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Winter sun. Going out shooting in the shortest day period in mid winter, it's either sunrise or sunset as these pretty much collide or overlap (maybe not the right words). That is if the sun decides to brake through the clouds. I really love the creamy thick colors the winter sun casts on everything and of course photos may look vibrant and even overcolored in this light. Normally I try not to overprocess but just to correct what comes out of camera to my vision of the scene. But of course, since I have all the © rights it can be tempting to help the natural colors a little bit ;-)
I'd say this shot is maybe 5% more vivid than my eyes remember the scene. But maybe 35% from what came out of the camera.
This tiny series of three VERY overprocessed Peony shots is for the purpose of printing, and then drawing, then painting. They ARE overprocessed deliberately, to let me see where the shapes are and to see the colour a bit more clearly. Sorry about that from a photographic POV, but I am VERY anxious to try to paint at least ONE of the series. As always, stay tuned, but do NOT hold your collective breath!!
Spotted this in passing and (after a ten minute wait in pouring rain for traffic to allow me to get out to the middle of the intersection) .. could not resist the MUCH IMPROVED new street crossing lights installed in the city. (lol)
... a bit 'overprocessed' for colors but I could have brought out the pouring rain a bit .. just a quick drive by snap .. Fall is a 'quick' season.
The doomed sacrificial celebrants marched to their end in the dark tunnels beyond...
Originally titled "The Castle Hall", this version is perhaps overprocessed, but I like the effect. Looks more like HDR but it's a single shot from a 10 megapixel camera, upscaled, sharpened, and with a lot of "local contrast" added.
I do this kind of treatment on a number of shots which many think are HDR but which are actually single exposures -- often shot dark to preserve highlights.
Two flaws of much HDR I've seen are excessive "halos" and an unreasonably bright black level. I try not to have that in my shots but the local contrast filters can really cause haloing problems on dark to light transition areas. Then it requires "brush work" to fix -- it's a labor of love in post processing. Probably more time than it's worth sometimes, but I like to do it.
These old CCD cameras had a lot of noise by today's standards even at base ISO, so it limits somewhat what you can do for noise control in shadow lifts for shots like this. New tools mean I can mess with it more, lol.
This is one of two howitzer field guns flanking the War memorial we discovered on a walking tour of the oldest cemetery in Regina. They were captured from the German Army in World War I. The monument in the center of the memorial was donated by the Imperial War Graves Commission.
Original was first processed in the iPhone App Snapseed then in PRISMA with some further "Slidding" in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0.
Used PRISMA - Style: Red Head filter - first for a Painterly effect - then slide for HSS.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
Heavy Frost.
It turns out we got a pretty cold winter, it's now several weeks more or less freezing. The snow is gone, but the lakes have thick ice now. This allows persepectives that are impossible normally, you can just walk into the lake. Nice. Unfortunately the paths are slippery, I managed to fall on my buttock on my way back, but luckily I had my camera packed already, when that happened.
I realitze the last few rounds of photos were a little heavy handed and overprocessed. Here I tried a more subtle rendering which maybe suits the subject better? I don't know. Decisions, decisions ... I try to get out again to one of the lakes at the weekend. Usually at the weekend under such conditions everything is pretty crowded and not so nice and quiet as it looks like here, when I was almost on my own.
. . . This slightly over processed view of the Rapid River was suggested to me by my cell phone (Android) the other day! The original image is posted along with this one, so that you can see what my phone decided to do all on it's own! Brings to mind a historical quote from the inventor of the Morse Code in 1844: "What hath God wrought"?
Have a great week Facebook and Flickr friends!
I LOVE FIGS. I love to eat them, to look at them , to draw them and to photograph them.I REALLY overprocessed this one and , although not cricket, I suppose, I DO like the effect!
Do you think these wind turbines could have been any smaller? Yep. Just see another version in the comments. I managed to take a few fairly pitiful shots from the car window as we were driving to Yosemite. We didn't have time to venture off the highway and get anywhere closer to the turbines, but hoped to do so on the way back. Never happened. But at least I still have these. They are on the crappy side, but perfect for Sliders Sunday - any overprocessing can only improve them, not destroy.
The original image and another "tiny wind turbines" version are below the fold. HSS, everyone!
This started out as a shot of our black-eyed susans that I took the other day...the camera was cold from the AC in the house and it was the first shot....and the lens was fogged up because it was so hot outside so there was no way to salvage it. So I did a bunch of stuff to it and got this...hope you like it. HSS!
SLIDER SATURDAY 11/52
There are times that I find extensive post processing evokes a very different feel or mood from an image and sometimes I like the result.
Being more of a purist with photography, I seldom post these overprocessed images but I decided for 2012, I would post those images on what I have termed "Slider Saturday". These will be images that I have extensively moved the sliders in post processing.
A little more Fractalius Fun. This was a horrible overblown shot (because I used flash) of a black cat that I determined couldn't be hurt by Slider Saturday. :))
A Summers morning down by the river at Kirkby Lonsdale. Images are intentionally overprocessed to give a HDR feel to them
A Summers morning down by the river at Kirkby Lonsdale. Images are intentionally overprocessed to give a HDR feel to them
One of the many goat pictures I took in Ethiopia a while ago. Goats are everywhere in Addis Ababa...main streets, side streets, restaurant table, your hotel room. No, this last one is not true. When I first saw them from the distance, I thought they are a pack of stray dogs. So here - shamelessly overprocessed for Sliders Sunday with the original in the comments. HSS, everyone!
Wascana Lake on a morning walk.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose
No special 'artistic' filters were used, just a bit of HDR-ish over-processing with Snapseed on the phone - to emphasise the naturally pictorial look of old Venice alleys.
(And to answer the riddle from the previous photo ;)
Be warned - Objects in mirror are closer than they appear - or so they say.
This capture with an iPhone was originally a little "dirty" (Dirty glass and mirror didn't help the quality of the image) but I liked the composition (YMMV).
Legislature buildings through my rear view mirror. I used some texture to even out the playing field - something I haven't done for awile and then did some sliding in the Mid Tones.
Texture: FrenchKiss_GloriousGrunge
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
ما شاء الله تبارك الرØمن
for some unknown reason i like this over-exposed, over-processed photo..!!
Some shots taken before the Aliwan parade started. The participants were waiting under a shade and I milled around and had to haggle for position since there were tons of photographers doing their thing as well. Photo is overprocessed; just experimenting—have no fear.
Sony NEX-6
Pentax-M 50mm f/1.4 SMC
(Full-frame equiv. focal length=75mm)
@f/2.8 1/2000sec ISO100
Another picture I found on an SD card I lost years ago, recently rediscovered. Thought I'd have some fun processing a few.
Urgh. What a day. Ten degrees, wind, dark and torrential rain that has not relented all day. Not ideal photography weather. Add a tricky day at work, where you couldn't hear your telephone conversations because of the rain lashing against the windows, and it leave much inspiration for a shot.
In such circumstances I go back to what I know best. Usually this means the Gelt, but I wasn't going out far in the rain and besides, it will be an absolutely raging torrent right now. So I relied on the two other things I turn to if all else fails. The overprocessed self portrait and negative space. I've used these in the past so commonly, during last years 52 challenge I parodied it in the picture in the comments.
It never fails. Well, it might, but it didn't fail at ticking off another day.
This time next week I'll be in Languedoc in southern France and will kid myself that summer isn't over for a while.
....Everything I need is right here by my side
It was my first day at University today. Oh yes. I was nervous indeed. It was ok though, except for the fact that I was so nervous last night that I ended up falling asleep at 3 AM (got up at 7:30 today)...so yeah, I'm off to bed. Ok ok...maybe I'll just watch an episode of FRIENDS first. Ok, maybe two, but that's it, I'm telling you.
PS: Overprocessing can be A LOT of fun. You should all try it. haha.
After the "overprocessed" image posted yesterday, I decided to post a shot with only minor contrast correction. I took it with a compact Canon Powershot S90 during my lunch time, the sun was high in the sky and created some light/shadow place in this vicolo (narrow street).
If you miss my HDR picrures, don't worry...I think that tomorrow I will re-switch the "HDR-mode" on ;)
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LOCATION AND DATE - DATA e LUOGO DI SCATTO
Via Garibaldi, Genova (Liguria, Italy), 25th June 2012
CAMERA
Canon Powershot S90
SHOT DATA - DATI DI SCATTO
ISO 80; f/4; 1/80 s
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WORKFLOW - FLUSSO DI LAVORO
° Rename: XnView
° Cropping: GIMP
° Curve correction / Correzione curve: GIMP
° Resizing, watermark: Fastone viewer
And say Goodbye to 2017 and Hello to 2018.
For Sliders Sunday. This isn't exactly overprocessed (processing info below), but I think it qualifies for Sliders Sunday anyway, because today, on New Year's Eve, we all are going to have "a big slide". Into 2018 ;-) It's what we wish each other in Germany in the week between Christmas and New Year: "einen guten Rutsch" = "have a good slide". And if you like, you can add "ins neue Jahr" = "into the New Year" ;-)
Taken on a boat trip last Christmas (2016). We were just leaving Vienna and had this wonderful sunset. There is a tiny airplane in the image, too ;-) (please press "Z"). And yes, I know the bird is tiny, too, but I hope it's big enough for 7DWF "Fauna".
Processing: Nik's Viveza and Color Efex Pro (filters used: Graduated Neutral Density, Graduated Filters [Orange, with reduced opacity], Skylight Filter); ON1 Photo RAW 2018: ON1 Develop, Local Adjustments "Darken" (the silhouettes), Detail and HDR (the sky); reduced noise both in ON1 and in Nik's DFine.
So, guys, HSS, everyone, and have a "good slide into 2018" and a very Happy New Year ;-)
Here is another shot of Niagara falls. I am working on a bunch of images and the cleaning/masking is taking me some time so decided to post this easy one . It was a dull, overcast, cloudy sky so this Blue Hr shot looks monotonously Blue. I wish I had a bit more luck with the light & sky but wasn't meant to be.
I kind of like the mist that looks in this and the water flow better than the SOC version so decided to use this as the main picture but does have the overprocessed feel to this. Let me know what you think of it.
A group of well-dressed women crossing a treacherous suspension bridge in Bukittinggi. My typical trekking wardrobe does not photograph nearly as nicely...
The photo is not crisp, and it's overprocessed, but I liked the contrast of the colors enough to make it one of my favorites from this trip.
It's still Sunday somewhere, right? So HSS! (Finally found a place for my wildly overprocessed stuff to live :)
So we were at the coast for a holiday. I'm neurotic about bushfire (having grown up in Canberra ) and he's neurotic about tsunamis (having grown up in earthquake prone NZ). I told him that as we drowned in the tsunami, we'd be able to comfort ourselves that it would be putting out the bushfire.
For me not tulips are the sensation of spring but the young beech leaves.
Besides, this is not a very common view: less than 1% of palatinate forest trees are firs.
Boring technical note: two phone shots in RAW, portrait orientation, stitched.
I tried this insanely novel thing called "Not Overprocessing the Crap Out of My Photos". It looks pretty nice.
Beer had at the Waverly Brewing Co. in Baltimore.
It's time for another photowalk...this time we're bailing on downtown Phoenix and hitting up downtown Tempe, the Mill Avenue Bridges, the Light Rail and Tempe Town Lake! A gorgeous place to shoot, I'm really hoping we get some clouds at sunset because that can be pretty spectacular. I took the photos in this post on December 29th, 2009. Both back in my overprocessing HDR days, but they hold some fond memories for me. I mean, I just left the house to go shoot that night, it had been planned a week before, and when I arrived at this little parking lot for the photo above, the sky was already changing colors and I rushed to capture one of the more amazing sunsets I've ever seen here. Just a great night.
SOooo...here are the details of the walk:
Downtown Tempe Photowalk
When: June 10th, 2011
Time: 6:45pm until whenever
Where: I'm choosing this parking lot on the north side of the lake because of the great views of the city it offers looking south. Then we can walk over the bridges and shoot in Tempe. This MAY change, so make sure to email me or call me to verify. Map of the location.
Cost: Nothing...maybe food, coffee, whatever.
What to Bring: The camera gear you want...tripods, backpacks, maybe some bottled water or a snack.
Visit my blog below to register!
www.mikeolbinski.com/2011/06/downtown-tempe-photowalk-jun...