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For the Sliders Sunday group. Base image created using a Canon PowerShot camera and processed using Photoshop, Fractalius and Quad Pencil.
Happy Sliders Sunday
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May Day walk on the beautiful castle grounds of Schloss Charlottenburg. This is the back of the palace as seen from the Carp Pond located in the huge château park that nowadays is a popular public park and recreational area not only for the inhabitants of the densely populated West Berlin borough of Charlottenburg but for all Berliners. It was correspondingly crowded on this sunny, hot day that was also slightly hazy from Sahara dust (which is quite a frequent weather phenomenon his year).
When flipping through the images at home, I was quite surprised to see that the palace and the people in the distance were somewhat blurred (at least in the photos taken from this particular spot). Maybe my composition with the trees' branches in the foreground had "confused" the camera's autofocus, and maybe the combination of slight haze and bright sunshine had contributed to this effect as well. I simply don't know, especially because I had taken this image at F/7.1. Maybe this is one of the rare occasions when landscape focus stacking is required, something usually unnecessary with an MFT sensor.
On the other hand, I found the blur in the background quite charming because it conveys the heat, haziness, and serenity of that lovely day quite well, methinks. And it makes for a nice slider as well, true to the mottos "Blur is beautiful" and "Sharpness isn't everything" :)
HSS, everyone, and have a great spring/autumn week ahead!
Original photo below... then...
Photoshop filter "cutout" from the filter gallery,
then adjusted each of the colors swatches.
Added a simple face shape and hair
to resemble a Native American plus
some running horse silhouettes.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
A slightly older shot I wasn’t quite happy with... so I thought that could be a great opportunity to do some excessive editing! Unfortunately I didn’t have any chance to get on my computer all day, and so I just decided to do some editing on iphone - it’s my first attempt at a "Sliders sunday" image, and it is... well, I would probably call it a modest result! HSS anyway!
Wall mural in Galesburg, Illinois. Inspired by a Carl Sandburg verse, "nothing happens unless first a dream."
I decided to take Leilani's advice and do some sort of a series in this spot. I'll see how it goes :)
Happy Slider's Sunday :)
Laowa 7.5mm F/2
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#Kaleidoscoping
Another one from what is going to be my new "Kaleidoscoping" series (please see first comment for the first picture of this series). I won't post / create all too many images in this style, and only infrequently, but it's great fun to make these crazy kaleidoscope-style image-flipping "mirror worlds". The single image from which I created this was taken during a spontaneous visit to the Deutscher Dom ("New Church", colloquially known as "German Cathedral", although it isn't a cathedral as such; today it is a museum for German parliamentory history) located on Gendarmenmarkt in the Mitte district at the heart of Berlin. What you see is the roof construction of the room right under the cupola (which can't be visited). In that room you can see architectural models of historical buildings from all parts of Germany that played an important part in German (parliamentary) history. I thought that the roof construction was interesting in its own right and took a few shots handheld (as I didn't have a tripod with me and they aren't allowed in museums anyway), using the exposure bracketing function (three images). Thus not 100 percent sharp, but "OK sharp", I think. In PS, I duplicated the workspace, copied the layer with the original image, and flipped that both horizontally and vertically, and then, in Lightroom, rotated the merged image to the left. The result, for me, looks like the heart of giant "sound machine" or "soundship" (a spaceship fuelled by music). I hope you like it :-)
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, and have a great week ahead!
Ein weiteres "Kaleidoskop"-Bild. Ich werde hier eine kleine Serie erstellen, unregelmäßig, auch nicht zu viele davon, aber es macht einfach großen Spaß, diese surrealen Spiegelwelten zusammenzubauen - wenn es denn das Foto hergibt (im ersten Kommentar findet ihr das erste Bild dieser Art). Dieses Bild habe ich bei einem Spontanbesuch des Deutschen Doms aufgenommen, im Raum direkt unter der Kuppel (die man leider nicht besichtigen kann). Der Deutsche Dom zeigt ja eine Ausstellung zur deutschen Parlamentsgeschichte und in diesem Raum in luftiger Höhe kann man Architekturmodelle von bedeutenden deutschen Bauwerken, die im Zusammenhang dazu stehen, betrachten. Die Stahlkonstruktion des Daches war für sich genommen ebenfalls interessant. Das Ausgangsfoto ist aus der Hand gemacht (ein Stativ hatte ich eh nicht dabei und es wäre auch nicht erlaubt gewesen, eins dort aufzustellen), mit einer Belichtungsreihe aus drei Bildern, nicht 100%ig scharf, weil es nicht besonders hell dort war, aber "OK scharf", finde ich. In Photoshop habe ich erst die Arbeitsfläche vertikal verdoppelt, das Foto dupliziert, dann horizontal und vertikal gespiegelt und in Lightroom das zusammengefügte Bild nach links gedreht. Das Ergebnis sieht für mich wie das Herz einer riesigen Musikmaschine oder eines Musik-angetriebenen Raumschiffs aus.
Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Walking in my sleep
Like the naked trees
Will they wake up again?
Do they sleep, do they dream?
Feel it as the wind strokes my skin
I am moved by the chill
Hear the winter bird sing
-- Winter Bird
happy new year and sliders sunday my friends!
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)
😄 HaPpY Sliders Sunday 😄
Tweaked saturation, colour temperature and added a Vignette then framed it using the Flickr Photo Editor and uploaded for the
ƒ/8.0
25.2 mm
1/2000 Sec
ISO 100
I haven't posted to the Slider's Sunday group in ages... had some fun with this one.
Hope you're all having a great weekend!
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Captured outside Russellville Park and processed for Sliders Sunday using Deep Dream Generator and Snapseed. HSS everyone!
For Sliders Sunday, a photo of the moon, seen through the winter branches of our American Elm tree.
We had just come back from the airport, where we delivered my son Ben, and his love Deanna, to the departures area. We were sad, and exhausted (since it was the middle of the night), and it did our hearts good to look up and see the moon, sailing in the fast moving clouds, shining down on us and on our son alike, no matter how far apart we were.
The photo is pretty dark... you kind of have to let your eyes adjust to see the sky!
Happy New Year everyone!
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Dog sitting this weekend. I'm watching the dog on the right, Parker and a friend walked by with hers, May Lynn and the two had to check each other out.