Mother And Son Gorillas - Vin Weathermon
San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Escondido, CA
A super fun time with the Deviants today…got more than I expected once I got creative with Lightroom :-) Anyway these gorillas are so much likes, or we them.
photodeviants's Space
HD Image: Blue Marble 2012
Taking HDR to the extreme?
February 4, 2012 /Photography News/ Responding to public demand, NASA just released a 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP.
The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new 'Blue Marble' images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).Compiled by NASA Goddard scientist Norman Kuring, this image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth's surface from a viewpoint of 10 degrees South by 45 degrees East. The four vertical lines of 'haze' visible in this image shows the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or 'glint,' that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense.
Tony wants a Ducky
Some serious seagulls at Woodbridge
These birds were swooping and circling, swooping and circling and then all deciding to skid into the Woodbridge lake. They are so thick that the sky is quite seething with them..amazing to see!
Tools for Photographers
On your cell phone that is! If you have an iPhone or Android, chances are you could use one of these nifty and inexpensive tools for photographers.
Otherwise you'd have to do yucky math and learn the Mayan calendar.
Overuse is Rampant
I've been guilty of buying a filter and then blazing through a bunch of my imagery using the filter I've just paid good money for. At some point, I go back and look through them again and ask myself "why did I make it look that way? Anybody can tell it's a filter"….now I look at the photographs that even seasoned photographers are presenting and it is blatantly obvious that the filter has been used. You know, that "ghost" or "lighter outline" when the filter has done its thing. The people have this glow about them that did not appear when the image was taken. It looks like you poorly masked the person and the edges were of no concern.
Now one could argue the left image has more "pop" but really what is obvious is that something was used to make it pop. I have seen some very fine landscapes by very good photographers where the HDR effect in Black and White was used, and same thing; that obvious glowy edge again when it really wasn't needed.
HDR will give you a "look"; but does everything you do have to have that look??
Long Palm Shadows With Humans Unfortunately There.
Does this work? Posting from email :-)
When you need cheering up.blow bubbles.
