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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.
Not very imaginative titles these! Still working through my backlog of images to work on, must improve my workflow. Another from Clevedon Pill. Seems to be a theme of boats, high tide and sunset recently.
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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
I just love the valence on the mushroom, it's the last one I've found in this conditions. I'm sure this was a stacked image but Zerene stacker wasn't embedding that data. My guess is 30 images and the camera was on a Platypod. I was migrating my workflow totally away from Lightroom Classic and in the changeover some images were misplaced, this was one of those images. I was also planning on going from the D850 and D500 to the Z7II and Z9. I did keep some of the lenses however, the 60mm macro is one of those lenses.
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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.
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North Beach with my buddy Reggie. A blue hour/pre-dawn long exposure, and at f/10, a little unusual for me. F/16 or f/18 is my usual workflow for long exposures. Had there been more clouds, perhaps a 1 minute or longer exposure would have been in the flow.
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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!
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Shot by Capy (2 viewers workflow)
Green screen and body layers used for utility
Part of my "workflow" is, after I've hacked and sawed on a picture for a while, I look at the original to see if I've gone...too far. In this case, I may have overdone it just a smidge. See the previous picture.
I enjoy hacking and sawing, so I really do have to check to see that I have not lost the plot.
Usually, when I make a different version of a picture, I wait a while before posting it. In this case, I thought it would be interesting to show the pictures next to each other.
After thoroughly creepyfying the picture I looked at the original and thought, "dang, it was pretty creepy to start with."
So I present the original to you so you can compare. Creepyfied versus just going with flow. Other than the crop, this is SOOC. This is one of the reasons I like to hunt for murder shacks on overcast days...they already have some atmosphere.
Northwest Indiana
February 26, 2026
*In no way do we imply that a felony was actually committed here, or that a felon occupies this space. We jest. But you have to admit…kinda creepy.
More of my murder shack pictures
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The Northern Lights shining brightly over a frozen lake and Arctic peaks on the isle of Senja in Norway.
Also, I just recently put out a video that details my entire creative workflow from field to post on a fairly involved photo. You can find it at www.ryandyar.com ❤️ Thanks for scrolling to come across my post… you’re awesome.
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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AUTUMN LAKES WORKSHOP
Myself and Stuart McGlennon @stuartmcglennon have teamed up to offer this superb 5 night (4 days tuition) Lake District Workshop from 3rd-8th November.
Accommodation will be at the lovely Wallthwaite Farm near Keswick, this will be our base to explore all the best The Lakes has to offer. During the week there will also be presentations and post-processing sessions to supplement days in the field. I will also be showing my fine art workflow for those that might be interested in this particular style.
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Gare do Oriente or alternately, the Lisbon Oriente Station is one of the main Portuguese intermodal transport hubs, and is situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, municipality of Lisbon.
In 1994, the station was proposed as part of the modernization of the Linha do Norte, a modification to the rail line to facilitate the future development of an Oriente station. Located along Avenida D. João II, over Avenida de Berlim and Rua Conselheiro Mariano de Carvalho, the station was planned to occupy the lands once occupied by Apeadeiro dos Olivais, which was demolished in the 1990s in order to make way for the new station.
Equipment=Canon 6D
Lens Used=Tokina 17-35mm Lens
Exposures=7
Location=Lisbon, Portugal
Workflow=Luminosity Masks
Adobe Lightroom 5,
ON1 Photo 10=Dynamic Contrast, Angel Glow and Increase Color
Nik Color Efex=Glamor Glow