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A calming and peaceful scene done in the style of a John Constable painting using my own photos and textures
Photoshop CC + Nik Color Efex Pro
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A shot of the Panda topiary just outside the China pavilion. This topiary really fit this pavilion and though I was a bit upset that the dragon that usually sits in the reflection pool wasn't there, this was great. Please let me know what you think and as always, Enjoy!
A coloured edit of this shot of the stairs of the "Goetheturm" in Frankfurt was one of the first shots I uploaded here on flickr.
This time I used Lightroom and Silver Efex Pro for a slightly different crop and handeling of lens distortion, a better balance of light and correction of the highlights and the black&white edit.
I always loved that shot, I know , it could have been way better, but difficult to stack with windy conditions
Old shot remastered... sorry the weather is still bizarre around here
All textures by Skeletalmess
Located about a mile and a half east of Aux Sable, this railroad bridge was used by the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro, Converted to monochrome with Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Exploration is Curiosity
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EXPLORE #4. Thank you to everyone who comments and fave's this image. Very much appreciated.
...just texture.
Explored - Nov. 01, 2008 | Highest Position #400- Thank you all so very much!
I hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Just another shot using my buddy's Canon 40D and new EF-S 100mm macro lens.
Very nice combination. I am now looking for a macro lens of course! :-)
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Canon 40D | EF-S 100mm macro lens | 1/125s exp @ f/2.8 | ISO 100
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Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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Madliena Tower (Maltese: Torri tal-Madliena), originally known as Torre della Paulina,[1] is a small watchtower in Madliena, limits of Pembroke, Malta. It was completed in 1658 as the fourth of the De Redin towers. The British built an artillery battery next to the tower in 1908–1909, and the tower and battery remained in use until World War II. Today, the battery no longer exists but the tower is in good condition.
Today, the original tower and World War II emplacement are intact, but very little remains of the Night Practice Battery have survived. Over time there were some makeshift modifications and structures built adjacent to the tower. The original door at the second level was filled in and was no longer visible, while the commemorative plaque was replaced by a slab of limestone. A steel door was added at the base of the tower.
The tower was handed to the NGO Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna in 2009.
Since then, it has been restored with funds from the European Regional Development Fund. Throughout the course of restoration, the original doorway was reopened, and structural damage was repaired.
One of the many lighthouses that are along the Atlantic Coast in Maine. This probably the most know is the Portland Headlight.
Autumn is now in full gear in Morris Illinois. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. Further processing with Nik Color Efex Pro 4
Panorama - Maskinonge Lake, Sofa Mountain, Vimy Peak, Mount Crandell,
Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
This is a silver necklace my daughter was given by her aunt recently. It's a focus stack of 16 images combined in Helicon Focus (Option B), white balance and a few very minor global tweaks in Lightroom, dust and speck removal and minor cloning in Photoshop, converted to monochrome in Silver Efex Pro (Fine Art), sharpened in Lightroom.
Many thanks to all who view, fave and comment on this image and others in my photostream. HMM!
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.
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.