*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2025.05.24 ***

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Fireplace33
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May 25, 2025, 4:06 p.m. May 25, 2025, 4:06 p.m.
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@Wormsmeat has written:

Rio, Brazil.
Taken from a helicopter and made use of Photoshop's excellent reflection removal tool.

That's a cool shot and I'm sure it was great experience.
With so much detail to look at, this would look good printed big.
I just realised that the reflection you removed must have been from the glass window of the helicopter. There's no sign of it on the photo so it must have worked very well :-)
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Vahur
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May 25, 2025, 6:35 p.m. May 25, 2025, 6:35 p.m.
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@Wormsmeat has written:

Rio, Brazil.
Taken from a helicopter and made use of Photoshop's excellent reflection removal tool.

Shooting landscapes could be very nice experience I imagine, quite different view from up there. Though now the drones allow to get similar views safely and with much smaller cost. Always nice to see different parts on earth.
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Vahur
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May 25, 2025, 6:40 p.m. May 25, 2025, 6:40 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

New season

Thornbury, Georgian Bay, Ontario

Nice scenery thought I'd frame it bit differently to get rid of horizon in middle. Maybe framing bit up to show more of those white fluffs or bit down to reduce blank sky and give more space to ground.
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Vahur
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May 25, 2025, 6:44 p.m. May 25, 2025, 6:44 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

One Late Spring Evening In The Woods

Last week I posted a bunch of photos taken over the weekend in Duxbury Woods. As I think I said at the time, I'd shot the GFX pictures early in the morning and wasn't really in the mood, but I'd returned later that same evening for a walk and found the light to be so much better, but as I was out with company on that occasion and only had the little X-T50 with me, I didn't really take advantage of it.

And so it was that later in the week, one evening after work, I went back into the woods with the GFX kit (GFX100S, 45-100, 20-35 and chunky tripod). The conditions were similar to the previous evening walk (humid, clear blue skies, midges having a whale of a time feasting on the all you can eat buffet I was providing them), but I think I'd left it a little bit too late, probably by about an hour, so the best of the light as I'd seen it previously had gone. However, I did spend more time exploring the less frequented side of the river and found a number of compositions I'd missed previously but was now quite enthusiastic about. By this time, the sun had sunk well below the tree line, so the illumination was mostly just ambient light, which seemed to suit these images particularly well.

A Jolly Group

Now this one I'm really happy with. It's rare to find a nice group of trees aesthetically arranged without some sprucy bush sticking its oar in within the frame. They look like a bunch of old friends having a great time. I did quite a bit stalking around this group (working the scene as the Youtube photographers say) before settling on this particular composition.

I think that this image is well worth of being happy. And proud. Love it, nice scenery and lovely colours here. This trunk and branches are adding nice contrast to otherwise young and lush greenery, some glimpses of sky add feel of free space after a while and lightness.
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Vahur
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May 25, 2025, 6:46 p.m. May 25, 2025, 6:46 p.m.
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@Woodsider79 has written:

Penkiln Valley

Our last walk in Galloway before heading south was the familiar path along the valley of the Penkiln valley. The flanking boggy moors are dry enough to walk across without getting your feet damp, and the cotton grass is flowering a month early.

Meanwhile the beech woods are looking their best.

I like this shot, tree with dark branches seems to attack somebody on your left.
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Vahur
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May 25, 2025, 6:51 p.m. May 25, 2025, 6:51 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

A Favorite Place

After a site visit, I drove up to a favorite spot just outside of Reggio, to get some fresh air. I had just the Z8 with 28-400.

These shots indeed make you thing of fresh unpolluted air. With intense spring smells and colours and maybe little hint of maturity with small fade of lush colours already...
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Vahur
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May 25, 2025, 7 p.m. May 25, 2025, 7 p.m.
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@Wormsmeat has written:

@Vahur has written:

District days

Last week I visited district days in north Tallinn. It was organized by locals, with flea markets, various activities and food sales. Here are some shots from there with my OM-3, SOOC and in BW.

Oh, I'm spotted, require immediate extraction!

This is you? Always interesting to see the gang.
Some good shots among these. I like the girl hanging on the bar, the food shot and the last.
I think there's probably a better B&W profile in that camera. These seem to be a little tonally flat. No real whites.

I wish to be so young, again. Alas, I'm well over 50... My title referred to his look toward me when I stopped beside and made this photo. To his credit he did continue filming after having this side look toward me.
For these shots I used indeed quite neutral first BW profile, my previous BW shots from this camera were with second profile, resembling more contrasty and sensitive film with added grain. Maybe next time out I'll to use 4th profile, which seems to be designed for portraits and then decide which one to settle or take as basis and customize upon. So many possibilities, so little time....
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Vahur
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May 25, 2025, 7:03 p.m. May 25, 2025, 7:03 p.m.
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@Ghundred has written:

Opulent. Had dinner here last night. Not this room of course :)

With such tones looks like Snow Queen reception.
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Wormsmeat
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May 25, 2025, 9:14 p.m. May 25, 2025, 9:14 p.m.
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@Ghundred has written:

Playing around stitching some shots I took while out for dinner with some relatives. Not sure if this will work

Love it! needs to be seen full size and full res to 'appreciate' all the identikit apartments. There's some weird depth of field blur due to the stitching I guess but it doesn't detract.
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Wormsmeat
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May 25, 2025, 9:15 p.m. May 25, 2025, 9:15 p.m.
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@Fireplace33 has written:

@Wormsmeat has written:

Rio, Brazil.
Taken from a helicopter and made use of Photoshop's excellent reflection removal tool.

That's a cool shot and I'm sure it was great experience.
With so much detail to look at, this would look good printed big.
I just realised that the reflection you removed must have been from the glass window of the helicopter. There's no sign of it on the photo so it must have worked very well :-)

It's an excellent new resource to have at hand.