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I think I've described my workflow after a day's shoot in the past. Nothing special about it. I come back with 500-1000 shots (more or less). I go through all of them and delete the usually relatively small number that are out of focus, or where I missed what I was shooting at.
I go through a second time and delete some photos in cases where I shot in burst mode and there may be five or six essentially identical images. Over time that would cost a fair amount of storage space. I'll take the time to determine which two, or three are in the best focus, and eliminate the redundant exposures.
In that process I also save to a special file the photos -- generally a small percentage -- which I think are particularly worthwhile and which I would want to use for Flickr. All of this determined on a single pass through.
Generally my instincts are good as far as initially selecting the best shots for future use. A surprising amount of the time, though, a later return to look at the others seems to show me different images, or a different way of seeing some of them. Hence the value of the X-files...er...archives.
This photo was one skipped over five years ago, foir specific reasons...and not just overlooked. The out of focus bloom front left marred the composition. The position of the bee is not classic, and there were plenty of better posed shots.
Looking back now, with the advantage of highsight and always evolving preferences, I see something a bit special in this shot. Simply put, it has an out of the ordinary quality.
Bees on blue flowers are rather unusual. Bees on purple ones are as sympatico as peanut butter and jelly, or ham and eggs. My stream, and my archives, are filled with bees on purple flowers. Not many at all, though on blue ones.
So I re-evaluated this shot...as each of us should do every exposure from time to time. I gave additional value to the color of the flower, decided the bee's position and sharpness were fine, and actually sort of liked the out of focus bud.
All of that just explains this particular photo showing up after five years...as we await the 2016 return of the bees, bugs and butterflies.
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• Paris is an iconic destination for photoshoots, especially for women, due to its timeless elegance and romantic atmosphere. The city’s historic landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Notre-Dame, create stunning backdrops that exude sophistication. Parisian streets, with their charming cafés, cobblestones, and Haussmann-style architecture, offer a blend of classic and modern aesthetics. The city’s association with high fashion and luxury enhances its allure, drawing top photographers inspired by its artistic heritage. Paris also offers soft natural light, ideal for portraits, and a vibrant creative culture that fosters innovative and breathtaking photography.
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Last year Pratik Naik and I had the pleasure of being invited by the lovely folks over at Phase One to speak and hold a workflow segment in their StandOut Tour! We spoke in several cities across the US, met lots of you guys, connected with amazing creatives, and had way too much throwing feathers at every opportunity! :D
In this picture our model is lit by an Elinchrom light and modifier. We used a large Octabox to give the light a softer fall across the picture.
Model: Jael Lloyd
HMUA: Nina's Makeup
Skin Retouching by: Pratik Naik of Solstice Retouch
Dress: Creature of Habit
Headpiece: Miss G Designs
Organised by: Phase One
Shot with: Phase One IQ3 100MP
Lens: Schneider Kreuznach 55mm LS f/2.8
Edited with the Azurite and Celestite actions from my Crystalline collection. I changed the group opacities to 60%. This collection is crazy beautiful (in my opinion!), worth checking out if you're into colour toning actions - www.fineartactions.com
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We who spend time in the depths of Photoshop find tools and tricks we like. We repeat them. We try to learn, but we build on a mode of expression.
Shot from a helicopter landing in Vancouver's Coal Harbor yesterday. Tungsten white balance gives it the bluish hue, though I did dial it back a little in PP.
Had to clean a shitload of reflections from the interior glass of the helicopter bubble.
Workflow & Credits
Track created on the Suno website.
Image generated with AI.
Concept and lyrics developed from my original idea, brainstormed and refined with ChatGPT.
This project was created with full AI assistance — openly, deliberately, and as part of the creative process.
Verse 1
The horizon split in iron light
The sea stood tall, the sky burned white
They begged my hand to turn the wheel
But pride was all I chose to feel
The compass shook, the mast-line cried
The ocean warned — I would not hide
No mortal wind would master me
I swore command upon the sea
Pre-Chorus
I heard the thunder call my name
I knew the cost — I stayed the same
Chorus
I saw the storm and chose it still
I would not bend, I would not kneel
Let heaven break and oceans roar
I am the vow I swore before
No harbor light, no guiding flame
Only the echo of my name
If fate would carve its mark on me
Then let it carve eternally
Verse 2
The sails were torn by unseen hands
The tide withdrew from mortal lands
No stars remained to mark the night
Yet still I steered into their sight
The crew fell silent, one by one
As if the dark had just begun
No prayer survived the salted air
No mercy lingered anywhere
Pre-Chorus
The sea did not need rage or cry
It answered me by standing high
Chorus
I saw the storm and chose it still
I would not bend, I would not kneel
Let heaven break and oceans roar
I am the vow I swore before
No harbor light, no guiding flame
Only the echo of my name
If fate would carve its mark on me
Then let it carve eternally
Bridge (piano + low strings)
There was a moment — brief and small
Where I could have turned at all
A single breath
A single choice
But silence drowned the softer voice
Final Chorus (reduced, darker)
I saw the storm and chose it still
Now time stands frozen at my will
No dawn will rise, no night will cease
Only this endless, salted sea
No cross to bear, no grave to find
Only the wind that binds my mind
If I defied what none command
Then I alone shall ever stand
Final Verse (quiet, ominous)
And still I sail where maps grow thin
Beyond the edge of what has been
No port will claim me, none can warn
Of oath and tide and pride forsworn
If ever through the mist you see
A tattered sail on silver sea
Turn your helm and mark this chart —
Pray you never cross my dark
For I am bound to wind and foam
Exile my crown, the sea my throne
I chose the storm — it chose me then
And still I sail… beyond all men.
I always think that it's interesting to see someones workflow for photoediting so I recorded mine to show you :)
This was a more complicated task where I had to use Lightroom and Photoshop.
How do you edit your pictures?
A Dark Beauty from the Southern Sky
This deep image captures the stunning dark nebulae and reflection clouds of the Corona Australis molecular complex, one of the nearest and most visually striking star-forming regions in the sky. Located roughly 420 light-years away, this region is a dramatic mix of dark dust filaments, blue reflection nebulae, and scattered young stars.
Prominently featured is NGC 6729, a blue reflection/emission nebula surrounding young variable stars R CrA and T CrA, which are still in the early stages of stellar evolution. The intricate brownish dust lanes weaving across the frame obscure background starlight and trace the structure of cold molecular gas, a raw material for future star formation. Nearby lies the globular cluster NGC 6723, providing a striking contrast to the dusty clouds.
The Corona Australis molecular cloud complex lies only ~420 light-years away, making it one of the nearest regions of low-mass star formation. NGC 6729, near R CrA, is home to several Herbig-Haro objects (HH 96, HH 97, HH 100, etc.), an energetic jets and outflows from newborn stars colliding with surrounding gas and dust. These shocks are key indicators of ongoing accretion and stellar birth.
NGC 6723 is a globular cluster consisting of tens of thousands of ancient stars gravitationally bound in a spherical halo. It likely formed during the earliest stages of the Milky Way’s assembly, making it more than 30 times older than the young stars in the Corona Australis cloud just a few degrees away on the sky.
Although the cluster visually appears embedded in the same dusty field, NGC 6723 lies much farther in the background, behind the Corona Australis dark cloud, it lies ~28,400 light-years aways.
Captured remotely from the southern skies using Martin Pugh’s observatory in Australia. Fully remote operation via N.I.N.A., managed as part of our SkyFlux Team rental.
This project reflects the power of remote astrophotography, planned, executed, and processed from thousands of kilometers away. The depth and detail of this image were made possible by combining meticulous planning with access to a dark southern site and using advanced PixInsight workflow.
4-panel mosaic
Each panel: 120x300s (10 Hours)
Equipment: SharpStar AP140PH, 10Micro HPS1000, ASI 6200 OSC
Control & Acquisition: Remote operation via N.I.N.A. (SkyFlux Team)
Entirely processed in PixInsight.
Processing & copyright: Leo Shatz
Well, this is straight out of my virtual machine, where I now moved on to trying new things, finally! 😊
It's all very experimental still; please feel free to let me know what you think, like, dislike, suggestions etc., even though, down the road, what matters is if I enjoy or feel expressed by my creations.
Interestingly, what I felt compelled to do first (before trying out new thingx) was to take care of my 'digital Aerochrome' workflow, which I developed resp. discovered just earlier this year. I quickly got to like it and the thought that it is dependent on my 'old system' (as not-old as it may be) and that it could have an expiration date was not nice at all.
So I took some time and tried to recreate it. Not without trouble as it turned out. What 'solved' it was the fact that the Adobe DNG Profile Editor is the same since 2012 I believe, so I could shove my old profile into the new LrC and then recreate the rest around it. So, I'm happy about that. (And in theory, that means I can recreate my legacy 720nm ways from the weird fullspec D90 also, ..cause I have still tons of that stuff, undeveloped.)
Nikon D3300 (APS-C / DX, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
heliopan SH-PMC deep orange 4x (22) filter
B+W 010 UV-Haze 1x MRC F-Pro filter
ISO100, 13mm, f/8, 1/500sec (-1,3EV)
(thus 19,5mm full frame equivalent)
handheld, manual focus, via optical viewfinder
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Video 8 Fine Art Street
Video 9 Minimal Photography
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The workflow to process your photos is for many photographers a well kept secret.
Left: Direct from the scanner and unprocessed. Here the image looks very bad, and most of you wouldn’t even take the time to process the file. But if it wasn't for that I really knew that I got something that morning, I wouldn't too.
Middle: Color corrected, I set every channel with curves. Spot removal (there is a lot when I scan by myself =) Lighten it up a little with Levels. Then re sized the image to around 1800pix.
Right: The final crop, sometimes you have to see the image within the image. One more layer of curves, because in this image I was needed to reduce the red tones in its highlights a little more. Sharpening if needed. The last thing I do is to put that white frame around. For me, that really helps to bring out the best of the image.
Hasselblad H2 - HC 80mm f/2.8 at f/11 and a warming filter 81A - HM 16-32 magazine with Fuji Velvia 100 exp 2007 - Scanned with my Epson V800.
Svedala 2018.08.26
Le Suquet is the old quarter of Cannes, probably best known to tourists as the climbing, winding cobbled lane lined with local restaurants, Rue St Antoine. Le Suquet contains a clock tower and church that sit high facing east overlooking the Bay of Cannes and Cannes itself. At the bottom of Le Suquet on Rue Dr. P. Gazagnaire is the Marché Forville, where the market is held in the mornings and early afternoon.
This area is the original fishermans' residential area of Cannes. The houses are all very old. The streets were laid out at least 400 years ago. It is a 5-minute walk from the beach and is full of restaurants around the Rue Saint Antoine and the Rue du Suquet. A lot of the area is pedestrianised and is a major tourist attraction for visitors to Cannes.
The rue du Suquet is the original main road into Cannes. It came in below the walls of the castle (for defence reasons). It is a pedestrian street again and has plenty of restaurants [Wikipedia.org]
Inspired by and Dedicated to Phil for sharing his workflow.
Photography is so subjective and diverse. We all have a certain style, sometimes very distinctive. Often we are so strung up by technical perfection that we forget that Photography is an Art form. I haven't done an "HDR - not for the faint hearted style" for a long time and actually forgot how is was done. Thanks to Phil for sharing his workflow :)
The purpose of sharing my work on Flickr is to show you "My World", the way I see things. And also to learn new things from all of you. I really appreciate constructive critism as it helps to improve, inspires to try new techniques and better oneself. So c'mon down, hit me with your thoughts. I have tough skin (most times) :)
Have a nice week end my friends and remember to make someone close to you happy :)
I generally do not like to complain...about anything. BUT I need some relief! She's only 7 lbs. but she's either in my lap (worse) or on the keyboard or in front of the screen. If I lock her out she scratches at the door and wines. My wife helps but she's got the sister cat to contend with. That's right - double trouble!
It's a wonder I get anything done.
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I'll Be Sailing to the Open Blue Sea
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
I'll be sailing to the open blue sea
Where the silvery waves are going out
With the wings of fresh morning that's quite free
Through the daydreaming without any doubt
Every hope shall be rolling tall and brave
Within billows so high in the shaking
Through rippling of waves the ocean gave
To the in fjords and gales in their making
We're winners to new corners of the world
To the faraway islands and their shore
With every circling wave that there whirled
And are in need of fresh dreams to explore
I'll be sailing to hope in my open boat
Bringing music from my heart that I wrote
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona.
In the absence of any recent photography expeditions, I've started going back through older shots that initially failed to make the cut to see if my processing skills have improved over the past few years. Learning the basics of luminosity masking has made a huge difference to not only my workflow generally, but also the level of control that I have over adjustments as a result of the pixel-based masks that can be created based on luminosity values. If interested check out the great luminosity masking tutorials by Sean Bagshaw. Ryan Dyar also has some very helpful tutorials on his site. (Note: I have no affiliation with either Sean or Ryan - I just enjoy their work and have learned much from both).
This picture was taken during a week-long trip with Kevin Benedict and Sky Matthews across the southwest in early January 2015. Over the course of the week, we traveled over 1700 miles, while visiting Zion NP, Bryce Canyon, Death Valley, Coyote Buttes South (i.e. the Wave), Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, Valley of Fire and a few other random locations in and around Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California.
Our only morning in Monument Valley was certainly one of the highlights of the trip. It was easily the coldest morning of the week and waking up for the sunrise was definitely a challenge, especially after staying up half the night shooting stars. It’s a good thing that I was able to pull myself out of bed this particular morning as we were rewarded with the one truly epic sunrise of the trip – and all for the price of some frozen toes and fingers. This picture, however, was actually taken shortly after peak color as many of the clouds began fading back to gray. The sky was truly spectacular just a few minutes before this shot was taken. Unfortunately I was shooting in a different location and had not yet found this particular comp.
Frankly, perhaps because it was taken after the peak colors has faded, the raw image was nothing special and, as a result, this image did not make “the cut.” However, after languishing on my computer for more than two years, I gave it another look and realized that the comp had a lot going for it. As mentioned, my processing skills had also improved in the intervening time since I took the shot and decided that it might be worth the effort to see if I could do anything with the raw image. I’m glad I did. Along the way, I learned a valuable lesson about periodically reviewing old files as this image is now a personal favorite.
Just pulling a few more from my trip to NC a few weeks back . . . the beautiful and oh so talented Natasha Cuevas
Edited with my soft pop action from my Workflow set
So... I'm trying out DXO's PureRAW and I took one of my "depth finding" shots of the Levy Semaphores. These are throwaway shots used to judge what the shot will look like in a short amount of time... By cranking up the ISO to some ungodly number... in this case, 51200. Completely useless for sharing, but great for telling me in the field what's my image going to look like.
Thanks to DXO's Pure Raw 4, The middle image came out into the world. Further processing in Lightroom classic and Nik ColorEffex results in the lower one... One that's, well, actually usable.
More probally to come now.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Another one from a few weeks ago on my photowalk with Wiz. I've posted pictures of the front of Heinz Chapel in the past, however I wasn't able to get all the way to the top, as I didn't have the wide angle then.
Took this one dead center in the front, and while I did correct the distortion in CS5, I didn't like how it turned out, and put the slightly warped one here. Let me know what you think! Processed with HDR Efex.
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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
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...
This is the second image in a Layered Series that I will be posting. All will be the same subject-- the early morning Kettle Moraine Forest, captured from atop the Parnell Tower. But there will be a considerable difference in the appearance of the images due to my changes in post-processing.
The final outcome of the same image can be dramatically different depending on the 'developing' or processing workflow. I thought it would be fun to show these variances in this series... Hope you enjoy!
www.travelwisconsin.com/trails-and-hiking/parnell-tower-2...
www.stateparks.com/kettle_moraine_state_forest_in_wiscons...
Part of the set bilderordner album: "res noscenda note notiz sketch skizze material sammlung collection entwurf entwurfarbeit überlegung gedanke brainstorming musterbogen schnittmuster zwischenbilanz bestandsaufnahme rückschau vorschau" 365-days project 2: construction weaving loom, mounting mirror background, bau Webstuhl. Montage Spiegel Hintergrund, Unterlegung // Nonsense Analogie schuh werkstatt weben haus bauen torte backen auflauf kochen // Szenen ohne Ehe, selbst ist die Frau
used photos:
DMC-GH3 - P1100035 - 2015-11-09
DMC-GH3 - P1100036 - 2015-11-09
DMC-GH3 - P1100041 - 2015-11-09
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