*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.12.14 ***

Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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4 months ago 4 months ago
@NCV has written:

I was in Bologna for a Professional CPD course, that I have to do to keep my Engineering licence, which wastes my time and is a nice little earner for University Professors. On the way back to the car, I made a few pictures of Bologna getting ready for Christmas. Nothing artistic. But at least I did something useful in that afternoon.

Torre degli Asinelli

A lovely colourful set, full of life !
Certainly lots going on in those streets :-)
Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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4 months ago 4 months ago
@Vahur has written:

Crappy weather

Nice snow falling down when I went out was turned into treacherously slippery slush 6 hours later. Crap...

Such old slushy snow, on days with cold moist air that blows in and makes you cold to your bones, and those treacherous icy patches give winter a bad name ;-)
Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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@Daneland has written:

Golden Horn

It's a shot that definitely needs to be viewed in the full res mode to come to life.
Dark, but still full of lights !
Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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@Woodsider79 has written:

Moonrise

Last night this scene caught my eye from the kitchen window as I started cooking dinner, so out into the garden... There are some characterful Scots pines on the field boundary beyond. The moon appeared just briefly through the fog, which resulted in interesting halo effects.
Both taken with the old 'plastic fantastic' and run through Lightroom's denoise.

A lovely moody shot, the detail in the moon is really good and the halo effect is cool!
Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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@SteveMonks has written:

Return To Rivington

After last week's visit to Lever Castle with the OM-1, I went back the next day with the Z8. The light was still awful, but I managed to get a handful of okay shots in spite of this.

All images taken handheld with the Nikon Z8 + 24-70 f/2.8S and a CPL. Processed from individual raw files in Capture One Pro 23.

Release The Kraken

...I turned to see this terrifying apparition looming out of the water.

Delicate

This splash of colour by the water's edge caught my eye.

Aisle Be Seeing You

Heading off down the long aisle that leads away from the fake castle.

The following bunch of images were taken with the GFX100S + 45-100 f/4 or 20-35 f/4, almost certainly using a CPL and mounted on a tripod.

Sad Reflection

This was taken later in the week when I had a day off. The weather was really miserable and I dithered about going out for a walk all day, but eventually managed to drag myself out with just a couple of hours of extremely dull daylight remaining for a short walk around Anglezarke.

I took a handful of shots, but this tree in particular caught my eye. The only problem was getting a clear shot of it as I could only really view it through a gap in the trees at the opposite shore of the reservoir and I was behind a wall, with a sheer drop into the reservoir on the other side, so I couldn't even cheekily climb over the wall without serious danger of death, something I'm not a fan of. So, instead I had to settle for draping one leg of the tripod over the wall and precariously balance it on a small stone ledge that poked out on the other side (the camera was secured by a strap around my neck in case the whole lot slipped as I didn't fancy the idea of it disappearing into the murky depths of Liverpool's drinking water).

I've still got the CPL on here, adjusted for best balance between reducing what glare there was on the fallen leaves and pull out what was left of the fading colours, but also not annihilating the reflection of the tree in the water.

I like this one best. Photography can be a dangerous game :-)
The image would also look good with a big crop showing just a bit more than the bottom half that highlights all those interesting roots and their reflections

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The following shots were taken in the woods on the far side of the woods shown in the previous shot one Saturday morning a few weeks ago. I think I posted some of them on DPR, but forgot to post them here. These are still with the GFX setup described above.

A Splash of Colour

This was my favourite shot from that particular walk. The sun hadn't quite set at this point, but at this location it might as well have as there was no direct light falling on anything, just a bit of blue diffuse light from the dense clouds about and yet, the bright yellow leaves still clinging to this tree further down the path beside the reservoir really stood out, just asking to be photographed.

lovely colours indeed :-)

A nice set !
Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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4 months ago 4 months ago
@FloridaNature has written:

Photos I took during 2024 and just got around to processing recently.

This one of the bridge is impressive! Nicely composed and well lit
Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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@Vahur has written:

@Fireplace33 has written:

Yet another trip into the winterwonderland

The same place can look a bit different on every trip!
My sister came to visit me, so a trip into the mountains, to show off their new coat of snow, and enjoy the "winter wonderland feeling" was of course on the agenda. We had some foggy days and then the sun came out for a while too :-)

4th shot is my favorite, blue sky and fresh snow with some powder tracks, perfect.

Thanks :-)

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I envy such locations, all we get is some snow, then it half-melts and turns into bone-breaking ice... I miss proper winters.'

I hear you!
Maybe we will miss them in Austria too in the not so distant future :-(
People here, trying their best to promote protection for us people, as the climate gets warmer and warmer , have started a campaign called "Protect our winters". Austria is "the" winter sport country! It prospers and benefits from winter tourism. The snow here is fantastic but as the glaciers melt and each year the snow comes later and disappears quicker that will change for the worse :-(
Combatting global warming needs some serious action for a lot of good reasons!
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SteveMonkspanorama_fish_eye
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@Fireplace33 has written:

@SteveMonks has written:

Sad Reflection

This was taken later in the week when I had a day off. The weather was really miserable and I dithered about going out for a walk all day, but eventually managed to drag myself out with just a couple of hours of extremely dull daylight remaining for a short walk around Anglezarke.

I took a handful of shots, but this tree in particular caught my eye. The only problem was getting a clear shot of it as I could only really view it through a gap in the trees at the opposite shore of the reservoir and I was behind a wall, with a sheer drop into the reservoir on the other side, so I couldn't even cheekily climb over the wall without serious danger of death, something I'm not a fan of. So, instead I had to settle for draping one leg of the tripod over the wall and precariously balance it on a small stone ledge that poked out on the other side (the camera was secured by a strap around my neck in case the whole lot slipped as I didn't fancy the idea of it disappearing into the murky depths of Liverpool's drinking water).

I've still got the CPL on here, adjusted for best balance between reducing what glare there was on the fallen leaves and pull out what was left of the fading colours, but also not annihilating the reflection of the tree in the water.

I like this one best. Photography can be a dangerous game :-)
The image would also look good with a big crop showing just a bit more than the bottom half that highlights all those interesting roots and their reflections

I'm guessing you mean something like this?

I may have misunderstood what you were suggesting, as this doesn't really work for me, although ignoring the reflection entirely and just concentrating on the collapsing tree seems more satisfying to my eyes...

Then again, I could just go crazy and only include the reflection, but flip it, leave a bit of the shoreline in and have people scratching their heads about just what exactly they're looking at...

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Fireplace33panorama_fish_eye
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@SteveMonks has written:

@Fireplace33 has written:

@SteveMonks has written:

Sad Reflection

This was taken later in the week when I had a day off. The weather was really miserable and I dithered about going out for a walk all day, but eventually managed to drag myself out with just a couple of hours of extremely dull daylight remaining for a short walk around Anglezarke.

I took a handful of shots, but this tree in particular caught my eye. The only problem was getting a clear shot of it as I could only really view it through a gap in the trees at the opposite shore of the reservoir and I was behind a wall, with a sheer drop into the reservoir on the other side, so I couldn't even cheekily climb over the wall without serious danger of death, something I'm not a fan of. So, instead I had to settle for draping one leg of the tripod over the wall and precariously balance it on a small stone ledge that poked out on the other side (the camera was secured by a strap around my neck in case the whole lot slipped as I didn't fancy the idea of it disappearing into the murky depths of Liverpool's drinking water).

I've still got the CPL on here, adjusted for best balance between reducing what glare there was on the fallen leaves and pull out what was left of the fading colours, but also not annihilating the reflection of the tree in the water.

I like this one best. Photography can be a dangerous game :-)
The image would also look good with a big crop showing just a bit more than the bottom half that highlights all those interesting roots and their reflections

I'm guessing you mean something like this?

I may have misunderstood what you were suggesting, as this doesn't really work for me, although ignoring the reflection entirely and just concentrating on the collapsing tree seems more satisfying to my eyes...

Then again, I could just go crazy and only include the reflection, but flip it, leave a bit of the shoreline in and have people scratching their heads about just what exactly they're looking at...

You're right, now that I've seen it, my suggested crop doesn't work as well as I thought it might :-(
I thought there was too much "going on" in the image near the top and the crop might help.
Maybe a crop like below could work where most of the sky and the upper trees are removed, so concentrating more on the interesting trunk and root system with a square format ?
The refection is interesting too and still there.
There must be loads of possibilities to play with such an image :-)

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