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I stayed with the fog for one more image ..;) I do like the way it came out. Simple and relaxing.
Happy Sunday. Hope everyone in the Northeast is doing alright with that nasty weather. I saw a few pictures posted on Flickr. It looks really ugly
IC 1396A is the Elephant's Trunk nebula, located in the constellation Cepheus. The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396, at an estimated distance of about 2,500 light years.
At the heart of the nebula lies the open star cluster Trumpler 37, where several hot, young stars (less than 100,000 years) are thought to be forming. These stars emit copious amounts of hot plasma winds and energetic particles that ionize the gas in the nebula and causing it to glow with the characteristic red light of hydrogen atoms. The winds are also sculpting the nebula creating the central cavity, but also compressing the gas in dense regions and triggering a new generation of protostars, hidden inside the dust.
At the estimated distance of the nebula, the Elephant's Trunk is about 20 light-years long.
Thanks to all for your continuous support and kind comments. I wish to all my Flickr friends a happy and relaxing summer and looking forward for your beautiful photos and stories!
Technical Info:
Telescope: Orion EON 80ED refractor, F = 500 mm, f/6.25
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da
Mount: Vixen Sphinx
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Guiding: 80/400 Skywatcher refractor - SkyWatcher SynGuider
Light frames: 24 x 5 mins (total: 2 hours), ISO 3200, Custom WB, calibrated with darks
Date: 17-18 October 2020
Location: Chalkidiki, Greece
Software: SiriL (calibration, background extraction, registration, stacking, color calibration, stretch), StarNet++, Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 with Astronomy Tools Actions.
This is another one from the Topaz Studio. Some of you were interested in the Studio, it's free to download and whatever Topaz Software you have will run in side it. The special effects are extra. Someone said you can do the same effects with Photoshop. True. It's just easier with Topaz. Just another tool in the box..;)
Image-editing
Digital Art
Paint Effect
Texture - Colorful
Software: Windows ; Pixlr;
PicsArt Photo Studio
Swallow Tanager (NI)
Tersina viridis (NC)
Árvore: Magnólia Amarela
Lago Sul
Brasília, Brasil
Sometimes stitching software comes up with errors that are so good you want to leave them in.. well I like it anyway
Canarinho
Canário-da-terra-verdadeiro
Illustration/Art
Digital Art - Photo Art
High Quality (HQ) - 3D
Double Exposure
Collage
Software: Windows Paint 3D; Pixlr;
Edits made to my original photos
Edições feitas em minhas fotos originais
Pássaro Silvestre
Sesc Pantanal
Hotel Porto Cercado
Barão de Melgaço
Mato Grosso, Brasil
Art Week Gallery Theme
21 Jan - 27 Jan.. our theme is:
~~~Mirror Art~~~
22/01/2024
White sand - Hyams Beach.
Jervis Bay, south coast.
About two hour's drive south of Sydney.
Photographed last Saturday, 13th March, 2021.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 16-35mm lens.
Processed in:
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
This is not a photo montage! The clouds are real! This is just a spicy black and white conversion with Nik software!
This photo and conversion reflects one of my favorite moments from this trip.
My 2 cousins enjoy this special landscape and I enjoy this moment.
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Last night in Sydney.
Christmas Eve, 2024.
Tuesday, 24th December, 2024.
So I travelled into the city after work on Christmas Eve and managed to get parking right near Wharf 7 at Pyrmont Bay - a stone's throw from the 'Star City' casino which was all lit up like a Christmas Tree.
I was on my way along the Pyrmont Bay Boardwalk (aka Sydney Harbour Boardwalk) to get sunset pictures from the end of Wharf 7. BUT, I noticed that the 'James Craig' Tall Ship (1874) was just sitting there all alone at the dock, and so I thought I would first get a few 'Christmas Eve 2024' shots which included this ship, lol.
Have a look at her in full sail:
shfmember.org.au/explore-the-fleet/our-operational-vessel...
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens camera.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
Cactus - spiky cacti are perfect
Art Week Gallery Group
Vivid Abstracts
23/11/2019
Arte Digital - Digital Art
Photoshop (Ps)
Image-editing
Double Exposure - Collage
Software: Pixlr; Windows;
Cactus - spiky cacti are perfect
TMI: your ART & NATURE Group
August CONTEST: Too Darn Hot
28/08/2019
Photo Edition - Photo Art
Photo Editing - HDR
Software - Pixlr - Snapseed - PicsArt
Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
630 26 00
White-lipped Pecary
Illustration/Art
Digital Art - Image-editing
Effect : HDR, Collor
Texture - Collage
Software: Windows Paint 3D; Pixlr; Snapseed; PicsArt Photo Studio
Edits made to my original photos.
Edições feitas em minhas fotos originais
Animal Silvestre
Observado em
Parque Nacional de Brasília
Água Mineral
Brasília, Brasil
Image created especially for the
Art Week Gallery Theme
17 Sept. to 23 Sept. our theme is:
~~ Animals in Art ~~
When the light has gone, and the action start .
Difficult to edit photos as i did before on my pc, which now are too old to handle such software. Trying to getting used to a laptop, which i dont like
Equipment
Camera: Nikon d90
Lens: Nikon af-s dx vr zoom-nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6g if-ed
Post Processing
Nik Software Sharpener: output sharpener
Nik Software Color Efex Pro: contrast color range
Adobe Photoshop CS4: hue/saturation
I have been out and around today practising Focus Stacking and also trying some new software that is for Focus Stacking in Particular, called, "Helicon Focus 7".
This tree is three exposures with one focused on the immediate foreground, one focused on the tree and one focused behind.
The software is probably the best I have tried and is highly recommended. You open the software and you can either drag and drop the photographs you want to be stacked or choose to open the files. Once they are in the software just choose to increase the
"Radius" you wish to render at and the "Smoothness" then click on "Render". The software will do it all for you and once done then choose where to save and save the picture. Much, much quicker than Photoshop, no cropping or anything like that and it does not take up resources on the PC like Photoshop does. I honestly think the results are much better than Photoshop, detail and sharpness is outstanding.
Below is a link for the software so give it a go with the 30 day trial, I reckon you will like it especially if you are into macro photography and like to Focus Stack.
www.heliconsoft.com/heliconsoft-products/helicon-focus/
www.flickr.com/groups/heliconfocus/pool/with/15807027497/
Images from the software can also be found on Flickr as they have a group called Helicon Focus Group. There are 10,000 pictures to look at so you can judge for yourself
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights
Ericpol Software Pool
Lodz, Poland
designed by HORIZONE Studio
more pics: blog.sotiriouphotography.com/index.php/ericpol-software-p...
Blair Bridge - Campton, NH
One of the longer covered bridges in New Hampshire, we were in past peak colors but it was still quite beautiful.
Date: October 12, 2024
Location: Loudon, NH, USA
Equipment: Canon 5D Mark iii with Canon 16-35mm F4L IS USM
Software: Lightroom Classic
Copyright: Neil Morrill, All Rights Reserved
Hope you enjoy!
NC
Description:
About 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus lies NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula. Its arched and filamentary form was sculpted by the powerful stellar winds of Wolf–Rayet 136, colliding with slower material expelled during a previous red supergiant phase.
In this multiband image, crimson filaments trace hydrogen, teal clouds mark oxygen, while additional emission from sulfur and hydrogen-beta enriches the structure with subtle chromatic variations. The combined data highlight the complex network of shocks and ionized gas surrounding its central star, creating the intricate shell known as the Crescent Nebula.
Spanning about 25 light-years, the Crescent Nebula is a dynamic structure, destined to be dramatically reshaped when its central star ends its life in a supernova explosion.
Technical details:
The image was processed in an HOO palette, with H-alpha mapped to red and OIII mapped to green and blue. Additional H-beta and SII data were later blended in using a screen blending mode, with H-beta encoded in blue and SII encoded in yellow. The natural star colors were restored using PixInsights' Ballesteros blackbody estimator tool.
Telescope: Meade LX200 ACF 10" OTA
Camera QHYCCD QHY268 M
Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS II
Filter Ha + OIII (Astrodon) + Hb (Astronomik) + SII (Baader)
Total Integration: 83 h
Software: N.I.N.A. and PixInsight
May - Jun 2025
Antonio Ferretti & Attilio Bruzzone from Lanciano (Italy)
Messier 63 or the Sunflower Galaxy is a 29.3 million light-year distant galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. In visible light it has a lack of a large-scale continuous spiral structure. Because of this, it is classified as a flocculent (fuzzy) galaxy. This image is the result of about 8 hours of image integration over 3 nights from Grand Mesa Observatory captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson.
In this image, and in some others, you can clearly see a very diffuse outer structure to this galaxy that probably spans thousands of light-years. I find it very fuzzy indeed :-)
Wiki about M63: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_63
Grand Mesa Observatory
Technical info:
9x600 sec Ha bin 2x2
8x600 sec RGB bin 2x2
7x600 sec LUM bin 1x1
Camera: Warren Keller's ATIK 11000
Optics: Planewave 12.5 CDK
Mount: Paramount MEII
Image Acquisition software: Maxim DL6
Stacked in PixInsight
Post-processed in PixInsight and Photoshop
Tom Masterson, Terry Hancock Grand Mesa Observatory
My first BiColor Image is done!
I made some new O3 images and took the Halpha from my last image.
/// Setup
- Camera: Moravian G2-8300
- Telescope: Omegon 126/880 f/7 Triplet Apo
- Corrector: TS 2.5" Fullframe Corrector
- Mount: Losmandy G11 on Pier
- Guiding Camera: Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2
- Guiding Scope: TS Photoline 80/500 f/6.25 Triplet Apo
/// Software
- Capturing Software: Sequence Generator Pro / PHD2
- Processing Software: DeepSkyStacker / PixInsight 1.8
/// Image Integration
- Date: 24.09.17
- 5x900" O3 / bin 1x1 / -20°C
- Date: 21.09.17
- 7x900" H-alpha / bin 1x1 / -20°C
(3h 00min)
This is a photo of a rock formation that I cycled passed in Joshua Tree. My friend and I decided to Mountain Bike around Joshua Tree so I grabbed my camera gear and we headed out. This was the only time that I have ridden a mountain bike with a camera around my neck(No Hills). We rode about 5 miles and where riding cross country style using only the old climbing trails that wrap around the rock formations when we decided to stop here in the shade and rest. The light streaming across the rocks with golden late afternoon sunshine caught my eye so I moved around a bit to align this composition. :)
Thanks for looking and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are much appreciated!! Have a great weekend everyone :)
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For those of you new to photography, I would like to provide you with some very helpful videos that will help you get more from your photography. They were very useful to me while I was learning and I hope that they will help you out as well. Just click the link below and on the left side column there are pre-made playlists on everything you could ever want to know about photography. I hope you enjoy them and as always my friends "Happy Shooting"
Playing around with Tierazon fractal software. Such a fun and easy software tool. Creating fractals is really addictive !
Processing images of galaxies It’s not my favourite, I much rather be processing a nebula but it’s that time of year. I image this back in mid April but I put it to one side to process M57 the Owl nebula which I images afterwards, way more enjoyable.
OBJECT DESCRIPTIONS:-
M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face-on spiral galaxy at a distanced of 21 million light-years away from Earth with a diameter of 170,000 light-years and has around a trillion stars, approximately twice the number that are in the Milky Way. M101 can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major. The Pinwheel Galaxy has a high population of H II regions where hydrogen gas is contracting under its own gravitational force resulting in stars formation taking place
EQUIPMENT:-
Explore Scientific 102mm F7 APO Carbon
Mount: AZ-EQ6 GT
HoTech Field Flattener
ZWO EAF focuser
ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera
Orion Mini Auto Guide
ZWO LRGB Filters
Temp Cooled to -15 degC
IMAGING DETAILS:-
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
30 Red subs@180sec (1h 30min)
30Green subs@180sec (1h 30min)
25 Blue subs@180sec (1h 15min)
74 Lum subs@120sec (2h 28min)
30 Ha subs@120sec (2h)
Total imaging Time 8 43min
Dithering
20 Darks
20 Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
N.I.N.A
PHD2
DSS
GraXper AI
Cosmic clarity denoise and sharpening
StarNet++
Siril
Affinity photo 2
Not been out due to a combination of work & really dull and dreary weather. Trying some new software too.. Taken March 2012.
The (relatively) small batch of North East Proms today with Earth for scale, best 30% of 2100 frames in AS2, bin2x2 - very fast moving low clouds and gusty (45mph+) squalls today, hid in the gazebo with the scope and held on for dear life until I got a break. Image rotated 90 deg CW. Skywatcher 120ED Esprit, Daystar QC, Grasshopper 3 (IMX174). Genika software worked for once too without falling over.
Also different configuration for scope, replaced the Diagonal with an 80mm extension tube (UV/IR filter attached to this), then the Quark, then the camera. Seems to work just as well and lets me have more back focus. For a sense of further scale, see here www.flickr.com/photos/76699751@N07/28517451253/in/photost...
Kadikoy, Turkey
I am going back into the archives and working on photos using some new post-processing software plugins.
This shot was taken in the outdoor market in Kadikoy. Three unlikely characters if not representing 3 generations.
Taken 10/9/10
Ericpol Software Pool
Lodz, Poland
designed by HORIZONE Studio
more pics: blog.sotiriouphotography.com/index.php/ericpol-software-p...
The last part of our visit of the Romanesque churches in Le Puy-en-Velay (central France) now takes us to the one that is possibly the most moving, and certainly the most spectacular of them all: the Saint Michael Chapel, perched on top of the Aiguilhe Rock, an enormous, 82 meters high geological dike made of hard basalt and left standing like a finger sticking out of the plain below by the erosion of all the sediment that once surrounded it.
There is only one way to get there: climb the hard, tall and uneven 268 steps carved out of the basalt, and in doing so, you will be following in the exact footsteps, not only of the millions of Compostela pilgrims that came here over the centuries, but also of innumerable historic figures, among which the Kings of France Charles VII, Louis XI and Charles VIII, who ascended the rock to pray under the humble vaults of the chapel.
According to persistent legends, the first edifice built on top of the rock of Aiguilhe (notice how close the name is to the French word aiguille, i.e., needle) was a Roman temple dedicated to Mercury. No trace of such a sanctuary was ever found by archæologists. The chapel that one can see today was built in two successive phases. First, the initial and very small square chapel, probably with three apses but only two remain today. This was built soon after 950, either by bishop Godescalc (who had been the first French pilgrim of Compostela in 950–51), or more probably by Truannus, dean of the canons of the cathedral chapter, duly authorized by Godescalc. I have not been able to find any definitive evidence pointing to one rather than the other. What is documented, however, is that the finished chapel was consecrated by the said bishop in 961. It was a pre-Romanesque monument.
Secondly, during the late 1000s, the primitive oratory was “surrounded” and augmented by a Romanesque chapel built on the flattened top of the dike. In the process, the probable third apse of the oratory was destroyed to open a way of access between the newly built “nave” and the square space of the oratory, repurposed as “choir”. The best way to understand the layout if to have a look at the floor plan drawn by architect Mallay in the 19th century, here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_de_la_chapelle_Saint.... The imposing bell tower was also built at the same time.
A telephoto shot of the chapel emphasizing its stunning and unique natural location. When you see this rock in real life, you understand why men, since the dawn of time, wanted to build something on top of that to honor their god(s)...
Monochrome. San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
I'm often asked what software I use to make my imagery. Beside Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, I use the Topaz Suite of imaging software. You can find information on their products here: www.topazlabs.com?hr=9oeO2
* This shot would I think defy any straightening software. Both The Two Towers are leaning very significantly. At the heart of the city they are the symbol of Bologna. They are located at the intersection of the roads that lead to the five gates of the old ring wall (mura dei torresotti). The taller one is called the Asinelli while the smaller but more leaning tower is called the Garisenda. Their names derive from the families, which are traditionally credited for their construction between 1109 and 1119. Their construction was a competition between the two families to show which was the more powerful family.
The Asinelli tower rises 318 feet (97 metres) and slopes seven feet to the West. The smaller tower Garisenda once rose to 197 feet but it had 39 feet lopped off the height in the mid fourteenth century for safety reasons. Garisenda leans full 11 feet to the North East. It is possible to climb the 425 steps to the top of the Asinelli Tower but I did not risk my knees
It hard to imagine but Dante knew these towers well and are cited several times by in the Divine Comedy
Considering their size they proved rather difficult to photograph and this is probably the best of the many shots I took of them
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Trials with the new image editing software Darktable v4.6.0
Berlin:
Morning mood in the landscape park /
Morgendliche Stimmung im Landschaftspark
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