Picture of the Day

[TNKen]

You know, you see things like this, and wonder.

[AlpiNord]

Where was that Lonnie?

You know, you see things like this, and wonder.

I think this pre ESPN news clip was about a drunken Boche ball match on the beach between aliens and Anasazis, followed by a BBQ and dance, Check out the 'space ship'.

[Lonnie]

You know, you see things like this, and wonder.

Peyote.....

[Lonnie]

Famous for it's red rocks, Arches can present other colors too. Turret Arch shot under a full moon on an overcast night.

Arches Aurora


Exposure 259 seconds
Aperture F/11
ISO 800
Focal Length 16mm
Filters: 9 stop ND filter

LandShape Photography|Arches Aurora

500px|Arches Aurora

[Dromond]

Famous for it's red rocks, Arches can present other colors too. Turret Arch shot under a full moon on an overcast night.

Arches Aurora




Exposure 259 seconds
Aperture F/11
ISO 800
Focal Length 16mm
Filters: 9 stop ND filter

LandShape Photography|Arches Aurora

500px|Arches Aurora

Pretty. I wonder if it would be possible to do something with a photo like this to add the slightest hint up something to the dark portion of the image. Like, the faintest detail from a longer exposure. I do like the mysteriousness of a dark silhouette, though.

[Lonnie]

I wonder if it would be possible to do something with a photo like this to add the slightest hint up something to the dark portion of the image. Like, the faintest detail from a longer exposure.

Here's upload of the original, un-doctored raw file (dust spots and all). I converted this straight to jpg.



As you can see, there was a luminance tremendous amount of noise in the image even with a 5 min exposure (it was way past twilight when I took this). By taking that part of the image to black, it essentially reduces (eliminates) the amount of noise in that part of the image. You can try this on your own. Under expose an image by a couple of stops and then push it back up those two stops. You'll see the noise level really increase in the shadow areas.

I could have pushed the exposure even longer to reduce the noise, but I would have burned the sky and lost the detail there. Given that this image is pretty much an abstract at this point, a took a fair amount of liberty with the processing.

[TNKen]

[HotDiggity]

^^ sweet shot!


StormySkies by beezskis, on Flickr

[supermodel159]

AK

[gholman12]

Nice work Lonnie, you and that Sony of yours seem to keep improving

I'm exploring Turkey for the next 3 weeks, with these first few days in Istanbul. Probable TR to come at the end, but here's 2 from the first day post-major-jet-lag.

[skiingislife]

AK

yeah!......

[HotDiggity]

planet3 by beezskis, on Flickr

[supermodel159]

More AK

[Aenigma]

I'm not much for landscapes, but that's beautiful!

[OverTurn]

Mt. Moran

[JayPowHound]

A couple shots from last weekend that I felt were worth sharing... critique is more than welcome!

[JayPowHound]

planet3 by beezskis, on Flickr

This inspires me in so many ways... I've read about this technique but never tired it. Feel like posting a post-TR?

[Lonnie]

This inspires me in so many ways... I've read about this technique but never tired it. Feel like posting a post-TR?

Google is your friend...
http://content.photojojo.com/tutoria...orama-planets/

[HotDiggity]

We had a 30 minute break in a rainy, crappy day right around sunset time...


A Break In The Storm by beezskis, on Flickr

[HotDiggity]

This inspires me in so many ways... I've read about this technique but never tired it. Feel like posting a post-TR?

Hey man. That was actually my first attempt so I'm not sure I'm ready to teach. In the MPC thread Gpetrics pointed me to Hugin which is some free panorama stitching software. As I was reading about that I realized that it could be used to do polar panoramas like the one I posted. I's always been curious when I had seen them so I gave it a shot. The instructions I used are here: How To

I used my super wide Tokina at 11mm and stitched 35 frames I believe. Happy to try to answer any questions but I'm still figuring it out too.

Have fun.

This is planet #2. Definitely some imperfections, but it's been a fun change of pace.


It's A Small World by beezskis, on Flickr

[Fuzz]

^ You should submit that in the MPC.

The "planet panorama" always intrigued me; I downloaded Hugin one time before and played around with it, but couldn't make it work well. I think I didn't take the right number/type of shots to get the 2:1 aspect ratio, so it came out all "pinched" in the wrong places.

[Lonnie]

^ You should submit that in the MPC.

Agreed....

[powdork]

You know, you see things like this, and wonder.

or,
you wonder, and then you see this and are sure.

[HotDiggity]

Fall(s) by beezskis, on Flickr

[supermodel159]

Fall(s) by beezskis, on Flickr

I love the colors, but wish those utilities were underground.