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Photo Of The Day - December 2017
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So glad I'm not at work the rest of the week!Nah none yet
[doublepost=1512914526][/doublepost]Just some driftwood on a beach.
_DSC5964 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr
Superb shotSo glad I'm not at work the rest of the week!
[doublepost=1512914526][/doublepost]Just some driftwood on a beach.
Cheers
Hugh
Thanks Hugh. Wasn't quite the sunset I was hoping for, but worth the two hour drive.Superb shot
Cheers
Hugh
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Thanks AFB. Well, the sun never went below the horizon there in July so temperatures were fairly constant at just below 0 degrees C. That's downright balmy by our standards here. But, we did get some very funky and interesting light conditions.
This is a two shot pano-stitch in one of those conditions.
Woke up to a good covering of snow this morning. We forgot to buy milk yesterday and we live at the top of a steep hill in a village, which meant venturing out to the shops five miles away wasn't an option. Mrs MacRy was lamenting this fact on Facebook and one of our wonderful neighbours turned up on the doorstep with a little bottle of milk for us
M9 with Elmar-C 90mm @F4
M9 with Elmar-C 90mm @F4
That's karma for you bringing me a tea at The Photography Show!Woke up to a good covering of snow this morning. We forgot to buy milk yesterday and we live at the top of a steep hill in a village, which meant venturing out to the shops five miles away wasn't an option. Mrs MacRy was lamenting this fact on Facebook and one of our wonderful neighbours turned up on the doorstep with a little bottle of milk for us
M9 with Elmar-C 90mm @F4
We've had 10 inches here. No chance I'd be venturing out. So glad I'm off this week.
My late grandmother used to ask if they were gasometers. There was a bit of fad for circular plan churches for a while, arising from the aims of the Second Vatican Council to make the church more equal and inclusive, giving the congregation the feeling they are in Mass together. This is a lesser known later work by the late Liam McCormick, who was one of Ireland's best 20th century architects, mainly known for his churches. His Church of St Aengus in Burt, County Donegal was voted Irish Building of the 20th Century. I hoping to make it up there some time next year to see if I can get a few shots.
Fantastic image and I love the monochrome technique and look applied here. It's a look I've wanted to do for a while for certain shots but sadly, I lack the knowledge.
I know another photographer who does a similar style to this and his work is very eyecatching in the same way your image caught my attention. Do you have any information in the way of tutorials or guides for this processing style? I won't be offended if you decline
The post-processing involved is quite extensive – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). Here, the work can take hours.
The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.
Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and smooths out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.
The post processing involves:-
- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.
- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.
- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, colour range selection and luminosity masks. The picture posted below has several hundred individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.
- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.
- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.
- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.
There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).
No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects, bar removing some distracting elements that are not integral to the buildings, such as poles or wires. The consequence of the processing described above is that the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.
Today’s picture is the first of a trilogy of shots of a cluster of buildings that are widely regarded as Dublin’s ugliest buildings:-
Hawkins House by Joe, on Flickr
So glad I'm not at work the rest of the week!
[doublepost=1512914526][/doublepost]Just some driftwood on a beach.
Will you stop uploading such spellbinding pictures!
Don’t comment about the arm being cut off!
Our local beach again. The softness at the edges was from the last time I used this lens, about ten years ago and had smeared something around the edges for a slightly dreamy effect when using it with my old Pentax K-1000! I have since cleaned it and all is good again.
Pentax-K20D, Pentax manual 28mm f/2.8, Manual
ISO 100, 28mm, f/8, 1/4000
Pentax-K20D, Pentax manual 28mm f/2.8, Manual
ISO 100, 28mm, f/8, 1/4000
Lol as if. I get out so rarely. This isn't that far. You could be there in just over 2 hours and produce just as good!Will you stop uploading such spellbinding pictures!
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You lost an arm! Who cut it off?
Don’t comment about the arm being cut off!
My late grandmother used to ask if they were gasometers. There was a bit of fad for circular plan churches for a while, arising from the aims of the Second Vatican Council to make the church more equal and inclusive, giving the congregation the feeling they are in Mass together. This is a lesser known later work by the late Liam McCormick, who was one of Ireland's best 20th century architects, mainly known for his churches. His Church of St Aengus in Burt, County Donegal was voted Irish Building of the 20th Century. I hoping to make it up there some time next year to see if I can get a few shots.
The post-processing involved is quite extensive – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). Here, the work can take hours.
The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.
Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and smooths out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.
The post processing involves:-
- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.
- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.
- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, colour range selection and luminosity masks. The picture posted below has several hundred individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.
- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.
- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.
- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.
There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).
No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects, bar removing some distracting elements that are not integral to the buildings, such as poles or wires. The consequence of the processing described above is that the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.
Today’s picture is the first of a trilogy of shots of a cluster of buildings that are widely regarded as Dublin’s ugliest buildings:-
Hawkins House by Joe, on Flickr
Thank you for stepping through the process to create this picture. As someone who dabbles in this photography thing this makes me appreciate the effort put into the fabulous pictures I see in this forum. Perhaps one day I will get there.
Wow! The most complex range of selections I ever made using this technique pioneered by Joel was in the high thirties, never going as high as what you have done!
I tend to mask off the planes of surface first, apply gradients across them to highlight the form of the building, then make more selections from there as needed. I like simple!
My late grandmother used to ask if they were gasometers. There was a bit of fad for circular plan churches for a while, arising from the aims of the Second Vatican Council to make the church more equal and inclusive, giving the congregation the feeling they are in Mass together. This is a lesser known later work by the late Liam McCormick, who was one of Ireland's best 20th century architects, mainly known for his churches. His Church of St Aengus in Burt, County Donegal was voted Irish Building of the 20th Century. I hoping to make it up there some time next year to see if I can get a few shots.
The post-processing involved is quite extensive – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). Here, the work can take hours.
The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.
Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and smooths out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.
The post processing involves:-
- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.
- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.
- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, colour range selection and luminosity masks. The picture posted below has several hundred individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.
- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.
- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.
- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.
There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).
No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects, bar removing some distracting elements that are not integral to the buildings, such as poles or wires. The consequence of the processing described above is that the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.
Today’s picture is the first of a trilogy of shots of a cluster of buildings that are widely regarded as Dublin’s ugliest buildings:-
Hawkins House by Joe, on Flickr
Thank you for the elaborate answer.
Here's my religious entry for today.
Like most countries in this part of the world we were treated to some snow.
This is a small cemetery in the garden of a small church ( of which I posted images earlier)
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Don’t comment about the arm being cut off!
Is it ok to comment on (or perhaps inquire about) the obvious situation in the nether-regions of this hiker's pants?
Is it ok to comment on (or perhaps inquire about) the obvious situation in the nether-regions of this hiker's pants?
A very good question, forgot to ask him.
Here's a very average one then!Will you stop uploading such spellbinding pictures!
My garden shot through the patio door window (as I'm too lazy to go outside!)
_DSC6021 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr
A small lichen down in the roots of a tree.
