self portrait taken into the machine

08 jan 08

i really like those three little spots in her cheek that i made her! :)

for FF: Filipina Flickrites

With your SO week

last year during our Tagaytay trip

Railways

This is from the statue series of the four elements in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Each element was personified as a woman, and each had a small cherub along with an object or two to represent that element.

Here we have my zodiac's element: air. This one ties with "Fire" for being a total let-down. The cherub (putti) is pictured with a flute, which is a fair representation of what air/wind should be about. The cherub also seems to have some tiny wings (which are lacking on the others, if I remember correctly). All in all not too bad.

I took a long time shooting the other three elementals, and as a result the lighting conditions had sufficiently changed to make this shot somewhat difficult. The four elemental statues are housed in a room with a glass ceiling, which allows the lighting to change. Unlike the first three, this one was post-processed a bit to account for that, which created an unintentional shift in the statue's color tone. See the notes at the bottom for the modifications that were made.

While I like the interesting factor behind this statue and I also like how sharp the statue appears in the picture, I was not pleased with the overall angling of this one. Because the museum put the statue against a wall I could not explore all possible angles. I think that this could have been done better, perhaps with a different lens.

I'll probably go back and redo this small series at some other time, when I've more thoroughly thought about better composition and perhaps choice of lenses. It's also unfortunate that these statues aren't outside or at least in an environment that could provide a more pleasing background to contrast against.

Shot with an E-520 and Zuiko Digital 50mm f/2.0 macro lens, without a UV filter (was shooting candidates to be printed large and figured that I'd go for as little quality loss as possible, not that the UV filter seems to impact much if anything). Shot hand-held with IS mode 1 enabled. This is an uncropped picture; the maximum resolution has been scaled down to 1600x1200 for upload. This is a camera RAW that has been subject to post-processing. The following changes were made: white balance temperature was shifted slightly to cool; saturation was decreased slightly.

Femap 11.2 Images

Analysis Studies: group results data into analysis studies for easier organization and understanding of results data

台北單車臨界量 | Critical Mass Taipei

台灣城市單車聯盟/潘建儒攝影

2014年4月19日

台灣，台北

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Taiwan Urban Bicycle Alliance/funkyruru

April 19th, 2014

Taipei, Taiwan

Cinematic style portrature

So, the image on the left is a crop of a standard 12 megapixel shot from the D300, part of a bracketed series I shot on 12/17/08.

It was shot at f4.2, 1/6 sec, 11mm, roughly 6 meters from the tree, at ISO 200, and is cropped at a 200% zoom. You can clearly see some nice pixelation and noise going on in the photo.

The image from the right is a crop of a 48 megapixel version of the same shot on the left, taken from exactly the same point, with exactly the same exposure, iso, aperture settings, sensor size, lens, etc, but this photo clearly shows much more data teased out from the scene...clarity on the pipes, the tree lights, and less noise on the ceiling.

The final version is 8564x5688.

The basic idea here is that at any given moment, when you happen to take your photo, only a certain percentage of photons from the scene happen to hit your camera sensor. If you take the 'same' photo again, you're seeing different photons, all part of the same continuous stream. If you sample and resample and resample, you get a more coherent version of the scene (more signal, less noise.) The net effect is a higher quality shot (although this example does have some artifacts near the lights.)

Decided to have some serious, hard-core postprocessing fun here. Hope you fav my selective saturation, and if not please comment.

I am posting this photo on 27 November to alert folks that on 9 December at 10:30 AM, the Snohomish County Council will hold a public hearing on a proposal to expand Historic Flight Foundation (here under, "Ordinance 15-082, creation of Historic Aviation Campus Authority"). I hope you are able to attend... understand if not.

All that said, please enjoy my photo from the Historic Flight Foundation 2015 Biplane Weekend.

PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com

During my recent shoot with Courtney, I tried using my homemade reflector for the first time. (Deana- Yes, this is my first try at this) I wanted to add some rim lighting and accent to her hair. The effect was way too strong.

To save the image, I messed around with it using effects both in Gimp and Picnic; A little sepia and matching vignette along with a lens flare.

This is the finished product.

Feedback is VERY welcome.

台北單車臨界量 | Critical Mass Taipei

台灣城市單車聯盟/潘建儒攝影

2014年4月19日

台灣，台北

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Taiwan Urban Bicycle Alliance/funkyruru

April 19th, 2014

Taipei, Taiwan

Futile the winds

to a heart in port ...

Done with the compass

done with the chart

~ Emily Dickinson

I've been trying to work out how to blend layers [in Photoshop] so they don't end up looking 'muddy'. It's been a frustrating quest ... but tonight I found www.flickr.com/photos/ayushbhandari/2307395528/ very helpful tutorial - just what I've been looking for!!

After reading the tutorial I was so excited I had to try it out, and so I played around with another photo of the winged heart made by my sister, Haddy. I used a beautiful texture by Tanakawho to emphasis the illusion of water and the reflections of the winged heart in the glass table top

website

Post-process (Gimp 2.2): crop + curves + border

#有車看的日子

Took a previous photo and retouched the levels to get the blacks blacker.

Highlights and Shadows, Crop and border

VHHH HONG KONG

quick and dirty handheld panorama out of 3 images in portrait, flash fired via radio on chair behind me.

check the large version for more details.

Update: the PC was updated recently to a quadcore 3.4 GHZ i7 machine with 16 GB RAM and SSD in a super silent body

"Women are always under the impression that men love them more that they really do."

... and look at how she reacted.

IMG_0230_1_2_mbl

postprocessed

台北單車臨界量 | Critical Mass Taipei

台灣城市單車聯盟/潘建儒攝影

2014年4月19日

台灣，台北

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Taiwan Urban Bicycle Alliance/funkyruru

April 19th, 2014

Taipei, Taiwan

RAW: air.oldstable.org/raws/more-than-you-wished-for.nef

ufraw + GIMP (divide mode brushing, desaturation)

Submission for Read Poster contest. Sorry to say I can't remember the kitty's name. He was only with me for a little while - back in the days when I let them go outside.

#有車看的日子

Our accomodation as seen from the water.

Ringstad Sjøhus

Ringstad, 8475

Bø, Vesterålen

Norway

T: +47 76 13 74 80

Bø is a village and municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The main island in the municipality is Andøya

Vesterålen is a district and archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just north of the Lofoten district and archipelago and west of the city of Harstad. It is the northernmost part of Nordland county and lies within the Arctic Circle (one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth). In 2012, it is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33′ 44″ (or 66.5622°) north of the Equator.

台北單車臨界量 | Critical Mass Taipei

台灣城市單車聯盟/潘建儒攝影

2014年4月19日

台灣，台北

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Taiwan Urban Bicycle Alliance/funkyruru

April 19th, 2014

Taipei, Taiwan

Air Malta's retro 320 blasting off in the morning light off 05L.

When I took this photo, the camera was in all kinds of bad modes. The photo requires +4 stops of exposure in post. However, back in 2006, that was still a pretty ugly photo. I've always liked this photo, so when I stumbled across it recently, I had to see what the modern ACR would do with it. I'm really pleased. HSS