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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
high quality: www.flickr.com/photos/almulder/15589057059
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Check also my other groningen photos on my flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/almulder/sets/72157648459452284/
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.
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Special thanks to "EvidencE" and "Ride My Pony" - the 3 of us went there together, was great fun!!!
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Technical (nothing fancy, but a few asked):
3x (-2, 0, +2) RAW exposures, Canon 50D, Sigma 10mm f/2.8 fisheye
HDR in Photomatix Pro 3
Tonal Contrast & Saturation Adjustments in NikSoftware Color Efex 3.0 Complete
Noise reduction in NeatImage v5.9 Pro+
Tweaking in Photoshop CS3 Extended
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Explored, thanks !
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overprocessing is fun fun fun
i probably made poses like this 150 times today - my arms are SO sore now
...a few outtakes in comments
okay enough spam for today
Two exposure vertorama of another beautiful Jamaican sunset. I think I'm just about done with the Jamaican pictures, although I like this one a bit better. I feel like I overprocessed one or two of the others and this is a bit better. This is what it actually looked like standing on the beach. My wife and I have made a pact to get down to the Caribbean at least once a year. It's too easy and there are too many good deals from Philly not to.
Processing this one was right at the limit of my photoshop / dpp skills. I knew exactly what I wanted out of the shot, but even with 3 different exposures to work with, blending them together by hand to get something acceptable was hard work!
Nipped out last night due to some pretty excellent thunderheads coming down the coast and headed to the windmill since I knew the crops were at a pretty good height.
The sun behaved itself and dropped below the clouds in the last 10 minutes before sunset, and I tried to use the windmill to block out as much of the dynamic range. Even then, with a 2 stop reverse grad to hold it back even more, getting a shot which captured what it looked light to my eyes (with glowing wheat and heavy clouds) was a nightmare - avoiding the picture looking overprocessed is really hard and I'm not sure I've fully succeeded.
Anyway, I'm posting it regardless, as it's the first time I've been out in a while!
EOS 50D / Sigma 10-20mm / Hitech 0.6 Reverse
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I am a person that had no artistic ability at all throughout grades school, high school and college. I still can't draw a stick figure correctly. But I feel at home behind the camera and like to take my images, as Dani www.flickr.com/photos/dd-photography/ recently pointed out in a touching testimonial she wrote for me, a step further than most.
Taken At UT Gardens
SOOC is below
Original was first processed in the iPhone App PRISMA then some further "Slidding" in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 with some Cropping.
Used PRISMA - Style: Aviator filter - all in the iPhone. First for a Painterly effect - then slide for HSS.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
I'm replacing the previous version of this image -- I think it was overprocessed the first time.
I apologize to those of you who left comments that ended up deleted.
From my yard on Tuesday.
I am aware that bad shots may be salvaged somehow. I keep them despite not liking them. I may not know what I am going to do with it but I keep them just in case in the future I see something in them I did not see before.
I am aware that there is controversy if an overprocessed photo is still a photo. I don't really care. It is a form of art either way. My taste in "images" is all over the map whether it be Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) or "processed" into an artistic blob. If I like it, I like it.
I am aware this photo was shot in 2007 and forgotton about until April 28, 2011. It was shot because I live on a residential street near an intersection where drivers were aware that the speed limit was 25 mph but decided to ignore it.. People drove through it at 45 mph or more ignoring the consequences of their actions. Once a month there would be an accident where two cars collided and on some occasions they would take out 4 or 5 parked cars with them.
I am aware of miracles. A little girl riding her bike one day crossed this intersection and was hit by a car. The driver, phone in hand, driving around 40 mph, got a view of a little girl and her bike flying up over her hood and into the windshield, smashing it in. The girl survived with cuts and bruises. We got our Stop sign in two weeks.
I am aware, I may not always show it but I am aware.
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100 Words: #9 Awareness
97:365 [04/07/2010]
Thanks to Pareé for the texture!
During the month of April, I'm taking an online photography class, taught by Tracey Clark from Shutter Sisters. Tracey's going to journey into the zen side of photography, the attention to the moment, finding inspiration in the everyday. It's my favorite form of relaxation, this photography thing, and my view of all of this is very in sync with Tracey's. I'm excited to see where she pushes me to go.
For our lesson today - "We often seek out bright and boastful colors this time of year (we've been fighting the doldrums of winter after all) but spring can also bring the soft, muted tones to soothe our senses and calm our souls. Colored Easter eggs and spring dresses are among a number of places we see and can appreciate another kind of color: the pastel pallet.
Note: Pastels don't just include pinks and blues. Consider all the tones of soft white there are: ecru, eggshell, crème. Consider these as you seek out the soft colors of spring. "
This was actually really hard for me. My color preferences are more vivid, high contrast, some soft light in photoshop. Muted tones, while I absolutely love the look, are just not how I see the world. To wit - I have not one, but two chocolate brown walls in my house. My couch is sort of cranberry/orangish. And the accent pillows on my patio furniture are the same cranberry red. My counters are a pale beige but the backsplash is chocolate marble. And the rest of the walls are muted as well - high contrast in my house. All of my artwork is framed in black against those walls. Not to bore you with the mudane - my headline is this - we all have our preferences, including how we like to see color, color groupings and edges. I like to look at soft colors, but I am most comfortable producing brighter colors in my photography. As a side note, this feels very overprocessed to me - texture upon action upon action, but I finally like the look. Muted = fake? I don't know. But the chocolates certainly are yummy!
This is an abstract to reming me of wall papering on Easter Monday. The recipient of this was my daughter. The result was fantastic. This is an overprocessed view of it :)
Taken with my iPhone. Processed initially with the phone's Camera Bag application's Lomo filter. Then further tweaked by my computer's ACDSee software. I wasn't satisfied with this shot until I had over-processed it into the realm of the abstract!
...this is what i imagine it looks like
Remarkably enough, Abby stood still long enough for me to fire off three frames without any movement. Score!!!
I realize that for some this image may seem overprocessed -- that's a valid criticism, particularly since people have a wide range of opinions about HDR (including that it's "cheating"). Since I focused quite a bit on the composition and framing, even if you don't like the processing I would still love some critique/comments on the framing and comp. Thanks!
My complete collection of HDR photos can be found here.
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=> For those interested in learning about HDR, Trey Ratcliff (Flickr handle: Stuck in Customs) is widely considered an HDR guru/expert/pioneer. His website has a few free basic instructional videos on how to create HDR images as well as info on how to learn more advanced techniques. Highly, highly recommend!
I was not in the mood to shoot today. I was, however, in the mood to overprocess an image.........
I got this door wreath for a buck some time ago, I tore it all apart and wrapped it around my neck. I shot with it and then tried to remove it and these little bally things got all tangled up and I couldn't get it off, and I had a mini panic attack, and ripped it off and ruined it......haha, oh well it was only a buck.
This is a set of three variations based on a single image. The original is an in-camera multiple exposure of two ICMs of the same tree branches, taken early this year. The camera blend mode was Lighten which erases parts of the dark branches giving it a glitchy feel.
The three versions are progressions. The monochrome one is a straight edit using Nik Silver Efex to convert to B&W. I rather liked the intermittent patterns this produced.
The second is the same but this time tinkering in Silver Efex with toning and inverting the Curves graph (in the film attributes) to give it a blue negative look. The effect was quite different to the plain edit, like a moonlit scene.
The third version was an over-mangle for Sliders Sunday today. Version 2 was processed in Nik Color Efex using a bit of solarisation and a Bicolor filter to reintroduce some colours. Then I decided to try mangling some more, so I duplicated the layer, flipped the copy horizontally and then blended the two layers with Pin Light. (I’ve rarely used Pin Light before so it was a novelty for me, though the best of the blend modes in this instance). Finally, a bit of tinkering with the colour and brightness, and a run-through with Topaz Denoise AI to get rid of some of the noise overprocessing introduced.
The end result strikes me as being a bit sinister though that was not my intention.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
I was testing the front-facing iPhone camera and realized that the only person in front of this camera is me. I don't know why I was surprised. The camera is really low resolution and is not meant for photos. I am not sure if I am going to use it for anything, really. Slightly accusing look is due to the general dislike of being photographed. Of course, in this case no one was forcing me, so I have no idea whom I am mad at. Also it is the morning after New Year's celebration and I need an aspirin!
Anyhow...I thought over-processed selfies of questionable quality are cliche enough...so are New Year resolutions!. HCS and Happy 2011, you guys!
One more is in the comments. Oh, and I saw Cliche Saturday Scavenger Hunt categories only after I took this shot. I think I'll add it to "out of your comfort zone" thread. Because selfies are definitely NOT my comfort zone.
I like what HDR can do for high contrast Black and White shots. I try not to overprocess my HDR shots. This one still looks a bit spooky to me for some reason.
this is random, and bad
just wanted to show you my ankh tattoo. if only it were real.
And say that I'm shooting a roll of film this weekend! woo hoo!
i like cornfields.
Time for a break from my usual-No hair flipping, dumb guys flailing in the air, overprocessed HDRs and silhouettes (don't worry, its all coming). Just a nice simple mountain shot. Not sure which peaks these are. Just some I snagged while driving down to Wolf Creek CO last winter. Think they were on the southern edge of the Sangre De Cristos... any guesses?
Shooting note, not positive, but I think this was another shot taken from out the moonroof as I drove by. Who has the time to acually STOP to do anything? Seriously.
I had to redo this image, too much overprocessing destroyed it! I came around the corner, and just as I lifted my camera he looked in my direction. He was waiting for somebody to open the door for him.
WEEK 35 – Toys “R” Us Closing, Columbia, SC (I)
As compared to the first photo of today’s set, where I increased the color saturation to make the letters pop, in this one you can see the old BRU sign a little more naturally. It’s always tough in situations like this, because the colors do appear more, well, colorful in person than they often come out in pictures; but unfortunately, trying to edit the pictures to make them more colorful usually just makes them look overprocessed instead. :/
Babies "R" Us (now closed) // 254 Harbison Blvd, Columbia, SC 29212
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
For me this evokes thoughts of a dystopian future where capitalism finally collapses and the bright shiny future which we thought was on offer is shown for its true self.
I hope you'll forgive the depressive perspective but, y'know....
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The debate between get it right in the camera and I can just fix it in post processing. I have purest friends who believe photographs should be a representation of what you saw with your eye and only minimal adjustments are acceptable, and I have friends who believe the image is not one in front of the eye but in ones mind. I believe that you should get as much right in the camera as possible but we all should have the "creative license" to make it our Art. Where do you stand? Today was a day that it rained all day, I didn't have any ideas for my self portrait. I took a few shots at a place I knew I could keep the camera dry and still be outside. Below is the SOOC shot which I didn't like much at all. As you can see today was one of those days I leaned on the post processing to hopefully save the shot.
Todays challenge on dailyshoot.com was "Stairs and ramps lead the eye and take us places. Make a photo of a stair or ramp that you see today."
Didnt have much time to get shots today so took a couple of shots of the stairs by the lightrail stop as I walked past it tonight, wasnt a great shot so tried to give it a dark moody feel with processing to save it, not sure I did but its all I got for todays challenge
There are some in the world
that can love a black pearl
or find comfort in the darkness.
They can sing in the rain,
and smile in the night,
but not I.
Though I am not a stranger to darkness
I long for light.
Though I am not a sranger to imperfection
I love the pure.
Thought I am not a stranger to sadness
I yearn for the happy and the free.
But that's just me.
(Location: Pecatu Beach Bali)
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 :)
A young Highland calf photographed at eye level in open pasture. Lowering the camera removes distance and puts the viewer directly into the scene. The soft background separation keeps attention on the subject, while the natural light brings out texture without making it feel overprocessed. No setup — just positioning, patience, and timing.
This is an iPhone shot from almost a year ago. I couldn't decide which edit I like better, so I uploaded another version in the comments along with the original. HSS, everyone!