Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)

snow-covered old car. photo was taken at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow.

I am currently working on some new processing techniques as well as trying to let go of others all the while still learning new things every day that get trialed into work flows and discarded usually without the viewer noticing any course corrections. Despite what is ongoing in the world I am still trying to be a person that will try to make lemonade out of the shitty lemons thrown at us so will use this time to work on being a better me and also I am hoping to emerge from this with some new skills. I hope that everyone has a great New Year and we all have a better year in 2022!

I took this on Oct 23rd, 2021 with my D850 and Tamron 15-30 f2.8 G2 Lens at 26mm, 0.5s, f8 ISO 64 processed in LR, PS +Topaz ,and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

Songo Drumming Project in the Park

1) Go to a dog park

2) Select a macro subject

3) Get low to the ground, camera to your face

4) Get broadsided by a running 70-pound Great Dane pup as you press the shutter

5) Get licked to death by the same puppy... ;)

Freestyle-Mixed Technique Portrait

BEFORE: gyazo.com/d2e94d88513353322219ce481770d69d

Trike Harley-Davidson. Of course I like more than the usual two-wheeled bikes, but we must also think about those who are already difficult to cope with such a technique. I remembered the movie "Sons of Anarchy": father - of red traveled on a three-wheeled bike. And our Putin, once came to the meeting with bikers in Sevastopol on this Trike Harley-Davidson.

My Stylised imagery is created from my photographs, I edit them using various techniques on my iPad Pro. I use a combination of the apps listed below:

Retouch for Clone stamp editing and blur brush

Tangled FX for outline work

Procreate for Brush Strokes, image merging and Layering

Stackables for Texture creation and layering

Photomator for upscaling, denoise, debanding, super resolution, fine image adjustments and exporting of final imagery

Duck. The breaking technique. Daugava River. Riga. Latvia

Photography techniques to help define your style! irvingphotographydenver.com/defining-your-photography-style/

Focus Pulling is a technique of adjusting focus from out of focus to tack sharp during a firework explosion over 1 to 3 seconds. similar physical operation as zooming during exposure only you use the manual focus ring instead of the zoom ring.

www.tom-clark.net/fireworks

218c 7 - TAC_6041-Edit - lr-ps-wm

A technique i have been experimenting with of late is day time long exposures which creates this lovely effect on moving water. It is a skill which is probably old hat to many of you seasoned photographers but for me it is undiscovered country.

This is the River Dart West near Wistmans Wood and the day was a typical Dartmoor day, moody light, low cloud and heavy rain.

I was on my way home from work and decided to go via the Moors instead of the usual A38 route and take the opportunity for a long walk. Yes, I got soaked again...I need to find another hobby that keeps me dry.

I get to observe a number of birds while they are foraging and either I've been asleep or have never seen a Little Blue Heron employ the old toe tapping technique of the Snowy Egret! This guy was doing just that and the minute the poor hapless fish made a move to escape the toe it ended up in the beak!!! Photo was taken on Horsepen Bayou!!

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I'm trying to get a handle on processing techniques to bring out the real feel of the moment.

I think that since all our raw files need processes applied, it means all our work is essentially "impressionism" at the very least. Still, I'd like to be able to get it "accurate" first, before applying alterations for an effect,

This presentation, seems closer to what it felt and looked like when standing there. I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts on the relative results of these two processing approaches.

Thanks for looking, again..

Macro Mondays - Double Exposure

This was difficult, as I had not done anything like this before. But applying the same technique as textures I managed to get it done. I was in a panic all day long even looking at tutorials that were only making me more confused.

This is a soft out of focus done over the almost same frame in focus. (82% blend) Kind of cool and not bad for a panicking guy. (and still sick)

Happy Macro Monday

Fisherman at work using the iconic one-legged rowing technique unique to Inle lake. Some temples and a fire in the mountains just visible in the hazy landscape surrounding the lake.

The one-legged rowing technique keeps hands free for work with the nets and it allows a high vantage point to see gaps in the sometime dense vegetation under the surface.

My captain approached slow and kept a respectful distance, before we asked if it was ok to photograph. Well, my captain asked, i pointed to the camera with a wai and smile and whatever did the trick the fisherman smiled and granted some shots and continued to fish.

Some fishermen were supplementing their dwindling income from fishing by posing for tourists. But unlike them he has an engine in the boat and is wearing normal work clothes fishing in the middle of the lake, not near the resorts or main traffic routes.

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Im Volksglauben ist er ein Glücksbringer, der Fliegenpilz und als Glück empfand ich es auch, als ich dieses schöne Duo am Waldboden entdeckte. Und dann auch noch der "Glücksklee", der sich zwischen den Pilzfruchtkörpern angesiedelt hatte. Das Bild wurde mit Stacking Technik erstellt. Den hinteren Pilz ließ ich etwas in Unschärfe um der Aufnahme Tiefe zu geben.

In popular belief, it is a lucky charm, the fly agaric and I also felt lucky when I discovered this beautiful duo on the forest floor. And then there was the "lucky clover", which had settled between the mushroom fruiting bodies. The image was created using stacking technique. I left the back mushroom a bit in focus to give the shot depth.

Among birds, raptors are known for their sight, penguins for their huddling techniques, and some kingfishers are skillful divers. Some of these colorful and long-beaked birds dive headfirst into water to catch fish at break-neck speeds, all without damaging their brains. How they accomplish this feat is all in their genes.

The special type of diving kingfishers perform is called plunge-diving. Other birds including gannets and pelicans also plunge-dive, but it is not a common foraging method in the animal kingdom. While kingfishers don’t generally hurt themselves on these dives that can reach up to 25 miles per hour, they do not come without risk.

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Way too hot with terrible air quality to be outside for long, unless you can get really low - Daisy's got the right technique. :)

I continue to have fun temporarily with pieces from the PaB without my stock pieces. Of them little can be done but when there's only a plastic Cup... The desire to build immediately increased. Can the pressure is gone and the duty to do something unimaginable without giving the abyss pieces. Oh well - soon I finish moving and will be content better :-)

Inverted bracket keeps on giving.

After some nights spent to learn and practice new imaging techniques, I propose a version of my first attempt to Andromeda Galaxy, less harsh, more realistic and detailed and (I hope) nicer to see.

- OTA: William Optics Zenithstar 61 APO doublet + WO Flat61 field flattener

- Mount: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTI

- Camera: Nikon D800 unmodified

Stack of 34x120s. shots @3.200ISO + 10 dark + 10 flats, using Starry Sky Stacker (SSS) for Mac.;

Processing through Adobe Photoshop

Any comment and/or advice for improving is welcome

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio, like the familiar letterbox format in wide-screen video.

While there is no formal division between "wide-angle" and "panoramic" photography, "wide-angle" normally refers to a type of lens, but using this lens type does not necessarily make an image a panorama. An image made with an ultra wide-angle fisheye lens covering the normal film frame of 1:1.33 is not automatically considered to be a panorama. An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75° – may be termed panoramic. This generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high. The resulting images take the form of a wide strip. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of 4:1 and sometimes 10:1, covering fields of view of up to 360 degrees. Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image.

"Cirrus Clouds" Supercooled "Water Droplets" Temperature "Below -30 degrees Celsius" "Ice Crystals" Dawn Colorful Pre-

Sunrise Colorful Colors Colours Colores Couleurs "Golden Hour" "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" Song "Les Paul" "Mary Ford" "Multiple Sound Tracks" "New Recording Technique" Invention

222c 6 - D71_5601 - lr-ps-wm

Studies in selective focus from the back porch

An experiment to see if lens zoom technique would work with my Lee 10 stop filter. Taken at the waterfall at Nabt Mill Woods, North Wales.

Thanks to everyone that views and comments on my images - very much appreciated.

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Sony ILCE-7RM5

Originally, a polyptych was a religious piece on an alter which had four or more hinged panels. Each panel displayed a relief or painting. I've used this artistic technique to create a themed photographic sequence or a group of pictures of a particular part of buildings, monuments etc located in Barnsley.

Each composition consists of photographs taken in Barnsley, a town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Worsbrough Mill is a complex of buildings including a seventeenth-century water-powered mill and a nineteenth-century steam-powered mill in Worsbrough, Barnsley, England. The mill is open to the public and takes its water from the River Dove.

Worsbrough Mill was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the first Curator, [Rob Shorland-Ball – 1975 to 1979] researched the history and states that a "tenuous but continuous documentary record can be traced from then to 1625 which is the likely date for the building of the existing Old Mill. Whether the pre-1625 mill(s) were on the same site is not known. However, a mill was a very important part of the feudal pattern of life and settlement and thus tended to remain on the same site if that site was a satisfactory one".

Studies in selective focus from the back porch

I had heard about a technique quite a while ago and I have been meaning to try it one day, it consists of taking an object, photographing it multiple times all around it and then blending the layers in varying opacity in photoshop.

This is my first attempt - 12 photos taken around this nice little pot of lavender, blended in PS. I've then added some textures to finish the look. The left-hand image is my base image or starting point as a comparison.

The technique can be used on outdoor objects as well like trees, statues, fountains, buildings etc, etc...

© Dominic Scott 2023

4 images stacked with Zerene Stacker

Excerpt from the plaque:

Paper Crafting Technique of Lion Heads

Lion head paper crafting has a long history in Hong Kong. The birthday celebrations held for deities in villages are usually accompanied by dancing lions or other auspicious animals. They worshipped at shrines and temples to report to the deities, and hence lion head paper crafting emerged. The lion head costume comes in Foshan 佛山裝, Heshan 鶴山裝 and “Fo-He” 佛鶴裝 styles. Some craftmen depict the lion heads in different colours to resemble historical figures from the Three Kingdoms such as Liu Bei 劉備 (yellow face with multicoloured patterns and a white beard), Guan Yu 關羽 (red face with a black beard), Zhang Fei 張飛 (black-and-white face, green nose with a black beard), Zhao Yun 起趙雲 (green face with a black beard), Huang Zhong 黃忠 (with yellow as the main tone). Lion head paper crafting comprises four processes, namely crafting the frame, mounting the paper, colouring and decorating 紮作，撲紙，寫色，裝上裝飾配件。

I love to do macros, and usually try to get good crisp focus on them. But I decided to go with an abstract for this challenge.

(It’s the inside of a slinky.)

52 Weeks of 2019 - Week No. 8 - Theme: Macro - Category: Technique

Macro Mondays - What is That?

Painting technique

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Leaf, snow rocks. Created 4 layers, each layer was a different color. Flipped the 4 layers around so each layer was in a different position. Combined the four together and this is the result. Very easy to do. Try it on shots that don't turn out 100%. You'll be pleased with the results.

Papier Canson Format A2

Glacier National Park Montana USA