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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.
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.
Yet another daylight long exposure landscape shoot - I am quickly becoming addicted to daylight long exposure! Manual mode same as last to get more experience. I chose f/16 to allow for the exposure time I wanted (15-20 secs)
Thanks again to Adam and his Landscape Masterclass at First Man Photography - without that I really wouldn't have considered going manual and not even gotten the shot because going through that masterclass has made me rethink how I shoot landscapes. I am still learning; I still struggle when looking for interesting subjects and also the composition. Also, ISO, aperture and shutterspeed is something I still need to incorporate into my workflow for each shot because I tend to forget checking and setting them. Heh.
During the pandemic, I've been using my cell phone for almost all my pictures. I just wanted to pass along my workflow for others who haven't tried their phones yet. Just remember that a RAW file gives you much more room to adjust contrast.
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.
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this is the last picture of the night photography series with this dark, greenish contrasty processing. I might use this workflow again, maybe with some additional or slightly changed components.
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A Short-Eared Owl - Asio flammeus - flies gracefully in late afternoon sun on a Winter day.
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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.
• A winter's sunset paints the landscape with ethereal beauty, as the snow glistens under a soft amber glow. The sky transitions from fiery orange to cool lavender, blending seamlessly with frost-kissed treetops. Silhouettes of bare branches frame the horizon, where the fading sun casts long, golden shadows. Crisp air carries a serene stillness, while the sparkling frost underfoot echoes nature’s quiet elegance, evoking both wonder and peace.
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Second image in my Autumn Leaves series...
Our bird bath sits below our River Birch tree. During the summer few leaves are dropping so the bath stays quite clear and clean. Not so when autumn arrives.
Here is my workflow that produced this photograph:
I first captured the scene with my iPhone 14 Pro Max, then edited it with my Aperture program. I finished it with a frame that i created with an online editor called PicMonkey.com
Enjoy!
Having photographed London from southeast of the Thames twice over the past few years -- from Butler's Wharf, and then again from Tea Trade Wharf -- it was nice to return to the area, albeit from a much higher vantage point. I had become aware through several fellow photographers of a residential block providing a breathtaking view from its terrace, and on a recent evening I was lucky enough to be able to take in not only the view of the city but the stunning sunset over it.
This image is a blend of nearly 30 exposures, captured over 90 minutes and combining elements from sunset, dusk and twilight. Despite heavy and slow-moving clouds which had threatened to snuff out the light at the end of the day, the sun emerged above the horizon for a few minutes, setting the sky alight before blue hour began and as the lights across the cityscape began to switch on. Identifying the moments that best conveyed these stages of the evening from a selection of more than 200 exposures, and using luminosity masks to balance the shadows across the cityscape with both the sunlight and the lights inside the buildings, I edited three images and then merged them, taking the sunset from the first image and the colourful dusk tones in the clouds from the second and blending these with the night lights from the third.
Achieving this required a tailored workflow for each of the three images, including three sets of luminosity masks and a number of blend modes and gradient masks to make the mixture of exposures as seamless as possible. With this phase of the editing process complete, the colour-grading phase was straightforward. I left the sky almost unchanged, emphasising the reds and magentas in the clouds by using a Colour Lookup set to Soft Light and using the Fall Colours preset. I wanted to keep the light trails in the lower-left of the frame without them becoming a distraction, so I gently desaturated the yellows and reds in the foreground and brought out the dusk tones using a combination of Colour Balance adjustments and a Colour Lookup using the Foggy Night preset, which, at low opacity, had the benefit of softening some of the immediate details and hopefully guiding viewers' eyes towards the landmarks along the horizon. Finally, using a Gradient Map, I tweaked the colder midtones and shadows and the warmer highlights until the colour and exposure across the image felt balanced.
Inside Nik's Colour Efex Pro, I targeted the Pro Contrast filter to the clouds to emphasise their texture, as well as a sparing amount of Tonal Contrast to the cityscape to give it a little more definition. Conversely, I applied very minute amounts of the Glamour Glow and Sunlight filters to the setting sun, creating a hazy and ethereal glow on the horizon that seemed to convey the romanticism of the scene. My aim with this image was to convey the mood at the same time as the details: the vivid transition of light and colour during sunset as well as the densely packed detail of Rotherhithe's buildings in the foreground and the vibrant energy of the cityscape in the distance, with Tower Bridge and St Paul's at the centre of the frame and flanked by the Shard and the City on either side of the Thames. I couldn't have asked for more perfect conditions on this warm summer evening, and as happy as I am with the end result, I think the experience -- both of taking in the view and witnessing such a colourful end to the day -- is the part that will stay with me.
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Sometimes I wish I had recorded my workflow especially when the results are like this. I tried very hard to replicate it with another similar image but got nowhere near.
Selati Game Reserve
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IC 434 is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Orion. The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a dark nebula silhouetted against IC 434.
The red glow originates from Hydrogen gas predominantly behind the nebula, ionized by the nearby bright star Sigma Orionis. Magnetic fields channel the gases leaving the nebula into streams, shown as streaks in the background glow. A glowing strip of hydrogen gas marks the edge of the massive cloud.
The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth. The darkness of the Horsehead is caused mostly by thick dust blocking the light of stars behind it. This stellar nursery contains organic and inorganic gas and dust, including complex organic molecules.
The bright blue stars are still surrounded by nebulosity (gas and dust that they form out of), as they are still "young" energetic hot stars. You will notice that star colors differ from blue to yellow, orange and red. This is an indication of the temperature of a star's Nuclear Fusion process. This is determined by the size and mass of the star, and the stage of its life cycle. In short, the blue stars are hotter, and the red stars are cooler.
The nebula in the bottom left corner is called the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024).
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor.
William Optics 50mm Finder Scope.
Celestron SkySync GPS Accessory.
Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope.
Orion StarShoot Autoguider.
Celestron AVX Mount.
QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Celestron StarSense.
Canon 60Da DSLR.
Astronomik Clip-In CLS Light Pollution Filter.
Tech:
Guiding in Open PHD 2.6.2.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Lights/Subs:
24 x 180 sec. ISO 3200 RGB (CLA FITS)
Calibration Frames:
40 x Bias/Offset.
25 x Darks.
20 x Flats & Dark Flats.
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
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RA, Dec: 85.182, -2.419
RA, hms: 05h 40m 43.606s
Dec, dms: -02° 25' 07.910"
Size: 2.91 x 2.05 deg
Radius: 1.780 deg
Pixel scale: 6.55 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 94 degrees E of N
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Chapter 12
It was another late night pouring over images; deleting, cataloging, organizing, choosing submissions - 'the workflow'. I hate the workflow. It was 3 am and I'd been fighting to stay awake for a while now. I was about to call it quits for the night, when I heard a soft melody drifting, somewhere in the background. From the flat next-door? And a faint yet pugnent smell of... what was that?... incense? massage oil and sweat?? Perfume?
Then... over my shoulder, the sound of a whisper I couldn't make out. I turned. "Sally! What... how did... what happened to you? Where were you..."
"You know", she said. It was her voice, but with an eerie, far away tone I'd never heard before. "I've been here" she continued, "right here".
"What... what do you mean? I... I don't understand" I stammered.
"Silly, silly, boy" she giggled. "I'm not real" she said. "You know that, right?"
"But... but I... we... our photos... our sessions..." my head began to spin.
"Il-eona!" she replied.
"What? I... "
"Il-eona... iliwa. Weikeu... weiku. Dangis-i gaya" I heard her say, her voice changing to a slightly higher pitch, and taking on a hypnotic, melodic twang"
"I don't und..." I said, as the music grew louder and louder - drowning out my voice... my thoughts. The music. An oddly familiar tune. Where had I heard it before??
Chapter 13
My head still spinning, I closed my eyes tightly. The music... the sounds and smells... so familiar. But how?
And where was I? I was in my flat, looking through shots from earlier in the week... wasn’t I?? I felt a hand on my upper arm... a gentle shake and “Weikeueob! Wake up!” in that same musical, hypnotic, woman’s voice. And in a short, curt but sweet broken English “time to go now.”
I opened my eyes and tried to focus them in the smokey, dimly lit room. There - my clothes, lying crumpled in the corner. A snuffed out candle, burnt low. A tattered, heavy, velvety-red curtain covering a small window, hazy wisps of light peaking around the edges to bathe the dusty air. A table cluttered with incense, an empty absinthe bottle, oils, small drinking glasses one of them stained with lip stick, some scattered powders and substances I didn’t recognize, a thin red veil covering jars of some mysterious, exotic substances. A ledge with a small lamp, a crystal vase and some ornaments and knickknacks... a few Halloween decorations scattered throughout. I looked up, into the beautifully large, dark eyes or the oriental-looking girl standing over me. “S... Sally?” I said, in my confusion. “Yes, me Sally” she said, showing her smile. “We have fun, but you... too much. Too much fun - no good. Too much no good. You understand? Only little fun.” she said, gesturing with her thumb and forefinger. “Umm... I...” was all I managed, grasping to make sense of something that, at least to me, made none at all. Remember, I told myself. Remember. I closed my eyes again trying to remember and relive, to make sense of the past days.
When I opened my eyes again I was someplace different. A bed. Crisp white sheets. Everything is so white. There’s something...in my arm. An I.V. A hospital. I’m in a hospital bed. There’s a voice “Doctor - come quick. He’s conscious”. A tall, thin man rushed into the room, dressed all in white. “I... where am I?” I ask. “You’re at College Hospital” he said. “Can you tell us what happened to you? Some passer-byes found you, in the streets, delirious, wearing clothes obviously not yours. They brought you here. Do you remember anything? Anything at all??”
Remember. “Sally” I said softly. “Sally” I whispered, as I closed my eyes... for the last time.
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First - apologies. I started this as a 365. But when I added the story, it began to write itself... including the ending. Thanks to those who took the time to view the images and read the text.
The story is a tribute to 2 great creative artists: Tim Burton and Edgar Allan Poe.
In the spirit of Halloween, and if you have time, I hope you’ll watch a Tim Burton movie and get lost in his magical world of crazy but relate-able characters. Or that you’ll read a story from the genius imagination of Poe, or read about his mysterious death (of which the ending of this series is based).
Edgar Allen Poe died this month (October 7th) in 1849. He was found delirious in the streets of Baltimore, taken to hospital, and never regained coherency (or perhaps only briefly) before his death. How he spent his last five days, how he came to be in such a state, why he wasn’t wearing his own clothes, his cryptic calling out for “Reynolds” during the night, and even the cause of his death, remains a mystery and source of much speculation and theory, even to this day.
******* Happy Halloween everyone! *********
P.S. - sorry for running behind (it’s been a busy time, and a challenge just to get the daily image posted). I will catch up viewing everyone photos and comments soon!
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Video 6 Fine Art Cityscape
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An extremely comprehensive post processing tutorial for fine art BW photography
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Dublin Docklands (Irish: Ceantar Dugaí Átha Cliath) is an area of the city of Dublin, Ireland, on both sides of the River Liffey, roughly from Talbot Memorial Bridge eastwards to the 3Arena.
The Docklands has over recent years been regenerated as an extension of the modern business hub of Dublin's International Financial Services Centre. By 2008 the area had over 600 enterprises with new companies moving in every month, however this slowed down considerably due to the Irish financial crisis. Values and development activity has since 2014 made a significant recovery. The urban regeneration has transformed the Docklands into an innovative built environment and a uniquely modern area in which to do business.
Equipment=Canon 6D
Lens Used=Canon EF 24-105 F/4L IS USM
Exposures=7
Location=Dublin, Ireland
Workflow=Rapid Blend IF
Adobe Lightroom 5,
Nik Color Efex=Glamor Glow, Tonal Contrast(Colors Only)
OnOne Photo 10=Dark Glow, Increase Color, and DYnamic Contrast
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
Video 2 Mastering BW Conversions
Video 3 Fine Art Architecture
Video 4 Fine Art Landscape
Video 5 Fine Art Seascape
Video 6 Fine Art Cityscape
Video 7 Fine Art Long Exposure
Video 8 Fine Art Street
Video 9 Minimal Photography
also included are my photoshop files and post processing notes!
An extremely comprehensive post processing tutorial for fine art BW photography
www.vulturelabs.photography/product-page/b-w-post-process...