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With all the processing options available today, it seems we become programmed to look at photos and immediately analyze what might be done to tweak them to make them better in some way. I recall when I first began photography 8 or so years ago, I knew nothing about anything and thus deleted at least 90% of my photos upon review, often all of them. Now, even though I still don't know much, I delete none on the basis of being possibly able to do something with them. Sometimes I do with pleasing results. Most of the time I do not and they remain buried in the archives where they will probably never do more than take up space.
When this view of the far north end of the lake (where the turtles bask in the spring and summer but have now already vanished into their hibernational haunts) appeared, now habitual thinking said, "what does this need?" I thought for a while and finally determined that there was really nothing I could do to make this photo better. Different maybe, but not better. Perhaps you agree.
So here you have it...an actual unenhanced SOOC snap shot of my beloved northwoods entering prime time for color. Maybe not too artsy...but still kind of pretty...;-))
yeh...I found a new spot and this was just as it came from the camera...after the sun disappeared the sky grew oranger and then red...one of my favourites large: View On Black Thanks Mother Nature! April 19 # 141 on Explore
But not curious enough to come any closer! Looks like Mum and junior and appears that Mum has missed out on being sheared.
Tweaked a tad for sliders sunday!
"╲╱╲╱ΣLCOMΣ to ╱╲LPHΛ |╲|ΣO |╲|OI☈ ╲╱-III { preview, tomorrow more } // "When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.":
• 4k • This shot above was taken with my own photo-suite { which I will release/upload this year } • ReShade 4.3.0.563 • { +New: Sep } Custom shaders • My own LUT's { based upon filmic-tonemapping, Reinhard tonemapping curves } • Many custom engine tweaks
Raw Ultrafractal
Tweak of Daisy Flowers by rosemarie.s.w
Gradient by abstractartangel77
files here : www.flickr.com/groups/ultra_fractalists_gallery/discuss/7...
While I am impressed by the additional mask capabilities of Lightroom I would say the Sky selection masking needs some work IMHO, on every image where I have used it has left a halo when I bring the image into Photoshop for final tweaking. Oct and early November are great times of the year to capture lake mist or more technically radiation fog, this occurs because the water has absorbed and retained the suns heat as air that has been cooled by the night temperatures that is moisture laden passes over warmer water of the lake. This scene is of my favorite places to welcome the morning and take in the light show as the sun rises at least when I don’t have a camera in hand and a cup of steaming coffee instead.
I took this on Oct 23rd, 2021 with my D850 and Tamron 15-30 f2.8 G2 Lens at 30mm, 1/5s, 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
Ex C&O 2-6-6-2 1309 makes easy work of a small train as it climbs around the curve on a Trains Magazine photo charter. I chose this image in the set as it was just before the fireman tweaked the blower, creating gobs of black smoke out of the stack.
Tractor parked like a car in a city parking lot.
Processed with VSCO with hb1 preset (and some other little tweaks).
As promised, I made a marvel figure. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Similar to m Kitty Pryde I made a while back, This is a posed figure. He articulates the same as a regular Minifigure, but only really works in the pose in the photo.
The left leg was cut off at the heel and connected with wire to another leg and covered in ProCreate. The right one is a woody leg cut at the heel on an angle with a 1x1 glued on to get that angle on the heel.
The arms are done with the same technique, except his right hand is from a flashlight figure, to appear stretched larger.
The torso is done the same way, but using a sucker stick instead of wire.
The head is Legolas, with the mouth tweaked slightly and the left brow painted a bit higher. The hair is Sandman.
Overall I think this turned out great. What do you think?
Also, this is my entry to 100and500SCContest, since I haven't seen anything like this before.
Thanks!
-Jared
......... The clarity and definition in this photo, are not as good as I would like them to be. But I thought some of my Flickr buddies would enjoy seeing it anyway.
I had to do more editing than usual to pull out what light and definition were available. I have a couple more images I may be able to tweak and post in a day or two.
Commentary below for those who like a back story.
This mamma and three cubbies showed up in the barnyard yesterday afternoon just about the same time as a sleet and wind storm. I managed to snap about 12 or 15 shots before the whole hilltop was enveloped in a huge steely gray cloud, accompanied by horizontal rain, sleet and wind gusts that flattened the standing hay and goldenrod stalks.
She came down out of the pinewoods and trotted through the barnyard urging the cubs along at a fairly brisk trot. But she stopped briefly to investigate a pile of apple peels I had tossed on the lawn after making apple butter. If it hadn't been for that little interlude, I don't think I would have managed to get a lens on her. As it was, the first several shots were through the window; Until I realized she was going to nose through the apple peels and I opened the porch door and stepped out..
She never did actually bolt and run ........... she left the cubs nose through the compost pile and then they slipped over the bank and down into the lower woods. ...... About half a minute later the cloud burst hit.
I struggle with so many of my winter shots. Sometimes I just give up but other times I find a "new" way to process something. I liked this post-processing look so I kept this one and saved the preset to tweak and try again.
Sometimes ideas just flow and evolve, and this is a prime example of that. An idea of Gwyn’s that got a little tweaked and well playing on the idea of attachments in SL, this is the end result. Taken on Gwyn’s photo platform. BTW if anyone sees my missing bits, please return them, they are not used to being out on their own - contrary to those who say I think with them.
Heavy frost here recently. Another shot with off-camera flash. I like creating high contrast black and white shots of ferns as you concentrate on their shapes and textures. I process the raw file in DxO PhotoLab with my main concern to crush the blacks around the fern and remove any distracting elements then I use the FilmPack plugin, selecting a film look I think suits the image best and tweaking it from there.
Ok, so I may have done a small amount of editting on this one too. Well I guess you'll agree, the original didn't quite cut the mustard.
Shot on the Sony a6400 with the Sigma 56mm f/1.4.
Camera files settings - RAW and JPEGS (B/W).
Straight Out Of Camera (S.O.O.C.) JPEGS, tweaked in Apple Photos Editor.
This is a slight tweak of the very first fractal I ever rendered in Jux. I ran across it the other day and thought I would edit it a bit and reshare it. The orbit trap is new, of course, I do not think they existed when I bought the software. I did some cleanup on the lighting settings and a little to the other settings but not really much.