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I know, I know. There is a lot of grain and is a bit overprocessed. But. It was an accident and for some reason I like it a lot. It reminds me of a picture that used to be in my parents' corridor. On the picture there was the profile of a beautiful black woman and the inscription said: "Say it loud, black and proud!". Why we had this picture on the wall is still a mystery (think communism, Eastern Europe). Note to self: ask parents when next time I will be at home.
While visiting Scotland during a recent trip with three fellow photographers, I was fortunate enough to be able to capture a moody sunset from the top of Arthur's Seat, the main peak of grass-covered hills that form Holyrood Park in Edinburgh. The climb to the peak was steep and exhausting, but the view from the top of the 822ft hill made it worth the effort, with Edinburgh Castle rising above the city and flanked by the spires of St Giles' and St Mary's Cathedrals. Rain, cloud and haze had covered the city throughout the afternoon and early evening, but shortly before sunset the sun appeared from behind the clouds, covering the northern half of the city with a soft glow and carving an outline along the hills on the horizon. It was one of those moments that can't be predicted, and the kind that's a true joy to photograph.
This image is a combination of eight exposures which were combined in Photoshop using luminosity masks along with a Pen Tool selection to isolate and brighten Salisbury Crags, the hill in the immediate foreground. I tried to apply my brighter exposures with the intention of emphasising detail in the cityscape, but not so much as to lose the ambience of the scene, which was the aspect that delighted me most. With this in mind, I kept the final image slightly underexposed, focusing instead on the warm tones along the hills and the glow that was bathing the city in light.
I felt that only minor changes were required when colour-grading the image. The palette was predominantly made of warmer tones, and I tried not to veer too far from this, using only a Selective Colour adjustment to increase the red and magenta tones in the sky, and a Hue/Saturation adjustment to remove some of the cyan and green casts in the city buildings. My main aim when editing was to strike a balance between preserving the hazy finish in the distance and adding clarity and tonal contrast to the hilltop and buildings in the foreground. I wanted to convey the soft and dreamy atmosphere over the city that evening, but at the same time I wanted the image to remain true to the view from the hilltop (and hopefully to avoid a finish that could seem unnatural or overprocessed). I used Nik plugins to gently increase the tonal contrast, applying the Detail Extractor filter in Colour Efex Pro to emphasise Edinburgh Castle at the centre of the frame, and the Low Key filter to soften the exposure and contrast to the left of the frame, with the intention of guiding viewers' eyes towards the hilltop in the foreground at the same time as the light on the horizon and the highest points across the city.
The final result hopefully encapsulates Edinburgh's architecture and natural beauty, and perhaps also the fleeting Scottish weather that can make photographing its scenery both unpredictable and riveting.
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SLIDER SATURDAY 10/52
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 Fractalius Fun
A mix of spruce and larch and a bit of mist thrown in for good measure. I did quite a bit of work on this but wanted it to still look natural and not overprocessed.
Harley Davidson parked downtown.
Used Prisma: Burger filter - all in the iPhone. First for a Painterly effect - then used only a bit of a slide for HSS in IrfanView.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
I might have overprocessed this one - the data was so nice. Bortle 2 skies make for easy processing.
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 70 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken Mar. 18, 2020 from Bortle 2 skies.
I couldn't sleep n SL was down so I dug around in my HD, pulled this out n over processed the feck out of it >.<
A Summers morning down by the river at Kirkby Lonsdale. Images are intentionally overprocessed to give a HDR feel to them
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Fairly recent show. Overprocessed to the max, why not? Yes, just because you can, it does mean you should. Overprocess this, that is.
Too overprocessed? Probably, but occasionally I think that's ok. At least that's what I tell myself (;
Thanks for looking, and have a great day!
Here we have wide field view of the compact blue dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, and its epic central starburst. It is something like a smaller, but slightly closer version of M82. Though NGC 5253 is less famous than M82 I still find it to be quite interesting—visually stunning, even. An image I submitted yesterday shows a very high resolution close-up of the core: flic.kr/p/WMcktQ
While this galaxy has been previously processed, I thought it would be better if some older narrowband WFPC2 were used to show off its H-alpha emissions, which are now seen clearly here as a bright pink cloud emanating from around the central area of the galaxy. I tried not to overprocess these clouds, but some might say I have. Still, others may say I didn't take it far enough, because it certainly could be pushed even further.
In the upper right and lower left corners are blank areas. I did not want to crop large sections of the galaxy and background off, so I filled these blank areas with a simple noise pattern so that they would not be distracting. H-alpha coverage is incomplete, but close enough that it does not appear to be missing much.
Data from the following two proposals was used. I used mosaics from the LEGUS page, as well as the mosaics from the HLA because some parts of the chip gaps in the LEGUS mosaics did not look very good.
The Discrete X-ray Source Population in NGC~5253, our nearest post-starburst galaxy
WFPC2 Mapping of Dust Obscuration and Stellar Populations in Starburst Galaxies.
All channels, in a complicated, but mostly red color: WFPC2 F656N
Red: ACS/WFC F814W
Green: ACS/WFC F555W
Blue: ACS/WFC F435W
North is NOT up. It is 11.7° clockwise from up.
Pass this courtyard every now and then - decided that I needed to capture it. Passed the file through a number of different Apps for this final effect.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
No, 'X' is not the model, it's for eXtreme (abuse, i.e. overprocessing) - it wouldn't be me if I don't do it to at least one of the shots.
BTW, the model is, I think, a 1949 sedan Special Deluxe (any connoisseurs to confirm or correct?)
And I promise not to do this to the rest of the images from the 'session' (which lasted 30 seconds on a very cold December day). I'll keep them natural and realistic - soon to come :)
Update: 1951 Savoy Deluxe Sedan - according to @dr.electro (see below)
This weeks theme was inspired by the Slider Sunday flickr group (www.flickr.com/groups/1481688@N20/) which celebrates over processed images. Since I'm all about over processing my images this was right up my alley... Driving around downtown to find something fun to shoot I found an abandoned warehouse with this awesome canvas hanging off it.
I made liberal use of Nik and Topaz filters to turn the highly texturized original into a psuedo painting. I'll definitely upload some "normal" shots of this and the rest of the warehouse soon.
Interesting NB subject.....I have neglected it....and it shows here.
Wrong camera orientation,etc
Only 8x180 seconds ( x3 channels)
Ha as R
OIII as G
Just seems to look better this way to me.
Not enough subs to kill the sky noise...so its overprocessed +++
Interestingly an airplane track (right side) must have included a flashing light, as alignment had to be (carefully) redone by hand,excluding it.
Should have used Sigma stacking in DSS
A good subject to redo (properly) next year :)
I'd definitely love feedback on my processing of this one. Sometimes I struggle to not overprocess images (I seem to know just enough photoshop to be able to destroy my photos... or maybe it's weak material to start with). My goal was to keep it natural looking, though I wonder if it looks a bit flat or maybe a bit dark. I think it's true to the scene, and any attempts to lighten the shadows without blowing out the sky left it looking a bit fake and overprocessed, so I left it a little dark. Anybody who's interested in giving feedback though, I'd love a critique.
Funny thing... I got up at 5 AM 5 days in a row to check the sky, and drove out here 4 of those days (3 of which required climbing out of a nice warm sleeping bag into the 35 degree morning air). After taking dozens of shots on multiple mornings... now that I've reviewed them after the fact... I like this one best, and it was the first shot on the first day. I guess it works out like that sometimes.
A Summers morning down by the river at Kirkby Lonsdale. Images are intentionally overprocessed to give a HDR feel to them
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Before I get back to posting my usual bug photos, seeing it's that time of year, I thought I'd go and try something really silly :P
I'd always wanted to try that milkyway photo thing, so I did a bit of googling to find out how and off I went.
I set this camera up to do a star trail session (haven't done one since you had to leave the shutter open for 2 hours instead of a stack of 30 second shots thrown into a program lol).
While taking a few test shots, I happened to fluke this shot of a meteorite or something burning up on entry.
Probably overprocessed too... but I know less about this stuff than waterfalls (which isn't a lot :P)
Taken about 30kms East of Burra, South Australia.
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This past summer I would try to catch the sunrise before heading into work. This was back from May, I posted a similar one back then but once again I felt it was overprocessed, so I decided to post this one.
Just looking at the photograph reminds me how peaceful it is watching the sunrise over the Lake!
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large version shows the detail a little better. still trying to cut through the haze in these shots without overprocessing them.
I like that my MLK Jr. poster is hanging out right above me. And so, what better than an MLK Jr. quote?
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
- MLK Jr., 1963
Explored: #23.
I love how everyone likes a photo I hate. Hahaha, figures.
This was my attempt at candid on the train in India. The girl was reading and the light from the window was highlighting the side of her face beautifully. But, of course, she noticed me the very last second. It is official by now, I am the worst candid photographer ever. Also the light turned out to be too low for the point & shoot camera to handle (Leica has an awesome f/2.0 lens, but a small sensor is still a drag). You can see the original SOOC shot in the comments - looks like a perfect Sliders Sunday candidate, right? So here is the result. HSS, guys!
I know it is overprocessed and overcoloured but I liked it like this like a fairy tale experiment. (HDR from two shots taken without tripod)
GM27, some 51 years old, leads T363, S302 and 44204. Together they haul the "Kelso Flyer" freight train, 1877, through Hartley Vale.
Despite GM27's age and withdrawal back in March 1994, the old loco continues to power on. Seen here having a rare chance and possibly one of the last chances of leading a train, especially 1877!
Hartley Vale, NSW.
Saturday 9 August 2014.
This is a slightly different take on the similar shots below. I fired the flash to accentuate the boulder in the foreground and saturated the color to get the "golden effect" that I wanted. It may be slightly overprocessed but I like the drama and intensity created by the juxtapositon of the boulder and the menacing sky. Processed with Photoshop CS4 and Dynamic Photo HDR 4 Software.
Nikon d90 Tamron 10-24 lens 10mm 1/200 of a second f13 ISO 3200
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A Summers morning down by the river at Kirkby Lonsdale. Images are intentionally overprocessed to give a HDR feel to them
I took my previous posted image of this house overlooking a lilly pond, and played with it until every color seemed rich and saturated. My intention is a striking image, and by pushing the limits of overprocessing I'm trying to achieve that. Believe it or not this is actually a toned down version of what I would have done in past years...so maybe theres hope.
So I've been doing a TON of spring cleaning while I've had time alone at home (Max is on tour...boo) before Eisley leaves on tour..
All the rigorous cleaning got me thinking about women in the 50's and how they always had to look, act and basically BE perfect because that's how society made them out to think they needed to be a lot of the time.
Our house was built in 1927 but I love the 50's (favorite era as far as fashion and design go) and I'm "old fashioned" and believe there's nothing wrong in the LEAST with being a stay-at-home, full time mom, housewife (hardest job next to coal mining probably! haha) but it doesn't mean you can't be a fun, inspired, passionate and creative person...My mom's the perfect example!
Now I, personally, absolutely love cleaning and organizing my home.
It's my pride and joy. My own personal space that I'm constantly changing as I find new things that inspire me. It brings me such happiness (and since we're not renting it, and it's mind and Max's home, I can do whatever the heck I want, and I do).
The laundry room, however, as you can see is one room that is never clean, but it's a laundry room, so who cares.
All this to say I can't really relate to feeling like the character in these photos, but they were fun to take :)
Also, it is only inspired by the 50's that is why there are iphone's and other items
that aren't vintage :)
A follow up to Processing
It is important to nail the shot to begin with. If the composition is done poorly or if WB or exposure is way off then there is no level of processing that can save it. Processing is meant to further improve the quality of the image. For example, in the previous post you probably didn't notice a lot of difference from the original sooc from RAW and the processed one. I was pretty happy with the original but I wanted a little boost so that’s what I did, some minor contrast and sharpness adjustments and I was done. I shoot RAW too and that is simply part of my workflow. Sometimes, I will do JPG SOOC but I very rarely do it any more. However, something can be said about overprocessing. I prefer photographing and spending adequate time in the computer. If it's for learning there's nothing wrong with that but I think every time you find yourself spending hours and hours in the computer and less time in photography then I think some re-thinking is needed. The black and white conversion is totally a different topic and I’ll save that for another day of discussion.
I'll be catching up again, sorry I have no time to view/comment/fave and I still have not completed my photography assignment. Darn!
This was seen and photographed with Eric Flexyourhead.
Studio 13 Salon And Day Spa is located in the heart of the Cathedral Village in Regina.
Sliding was all done in PhotoScape X (free version) - just discovered the new version and had to try it out.
A shot of the street art on the side of the building can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/128924064@N08/16998156699/in/photol...
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
An old image (not sure when from cos I'm pretty sure the date setting on the camera I took it on was wrong). Overprocessed (as is usual for most of my car images)
For week 33 of 52 weeks: 2021 edition, I still owed and Infra-red shot. As I do not have the equipment to do true IR, I let my editing be inspired by what I had seen around the net. The B&W IR that Lightroom offered, did not do it for me.
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
EF35mm f/2 IS USM
Æ’/2.0
35.0 mm
1/50s
ISO100
Flash (off, did not fire)
Very forgetful at the moment, got to this spot and realised I'd left my tripod in the car. Walked to the car and back to get it and then realised I'd forgotten my remote shutter release AGAIN!! Duh! Came up with ingenious MacGyver style solution of bungee cording a small stone to my shutter button with my head torch!
60 x 30 second exposures, f5.6, 400 ISO. Fairly heavily Lightroomed to get rid of noise and make the stars clearer, then stacked with StarStax. The car trails were way to bright stacked so I masked them out in GIMP and replaced them with a single frame.
One of those "not quite what I had in mind, but fairly pleased with it" kind of shots!
Happy Sliders Sunday! :)
While chasing 962, we encountered cloudy weather along the Shag Point coast but in patches there was a shimmering quality to the light that came and went as we waited.
The broadside shot I took here came out flat but I liked the odd light on this overprocessed tele shot with Shaggers in the background.
DXB 5166 DC 4513 DXB 5137 DXB 5022. Sunday train 962, 15 Jan 2017
You'll either love this or find it obscenely overprocessed.
In Minneapolis for a few days at a working event, I was waking up at the crack of dawn every morning due to the jet lag, and was able to go for some lovely but chilly walks with the camera. Down by the river, I came acrosss the North Star Woollen Mill, now some trendy lofts.
By the Mississippi there are some canals, and next to them the textile mill for the North Star Woolen Company, founded in 1864 by W.W. Eastman and Paris Gibson—by 1925 it was the largest manufacturer of wool blankets in the United States. The current steel-framed brick building replaced the original 1864 factory, and the rooftop sign — a metal frame reading "North Star Blankets" with a large star at its centre — went up in 1930. The company moved to Lima, Ohio in 1949 and the building stood empty for nearly fifty years before being converted to lofts in 1998–99, with the exterior and sign retained.
To its left, the Mill City Museum occupies the ruins of the Washburn A Mill at 704 South Second Street. Cadwallader C. Washburn built the original mill on the Mississippi in 1874, sited to exploit the power of St Anthony Falls and served by rail lines bringing grain in from the western plains. In 1878 poor ventilation allowed accumulated flour dust to ignite; the explosion was heard ten miles away in St Paul and killed eighteen men. The rebuilt mill, designed by the Austrian engineer William de la Barre and completed in 1880, was the largest and most technologically advanced flour mill in the world, capable of grinding enough flour in a day for around twelve million loaves. It was the flagship of the Washburn-Crosby Company, later General Mills, and Minneapolis held the title of flour milling capital of the world from 1880 to 1930.
The mill ran for 85 years, expanding to a complex of more than a dozen buildings and surviving a fire in 1928, before closing in 1965. It was added to the National Register in 1971 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1983, but stood derelict until a second fire in February 1991 gutted it, leaving only the concrete interior and crumbling limestone walls. Rather than demolish it, the city cleared the rubble and stabilised the walls, and the Minnesota Historical Society announced plans for a museum on the site. Thomas Meyer of the Minneapolis firm Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle designed the building that rises eight storeys within the shell; the museum opened in September 2003.
Its best-known exhibit is the Flour Tower, in which visitors ride a freight elevator cab through recreated mill floors accompanied by recordings of former workers, exiting onto a ninth-floor observation deck overlooking the falls and the Stone Arch Bridge. The Gold Medal Flour sign still lights up at night on the adjoining grain elevator.