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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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... And here it is another shot from my archives (Summer 2016). I had thought to process it so many times, but I was deterred by some blown out highlights in the sky. Not worth the effort. However I have made up my mind at last and, after recovering what was recoverable, I have decided to accept some blown out highlights instead of give up forever.
What I like in this scene is how the two twin, arching series of low waves create a kind of (frozen) dance. They are trying to touch each other and dance together, but a minimal rise of the sand in between prevents them from embracing. Not for long however, since the tide was quietly rising and the sea was taking its little secrets back again in its womb. We can be sure that soon they have been able to reunite.
It was my second sunrise session at Rosolina mare - not really as good as the first one, to be sure (here it is an example): the sky was overcast, the light was hard, and a high-altitude sheet of clouds gave uniform highlights where the sun was. I was a bit tired - more on the morale side than physically, since I had walked some 23 km only to take a mere handful of second-rate photos. As I was returning to the "civilised" part of the beach, at last the sky started turning into something really interesting. Lots of clouds of different shapes and sizes, and piercing sunbeams at leisure. I took some photos, but my discouraged outlook resulted in self-defeating choices - no tripod, no exposure bracketings, no real concentration on framing and exposure. While processing this shot with Darktable I created a "virtual" exposure bracketing from a single RAW, and this helped a lot to get a decent result (including some details gained in the blown-out areas).
I have obtained this picture by blending a "virtual" exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files processed with Darktable. Denoising with Dfine. Smart resize (stretched to 16:9 format) with Chasys Draw IES Artist.
I used the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a final contribution to the processing of the lighter parts. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwith standing, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities.
Happy Monochrome Monday - Looking at the Gaylord buiilding along the I & M Canal - Downtown Lockport Il. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Effex Pro 2. Monochrome conversion with Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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From an abandoned hospital shoot, with NIk software and photoshop raw editing to make...hopefully..a dull picture more interesting?! One of my partners was caught escaping in the shot,
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 50mm, Macro-Adapter-M
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Very Unusual September weather produced this scene. A mix of green trees with leaves on the deck of this bridge. The month started cool allowing the trees to begin the process of changing then it became hot with 7 straight days in the 90s that stopped the processed and the changed leaves fell and turned brown. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
A Beautiful early Autumn morning along the I & M Canal. Morris Illinois. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Kilchurn Castle served as the home base for a secondary branch of the Campbell Clan. It fell into disrepair after suffering serious damage during a storm.
A scary looking sky, at sunset produced no rain for my area but it did downpour east of me. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. Conversion to monochrome with Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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One of my favorite local places to photograph. Used a long exposure image with Lightroom and Nik software edits here. Best wishes for the New Year to all of my flickr friends. Gail
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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A Coot paddling along at Roath Park Cardiff, monochrome processing with Aperture and Nik Siver effe Choose monochrome as the bird is mainly black and white also
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Autumn color in Morris Il. Some are totally changed others just starting the process. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2