?
Will you tame a jungle
To get near a wild bloom?
Read the rest in -
a1000reasons.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-do-you-love-your-fl...
Nikon D200, 50mm, f/2,8, 1/50s, ISO 640, 04:14 hrs, flash fired.
EXPLORED 10/03/08 #5
Found this friendly froggy on a friend's country house in Morretes/Paraná/Brazil. This big-eyed voyeur was starying at me, hanging on a leaf, just above my head, while I was (don't laugh at me) taking a piss on a bush (it was 4 a.m, I was a bit drunk and the bathroom was too far away LOL).
I hate to shoot with the built-in flash, but I didn't had other option, so I cranked the ISO a bit and reduced the flash to the minimum power. I took at least 10 pictures with diferent perspectives, but only saved 4 of them. The 50mm I used has only manual focus, so the lack of available lights cumulated with the high ingestion of alcohol created an insurmountable barrier to achieve a perfect shot.
Post-processing info: a 5X5 square crop to get more details of the subject and improve the composition, Noise Ninja and Kodak Digital Airbush Professional on the background to reduce the grains, a bit of unsharp mask on the froggy, some color balance changing to make it more natural due to the flash fired. That's it!
Tarn Hows is an area of the Lake District National Park, containing a picturesque tarn, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Coniston and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Hawkshead. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the area with over half a million visitors per year in the 1970s and is managed by the National Trust.
The Tarn Hows area originally contained three much smaller tarns, Low Tarn, Middle Tarn and High Tarn.
Tarn Hows was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1965.
The National Trust have made a number of more recent changes to the area including moving the car parks to a less obtrusive place in the 1960s and general footpath and road improvements to minimize the damage caused by the visitors. In May 2008 a building designed to harmonise with the landscape was opened, providing toilets and an information display under a sedum green roof.
Taken from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn_Hows
....fun to see how things have been changing around the Penthouse...
...Mrs Deer is now standing in front of an Ivy plant and has more company around,
...the beloved vintage plant holder has been keeping the Christmas tree,
...the half cup tile from " Das rote Packet " is fixed on the wall next to the "LoVe Mirrors""
...the tray has a heart drawn on it...
1. Simplicity..., 2. Ikea lamps, 3. flickr.com/photos/40213624@N02/3889332935/, 4. Above the kitchen cupboards, 5. Finally...a clock in our house!, 6. flickr.com/photos/40213624@N02/3820715621/, 7. ...still is waiting for a plant though...., 8. My half cup tile is here!, 9. Oh yeah?
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“Child Library Readers, Book One” by William Elson and Lura Runkel. Copyright 1924 by Scott, Foresman and Company. Most illustrations are by L. Kate Deal and Florence L. Notter.
Sweet Tobago birthday girl making the transition from two to three.
EF50mm f/1.4 USM
0.017 sec (1/60) @ f/2.8, ISO 800
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A cropped and reprocessed version of my previous image.
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I counted twenty-one, Isolino thought there were at least twenty. How
many do you see? I was amazed at this large Canada Goose family. I
think they adopted some, because I can't imagine them having twenty
eggs! There was another couple trailing this one, and I think they
knew some of their babies must have gotten into this larger group.
May you have as huge a heart for the children around you. May you
give out such love and care, that they will feel like they are just
part of the family. God bless you all.
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Better sky today than at Langdale yesterday, Tarn Hows ,the National Trust tarn that was owned by Beatrix Potter and given to the Trust. At one time it was three smaller tarns . Good access to and from and around the tarn make it very popular. It was packed with people today until about seven pm.
How refreshing
an empty space
can be.
Unclutter, baby.
Make space for fresh air.
At the historic area of
Al Balad, my favourite spot in Jeddah.
Streets coloured and scented with herbs,
All kinds of dates, fruits and nuts.
People from India to Nigeria,
Saudi to Jordan,
Coexisting in this beehive of cultures.
Always wanted to photograph the people of this area but felt somehow restricted to do in the open.
Yesterday, another dream came true. We joined a local photography group & knocked ourselves out!
Life,
loving you
even more
day by day.
Thank you @nahdiomar for inviting us.
#Jeddah #AlBalad #volleyball
@natgeotravel @natgeoadventure
#cityzenoftheday
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Although it assumes you already have a few bits to play with ;)
1. Is an Opteka 0.45x wide angle converter for a Fuji S5500 (and probably many other big zoom compacts). The wide front element unscrews to leave you with a single positive element which can be used as a macro adaptor (for which it's crap, but that's by the by). The threaded retaining ring on this can be undone to give you a naked glass element about 40mm across.
2 and 3. Meyer-Optik Gorlitz lenses have a conical adaptor to M42 thread that can be unscrewed (and replaced with a similar attachment to use them with other mounts like Exakta or Praktica B bayonets).
4. The single glass element sits loosely inside the female M42 front end of the BPM bellows unit.
5. The Meyer cone screws into the M42 BPM piece, and holds the glass element in lace while acting as a lenshood.
6. It all gets attached to the front of the bellows.
7. The bellows attached to the 30D (via another adaptor, this time M42-Canon EF). Bellows is racked out to about 3 or 4", which is somewhere near the focal length of the glass element.
Now all you do is go out and point it at things, focus with the bellows rack, and enjoy minimalist, lo-fi, ultra-soft and distorted photography!
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