Nice Photos.

Haim Ronen posted:

Tow in line

I am loving the angles.  Great pic!

Kevin-W posted:

Night-time Shadows:

This is a common subject, but you have given it an eerie, almost sinister quality.  Very effective!  Well done.

fatcat posted:

Spent yesterday cloud hunting in Wales.

That is a most bizarre reflection.  I am not sure why but it is disconcerting.... I really like it.  Well done.

fatcat posted:

Your move.

Lined up perfectly, but not on the squares, which is odd.  Good picture.

Haim Ronen posted:

 

Azimuth

Incongruous.  That expensive looking bike would last 30 seconds in London, then you'd never see it again!  It strangely reminds me of the famous picture of a raw egg in a filthy workman's glove that had taken the shape of the hand*.  I love incongruity. 

*It was the glove that was filthy, not the workman, though me might also have been.

Atom/Iota/Kan Stands posted:

This is a common subject, but you have given it an eerie, almost sinister quality.  Very effective!  Well done.

Thanks very much, [@mention:75342530992722360] x

Atom/Iota/Kan Stands posted:

fatcat posted:

Your move.

Lined up perfectly, but not on the squares, which is odd.  Good picture.

Thanks.

It was taken in a place where things are not always as they appear, it’s an optical illusion. I cunningly achieved it by getting very low to the ground. I've had a bad back ever since.

Afternoon play at Cal Anderson Park

count.d posted:

seakayaker posted:

South Park Bridge

Lovely shot seakayaker. How did you produce the slight black glow around the shadow detail?

If memory serves me right I was using one of the HDR effects in the NIK software tools. NIK was a small company that developed digital software tools that Google had purchased. Google has since sole the rights to DxO. A blurb from their website,  "Nik Collection by DxO is a series of 7 creative plugins for MacOS*, Windows* and Adobe CC, providing filters, rendering and photography retouching tools to create stunning images."  When I bought the software years ago it was a couple of hundred US dollars, google offered the software as free download for awhile, DxO offers the package for $69.00 and a fun tool for folks who enjoy photography. 

Nice, 15 July 2018.

Quite the atmosphere

Shot 1 is trif!

JamieWednesday posted:

Shot 1 is trif!

I'm with Jamie - it really is terrific!

Orvieto Cathedral.

Fabio 1 posted:

Orvieto Cathedral.

Orvieto Classico, Fabio 

C.

Boats at Giglio Porto,Giglio Island,Tuscany.

Sunflowers and wheat.

"Orvieto Classico, Fabio  ".

Absolutely Christopher_M!

seakayaker posted:

count.d posted:

seakayaker posted:

 

South Park Bridge

Lovely shot seakayaker. How did you produce the slight black glow around the shadow detail?

If memory serves me right I was using one of the HDR effects in the NIK software tools. NIK was a small company that developed digital software tools that Google had purchased. Google has since sole the rights to DxO. A blurb from their website,  "Nik Collection by DxO is a series of 7 creative plugins for MacOS*, Windows* and Adobe CC, providing filters, rendering and photography retouching tools to create stunning images."  When I bought the software years ago it was a couple of hundred US dollars, google offered the software as free download for awhile, DxO offers the package for $69.00 and a fun tool for folks who enjoy photography. 

Thanks sea kayaker. I was hoping you'd say it was something via Photoshop , but I'll take a look at the software.

count.d posted:

seakayaker posted:

count.d posted:

seakayaker posted:

 

South Park Bridge

Lovely shot seakayaker. How did you produce the slight black glow around the shadow detail?

If memory serves me right I was using one of the HDR effects in the NIK software tools. NIK was a small company that developed digital software tools that Google had purchased. Google has since sole the rights to DxO. A blurb from their website,  "Nik Collection by DxO is a series of 7 creative plugins for MacOS*, Windows* and Adobe CC, providing filters, rendering and photography retouching tools to create stunning images."  When I bought the software years ago it was a couple of hundred US dollars, google offered the software as free download for awhile, DxO offers the package for $69.00 and a fun tool for folks who enjoy photography. 

Thanks sea kayaker. I was hoping you'd say it was something via Photoshop , but I'll take a look at the software.

A similar effect is pretty easy in Photoshop. Create a duplicate layer, apply a Gaussian blur to that layer then increase its transparency to taste so that the sharp original layer shows through. It seems to work best on grey-scale and sepia (and similar) images, but some colour images can look OK, too. It can be very flattering on portraits if not over-done (which it usually is - think "glamour" shoots).

Seakayaker. if it is not too much of a burden, perhaps you could show us the image without the filter application? Looking at the sky I am wondering if you are also getting a color shift.

After the rain

One of the plants around the house which insist on remaining dry during the rainfall and only once in a while allow a droplet to rest before rolling to the ground. 

Haim Ronen posted:

Seakayaker. if it is not too much of a burden, perhaps you could show us the image without the filter application? Looking at the sky I am wondering if you are also getting a color shift.

I took a quick look for the original image on a couple of hard drives but could not locate it, I have a couple dozen memory cards around but can not locate them at the moment. I have a tendency to discard images once I am finished working with them. If they are not going to be printed I usually don't keep. The image I used was from an "image a day project" I worked on awhile ago on a web site called "Blipfoto."

The Photographer

Fabio 1 posted:

Orvieto Cathedral.

Stunning photo. My cousin got married there nine years ago, almost to the day. Brings back some lovely memories (including the torrential downpour as everyone left the church after the ceremony).

Haim Ronen posted:

After the rain

One of the plants around the house which insist on remaining dry during the rainfall and only once in a while allow a droplet to rest before rolling to the ground. 

Great photo Haim. FWIW - from an ecological perspective the plant is channeling water immediately to its roots. Water left on the leaves would be subject to evaporation and of no use to the plant. Plants with a downward-draping, umbrella-like shape direct water to the perimeter of their canopy and moisten the roots there; typically a wide-reaching shallow root system. The plant in your picture, with it's upright leaves, appears to be directing moisture towards the trunk; typically a narrower and deeper root system. Useful minutiae for where best to direct the flow when watering outdoor plants during dry conditions.