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Photo of the Day August 2018
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Today is HCB's 110th birthday and it is also Worldwide Street Photography Day.
I grabbed this decisive indecisive moment today at a local tire store in the waiting area.
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Thanks for looking,
Ed
Looks like something out of Breaking Bad, perhaps. Nice shot.
Great minds think alike, Peter! That was in fact a reconnaissance frame to establish my POV for a long exposure in the near future. Taken from the tailgate of a friends 4WD, as there's cyclone fencing right in front of me where I took that frame from.
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Stunning!Kingfisher in a bit of rain, Scotland
Are you sure it's a Scottish Kingfisher though, where's its Iron-Bru, kilt, bag-pipes or Wolf-hound?
I think you would be even more amazed today as they have added brand new facilities, and new things to do, such as the glass blowing class. I took some pictures of an employee blowing glass, making something new. It is hard to get a good picture, especially this time because he was behind a tinted piece of glass that is there to protect the people watching him doing his work in case the glass blew up and also from the bright light of the flame. I can show you those pictures if you would like?
Here is another one from Corning Museum of Glass:
Kingfisher in a bit of rain, Scotland
Stunning.
Why don't you stay in Canada and shoot there instead of making us look bad (and green with envy) in our part of the world?? At least when you shoot bears and snow owls we have the excuse that these animals don't live in our area.
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Across the canal, a Little Blue Heron.
Not close enough though, Olympus 150mm doesn't have quite the reach.
Not close enough though, Olympus 150mm doesn't have quite the reach.
In my garden i feed the birds with, inter alia, mealworms, I was unaware that flies like mealworms too!
Comments welcome.
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He's a beauty, i wouldn't mind one of them in my garden! Apparently, there are kingfishers not far from here but i have never seen one and i have lived here for nearly 50 years, they're elusive little birds and very difficult to shoot. Great shot, you must have the patience of a saint.
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He's a beauty, i wouldn't mind one of them in my garden! Apparently, there are kingfishers not far from here but i have never seen one and i have lived here for nearly 50 years, they're elusive little birds and very difficult to shoot. Great shot, you must have the patience of a saint.
Great minds think alike, Peter! That was in fact a reconnaissance frame to establish my POV for a long exposure in the near future. Taken from the tailgate of a friends 4WD, as there's cyclone fencing right in front of me where I took that frame from.
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Stunning!
Are you sure it's a Scottish Kingfisher though, where's its Iron-Bru, kilt, bag-pipes or Wolf-hound?
In Scotland they have the Deerhound. The Wolfhounds are from Ireland. It is true that when Irishmen settled Scotland they took their Great Hounds with them, and the Scottish Deerhound evolved as a lighter hound to suit the terrain and the smaller prey available.
About a 1.5 hr drive south of Glasgow.
Thanks Alex and yes, absolutely certain it was Scotland...the rain and then the mud almost up to my knees left me no doubt.Stunning!
Are you sure it's a Scottish Kingfisher though, where's its Iron-Bru, kilt, bag-pipes or Wolf-hound?
Thanks oblomov, I'm off to the Netherlands next!Stunning.
Why don't you stay in Canada and shoot there instead of making us look bad (and green with envy) in our part of the world?? At least when you shoot bears and snow owls we have the excuse that these animals don't live in our area.
Well, maybe not next but I hope to get there some day besides air transfers.Thanks keyrex. IMO, they're one of the prettiest birds I've photographed. Our Belted Kingfisher is not nearly as colourful.
~ Peter
About 8 hours south of Glasgow would be perfect!About a 1.5 hr drive south of Glasgow.
Thanks Alex and yes, absolutely certain it was Scotland...the rain and then the mud almost up to my knees left me no doubt.
Thanks oblomov, I'm off to the Netherlands next!
Thanks keyrex. IMO, they're one of the prettiest birds I've photographed. Our Belted Kingfisher is not nearly as colourful.
~ Peter
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Are you referring to near Kinver? I've been there but never seen one.
About a 1.5 hr drive south of Glasgow.
Thanks oblomov, I'm off to the Netherlands next!
~ Peter
Don't you dare!!
OK, let's try this again.... Earlier attempt to upload this failed, so or I thought.
Last night I started fooling around with textures and it is interesting how that can change the character of an image...... This is the same photo I shared yesterday, but with texture added in Luminar 2018:
Last night I started fooling around with textures and it is interesting how that can change the character of an image...... This is the same photo I shared yesterday, but with texture added in Luminar 2018:
I think you would be even more amazed today as they have added brand new facilities, and new things to do, such as the glass blowing class. I took some pictures of an employee blowing glass, making something new. It is hard to get a good picture, especially this time because he was behind a tinted piece of glass that is there to protect the people watching him doing his work in case the glass blew up and also from the bright light of the flame. I can show you those pictures if you would like?
Here is another one from Corning Museum of Glass:
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That would be really cool to see those shots of the employee blowing glass! Please do share them on here!
Wall of Mirrors by Lance Randall, on FlickrI stand corrected, thank you @lizardofwoz ! As soon as I read your mention of Ireland, the penny dropped for me, Irish Wolfhound! Duh!
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Does Luminar give you the option to be able to wrap the texture to the image like photoshop after you have mapped its dimensional qualities? It is quite effective here, but you can see its flat across everything and not wrapped around the stylus. I'm a pedant, I know. No insult or taking away from your efforts is implied here either, I am just curious as to how far Luminar has come is all.
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To be honest, I have no idea! I’m not even sure what you mean by “mapping its dimensional qualities.” They very well might, but this was the first time I’d ever used texture and I was just experimenting..... Basically I selected the texture from several that were in the folder on my drive (textures were free, downloaded from the website) then used what Luminar referred to as “blending” mode until I had a result which was rather interesting and pleasing to my eye. By this time it was getting late and I didn’t explore any further. I would imagine that there is a way to isolate the primary subject (in this case, the Apple Pencil) from the background so that only the background is textured. That would only make sense, wouldn’t it?
This all began as I was getting ready to move the image to another folder when I got to looking at it again and thought, “this seems so plain.....” and then the idea came into my head that I’d remembered seeing something about textures in Luminar, so took the image in there and started fumbling around to see what would happen. I never was any good at using layers in Photoshop back in the days when I used CS3, and haven’t done much in Luminar with them either. Probably there are indeed ways in Luminar to achieve the effect you mention so that the texture is only in the background and not on the Apple Pencil at all, but I haven’t gotten to that point yet!
. Luminar is definitely all about layers and filters and such, so the program is much more sophisticated than any of my results so far show, as I’ve always been pretty much of a minimal retoucher and my philosophy has been “shoot it right in the camera in the first place, then spend as little time as possible in the editing process.” Didn’t get back to experimenting any more with it today so this is as far as I’ve gotten.....In Photoshop it's called Displacement Mapping, it looks like you can't do it in Luminar, yet. It allows you to literally wrap something around something, like putting text on objects, so it appears as if it's there on the object. It would allow your texture to wrap around the stylus, so it actually had the dimensional (curved) appearance to it.
I'm sure that you would be able to mask your texture, so you could just have it appear in the background, if you wanted it there only, in Luminar, just by painting out where you wanted it not to appear on the stylus.
Take your time and investigate things slowly, it seems to be a more than capable program. There seems to be a lot of tutorials available online, offered up by every man and his dog on everything you can do with it!