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Before a coaster shuts down, the ride cycles its trains without anyone on it too get everyone off the ride before it's closed. When I took this photo, the ride broke down, but was still able to get all the riders off without evacuating them off in different areas of the ride. I had my shot all planned and everything, took the shot, looked in the LCD screen to see the shot and it had no people on it... I thought I was seeing things, but the ride just happened to break down.
Oh, and yeah, I overprocess sometimes, it's just too funnn. haha. (:
I used the trial version of Photomatix Pro on the two rainbow shots. There is a tendency to overprocess, if, like me, you prefer a scene in its natural state.
Our Daily Challenge - Straight
The first thing I thought of was straight laced - think accountant, headmistress - the straight faced was unintentional all the other shots were far too DuckFaced!
Practicing some photoshop skills for a 'safari' style shoot I've been approached to do - tell me what you think?
SLIDER SATURDAY 13/52
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.
Ok...so it's a different kind of slider. :)) Lensbaby Experiements continue
Oh, look.
More overprocessing.
Photoshop is like a dangerous pit. If I'm just doing random experimenting, I keep adding things and changing things and adding things and changing things until I've created this kind of black hole which I delude myself into thinking looks good until I realize I should probably revert the whole photo.
But then by that point, I'm like, there's no way in the world I'm going to spend another hour making this photo look worse.
Anyway.
I think it's silly that we limit "love" to one day a year. If you really love someone, I think you should treat him or her everyday as though he or she is incredibly special. I mean, today, a woman professor was walking by with a bouquet, and another woman was like, "Oohhhh, somebody's loved." No. Somebody's husband simply remembered today was this overrated holiday and realized he had to do something about it or his wife's heart would be smooshed (I know you don't know what I sound like, but in my head, I'm using a sort of melodramatic voice for those last couple of words.).
The best gifts come on the most random of days. Those are the gifts from the heart. Those are the gifts that say, "I love you, and I don't have to have a reason to tell you so other than that I just want to let you know." I mean, how sad are we that we devote only one day to it?
(And when I say "gifts," I'm referring to the whole love thing in general. Like the dinners and the movies and the flowers that typically accompany Valentine's Day or simply telling someone know that you love him or her (which isn't simple, of course; it means a whole heck of a lot, but I need to stop before I diverge anymore (and I know that when I wrote "or simply stating..." that was in know way parallel to the the list I had already created, but tonight, my friends, I just don't care.).).)
But then again, I have some pretty radical ideas that maybe would have been the cause of my execution in less civil times. :P
They say it was Explored #111. I'm not too sure about this. It's not showing up on trusty fdflickr toys. Regardless, thank you for all the kind words and favorites!!
Intentionally overprocessed - the day was very overcast, and this white car was totally blown out in a desaturated setting. While fiddling with the Levels to see what I could eek out of the detail, I noticed that the farther I went in this direction, the better it looked.
I almost didn't post this photo until a friend said he really liked it a lot. I thought it was overprocessed, since I had to adjust the light after the fact. And I was distracted by the shadows of the leaves on my head and bodice, as well as the overactive background.
What do you think?
ODC Theme: Artwork/PhotoArt
Taken 28 July '11
HDR city, I just love mucking about in that sandpit. The results can be anything you like, or dislike, and it's pretty much open to your own artistic interpretation. I'm not going to explain what HDR is as there's a bazillion sites that do a far better job (google "HDR" and read away) but applying HDR has a bit of a reputation for ruining perfectly good images, also known as "overprocessing". The process can be applied in a subtle or in a heavy handed way but that's left to the expertise and interpretation of the photographer/artist.
I played around for about 30mins with the sliders until I found an image I thought looked like it could have been handdrawn or airbrushed , which was just something I thought would be fitting for the ODC theme today. See below for the "OMG...I'm blinded now!!" result that I clearly closed my eyes for and slid everything to the right.
Gaze upon my labor of love in "Large View".
ps. For some seriously perfect HDR, check out this guys work... Artie|Photography
Another shot of my neighbour's handsome horse, Sly---this time pulling a funny face while eating grass. In trying to keep detail in the sky and Sly, I think I've overprocessed this a bit, because, to me, the background looks a bit unnatural!
We chose to take the Cave Route down instead of backtracking back up to the saddle and following the canyon trail back down. There's no real trail across and down the rock but there are a few scattered cairns, which seem to point in all directions. Gnarly, scrambly, find a series of tiny footholds scrambling down off the rock - I kept thinking we were off the real route and as soon as we got down and hit the trail we'd look back and see the real route up. Hey, it's happened before... But when we got to the bottom we were right on the trail. That really was the route. To all that follow - I'd recommend going UP this way and back down the canyon trail.
(this looks a little overprocessed to me but it's untouched - straight outta the camera)
Overprocessed but what the heck. I can tell my eyesight is going bad as this a manual focus only lens...it was pretty blurred when I downloaded it. Fixing didn't really help, but I put in the work so I might as well show someone what NOT to do.
Well, you know how it is... When you get used to this, you'll always keep looking, always try to find someone to photograph.
A couple weeks ago I went to Antalya for a fly-in event and had the chance to shoot some stranger portraits.
Meet Melis.
I met her when I visited the tower to take some photos of the landing aircraft. It looked like she's a friend of the air traffic controller and they were sitting inside. I said hi and settled into the balcony.
After some time they came out and she started posing to the controller with the binoculars and the radio and the guy was taking her pictures with a cell phone.
As you would imagine, that was the point when I jumped into the scene. :)
It turned out that Melis is working for an airline company and supervising the cargo operations and she was at Antalya for a short weekend trip.
Lately, I am struggling with the tone curves of my monitors. I have two and never had managed to tune them properly and they have different tones. Hope you guys see a nice, natural looking picture that is not overprocessed.
This picture is #42 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
To view more street portraits and stories visit The Human Family www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/
I saw patterns left by the flow of rainwater on a gravel road. But then I got totally carried away in post, so in addition to an overprocessed abstract, I see a Doctor Seuss character, ar mabybe a rabbit standing up, confronting a duck. No doubt, others skilled in pareidolia will report other discoveries. At least, I hope so.
In any case, Happy Sliders Sunday!
Attempted to catch the liveliness of the Harbourside as people do their socialising outdoors while they can. Not sure it quite succeeded.
Almost didn't post it because that sky was starting to give me c. ~2008 primitive HDR vibes, despite the processing not being all that strong on this. Maybe I should have overprocessed it just to avoid that...
...and call it a day!
So, I was completely uninspired today and also didn't have much time. So I did what Xavier says that he does sometimes and that is to use a fisheye lens. And then I processed the heck out of it. I picked up an Olloclip for my iPhone tonight!
160/366
Kyoto, Japan
The classic view, which I found difficult to process as it easily seemed to look overprocessed!
I read once that Ansel Adams saw a negative in the darkroom as a conductor saw the script before he played it with orchestra...with software replacing the darkroom, how far is appropriate? All I can say is, this image is what my eye saw and my mind processed.
So I just got those Nix photo tools, and therefore this shot of Tuttifruiti is ridiculously overprocessed. I'm not really sure how to make good use of them yet...
Today I did a lunchtime walk that took me in a slightly different direction.
I knew that Woolton Woods hosted a beautiful walled garden, but who knew that there was a fabulous sunken garden further down the road!?!
This is an HDR composite of two hand held shots on the compact which is why it looks overprocessed to death.
It does make two dull photos a little more interesting, but I won't be making a habit of it. :)
Blessed Sacrament Church
The Oblate Fathers built this church in 1905 and called it St. Mary's. The name was changed to Blessed Sacrament in 1934. This church at 2049 Scarth Street is the oldest Roman Catholic Church in Regina and the second oldest church in the city still in use (St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral was built in 1894).
Source: Archdiocese of Regina, a History. Regina: Archdiocese of Regina, 1988.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
I swear!
But I think I like this one the most, of all the others.. those just seem overprocessed and.. idk, just looked at those too much I guess :)
AGAIN LAST ONE I SWEAR!
52.5 Weeks of 2010 [Theme:Night Street]
I don't normally do much post-processing, but thought I'd give it a try as this photo needed something doing to it (see original on my photostream)... think I may have got a bit carried away!
Started life as a 3 photo HDR then turned it B&W and added a bit of fog and then a bit of a lighting effect. HDR processed using PhotoMatix and then 'enhanced' using GIMP.
As always, better viewed on Black (lightbox view)
Comments welcomed, thanks!
Typically I process an astrophoto conservatively and then come back and upload a more aggressively processed version later on.
This time I did just the opposite--I thought the Milky Way photo I uploaded earlier was overprocessed, and I reprocessed it more conservatively.
I think this one has a more natural feel to it, and it's easier to pick out the brighter stars against the background. The Milky Way isn't as bright ... but I can't seem to brighten it without making a mess anyhow - at least not at this wide a focal length.
Yeah, I know, shameless overprocessing here . . . I just felt like it! ; )
From Gregory Franzwa's Lincoln Highway book:
The King Tower was built in 1937 by Wesley Mansfield, who promoted it as one of the most modern twenty-four-hour truck stops in the Midwest. It consisted of a two-story restaurant building with an adjacent service garage, a filling station office, and a cabin camp in back. The cafe actually was air-conditioned. There was a flashing sign on a tower atop the station.
Today, only the cafe (which has been closed for the best part of a year because of the new highway bypass) one tourist cabin and two neon signs remain.
Vintage postcard here.
5 exposure HDR (@ F/20, 20mm) of the US Capitol Building deliberately overprocessed (makes it look more like a painting)