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How many adults does it take to calm down one fussy baby? Apparently three and a half are too few. I took this on Monday as I was waiting to renew my driver license (and I was late by only three months, btw...my all time record was six, at which point I was almost arrested). This family was sitting next to me with one of the cutest and loudest babies I ever encountered. OF COURSE I took a picture! And then processed it to no end...all with an iPhone. HSS, guys!
I only had half a day in Barcelona and unfortunately could not stay until sunset. So I decided to make the best of the situation and use the early morning hours to capture this incredible view over the city.
The photograph was taken from the famous Bunkers del Carmel viewpoint, one of the most spectacular panoramas in Barcelona. The climb with a heavy photography backpack was definitely a bit exhausting, but the moment you reach the top and see the city stretching endlessly beneath you, every step feels worth it.
Rising almost surreal from the sea of buildings is the Sagrada Família. Even though the cathedral is located around 2 kilometers away from this viewpoint, it completely dominates the skyline of Barcelona.
What fascinated me most was seeing how close the Sagrada Família now is to completion. A few years ago, the skyline was still filled with cranes and visible construction work. Today, the cathedral already feels far more complete and even more monumental.
This image is definitely worth viewing in full resolution. The countless details throughout the city reveal just how capable the Tamron lens actually is — far better than many people might expect.
The photo itself was edited very carefully and intentionally not oversharpened. My goal was to preserve the natural atmosphere, the soft morning light, and the depth layering of the city instead of creating an artificial or overprocessed look.
For me, this remains one of the most impressive viewpoints Barcelona has to offer.
Technical Details
📷 Camera: Sony Alpha 7R V
🔭 Lens: Tamron 150-500mm F/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD
🔍 Focal Length: 164 mm
🌞 Aperture: f/6.3
🌙 ISO: 160
⏳ Exposure: 1/250s (handheld with image stabilization)
🔲 Filter: Kase magnetic CPL filter
Another drive-by Dunes shot. This shows just how huge these sandy lumps are-the little dot in the middle of hte picture is actually a couple of people trying to climb the thing.
As per usual I can't help but overprocess dunes shots-anything less never seems to do them justice!!!
The latest Lightroom has a nice tool for combining multiple exposures in a natural looking way without that dated overprocessed HDR look.
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OLD SCHOOL - gotta love those old bikes (or copies). Original capture outside of a coffee shop this morning. Was captured with an iPhone with all processing on the iPhone - "Slide" in Snapseed and Instagram.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
Tenby in South Wales features lots of these beautifully painted and highly colourful houses. Just not quite so saturated colours. Over processed for the 52 weeks in 2024 group
Waiting for the class on Street Photography to start I grabbed a shot of the window of the library.
Used DAP for processing on this version (Illustrator Water & Ink).
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
A burst of color for a gloomy grey day. Good things are right around the corner. (Right? There has to be something good coming .... soon.... I hope!)
Happy Sliders Sunday Sunset!
Believe it or not, this picture started as a variation of my old Flickr picture Summer Tree in the Snow. I processed it so much that it ceased to look like a tree and started looking like the outline of an eagle's head. I had a picture of an eagle sculpture, and layered it on to give the face some detail. Then I had to simplify it a lot to remove the vestiges of the tree branches. Perfect example of overprocessing.
Renewed life insistently arising from beneath last year's dead leaves. It happens every spring.
Addendum: Pangs of Conscience
In retrospect, this photo bothers me, because it looks overprocessed. Actually, I made a few adjustments of brightness, contrast and sharpness, and dimmed and blurred the background a little. In life, the flower really did jump out of the background this way.
(I also wished I'd named it Focus on Crocus.)
For Dave C. and other Flickr friends, too, the *soul* of this is just having some fun with colorful Christmas Lights.
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Saw the mist this morning and volunteered to pick up bagels for breakfast. Got a little sidetracked on the way. Love mornings like today - breakfast with the family and a new style of picture for me.
I edited this in a way that feels like a fantasy world. Maybe it feels a little overprocessed?
ODC - fairy tale
Same place, similar composition as last photo but the processing couldn't be more different here. I feel that I have been overprocessing things a bit lately so I went a little light here. The previous photo from Old Orchard Beach I posted was a very similar composition of the other side of this pier but was processed from 14 images. This one is a single shot RAW with some curves adjustment and a warming filter applied. In retrospect, should probably have toned the blues down a bit, polarizer left a bit of an uneven blue in the sky.
I have got a dozen shots in my mind that I want to take but really need the right conditions to take them. Still waiting...
Quick word on explore. Man they have made some changes. I still see some clunkers on there but the last few days I have seen some unbelievable photos from new people. Really humbling to be honest. Gives me even more motivation to get out there and improve.
Not the best shot. Had to be rescued by overprocessing a bit. Pushed 3 stops to overcome underexposure due to the bright background. Hard to get right with them changing location constantly!
Not mean at all, as it happens. Austin is by far the most liberal city in Texas, so I'm told, and and the local people and places are very cool. Yes, I know this is really dark and overprocessed, but that's my way of venting steam. There just ain't enough hours in the day right now.
A Coca-Cola vending machine outside a university lecture hall. This machine has the annoying distinction of being moved by pranksters in front of the lecture hall's projection booth door, blocking my access but fortunately not when I needed to troubleshoot the room's audio-visual equipment so a lecture could proceed.
This machine, alas, is biding its time as of now. The campus recently switched its official soft-drinks supplier to PepsiCo; their local distributor is in the process of installing their machines, moving the Coca-Cola equipment aside. The local Coca-Cola distributor will stop by before long to collect their equipment (update 9/30/2024: machine has been removed).
Definitely not SOOC!
Attempting a long exposure shot in high winds and driving rain, on the edge of the coastline and in a storm was never going to be all that successful. Over-processing can paper over the errors though! :)
..on a bright frosty morning. About forty ponies were grazing there, and not one of them chased me :-)
This was a quick shot to send to my mom for her opinion on how a metal finish was going to look with the paint colour of the cabinets. I overprocessed it and actually quite like the oversaturated hues and shadows in the resulting image. Lazy day 5 done and dusted.
My intention was to capture Aurora Borealis over this old mill near Wiarton, Ontario. I set up my camera and captured a few photos as sun was setting to get the mill illuminated. I ended up using a 3-shot HDR created in the Canon DPP software as the illuminated photo,
The three photos were taken with:
F8
ISO 100
shutter speed - variable
same lens as below
I then ran my camera for a little over 4 hours with the following settings:
Canon SL3
Tokina 11-16 lens at 11mm
15 sec exposure
F2.8
ISO 1600
I used StarStax to create the star trails and then masked the illuminated HDR in to give the mill some presence.
I used Pixelmator Pro to layer the HDR and StarStax photos and to mask.
I am still learning how to do all of this but thought this was a pretty good representation of the star trails with the mill visible.
I did not want to overprocess this with too much exposure or colour but might do so if I play with how I want the photo to look.
If you zoom in and see all sorts of short bright lines or dots, that will be the hundreds and hundreds of fireflies that were out. I made no attempt to remove them from the stacked images.
Any suggestions on ideas for processing shots like these, I am all ears. I think I have edited this about 4 times. This is a cooler temperature and I like it much better.
A wall of restored ghost signs in Springfield, Massachusetts. Here is the same wall in 2015 before restoration.
Sorry for the overprocessing of the image, the light was terrible.
This was an experiment in taking a high dynamic range image with an infrared filter on. I took 3 images from a tripod over the Thames, then used Photomatix to combine them. There was very little 'Shopping done to it - just a vignette, the border, some Levels and a tiny bit of Curve.
EDIT: a few people I know have commented that they find it overprocessed, cheesy, etc. Well, that was kind of the point! I've spent all week doing 'normal' photos for a film shoot and wanted to go a little crazy on something - in that respect, it was a huge success! ;)
EDIT 2: Cheers for all the comments, folks! I love the shot, personally, and glad you all do too! There's nothing wrong in not liking something, though. It's all subjective, after all... :)
You can buy this photo from Getty Images.
An image I got last year and never bothered to upload (mainly because I took so many of this place :-))
Deliberately over the top and over processed - but thought would be good for the HSS, Sliders Sunday group. HSS!
The park I visit has Egrets, Herons, Ospreys, Geese, Ducks, Warblers, Black Birds, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Crows, Sparrows, Comorants, Gulls, Starlings and Robins. To my surprise, this Eagle did a fly-by. It was far away and this photo is seriously cropped with an added sky and a bit overprocessed, but I was so excited nonetheless!
Another shot from this location, taken in my hometown of St. Albans, Vermont. It's similar to a previous post, but has more at the top and bottom. This is a vertorama/photostitch of two shots put together in CS2. I know this might look like it's overprocessed, but it's from the filters that I used. I used a circular polarizer and GND for both shots. All I did in post was some slight curves & levels adjustments plus a little sharpening. See the other shots from here in my Autumn, Vermont or Latest sets below.
This photo made Flickr's Explore for October 25th, 2010. Highest position: #25. My third photo in the last couple of weeks! Thanks for the support everyone.
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From a lovely morning in November. The fog was everywhere, and I ended up taking heaps of photos.
I find it hard to get the pictures as you envisioned them when you take them in the fog. As the pictures come out so flat, and I do not want to overprocess the images. This one came out quite good.