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Morning on Hawk Hill, with alteredandtorn.
Weather this stunning never seems to happen often enough, and I’m lucky to have been able to capture this one as well as I did! We arrived just as the sun was peaking over the fog, and spent the next half hour capturing various views of the scene. The fog was rolling down the hill very quickly - it is a different experience seeing it frozen in time, as opposed to seeing it in motion.
Hand-held with my new 50mm 1.8 D lens on the Nikon D800E, processed in Photoshop.
This morning, on Hawk Hill - much less foggy than yesterday!
A 27-or-so exposure HDR panorama, processed in Photomatix and Photoshop. The tone-mapped HDR processing was only used sparingly in certain places, where necessary - it's mostly RAW data.
These direct-sun HDR panoramas are about as difficult to capture well as anything, but I think I'm starting to get it down pretty well these days. This one took about 3 hours to process.
I've been experimenting with a new technique to get more detail with less noise - this upload on flickr, though admittedly reduced from the 70-megapixel original, has had zero noise reduction applied, and seems pretty noise-free to my eyes. So, it seems to be working so far.
Neath Canal Bridge No 6 is a minor waterways place on the Neath and Tennant Canal - (Neath Canal) between Aberdulais Junction (5 miles and 6½ furlongs and 9 locks to the southwest) and Glynneath (Terminal Basin) (3 miles and 1¼ furlongs and 9 locks to the east).
Remix 12/26/2012:
Complete reprocessing. I've never been completely satisfied with how this one turned out.
I've tried many times now to maximize what I can from this, but I just didn't know what I was doing all that well when I shot it to begin with, so there's a lot to compensate from. High ISO, bad stability, incorrect aperture... I really wish I'd taken it knowing what I know now about photography!
Good news is, I always save my master RAW files. And although I can't go back and re-shoot this picture, I CAN go back and edit it again, with new techniques and perspectives. This one uses a mix of single-exposure HDR and native RAW, processed in Photoshop and Photomatix.
See my first attempt at processing here.
A completely reprocessed version of this old picture of mine.
As you can see, I went for a very different look this time. I was coming from a very different place with my technique and vision back then. I was just starting to get into exploring color and tonality. I was completely in the "more is better" school of post production. And while the results grab your attention, I just don't think they hold up nearly as well as the stuff I'm creating today.
It's easy to grab your attention with a brightly colored and vivid picture, but it's hard to create depth. The stuff I'm doing now has a lot more going on, and it's my job as an artist to both grab your attention and keep it. This version may appear less processed than the previous one, but make no mistake, the number of layers in this file is huge. Far, far more work was required to create something more subdued.
This version represents my current vision and techniques, reapplied to one of my classic photographs. It is an HDR panorama, from six 9-exposure HDR files generated in Photomatix. This time, I counterbalanced all that HDR with a significant amount of RAW data from the original source photos, only using HDR in the places where it would be appropriate.
Sausalito shipyard against a fog engulfed hillside.
This location is an old favorite of mine; it's been the source of several of my favorite photographs.
I came out here this day to shoot a few panoramas of the city, off to the left. I almost didn't get this shot - I only saw it while returning to my car. Capturing it required running back to the car and switching lenses to my general purpose 28-300 telephoto, rather than the prime I'd been using.
The final picture wasn't processed particularly much. Just the usual RAW development, then a bit of color grading and tone balancing in Photoshop.
Sunset over the Bay Area, from Mt. Tamalpais
I took this one the night of the full moon. I had originally set out to find a spot from which to capture the moon rising over the city, but quickly changed plans when the clouds made it apparent I wasn't going to be seeing the moon this night. A short drive and a short hike, and I managed to capture this one from the opposite direction.
I didn't have a tripod here because I didn't particularly feel like lugging it up the mountain. The D800 surprises me yet again with the quality of photograph it is able to capture from natural lighting. I shot this one at f5.6, handheld, with a manual focus lens, and I honestly don't think the results would have been any better at normal viewing if I'd been using a tripod.
Expect to see a few more from this series. This particular shot is an ultrawide from the 14mm Samyang lens. I shot a few telephoto pictures of this scene that should be interesting, as well as a panorama with my go-to 40mm landscape lens. I should have those up in the coming days.
Mt. Tamalpais enveloped by fog
The fog over the bay was pretty amazing here. Everything north of San Rafael was basically invisible. San Francisco is under there somewhere.
The drive up Mt. Tamalpais makes for some very interesting shots for someone willing to deal with the drive. I wish it was possible to take sunrise photos here, but unfortunately the road opens at 7 in the morning.
This particular shot was a multi-part panorama from about 4 RAW files.
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****This frame was chosen on September 28th 2014 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #152. This is my Fifty seventh photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to everyone who visited, favourite and commented on the frame*****
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I am standing on a wooden balcony at 2144 Bradford Avenue with a cup of decaf coffee in my hands. It's morning and I am ready for what the day has to offer. Ahead and above me stands a tall pylon which feeds the hungry households a diet of much needed power, and upon it every morning at the same time perch between three and ten Starlings, chirping frantically, swapping positions, seemingly discussing their plans for the cdoming day before shooting off like small torpedos in the sky.
Every morning I think to myself, hmmm, I should put this coffee cup down and grab my Nikon .......
Photograph taken at an altitude of Eighteen metres, at 08:13am on Thursday 18th September 2014 at 2144 Bradford Avenue, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D800 200mm 1/1250s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Handheld with Nikon VRII image stabilization. AF-S Single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 48d 39m 22.97s
LONGITUDE: W 123d 24m 38.68s
ALTITUDE: 18.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 103.00MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) SIZE: 8.64MB
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Processing power:
HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.0 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
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The Milky Way, from Mount Tamalpais
A blanket of fog covering the cities made for the perfect opportunity to see the stars. Such a chance is all too rare in as populated an area as this!
Another Twin Peaks night shot, from the same series as my previous photo. This time, a telephoto long exposure shot of downtown San Francisco, still all lit up from Christmas.
Taken with the D800E, processed in Photoshop.
San Francisco, from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands. It was lucky timing on this one - Hawk Hill was closed right up until sunrise, leaving me just a few minutes to set up the shot.
Porque también se pueden ver atardeceres bonitos sin el mar.
Freiensteinau (Hessen - Alemania). 5 de Julio de 2013.
Fotografía Carmen Martínez Torrón.
Twitter: @superkarmen
I crawled out of bed this morning before sunrise. Almost had second thoughts but it was totally worth it. It rained for the last three or four days and the night was really cold.
Feel free to add comments on what you might have done different or what I can improve next time.
Early morning, a little bit before the sunrise.
3 exposure HDR processed with Photoshop and Photomatix.
This one was mostly taken from a single RAW file, with a little bit of HDR mixed in, and a little bit of a second RAW file to even out some inconsistencies in lighting and tone.
The fog this morning was quite nice. Interesting, without being overpowering, or engulfing the things I'd want to photograph.
The first of many panoramas from Yosemite. 35 exposures total here, with 5 7-exposure HDRs. Best viewed large, since you can't really see it small.
Remixed 3/21/2011:
I had to rebuild the whole thing, since I apparently deleted the first version of this I processed. It didn't take too long, though, and it looks much better now. Increased the size, removed all noise, improved sharpening, reduced haloing, balanced color, and a host of other fixes
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This is an HDR generated from 9 exposures, then overlayed with certain non-HDR elements to maintain sharpness... overall, I'd say about 50% of the photo is HDR and 50% is a regular RAW exposure.
This is yet another picture where you can see the Golden Gate Bridge in a way you woudn't expect.
Comments and suggestions welcome, as always.
Updated!
view the new version HERE
6 exposure HDR panorama, done in steps - I did 3 in a row horizontal on the bottom half, then 3 in a row horizontal on the top half. I have a few different photos of the same scene done in completely different styles which I'll post over the coming months.
The goal behind this photo, and indeed this entire technique I've been working on, is to create a piece of artwork using a camera. It is not to simulate reality, or capture a scene, or anything like that.
I'm not a documentary photographer, I'm an aspiring artist. People looking for reality, move right on along ;)