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Here’s a shot that I captured on a magical misty morning in a pine plantation in Magoebaskloof.
Nikon D800, Nikkor 14-24 at 14mm, aperture of f/13, with a 1/4th second exposure.
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I love many kinds of antiques, including old books, and I use them often in still life photography. Most of these are well over a hundred years old with the big one on the right almost two hundred years old. There are three that range from 1911 to 1943. I processed this photo with Nik Software and used an oil paint filter in Photoshop to give it an aged look.
I am investing a great part of my domestic quarantine in rummaging through my archives to unearth some forgotten, hopefully worthwhile shot to process. When this bracketing resurfaced from a stray nook of my hard disk, it struck some chords deep in my soul (most assuredly my brain was somehow performing an on-the-fly processing of those rather flattish, unassuming untouched RAW files). For a fleeting, precious moment I felt strongly the heartwarming sensation to be free to hug and cuddle again my wife, Laura, albeit at some indefinite time when Covid-19 will allow us to relish such an invaluable moment. Please do not ask me why on Earth this specific scene stirred this specific emotion inside me, so I will not be forced to admit that I have not the faintest idea. Rather, allow yourself the freedom to feel whatever emotion this scene will stir in your soul. I have got my own gift. I hope that this picture will gift you with the emotion you need most.
This picture comes from a sunrise session at the beautiful meanders of the river Adda, just a handful kilometers downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, dating from April 2016. That morning I arrived at the location a lot earlier than the earliest hints of dawn, so I took shooting the river by night - admittedly a whole bunch of utterly worthless bracketings, at least until proven otherwise (never say never). And I did a thing I do only in exceedingly rare occasions: I raised my sensor gain to a maddening 640 ISO. Of course, being used to shoot at a constant 100 ISO, I foolishly forgot to restore the usual setting as the light was growing and took my precious exposure bracketings at such high ISO till 8:00 AM. As a result of this sloppy attitude I had to fight a monster amount of chroma noise (I viscerally hate it)*. I found no way to get decently rid of that noise by using the rich armoury of denoising tools offered by Darktable - quite possibly because of my qualified failure to set them properly in such a demanding situation. Luckily, by mere trial and error, I got an almost decent denoising using DFine 2 and blending the denoised images with the original ones by the LCh Lightness mode (hope that my memory is not deceiving me); this, rather suprisingly, allowed me to retain most of the details while taking the greatest possible advantage of the denoising itself.
Incidentally, this picture has a closely related fellow image in my photostream, Awakenings: the same location, the same morning, just taken some 10 minutes after this one, some 20 meters downstream - ah, and one of the handful of bracketings of that session taken at 100 ISO, after I realized my mistake ;-)
* I am afraid I am being a bit unfair here, because the worthy sensor of my Nikon D5100 is quite less noisy than those of many other APS-x sensor cameras (and the in-camera management of thermal noise on long exposures is really good). The problem is, the less light you get from your subject, the more noise you get in the sensor data, the ISO gain magnifying an unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Of course an early, partly cloudy morning shooting session neatly falls into that sort of context.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and a selective bit of Orton effect as a final garnish to get the desired ambiance. RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising has been a vexing issue; I got the best results by courtesy of good old DFine 2 and the Gimp.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, selectie kleur.
Zomervakantie Bad Schandau (Duitsland} in de Sächsische Schweiz.
Taken at Hunnington Beach in Newport News, VA many moons ago with a Canon A610 P&S. I ran the original, very plain image through a few soft-filters and this is what spit out.
From my 2018 published book titled "Lonesome City", available on my website and through Amazon.
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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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A return to above normal temps on Monday produced this very pleasant sky of a mix of blue and clouds. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Leica M9 & Noctilux-M 50mm
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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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This is a 5 shot pano of Grasmere Lake which is in the the beautiful Lake District area of the UK.
I was heading back from Derwentwater when I noticed how lovely the light looked on the hills so I quickly turned the car around and headed back to shoot.
Hopefully it has come out ok, but please feel free to let me know what you think, good or bad.
Thanks for looking!
I almost forgot that little walk in the wintertime, when I took some photos like the one above. So here it is, one more is in the pipeline.
I used that soft focus filter from Nik once again, here basically to smooth the background.
“The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.”
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Another shot from my recent holiday to the Lake District. I know this is a regular composition of this beautiful location but had to have in my collection for the future for my pleasure.
Photographers do surprise me in how they operate when they shoot a location. When I was here another photographer turned up with his brand new tripod and also a very high spec Dslr came across the field and just set up his tripod and fired off a few shots packed up and then just walked away back across the field back to his car and drove off. I was here for nearly a hour on both visits taking in this stunning location and watching how the light and conditions change across this location and remember my first image Castlerigg Fells proves how conditions change in minutes and this photographer missed so much !!
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A little ultra wide angle lens distortion for the Italian pavilion during the WDW Photography meet. Some of my favorite shots from this meet were from both Japan and Italy. Please let me know what you think and as always, Enjoy!
Thursday's Storms came to an end just before sunset producing this wonderful orange sky in the west. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Effex Pro 2
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm @ ISO1600
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Im Beinhaus von Leuk tritt der Besucher den Gebeinen unmittelbar gegenüber. Augenlos und unentwegt starren die Totenköpfe einen an.
Der niedrige Raum mit der alten Holzdecke, dem mächtigen Pfeiler im Mittelteil, dem grauen Schieferboden und der von roten Samtvorhängen getrennten Schädelwand wirkt nicht erdrückend. Ein paar Leuchten strahlen ein warmes, angenehmes Licht aus. In diesem Raum werden auch Aufbahrungen vorgenommen. Dann haben die Touristen hier nichts zu suchen.
Das 1496 erbaute, wohl vorher schon existierende Beinhaus von Leuk besteht in seiner jetzigen Form seit den 1980er-Jahren. Als man damals anlässlich der Kirchenrenovation auf der Südseite unter dem Kirchenschiff im kleinen Raum die Gips-Zwischenwände entfernte, um das Beinhaus zu einem Versammlungslokal zu erweitern, stiess man auf eine Unmenge von Gebeinen, vermischt mit gotischen und barocken Statuen. Man sortierte und schichtete um.
Heute hat der Besucher eine Schädelwand mit den Ausmassen von 19 Meter Länge, 2 Meter Höhe und 2 Meter Tiefe vor sich. Jahrhundertelang war das Städtchen Leuk ein Verkehrsknotenpunkt. Viele Gemeinden waren nach Leuk kirchengenössig. Wenn jemand starb, dann wurde der Betreffende nicht nur in Leuk beerdigt, sondern es wurden für ihn oder sie auch Messen gelesen. «Der Priester, der hier jeweils zuständig war, war dann saniert», erzählt der Regionalhistoriker Roger Mathieu. «Manchmal waren es gar mehrere Messen am Tag.»
Der Touristenführer vergleicht den Tribut, den die Angehörigen zu entrichten hatten, mit dem päpstlichen Peterspfennig. Auch wer weiter weg wohnte oder wenig begütert war, hatte dieser Vorschrift nach-zukommen. Ein Beispiel: Wenn zur Weihnachtszeit eine Grossmutter in Chandolin starb, durfte sie nicht in Chandolin beigesetzt werden. Sie musste vielmehr im Schnee «zwischengelagert» und im Frühling mit dem Schlitten nach Leuk transportiert und dort begraben werden. Mit der obligaten Messe.
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This mill is located in Big Ridge State Park near Maynardville, Tn.
It was built in 1925 by Tink MxCoy but later purchased by Lewis Norton. In the 1930's TVA obtained the mill and made it a part of Big Ridge State Park. In 1968 the whole mill was restored. The only things original are the race and millstones.
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