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I have a cold, so I stayed home. What better time to bust out the newly purchased Cactus v4 triggers and newly acquired 430ex for some practice.
I’m a total n00b when it comes to flash so this is my first attempt at some strobist stuff on my own.
Check out the tutorial here – strobist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-photograph-water-dro…
- ISO 200, f8, 1/250, 70mm
- Canon 24-70 L
- Canon 400D
- Cactus V4 Triggers
- 430 EX Flash
- Tripod
- Table
- Red Cardboard from Office WorksProcessing
1) Import into Lightroom as RAW
a) Curves
b) Tungsten WB
c) Clarity
d) Recovery
e) Camera Calibration set to Landscape
f) Crop
2) Export using Flickr Uploader and LR2/Mogrify plugin
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Flickrfan: Carnival Splendor III
May 31, 2009
Photographed by ecstaticist
www.twitter.com/ecstaticist/ <– I tweet when I post on flickr.
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Another perspective in my recent cruise ship series. have a great Sunday all!
This is a three exposure HDR image tonemapped in Photomatix. nothing else done except some noise reduction. The composition is as shot so it is large image.
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Flickrfan: 88/365 – First Breath After Coma
May 31, 2009
Photographed by helgasms!
Yesterday’s (Sunday) 365!
So much catching up to do, wait for meeeeee.
Explored <3
#82, March 29
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Flickrfan: It’s Amazing
May 31, 2009
Photographed by imageining
Day 68
song
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
view largeMy rules for this 365 day project:
1) always copy this caption as a reminder
2) only use photos taken that day
3) add these just to the 365 project group
4) I will delete all comments that have group invitations / unnecessary icons in them
5) I should learn something new every day
6) no re-takes of photographs from a previous day
7) each photo is meant to say something about me
8) pick a song for the day to go along with the mood of the picture
9) 3 tags describing what is in the shot so people can find it if relevant
10) give it a meaningful titleWhat I learned:
A simple photoshop technique that smoothes skin and makes it look more radiant. I selected my skin around my facial features (with a 10 pixel feather) and made that into a new layer, then blurring it. I made the layer semi transparent to make it look natural… and viola! Magazine cover perfection
I also forgot to set my white balance properly in an earlier set of pictures. Mental note to pay attention to that more. Especially on our wedding shoot tomorrow!
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Flickrfan: 207/365/year2 a dark and rainy day.
May 30, 2009
Photographed by riot jane
no going outside to play on a day like this.
so, we spent some time adding things to the etsy shop….finally!
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Flickrfan: SLR
May 30, 2009
Photographed by CarSpotter
Very poor lighting in this shot, but a very cool car. Had lots of highlights like carbon scoops, black wheels, and a carbon spoiler. So cool.
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Flickrfan: Day 311/365 – Spider Man
May 29, 2009
Photographed by Tiago • Ribeiro
It was really really really hard to get a photo today, I was completely uninspired.
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Photographed by seier+seier+seier
we went to palermo over easter for its medieval architecture – as if anyone ever needed an excuse to go to italy – and found that there was so much more to see. the guidebooks amount to little more than a warning against the place, but the only warning we would issue is that palermo is not somewhere you go to relax – the city is too intense, not even its oppressive baroque churches offer repose.
we had hoped to visit scarpa’s legendary restoration of the palazzo abatellis – which was really a restoration of the first restoration following allied bombings in 1943 – but predictably it was being restored… indeed, you can hardly scold the sicilians for catering to mere tourists. not only do sights open and close at the strangest hours, a lot of them turn out not to open at all. and so we were delighted to run into the palazzo steri (while looking for a playground) in which we immediately recognized scarpa’s hand:
restoration of palazzo steri for the university of palermo, palermo 1973-1998.
architects: roberto calandra, camillo filangeri, nino vicari, carlo scarpa (until his death in 1978).naturally, scarpa had been called back to palermo after the success of his first project, but only to act as a consultant to the local team restoring the steri. he did however design the entire entrance area – and it is brilliant, its lush colours and modernist pinwheel geometry emerging from the shade of the ancient walls.
if it feels a little like an indulgence from scarpa, it can only be because he didn’t have responsibility of the whole building. calandra and his team did well, though, even if we can no longer know the mess the steri was in before they began their work. one strange decision made remains disconcerting: detailing throughout was carried out in the style of carlo scarpa even where he hadn’t supplied drawings.
while some would say that with scarpa, style is the man, I believe there is great wisdom behind his work but that to apply his discoveries, we must substract his personal style of delivery. in palazzo steri, it is interesting how easy it is at times to tell the difference between original and imitator – but deeply frustrating when it is not. ultimately, the clarity between original structure and modernist intervention learnt from scarpa himself suffers from the confusion.
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