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Those 3 young girls look much nicer in an image with regular processing. The neon effect rarely if ever works for photos of peoples faces.
The same road a year ago
Canon 28-135 IS 85 mm 1/30 f11 ISO 200
Full size image - contrast partially enhanced, color shifted a bit to warm and sharpening in Picasa
neon-effect
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- Military architecture: castles and tower houses
Surviving examples of medieval secular architecture mainly served for defense.
Castles and fortified walls provide the most notable remaining non-religious examples of medieval architecture.
Windows gained a cross-shape for more than decorative purposes: they provided a perfect fit for a crossbowman to safely shoot at invaders from inside.
Crenellated walls (battlements) provided shelters for archers on the roofs to hide behind when not shooting invaders.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_architecture
The Middle Ages (adjectival form: medieval or mediæval) is a historical period following the Iron Age, fully underway by the 5th century and lasting to the 15th century, and preceding the early Modern Era. In Europe, the period saw the large-scale European Migration and fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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Ghent ( Dutch: Gent)(French: Gand) is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe. Today it is a busy city with a port and a university.
This photo contains a small gallery comparing the original from Camera JPG with a post processed version each
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Digital with Canon 28-135 IS lens
Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Here's how I produced this image (using mostly PicMonkey):
1)With the raw from camera, I made 2 hdr images, one high contrast, and one much darker than I would have for presentation, and saved each.
2)Using the high contrast image, I made a 'sketch' line reduction using a cartooning program in computer.
3)I loaded the sketch, applied high contrast, and cloned out the background.
4)Again, in computer I inverted that image to negative.
5)I then reloaded the darkened hdr image, applied the negative sketch as a texture, made adjustments with the fade, and then again with exposure and contrast. With minimum cloning, I was able to eliminate any residual background (plus some dodge and burn for overall balance),and gave it a slightly tinted frost.
6)I gave the final image a frame, darkened corners (sized for frame only), typo-graphics (My guitar's name), and softened the image selectively. How I did the graphics is another story, but all done in Picmonkey.
I would have used PicMonkey exclusively if there were sketch effects and invert available to me. Maybe in the future?
- Sculpture in Castrolanda, a Dutch colony - in the municipality of Castro, state of ParanĂ¡, Brazil -Brasil.
- The street lamp is not part of the sculpture...
Castrolanda:
Castrolanda is a colony that was founded by Netherlands immigrants between 1951 and 1954. Its economy is based on agricultural production and dairy farming which is one of the most important in this region that is considered the largest dairy in Brazil due to their genetic quality. It has a considerable production of grain, mostly soy and beans. Also having one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in Brazil, which bears the name of the colony.
I got invited to take a few photos myself when I met a photographer his assistant and his model in a park in Eisenstadt.
About the photo: Misty morning on the Ochsenkopf slopes.
On a slightly misty September morning I was walking up a meadow at the Ochsenkopf when I took this photo. This meadow is part of a ski slope in winter. With a height of slightly more than 1000 meter the Ochsenkopf is one of the highest mountains of the Fichtelgebirge in the north of Bavaria.
Back then I had a 3 MP Panasonic wich is pretty noisy even at the just the ISO 150 used here.
About the image post processing:
I used the gimp levels tool to move the histogram to more shadows. This avoids the purple tint that Picasa I feel lucky tool introduced in my previous version of this photo.
The smart sharpening gimp fu-script detects the edges in the photo and only applies sharpening there. I think there are a lot of edges in this photo.
B&W version: www.flickr.com/photos/andreas_helke/3082337299/
The performance of the Canon 28-135 IS lens is excellent at the 28mm used here but not really good at the longer focal lengths and best avoided at 35 mm for apertures wider than f11.
I needed an embeddable version of this image outside of the control of my lighroom library. My usual solution for this is to do a minor edit in picnik and save the result as a new file that hopefully never gets modified again.
Auf der Autobahn unterwegs zu Siegfried Wagners Oper Der Kobold in FĂ¼rth.
On the highway driving to an opera house in FĂ¼rth.
Score Me! score 33 (6.6) (18 photos)
Thought I would give neon effect a go. Tried it on the numbers on the front door. Worked well as the door numbers where over a hundred years old.
Look out for the original picture coming soon.
I'm dreaming
the world is dreaming
I heard the sound of millions breathing
cast into the night
we wait for the dark to turn to light
the eyes of a child look through me
they beg me to tell the story
of all that we can be
when we dare to live out our dreams
~Le RĂªve
I have a photo of the same road from another direction.
Canon 28-135 IS 135 mm 1/15 f8 ISO 400
I intended to take this photo with ISO 100 but forgot to check my camera
Ortsteil Klein Schneen [Aus wikipedia]
Klein Schneen, im Jahre 1036 zum ersten Mal urkundlich erwähnt. Die Ausläufer des 283 Meter hohen Drammberges im Nordwesten und die des 276 Meter hohen Eichen- bzw. Lohberges im SĂ¼dwesten bilden die natĂ¼rlichen Grenzen der Siedlungsfläche Klein Schneens. Wie GroĂŸ Schneen gehört auch Klein Schneen zu den ältesten Siedlungen des Göttinger Raumes, wie neolithische Siedlungsfunde am SĂ¼drand des Dorfes belegen. SĂ¼d-östlich des Dorfes befinden sich mehrere Kiesteiche. Während einige dieser Teiche bereits "ausgebeutet" sind und somit von Vereinen genutzt werden können, wird der GrĂ¶ĂŸte Kiesteich noch als Bedarfsgrube betrieben. Das Ortsbild wird geprägt durch ein kleinteiliges und verwinkeltes StraĂŸen- und Wegenetz sowie durch das stattliche Rittergut mit seinen Gutsmauern und den groĂŸen Stallgebäuden, die teilweise interessante runde Dächer aufweisen. Die nahegelegene Kirche liegt idyllisch inmitten kleiner von Fachwerkgebäuden gesäumter Gassen.
This old caste sits on a hill above the city of Coburg. Martin Luther lived here for a while after he left his original refuge in the Wartburg in Eisenach. I talk about the B&W conversion and toning in the image comments.
Those 3 young girls look much nicer in an image with regular processing. The neon effect rarely if ever works for photos of peoples faces.
Ik heb hier de originele (gelaagde) versie met Picnik voorzien van een neoneffect.
I created a neon effect in Picnik on the original (layered) version.
I am standing in a Queue to buy a ticket for the spectacular Pergamon Panorama special exhibition. This is shown in Berlin up to September 2012. If you get the chance do do it visit it. You have an quite accurate impression of standing on a tower and looking down on an antique Greek city and its people.
Canon 28-135 IS 135mm 1/500 f11 ISO 400 overexposed 1 full step and corrected -2/3 in the raw processing
After my excursion into mobile phone photography with lightning quick uploads and no curating or post processing I am now back to normal and looking for photos to upload in my lightroom library.
This looks actually better in color. But this is a BW spot in my photostream. So the color version will have to wait a bit in a upload buffer collection of my library.
Experimenting in Picasa
For this sepia toning I used warmify in Picasa and then reduced color saturation. I don't really like the tint I got. The only way to get a decent sepia tone in Picasa seems to be to use the sepia action and then undo as much of the damage as possible from the contrast reduction that is part of the Picasa sepia action.
I could not find a pleasing sepia tone in Picnik. So I ended up with desaturating the image completely and then apply the Picnik Neon effect treatment,
Spring in germany: View from Castle Zwernitz in may 2005
Experimenting in Picasa
For this sepia toning I used warmify in Picasa and then reduced color saturation. I don't really like the tint I got. The only way to get a decent sepia tone in Picasa seems to be to use the sepia action and then undo as much of the damage as possible from the contrast reduction that is part of the Picasa sepia action.
I decided to attempt to redo the sepisa toning in Picnik. I could not find a pleasing sepia tone in Picnik. So I ended up with desaturating the image completely and then apply the Picnik Neon effect treatment, I tried a 16:9 crop first but found that 2x3 works better for this image.
I started experimenting with the Picnik neon effect on this image and then spend 4 hours finding and treating 13 more of my images.