Quick moving storm that caught a plane load of skydivers by surprise. Ominous enough from the ground and terrifying from the air to see below you. Looked like it was hiding the arrival of the mothership. Taken with my little iPhone instamatic.

Hendrix by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

Total mis-match WWII bring back shooter, Nazi proof marks.

A couple shots from the garden today. Taken with E-M1 and Helios 44M-4 58mm f/2


Helios2 by Lone-Rider, on Flickr



Helios by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

Ironically Boss I took a picture of our Clematis yesterday.



Jim

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
Time for Strawberries!


Berries by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

I would like to learn how you get these effects in some of your photos 911Boss. Maybe my cameras wouldn't even do this. Or it's how you are editing? The colors almost don't seem real. Very nice sir.

I bought a camera to capture some of the beautiful moments we experience when sailing in south florida. Most of my pictures have been panoramic shots of water, sight, etc. This is an attempt at a close up.

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Originally posted by David Lee:

quote:

Originally posted by 911Boss:
Time for Strawberries!


Berries by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

I would like to learn how you get these effects in some of your photos 911Boss. Maybe my cameras wouldn't even do this. Or it's how you are editing? The colors almost don't seem real. Very nice sir.

Thanks for the compliment.

There really wasn't much done to the above picture. The planter is in my front yard and was being hit with light as the sun came up. The brightness and angle of the sun made for wonderful natural lighting, and the still low angle helped with shadows. The shot was taken with a Fisheye lens giving it the distorted look. The lens of the camera was literally about two and a half inches away from the two red berries right of center.

As far was processing, I used Photoshop and adjusted some settings (sharpness, saturation, HDR toning, contrast) until it just "looked" right to me. All total, probably no more than about 10 minutes work.

Photoshop lets you boost colors and bring out details. My edit is much more vivid than what the camera initially captured, yet it more closely represents what my eyes perceived at the time. The flat 2D image from the camera needs some tweaking to represent the rich color and textures of a 3D image. Our eyes can see a much broader dynamic range than any camera can capture, the edits in Photoshop help to try and recreate what we see. Some folks say working it that much makes it "fake", but the detail is there and just need to be massaged to match the experience.

To me, it looks good, but I also a couple of things that I could have done better. The top of the upper level of the planter is cut off and if I hadn't framed quite so tight I could have rotated it just a hair clockwise to level it up a touch.

Here is the untouched, out of camera image.


OMD11183 by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

Its awesome! Even the farm image you posted brings up such color it almost appears comic like, for lack of a better term. I have seen the fish eye lenses. Thank you again.

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Originally posted by David Lee:
Its awesome! Even the farm image you posted brings up such color it almost appears comic like, for lack of a better term. I have seen the fish eye lenses. Thank you again.

I "cooked" the farm one quite a bit more. While the strawberry one was a single exposure, the barn shot began as an HDR (High Dynamic Range) compilation of five separate frames ranging from under exposed to over exposed. I wanted it to have a more surreal look so I greatly exaggerated the colors and sharpening.

Here are the original, straight out of camera (SOOC) source images:


BarnRange by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

And the result:


SnohoSunsetHDR by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

"PSST, Whatcha doin???"


QuinnCU by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

Its a cool process 911Boss. I would like to do this. Got some learning to do though.

100% Crop



Provia 100F 6x7.

Developing and scan by North Coast photo. I am pretty happy with their work and turnaround time. Just getting back into film after several years away.

Bam!

Two "pimp-mobiles"/trout lures:

A couple of things in our garden...



Strawberry by Lone-Rider, on Flickr


QuinnsSpot by Lone-Rider, on Flickr

Soak in the Sun by nathan512, on Flickr