Morning fog hits San Francisco

Mt Tamalpais, Marin, California

Nikon D70, Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR

Adobe Lightroom (photo merge, spot removal, graduated filter, basic, tone curve, detail, lens corrections, effects)

3 exposures @ f/13, iso 800, 70mm (105mm)

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This wasn’t actually taken on the East Peak, but I believe on the drive back I turned off the road and photographed the haze as it spread across the San Francisco Bay. I liked this angle because from here you can see both the skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge in the same line, while still having the foreground show and frame the distance of the photograph.

The elevator shaft in the surgery building at Beelitz. Note the floor information at the doors in German and Russian and the different way of counting: the first floor in German is equal to the second floor in Russian. The elevator cage itself can be seen at the very top, hanging at the top floor.

Postprocessed in Photohop, a collection of - NOT LOMOGRAPHIC - Diana-cameras!

... as I remember it.

"so raise your glasses, here's a toast to wasted lives" Stone Roses

A picture of St Albans Abbey Gateway which was originally part of the whole Cathedral area but is now part of the St Albans Abbey Boys' School.

A digital infrared which has been post-processed in PS. Camera Nikon D70 unconverted, Hoya R72 filter.

Wednesday 21st January 2009

Also C is for two things that are helpful when trying to calculate:

1) calculator n. a machine that performs mathematical operations mechanically, electro-mechanically or electronically

2) coffee n. a beverage consisting of an infusion of roasted and ground Coffea aribica seeds [aka coffee beans]

btw, C is also for crabby adj. irritable; a side-effect of any sustained effort to calculate financial matters [Brad asked how I was going to photograph this last aspect and offered to take a photo of my face - as you see, I declined :P]

This is not a miniature. This was taken from the 43rd floor looking almost straight down. Here is the original.

The miniature effect is achieved via fake tilt-shift technique.

This woman was watching a Christmas concert at the mall with the intensity usually seen at a symphony. My original wasn't sharp enough to post (low light), so I'm thrilled that post-processing allowed me a way to share her.

HSS!

It was just an experiment, setting f/22 and shooting a Metz 32 Z-2 at "winder" (1/32 of max. power) from a short distance. It looks like it worked :-)

Available as 2560x1600 wallpaper here.

Olympus OM-1

Inverted 24 mm. f/2.8 Zuiko with ~10 mm. extension ring

Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400

Scanned from film with Nikon Super Coolscan IV ED

Something strange happened as I experimented on this tree:)

View Large in BlackMagic

Postprocessed with Darktable from RAW-File

reworking an old phot from a skye holiday using camera Raw.

I'm in the mood to post process once again...and will post some before and after shots...This particular shot was taken in the METRO Subway in Singapore...thanks to my friend HANNI for posing willingly...:-)

This is my first HDR with access to Nik Color Efex and Topaz Detail, and after many, many hours of perfecting, I think I finally wouldn't change a thing. (This is the fifth version I've uploaded here, btw.)

I have to thank (c.jones) for some tips regarding all the different effects and layers.. it definitely came in handy. This was actually taken on the following Photowalk.

I have this set as my desktop right now - you might want to look at it large to get the full effect.

snow like a photo from Mars

Task this week was to show some colors, so I had some fun with bubbles. The original photo ( that's it SOOC in the upper left) was lit by sunlight, a blacklight and incandescent light (hmm, and a TV) but it wasn't quite colorful enough for me so I tweaked some saturation levels and found some more color I liked and added those 3 images for fun.

discarded railroad signal lights in the late evening, Wildwood Fl station

Wildwood (Amtrak station)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Station statistics

Address 601 North Main Street

Wildwood, FL, 34785

Coordinates 28°51′56″N 82°02′23″W / 28.86553°N 82.03963°W / 28.86553; -82.03963Coordinates: 28°51′56″N 82°02′23″W / 28.86553°N 82.03963°W / 28.86553; -82.03963

Lines Thruway Motorcoach service to the Silver Meteor and Silver Star

Other information

Owned by CSX

Wildwood is a former Amtrak station in Wildwood, Florida. The station is located on 601 North Main Street(US 301) in Wildwood, Florida. Along with the northern terminus of Florida's Turnpike, the station gave Wildwood a reason to refer to itself as "The Crossroads of Florida."

The station was built in 1947 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, and is located on what is today CSX's S-Line, which runs along the west side of the building. The station served SAL's Silver Star to Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Miami, among other trains. It is also the western terminus of an inactive spur that once ran to cities such as Leesburg and Tavares. This spur is now owned by the Florida Midland Railroad, and only runs as far east as Orange Home along Sumter County Road 44A, where it serves as home for some abandoned freight cars.

The Silver Star was transferred to Amtrak in 1971, along with most passenger service in the United States. The Palmetto was rerouted to the CSX S-Line in 1979, until it was truncated to Savannah, Georgia on November 1, 2004, prompting Amtrak to revive Silver Star service to Tampa along the same line shared by the current Silver Meteor, and part of the suspended Sunset Limited. Today, the station operates as a CSX maintenance yard, and by Amtrak's Thruway Motorcoach bus service between Jacksonville and Lakeland.

We mostly hear them. If we see them, it's a blur. This one decided to sit still for us. I ran and HDR workflow on this photo to bring out the color and contrast.

Postprocessing as in tutorial:

www.planetphotoshop.com/pin-up-effect.html

Multiple images merged into one.

I've never really been fascinated by birds, leave alone something of nondescript coloring sinisterly hovering overhead, like something out of "Omen". However that was then. Ever since I've acquired my mechanical 3rd-eye, I've begun to "watch" birds casually (feels like "stalking", sometimes) - and for the common ones in my neighborhood, I am learning much simply by observing them endlessly

As for the Common Brown Hawk (CHEEL in Bengali), I find they are, by most counts, gentle and non-confrontational. And, instead of finding them ominous, I find them incredibly graceful as they soar the farthest, longest and swoop down with incredible speed and precision.

This is my 3rd upload on flickr where I have merged several shots of the bird's graceful gliding movements in one frame.

postprocessed

Large better

and this is the original >>>

www.flickr.com/photos/tookie/180054366/

Postprocessing: jack08 (thx)

This big turban is a specialty of men in rajasthan, India. Of late started venturing into portraits. This is my first serious attempt. Any feedback friends ?

Date: 02.04.2007

Camera: Nikon D70s, Nikkor AF 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5

Here is the original.

#zsl #zespiral #postprocessed #renegade

She wandered for many years,

until one day she came to

a quiet and beautiful place

in the heart of the forest.

from "Magic Stream" by Regina Garson. For The Rogue Players: Dark Fairy Tales. This one is plenty dark: the queen cuts off her daughter's nose then burns out her tongue with a hot iron. Nice. So, here's the abused princess finally finding her beautiful place in the forest where (of course) she is magically healed. Yay!

For Flickr Group Roulette: It's an Addiction (Learning and Sharing). I used this tutorial to learn how to make a photo into a room. The three photos I used were my own. My garden is my magical place so that's the background.

For July ABC Soup: M is for Magic. Personally, I think the magic here is the cool stuff one can do with a home computer. I grew up in the pre-PC era so I can still be properly astonished by being able to find a tutorial on how to make a photo into a room. And then again at being able to do it!

For Today's Random Fact from My So-Called Life: Looks like I'm pulling a Lady Diana here. Oops! I'm old enough to remember that photo from the first time around. And she's got way better legs. What a Lady. I miss her.

Explored!: Jul 13, 2009 #289

Linear

Photography by Fabrizio Aiana

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3 images of flowering trees Photoshopped into 1. At left, pale yellow hanging clusters on the tips of pale woody branches are Sterculia villosa aka Hairy Sterculia, Elephant-rope Tree and in Bengali, UDAL; 2. The waxy red-orange blooms appearing along the length of bare branches are flowers of the Cotton-floss Tree, aka Bombax ceiba, or in Bengali as SHIMUL; 3. At extreme right, the thicker orange clusters are flowers of the Butea monosperma, aka Parrot Tree, also known in Bengali as POLASH.

won't say much :)

RJTT TOKYO HANEDA

Trying to get a new perspective on a well-photographed subject. Update: J e n s had the same idea almost 4 years ago).