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A 4X5 crop that includes 3 pillars and creates the perspective that leads the eye to the distant bathers. A slight rotation was made to correct the horizon.
Bit of a Flickr slow-down while I struggle with a non-Adobe workflow for the first time in a long time (trying to break the addiction). I'm also pausing the 'pro' account on a trial basis, while I save up to buy a dozen eggs.
So hopefully all have a fine weekend. I'll be shooting a little but may or may not get more images up. I won't be Flickring much tonight but will try to fave from the mobile.
What you’re looking at is a starless edit of IC2944, an emission nebula in the Centaurus constellation, around 6500 light years from earth.
While I normally almost never do starless edits (they generally don’t appeal to me), I’m making an exception for this one. As part of my editing workflow, I always split nebulosity from star fields and edit them separately (what makes stars look their best doesn’t necessarily apply to nebulae and vice versa). In this case, the resulting nebula appealed to me so much, I decided to not put the stars back in.
So what is it that’s so interesting/appealing then? If you look closely at some of the larger structures in the image, you’ll be able to make out some fine detail/patterns. This is actually the result of gravitational and stellar radiation interactions within the system, shaping the interstellar gas/dust. You can compare it to wind sculpting dunes over time, just on a much larger scale.
Setup:
Planewave CDK24
Moravian C3-61000 Pro
Planewave L-600
Image acquisition details:
22x900" HA
27x900" OIII
29x900" SII
Someone asked me how I processed my photos which led me to write my workflow out on my "About" page. After some confusion, I decided to do a visual as you see in the attached image.
Do you have a photo-taking workflow?
Before I pull out the “big camera,” I sometimes snap a quick iPhone pic to check composition and lighting. Sometimes it tells me everything I need to know, like whether to shift left, crouch down, or just give up and go get some eggs benedict for brekky at a cafe. And when my wide-angle lens isn’t quite wide enough, it's iPhone panorama to the rescue! It’s quicker than taking multiple shots with the OM-1 and stitching later. Lazy or efficient? You decide.
Fun Fact Time - The Goldfish Edition!
Have you ever wondered how long goldfish live? Most pet goldfish clock in around 5–10 years. But some have gone the distance......
The oldest was Goldie (45 yrs). A very solid name choice in my opinion. He never made it into the Guinness Book of Records due to a lack of official paperwork. While he was alive, Goldie garnered international media attention, and his family the Evans family donated any money earned by Goldie’s appearances to charity to help children with physical disabilities. How cool is that, a philanthropist goldfish!
Other notable characters in the geriatric goldfish club include:
Tish (1956-1999) – the official Guinness title holder at 43 years old. In 1988 Tish had a brush with death when he leapt out of his bowl and landed on the carpet. His mum Tilda wasn't home but luckily, when she found him & placed him back into the water, he resumed swimming as if nothing had happened. I wonder if he remembered or if every trip around the goldfish bowl was new to him! Over the years, as he aged, Tish’s scales turned from bright orange to silver, matching the colour of Hilda’s hair. That's kinda sweet.
Fred (42) and George (44). Keith & Mary Allies from Worcester UK won the pair of fish at a fair in 1974, when they were only dating. Since then, the married couple kept the goldfish, who outlived two of their dogs. They passed in 2017 & 2019. Fred & George that is, not Keith & Mary! My takeaway - a couple who raise goldfish together, stay together!
Splash (38) and Splish (36) - Haley and Matthew Wright never did anything particularly special to care for Splash. He swam around his tank all day, ate regular fish food, and fed on live plants in his tank. Splish and Splash were funfair prizes won by the Wrights in 1977 (bit of a common theme there). Mr. Wright believes that Splash mourned for Splish when he was no longer around. PS If it is annoying I listed splash before splish you may be OCD ;)
Sharkey (24) – I reckon best name, hands down! Another goldfish who survived a near death experience. His owner Paul's mother found him belly up in his bowl. She thought he was dead and flushed him down the toilet. However, Sharky was still alive and swam back up the pipe and was saved in time. I guess he felt a bit shitty about that ;)
Bob (20) from the UK – well, it's a solid name for sure. I wonder if it is because he "Bobbed" up and down in his bowl? Bob experienced his 15 minutes of fame in 2017 when his family noticed that he was struggling to swim and developed a lump on his fin. They decided to spend $250 on an operation to save his life. I'm pleased to report the operation was successful and Bob fully recovered. The doc said that his family was very pleased with the outcome as Bob was older than their children and considered part of their family.
I hope these goldfish ramblings brighten your day. Thanks kindly for any likes/comments, they are always appreciated.
Waterscape 34/100 in 2025
- Thanks to everyone who looked at my picture, favors and have commented. Please press "L" or "Z" for a large view - an absolute must to fully enjoy this picture!
Said Bear has had a word with me about improving my workflow - whatever that means - and we published this picture directly from within Shotwell (a photo manager for Linux).
Said Bear has definitely settled into his new home, and I think he is actually taking over. No bad thing tbh.
When Vanilla Leaf starts to finish for the year they get very thin and translucent with a nice vein structure, so I placed some colored leaves as a base with vanilla leaf on top. This was a test to try the 240 mp pixelshift with a 1 x 4 focus stacked panorama but I didn't have enough ram to stack them so they had to be down sized then there was some leaf curling causing movement so that had to be cropped out but I still ended up with enough to make a 2' x 5' print.
Workflow wise using the A7rIV pixelshift I shoot the raws then assemble them in Sony Imaging Edge Desktop Viewer into .arq files then I create a profile in Rawtherapee then using the Rawtherapee-cli I convert the files to tiff, then these are stacked in Zerene Stacker, and the finished picture is edited in Photoshop.
I have been wandering through my old holiday snaps and I thought I would reprocess a few with my current workflow. It is frightening how long ago this was, it seems like yesterday. I remember vividly standing watching this sunset and thinking how lucky I was.
hybrid workflow Mint SLR670S/instant Lab, Polaroid bw 600 film film, Bonn Germany, day one 1/2
Happy PolaroidWeek to you all! so looking forward to see your great polas this week. this community is so inspiring, glad to be a part of it.
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Image published in the September 2025 edition of Sky and Telescope magazine.
Image:
This image is comprised of Ha and OIII band data, and for the first time I have a target where the OIII signal is far stronger than the Ha signal. In my rendering of this image that I posted a week ago, I could barely, if at all, see any evidence of the Ha in the image.
I altered my PixInsight workflow three ways to improve the original image and obtain this result. Before mapping the Ha and OIII to the RGB channels, I applied LinearFit to increase the intensity of the Ha data to match the OIII. After mapping Ha and OIII to the RGB channels, I applied SPCC, this time with Ideal QE Curve selected, and using Photon Flux for the Whte Reference. And lastly, I selected OIII as luminance when I mixed the colors in NarrowbandNormalization.
As a result of the alternate processing, I can see Ha depicted as a goldish color in the outlying wispy areas, and within the target object.
Equipment:
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (HO)
TeleVue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Software:
Captured in NINA
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Affinity Photo
Integration:
Ha 20 x 600s = 3:20
OIII 26 x 600s = 4:20
Total integration: 7:40
~Abraham Lincoln
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And what isn't to be happy about around Christmas? Saw how the light was hitting our mantle the other day, and just could not resist snapping an HDR!
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The 2016 #everynewmoon adventure took us to Lesotho, the mountain Kingdom.
This image was taken at a rock quarry on top of one of the mountains as the Milky Way sets early in the evening.
About the photo:
Canon 5D MkIII
Canon 24-70mm LII
Shot at:
ISO3200
24mm
F/2,8
25 Sec
A great light to use for these type of shots: Fenix CL25R Lantern in moonlight mode. And my model: My Mr! @TheAstroShake (Cory Schmitz)
Processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.
PhotographingSpace.com Milky Way Finishers Action Pack used to finish off final editing of clarity, star reduction and noise reduction. Check it out: photographingspace.com/product/milkywayfinisher/
Want to know more about my workflow to edit Milky Way image? Here’s how I finish off my astro photos: photographingspace.com/finish-milky-way/
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My new BW post processing video tutorial is now ready for download, for a limited time get all 9 videos for the price of 1
Video 1 My Complete BW Workflow
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Video 3 Fine Art Architecture
Video 4 Fine Art Landscape
Video 5 Fine Art Seascape
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Video 7 Fine Art Long Exposure
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A view from Chambers Bay Golf Course and park in University Place, WA. These old cement structures are left over relics from the sand and gravel companies that were there for many decades. What a wise move to preserve the history and make the area even more interesting. Great photo ops for scenics and portraits as well.
The reason I edited this one was to try out Topaz' new upsizing software called AI Gigapixel. It is like Genuine Fractals and other software but this one uses artificial intelligence to make up the new pixels when upsizing and man does it ever work great!
So this was a huge crop that left less than 1500px to work with before uprezzing it to 2500 with AI Gigapixel. That gave me enough px to edit decently and reduce noise. I'll be using this workflow quite a bit and it opens up opportunities for low res files from the past or huge crops in the future. It would be a great way to prepare a file for a large print too.
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Rio Chico, Argentina - November 2018.
Here's another new edit of an old shot after watching Jan Wegener's editing tutorials to learn from his workflow. This crop is the one I prefer.