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As many of my Flickr friends should have readily guessed, this is another image I have brought to life digging in my archives. Yes, Rosolina Mare, Summer 2016. Again. I am amazed at how many shots worthy the effort of postprocessing there are in that archive.
Just like its fellow image (You'll never walk alone), I had thought to process it a great many times, but I was deterred by some blown out highlights in the sky. Not worth the effort, I used to think. 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.
For me the main points of interest in this shot - the very reasons that have encouraged me to embarkupon processing this bracketing - were the rippled patterns of the sand and that enormous tidal pool, with its absolutely still water mirroring such a wild sky. I have a personal fixation (most probably a deviance) with envisaging certain patterns of sandy ripples as cortex convolutions of some mysterious brain of the Earth (e.g. my Thinking heavenly thoughts), so you can better understand whence the funny title of this photo has come...
Explored on 2020/07/06 no. 22
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 was wise enough to take a real exposure bracketing, and this helped a lot to recover details in the blown-out area.
I have obtained this picture by blending an 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.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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An inviting seat awaits you across from the Visitor's Center -Starved Rock State Park. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. Happy Bench Monday!
painted sign on the side of an old carnival trailer
this is also a 3 shot panorama because the trailers were parked so close to each other i wasn't able to get the entire sign in one frame
A beautiful Golden tree Downtown Morris Illinois. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
"Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them."-
Alex Lowe
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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For further information and more detailed posts, you can visit <a href="https://www.coreybourassa.com/cover-page/">Corey Bourassa's Photography</a>.
© 2016 Corey Bourassa, all rights reserved.
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm @ ISO640
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Mid-morning sunlight illuminates the autumn leaves. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Happy Truck Thursday! This 1959 Chevy Apache seems to have some extra height! Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
A great place to sit and soak in the morning Golden Hour. Happy Bench Monday! Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Visited St Augustine's Hospital in Chartham for some Urbex Photography. Had to say had a fab time with another photographer as never shot this style of photography before.
Hope you like :)
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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I have captured this very rare and unique moment yesterday during my late morning commute to work. This is how it looks like in Northwest Pennsylvania right now. Hard to tell whether it's winter or autumn still. :) It's a common sight here in the snow belts with lake effect snow storms and cold fronts... but very rare elsewhere. So... enjoy it!
This is a simple RAW shot 18mm f/13 ISO 100. Nikon D80. I just reprocessed this image a bit by adding slight Orton effect to it to make the image softer. It made my foliage look even more appealing.
Have a wonderful day everyone!
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First HDR experiment combining 3 pictures into 1. Lighting was off the wall cause from the bright sunlight. Shutter speeds were 1/2000, 1/250 and 1/30 to attenuate the extreme darks and highlights.
Final result felt best in B&W with the grainy finish.
HDR combination processed using NikSoftware HDR Efex Pro and Viveza along with Lightroom for final finishes.
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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This seems to be a customary shot for all of us WDW photographers. The ceiling shot of the Temple of Heaven is almost a right of passage in WDW photography world. :) I've always loved this building, both inside and out for it's great detail and superb color. I of course have the straight up shot, but I really liked the way this came out with my UWA lens. What do you all think? Enjoy!