Royal touch shell by simple.joy, on Flickr
Sept. 23, 2023
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Super shot Steve.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone.
How does the Jury like this version? This one was processed from RAW in darktable, I'm still working on it but here you are anyway. -
Dunlin,
I took one shot with my lens cap on, using a high shutter speed and a low ISO (although I don't think that really matters), to create a sold back blackground.
I shot this in a dark room to try and eliminate any stray bits of light that might leak in around the lens cap.Saving that photo, I then overlayed or layered on another photo on top of that black picture. Then I used a black eraser in an image editing program to erase any background from that second photo.
In that goblet picture, I cropped the final product before saving it, but I shouldn't have..
Steve Thomas
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Terrific improvement, Dunlin!
David
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Wow! Fantastic work Steve
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Why, thank you Paul.
Steve Thomas
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Digirame started this week with a blue hydrangea blossom, and followed up with an amazing plethora of VW bugs. I am reminded that there are people on Youtube who have put electric motors into their bugs, and one with a 517HP Subaru engine, which goes like a rocket. I found it worth watching.
Steve Thomas had a go at photographing the moon and, though his picture was liked, discovered that getting it in focus is tricky. He also found berries, which nobody has yet identified: red, so poisonous? He is also doing interesting things in B&W, and has been experimenting with flower blossoms against a totally black background. A good experiment. The red one was particularly striking. He is now photographing other things (a glass) with the black background. Very impressive.
Mocha was in Nene Park and brought us back lovely birds and a dragonfly.
Simplejoy also went out photographing nature: bright colours in non-macro mode.
Dunlin showed us a moon with stormy skies -- right out of Wuthering Heights or a Dracula movie -- and followed up with a night scene that looks excellent after he worked on it a little.
Paul Fotoworld showed all the gory details of "Willy Wagtail consuming a Dragonfly". His RP photos are magnificent.
I had luck with my Votive Church photo. As Vienna is not laid out on a grid system, and hardly any streets run N/S or E/W, I find it very difficult to predict where the sun will be, so this was lucky! I was not so lucky with the Schottenkirche, but I will return to it.
OpenCube showed a picture taken with his modified camera with a filter that produces unreal colours!
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