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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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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.
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.
Original was first "Slid" in PhotoScape, Cropped to tighten in on the locks and then threw image into FotoSketcher to add some more texture to the image - this version used Cartoon setting.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
Original photo posted - for comparison:
www.flickr.com/photos/128924064@N08/29822692206/in/datepo...
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)
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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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! :)
On Explore July 23, 2009 # 469
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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
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.
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)
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
I'm reasonably sure the real reason I stopped at the boat launch on Charlotte Highway was to take this photo.
Yeah, this one's overprocessed. But I wanted to bring out all those branches.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2021 photo-a-day project, 365^4.
You may notice that the focal length on this shot is pretty high. Obviously not my standard telephoto lens. While shooting along the lakeshore last week, I had met another photographer with a really big lens. We had a great discussion about photography and equipment. He had invited me to try out his lens. Wow! what a difference. I may have overprocessed this a bit...oh well. My new acquaintance is also a Flikr member. Check out his photostream www.flickr.com/photos/27950469@N06/. Thanks Bill!
I took a lot of pictures of Arrochar in the rain, and not many of them came out well. But I was watching a video of someone taking pictures in Iceland, where it rained a lot, and looking at how they processed their photos and thought to try revisit some of these. In the video they overprocess their digital shots in a way that isn't to my tastes, but it did make me think that in these kind of conditions perhaps I do need to try pushing the photo around a bit more than I'm usually comfortable doing to get something that isn't just drab and dull as it appears out of camera. In the video its interesting to compare the photo he has vs the video footage of when he took it - they're quite different.
This one is a little soft due to the f/5.6 aperture, but otherwise has come out okay. The lighting is a little un-natural, which not that happy with, but it saves it being too muddy if I don't bring up the shadows. But I do like the scene in the photo of Arraochar, with the hill overlooking it and the loch before it.
A Summers morning down by the river at Kirkby Lonsdale. Images are intentionally overprocessed to give a HDR feel to them
HDR from 3 single shots. Postprocessing in Photomatix and Photoshop.
I know it's a bit overprocessed, but I wanted to show the magic of this place!
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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
Another one from the archives but it brought back memories of a quiet mind and toes full of sand.....
It's a better
I've got loads of selfies, I even admit I really like making them, even though that may sound a bit like I'm a narcist - maybe I am, a little bit.
Truth is, I was really sick for 2 days and didn't want to photograph my watery eyes - which is no excuse because actually I don't always care how I look on a picture - even made photos in the past when I was ill, and because I believe in "what you see, is what you get", no vanity for me, but "give me real, don't give me fake" (Coldplay - Politik).
So I took a snapshot of my earring instead and overprocessed it to make it feel like I'm sick again.
If you want to know how I look like in real life :-) : me myself I
A happy 2019 full of challenges !
Not typically my style either... but I thought I'd upload something from yesterday- this one being from the Seattle airport waiting for my next flight.
Processed first as an HDR from 3 bracketed exposures, and then overprocessed with my heavy glaze action and a load of other tweaks.
ENG: View on of the beautiful canals of Groningen with in the centre behind the "Der Aa- church. With a group of photo friends from the Randstad we visited Groningen to make some photos of the city centre. The photo below was shot on 8 november 17:36. With of few friends of the group we were waiting till blue hour appeared. This is a period of twilight each morning and evening when the sun is below the horizon and the remaining, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue color. You see the reflection of blue colors on the roof and the windows. This is not caused by overprocessing. The light was just beautiful and there were no distracting lighttrails or any flares, so a single photo and a basic postprocessing was enough to create this photo.
NL: Uitzicht op de mooie grachten van Groningen met in het midden achter de " Der Aa- kerk . Met een groep fotovrienden uit de Randstad hebben wij de Groningen binnenstad bekeken en gefotografeerd. De onderstaande foto werd geschoten op 8 november 17:36 . Met van enkele vrienden van de groep, we hebben op dit punt gewacht tot het mooiste licht en contrast in het blauwe uur verscheen . Het blauwe uur is een periode van schemering in de ochtend en avond als de zon onder de horizon verdwijnt en de resterende, indirect zonlicht een overwegend blauwe kleur geeft. Je ziet de reflectie van blauwe kleuren op het dak en de ramen. Deze kleur wordt niet veroorzaakt door overprocessing. Het licht was gewoon mooi en er waren geen afleidende lichtstrepen of flares , zodat een enkele foto en een simpele basisbewerking was genoeg om deze foto te creëren
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Some information about the church (wikipedia):
Der Aa-kerk (nl:A-kerk) is a church from the Middle Ages in the centre of Groningen, Netherlands.
Originally there was a chapel situated on the site of the current church. This chapel was devoted to Mary and to Saint Nicholas, the patron of the bargees who cast off the vessels at the Westerhaven (Westerharber).
In 1247, the chapel became the parish church and was named Onze Lieve Vrouwe ter Aa (Our Lady at the Aa) - Aa being the nearby river. Groningen had two centers at the time. One of them was around the chapel. Here lived the fishermen and the traders. Between 1425 and 1465, the chapel was changed into a brick church with a transept. Images of the Siege of Groningen in 1672 show Der Aa-kerk without the top of the tower. After the war a new wooden tower top was built.
On 23 April 1710, the tower spontaneously collapsed killing two people. In 1711, a new tower was built.