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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!
Did a bit of over the top processing to bring out the tones and colors. It might feel a bit like HDR, but its just a single shot. Overprocessed.
Sigma 10-20mm
Canon T2i / 550D
handheld
3 shots
HDR tonemapping + NoiseWare + Unsharp Mask + B&W conversion tool in PS + the resulting b&w layer was added as a luminance layer in PS.
I added the original shot (unprocessed) on top of all layers to 'normalize' the whole thing.. it was looking excessively sharp and over-saturated.. it's still overprocessed but that's why experiments are for..
.. a never ending learning curve ..
After being on Flickr for a while, you notice that there are some people who don’t like overcooked hdr’s. In fact, a lot of them absolutely despise anything that has to do with hdr. They will go to great lengths to SEARCH AND DESTROY all evidence of paranormal dynamic ranges. They swear by the SOOC code and shun all who dare to adjust their curves in photoshop. They flame hdr forums and bring home news of their victories to all their buddies with point and shoots.
Honestly, I think this photo just looks a little silly though. (Okay, fine, not silly. Cut me some slack guys. lol)
But how often are you walking along the beach when the sun shoots some light rays through the cloud gap and the -2 exposure just happens to look like the apocalypse is about to happen? To me? About once every 15 years.
Stay classy San Diego.
Just wanted to say that :P
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 :)
Yet another image of the Orion nebula. This one was created with less light pollution and more subframes. That means better colors and a lot less noise and less of that overprocessed look. This is a compilation of roughly 95 frames, ranging from 3.2 seconds to 60 seconds, ISO 800 and 1600. Merged to HDR, and tonemapped with a global operator.
With my setup, I can't go much over 60 second exposures without the stars smearing.
Not bad for a pawn shop camera, eh?
Much, much better large.
I have mixed feeling about this shot, I find this quite unappealing.lol so i might delete this hours later if my ficklemindedness acts up.The plant looks exotic though, is it a some kinda carnivorous plant? Btw guys, this shall be my final macro shot I promise.
I posted my previous, recent macro shots at a local forum and they commented the photos are too contrasty and overprocessed and too artistic for standard macro. However, I hope I can provide a new perspective to the macro sphere. Artistry is what I aim for in every work so I hope I'm not letting anyone here down.
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Fiction and reality collide
Faceless and so busted up inside
You've been searching you've been crying out
Will you be destroyed by all your doubt?
You decide
(Who will you run to)
Wrong or right
(There is no reason)
For you to hide
Only love can change your life
You decide
God is calling out to you again
Let Him pull you, let Him take you in
From the fear that swallows up for your life
Will you stay the same or will you fight?
You decide
(Who will you run to)
Wrong or right
(There is no reason)
For you to hide
Only love can change your life
Only love can change your life
Every day you hold on to your lonely broken heart
(It's tearing you apart)
God is calling out to you just let healing start
(Will you open up and let Him in)
You decide
(Who will you run to)
Wrong or right
(There is no reason)
For you to hide
Only love can change your life
You decide
~You Decide
By: Fireflight
no big story or significant connection here. too tired to go do creative interperative stuff, so i just put up the lyrics to whatever song was on at the very second i posted this shot. pandora radio = win.
couldnt sleep. no, not by choice, i layed down, head on pillow, 2 hours passed, im stil up. couldnt find anything to occupy my mind so i went back into some old files of possible HDR processing shots that i never made time to explore. there are specific reasons why i choose not to spend too much time fixing these batches up, this being a good example... overprocessed is an understatement, and sadly, without doing so, the entire set would be in the recycle bin. this one however, showed promise in the raw stages, but once it came together, it proved to be more work and attention to detail than i was willing to apply when i was shooting this, thus making it ten times as much a hassel to process. GEESH!
ok there, i did something almost creative. i tilted my watermark and hid it in the photo, can you find it? muahaha.
in the words and hit song title by Paramore: "For a pessemist, i'm pretty optimistic." don't ya think?
have a great monday everyone.
Best viewed larger - click 'all sizes' above the pic.
Nope, sorry, I still haven't got over my like of overprocessed HDR!
This lorry was sitting on an overgrown verge, along with a number of others. It clearly hasn't been used for a while, although superficially it doesn't seem in too bad a condition for a vehicle of that age.
On top of it is an old dumper truck - you can see part of it in the pic. There are old vans and lorries to either side of it, and one parked tightly behind it too.
A cute psychedelic Android. :D
Theme of the week: Sliders Sunday*
*it's about "over-processing" your picture in a way you like and which looks obviously weird compared to the original.
Sunset over Wascana
Passed this image through a number of different apps.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
sadly, we are no longer in touch & I hate when rifts happen that cannot be repaired. It's the part of life that sucks & I wish it never happened...
The edit of course is all me. :)
I spent most of my childhood crawling deep into books. The deeper the better.
We moved frequently. Being the New Kid at school, in a class full of other kids who had grown up together, was a thing I expected to endure each September.
Eventually, I figured out I had no more control over whether or not we moved, than I had over whether the Russians bombed the shit out of me. (It was, after all, the sixties…) But one day I realized that I could always choose the things that occupied my mind.
I started light with Dick and Jane – and that wonderfully antiseptic world they lived in where Father always wore a suit and Mother even wore a frilly dress to fix supper. The kids all got along and Spot was a cool dog. Even Sally was mostly okay…vacuous as hell…but mostly okay.
Then I moved over to the Hardy Boys (and Nancy Drew when no one was watching since they were basically the same kind of story…although one was ostensibly for girls). After that I main-lined Doc Savage and Tarzan, Sam Spade and Miss Marple. I ate up AA Merit and Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson. My heroes weren’t actors or athletes. They were Heinlein and Asimov, King and Matheson. On my more shadowy days I read Edgar Allan Poe and the Dark Shadows series. I totally bought into all of it.
Why am I telling you this?
Because remembering my childhood is a little like photographing old cars. They awaken the same sense of longing I used to feel reading fiction. I have this powerful sense that nothing bad could possibly happen in these beauties.
In the world these cars came from Father would always have time to play catch and Mother would bake endless cookies and the house would look like a photographer from Good Housekeeping was expected at any moment. Sally could always be counted on to say something cute. And Spot would never EVER pee on the floor.
There’s something majestic about these regal vehicles, something utterly surreal. They carry in the very fabric of their metal, something wonderful. Simply sitting a car like that would be like breathing magic, right?
In my mind’s eye I can see the whole family cruising down the highway listening to the radio and singing along with Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby. These cars were designed to go out on frosty Christmas Eves and return home with the perfect tree tied to the roof as the snow gently falls and everyone inside is smiling.
They are tough little time travellers because they are survivors, rolling gently into our world from a time when making something beautiful was more important than gas mileage, when designers put fins on their cars because they added elegance and, let’s face it, just looked really cool.
This car was magical to me. I could smell sweet dreams all over it. This image is about trying to infuse that sense of wonder and longing in a picture.
Full moon (or shortly after) shot taken on Dec 13th. This photo is a stack of 50 different exposures (of varying length) stacked by multipoint registration in Registax, deconvolution in Astra Image and final processing in PS CS3.
Image was taken with a Canon 300D and Celestron C-6N telescope at prime focus. Exposures were done at ISO 100 and exposures varying from 1/4000 to 1/2000.
If you want to see just what stacking multiple shots gets you, compare the above image to a single exposure processed (I overprocessed it though) in PS using high pass filters. That Image can be found here
A little series of Dogwood blooms. The flowers are the yellowy greeny bits in the centre. The white "petals" are actually bracts. I love dogwood. Our Darling Daughter "saved " them for us so we could see them on our recent trip to visit her. The Redbuds were still pretty too but too high up for me to photograph easily! These are perhaps a BIT overprocessed but I was doing them so I could try to paint some and wanted to really see details. Anyway, enjoy a touch of the southland! We had a BALL with our babes but a WRETCHED drive home in a blizzard ALL the way home- 1280 km - one way! We were on the road 18 hours yesterday. Today...!!!!!
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 :)
In an attempt to avoid housework, I am overprocessing my photos. Happy Bench Monday, have a good week!
PLEASE VIEW IN SOMETHING OTHER THAN GOOGLE CHROME (for MAC, not sure about PC) - it seriously limits the colors. see here for details.
Just trying to do something different and be creative. Maybe I'm guilty of over processing. However, since I was so rushed on this trip for all of my shots (w/wife and 2-year-old in tow), I didn't feel like I had the time to set up for epic shots and sunsets/sunrises. Maybe I'm over compensating for lack of composition on some of these:) If you take a look at the original shot below, you can see what I had to work with at the start.
How I did this, in case anyone's interested:
* Opened the original raw image in ACR and did my usual process of tweaking the fill light, upping the contrast, upping the blacks, etc. I pretty much use the same process as Tom Bricker, see this tutorial www.wdwphotography.com/workflow-tom-bricker/. BTW, I highly recommend this site for everyone - get yo learn on.
* Once in PS, I upped the shadows/highlights to bring out the shadow detail on the tower and bring it out of the darkness.
* Attempted to remove some of the fisheye effect with the distort tool because of the next step...
* Using the distort pointer tool, widened the base of the picture to use forced perspective and make the tower look… well, towering
* Applied Topaz Adjust on the image to bring out all of the subtle stains and lines in the stucco of the tower.
* Created a ray of light from behind the tower using the technique here: photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulat...
* Added a rounded corner on the entire picture as shown here: matthom.com/archive/2004/09/10/fast-rounded-corners-in-ph...
Constructive criticism and feedback is welcomed.
We eventually made it all the way up Armstrong Canyon to Owachomo Bridge. I wanted a photo (of course) but didn't want to take the same photo as the last time. So I scrambled around for a while and came up with - Surprise! Another hdr of the bridge with water in front of it. Different angle, different pool of water, but there ya go.
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The sunset was beautiful. I was there with my camera and tripod. Took multiple photos with HDR in mind. Got home and it didn't look at all what I saw in real life. But with the idea in mind that there is no such thing as a "bad" photo I spent endless hours endlessing processing all my sunset photos from that day into this image. It's completely overprocessed, and not much better than when I started but at least I think its more interesting.
Caught this "Semi" as we were passing it. Not often I get to be the passenger in the back seat, so to relieve boredom I got the cell phone out and "played".
Used Prisma: Breakfast filter - all in the iPhone. First for a Painterly effect - then used only a bit of a slide for HSS in Adobe Photoshop Elements.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
Uh oh, found the split tone sliders in Lightroom. Will try to resist the urge to pollute my stream with a bunch of overprocessed nonsense...
A Summers morning down by the river at Kirkby Lonsdale. Images are intentionally overprocessed to give a HDR feel to them
Taken from the Napa Valley Wine Train. It was difficult to get a decent capture with the shaking and window glare. Lightly textured and heavily processed to make this scene look somewhat like a painting.
Still practising sunsets, quite happy with how these came out. Pity there wasnt more colour in the sky (there was with my eyes, just not through the lens!). Dont want to overprocess too much but do wonder if the "incredible" colours in some photos are through photoshop
Had a tough time figuring out what to process for this Friday post. Wed's photo was from Oregon and so I did some searching further from those directories. This photo's main process was done originally for: PtReyesPort@Sunset, ThePtReyesWSunset2 and ThePtReyesWSunset ...See below. I verry much liked the silluetted rock outcropping and lone tree, but at the time I was more interested in the sky for the ship composition.
So here is the sky on it's own with the beach silhouetted haystack & tree. I hope U all like it. Possibly a little overprocessed for the coloring of the clouds, but again it spoke to me.
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I first heard about this waterfall after thumbing through the book: Pokin' Round the Gorge. Easily the weirdest book on the Gorge. If you've ever seen it, you know what I mean. I think my favourite picture from the book is of a man's hand placing blackberries in a triangle shape onto a nude woman's nether region. That's just funny. And creative. Yet odd.
Anyhow, Jenna and I went out to this waterfall a couple months ago when I found this composition I liked quite a bit. But at the time, the water in the lower half of the picture was blowing out something fierce. I knew what needed to be done, but it was very cold, my hands were getting numb, and there was a fair amount of spray to contend with.
So, fast forward a couple months to a few weeks ago when I went out with Jenna, Victor, and Crisse for a day filled with waterfall shooting. This was the last one on our list. I had unfinished business with this waterfall. I knew exactly what I wanted and how I was going to do it.
I shot this at an ultra-wide 10mm (digital). I had a slim polarizer, so vignetting wouldn't be a problem with that filter. But, I needed a soft graduated neutral density filter on top of that to make sure the water in the lower portion of the photo wouldn't blow out. I also only had a Cokin P filter holder which would create vignetting if I shot at that wide a focal length with another filter. I learned a little trick from a book on filters a long time ago. After you have your polarizer set where you want it, you use low tack gum to stick an added filter to your lens barrel without causing vignetting. Problem solved. A pain in the ass, especially considering I had to keep wiping spray from both filters while trying to place it exactly where it needed to be, but I got the result I wanted.
Which brings me to my next thought I had while on a walk some time after this shot. I thought that we might be nearing the end of the age of the graduated neutral density filter, at least for digital. Here's why I had that thought. Let's say you're shooting a sunrise. The foreground will need a longer exposure than the sky, right? Okay, so let's say there's a three stop difference between the foreground and sky. Using live-view on your camera, you use a thin white ruler on the LCD that you move to the transition point between the foreground and sky. A simple dial could be used to move the ruler up and down on the screen to wherever you want it. Then, the camera looks at the foreground, takes a light reading, and sets the correct exposure. It takes two photos. One long exposure for the foreground and a shorter exposure for the sky. Inside the camera, in RAW, it combines the images into one picture in nanoseconds. You can manually decide how sharp or soft you want the transition point to be if you'd like to have that kind of control, but you don't have to. Voila! Goodbye neutral density grad.
Obviously, you can do this in Photoshop, but come on, in this instant gratification age? I don't have that kind of time. Especially if a computer can do it for me much faster in my camera while I'm on location. It could be a simple function on any new digital camera. Bring it on, Canon, Nikon, and Pentax. I'm waiting.
If you'd like, you can take it one step further. This would be trickier though. Same procedure as above, but only one shot, not two combined. Here's how. Knowing that one side of the picture will need to be a longer exposure than the other, the exposure begins for both sides of the picture at the same time, but after the sky gets done exposing first, the sensor's pixels stop exposing for the sky and waits for the exposure to end for the sensor's pixels capturing the foreground. The power is just cut to those pixels exposing for the sky and they stop receiving light. The transition zone would expose between the time of the sky and foreground to look like one seemless exposure. That would be about perfect and there wouldn't be an overprocessed HDR look. But this would really only work on compositions where one side of the picture required a different exposure from the other side, not in multiple areas of the composition, or an uneven transition zone. That's the point where HDR will finally need to rise to the occasion and actually look real while performing this action. They're still a ways off from that as far as I'm concerned. But my first idea of comibining two exposures in camera could be done in a few weeks. At least the writing of the program to perform this function.
Messy processing...
Spent a lovely bright afternoon at Wilstone Resi - bit too bright really. Would have looked great at sunset but I had to be somewhere else..so I sent this to LR/Color Efex and gave it the 'sunset treatment' instead. OMG :)
for Sunday Sliders
2 textures in PSE and Vintage colour in Lightroom and upped the saturation of the purple shed.
Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills was one of the most successful and enduring products to be manufactured and marketed in North America as part of the lucrative patent medicine industry, which thrived during most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its manufacturer claimed the pills contained herbal ingredients that would help "cleanse the blood," as "impurity of the blood" was believed to be the cause of all disease.
Overprocessed to the max...uninspired, I pushed the photoshop controls with, errm, interesting results
Shot on the embankment of the Elbe river near Landungsbrücken. In case you wonder: these inclined long rods are lamps and the one in the center looked to me like a magic wand, that had set the clouds alight.
Another picture in portrait format. Seems to be my thing right now.
PS: Changed the post processing a bit today (21/03/2021) because I thought it was tad too dark and overprocessed/to artificial...