Levels of the Iowa Capitol Building by Out of Chicago on Flickr.A través de Flickr: Are Lightroom 4 Images Still HDR Photography? www.outofchicago.com/are-lightroom-4-images-still-hdr-pho… #LR4 #HDR #photography
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Levels of the Iowa Capitol Building by Out of Chicago on Flickr.

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Are Lightroom 4 Images Still HDR Photography? www.outofchicago.com/are-lightroom-4-images-still-hdr-pho… #LR4 #HDR #photography

Chanting Monks, Koyasan – (HDR/Tone-Mapped) by jwvraets on Flickr.A través de Flickr: During last months trip to Japan, we spent an overnight in Koyasan, a forested mountain town South of Osaka and home to a large group of Buddhist temples. At the end of the walkway through the gigantic, ancient cemetery, lies the Toro-do, the Lantern Hall a large temple and the adjacent buildings. While there, a group of monks ran in as a group and assembled themselves int a tightly formed cluster and proceeded to chant for about five minutes. Set among the cemetery, the giant Cypress trees and the buildings, the scene was slightly surreal but absolutely riveting. You had to be there. - JW This is a Tone-Mapped image because it is made using an HDR-processed version of a single image which means only the tone-mapping portion comes into play. Base image taken using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 66mm, ISO 640, Aperture priority mode, f/5.6, 1/200 sec. HDR processing to make use of tone mapping on the single image was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui with settings as indicated in the file name and/or the settings summary below. PP in GIMP: the layer was tone-curve adjusted to optimize (to my taste) the look of the monks (including setting the black point as well as classic ‘S’ curve shaping), some contrast and saturation boosting, slight green cast removal, sharpened, fine black and white frame added, bar and text on left added, image scaled to 1024 pixels wide for posting. ================================= 2DSC_0063_jpkoyasanmonkschantTMadjv2barsigx1024_pregamma_1_mantiuk_contrast_mapping_0.9_saturation_factor_1_detail_factor_4 ================================ Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters: Operator: Mantiuk Parameters: Contrast Mapping factor: 0.9 Saturation Factor: 1  Detail Factor: 4  ——— PreGamma: 1
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Chanting Monks, Koyasan – (HDR/Tone-Mapped) by jwvraets on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
During last months trip to Japan, we spent an overnight in Koyasan, a forested mountain town South of Osaka and home to a large group of Buddhist temples. At the end of the walkway through the gigantic, ancient cemetery, lies the Toro-do, the Lantern Hall a large temple and the adjacent buildings. While there, a group of monks ran in as a group and assembled themselves int a tightly formed cluster and proceeded to chant for about five minutes. Set among the cemetery, the giant Cypress trees and the buildings, the scene was slightly surreal but absolutely riveting. You had to be there. - JW

This is a Tone-Mapped image because it is made using an HDR-processed version of a single image which means only the tone-mapping portion comes into play.

Base image taken using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 66mm, ISO 640, Aperture priority mode, f/5.6, 1/200 sec. HDR processing to make use of tone mapping on the single image was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui with settings as indicated in the file name and/or the settings summary below. PP in GIMP: the layer was tone-curve adjusted to optimize (to my taste) the look of the monks (including setting the black point as well as classic ‘S’ curve shaping), some contrast and saturation boosting, slight green cast removal, sharpened, fine black and white frame added, bar and text on left added, image scaled to 1024 pixels wide for posting.

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Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.9
Saturation Factor: 1 
Detail Factor: 4 
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PreGamma: 1

M42: the great nebula in Orion, again and again! by Trois_Merlettes on Flickr.A través de Flickr: M42, the great nebula in the Orion constellation can be spotted with the naked eye in the winter sky. It is an absolute favourite for amateur astronomers. But it is a real challenge for astrophotographers because of the huge difference of light intensity between the bright core and the faint nebulosity on the edges. Here, I tackled this challenge with a luminance produced as the sum of 5 series of shots with very different exposure times (3s, 9s, 30s, 300s and 900s). This is my longest project so far!. It used 6 nights, 161 photos for a total exposure of 16hours and 40 minutes during 6 different nights (all in the urban site of Aix en Provence). Technical details: C11-HD configured in hyperstar mode on G11 mount, auto guiding by a separate ED80 refractor. Luminance with Halpha filter and a SXVR H-18 camera cooled at -30°C, binned 1x1. RGB done separately last year (yes! see: www.flickr.com/photos/trois_merlettes/6574398379/in/set-7…) with narrow band filters (Hubble palette): Ha (green), SII (red), OIII (blue) and a QHY8L bin2x2 and cooled at -30°C. Processing with MaxImDL and PixInsight. Exposure details: Luminance: 20x3s + 20x9s + 20x30s + 19x300s +12x900s all in Halpha RGB: 20x600s in SII +31x600s in Ha + 19x600s in OIII
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M42: the great nebula in Orion, again and again! by Trois_Merlettes on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
M42, the great nebula in the Orion constellation can be spotted with the naked eye in the winter sky. It is an absolute favourite for amateur astronomers. But it is a real challenge for astrophotographers because of the huge difference of light intensity between the bright core and the faint nebulosity on the edges. Here, I tackled this challenge with a luminance produced as the sum of 5 series of shots with very different exposure times (3s, 9s, 30s, 300s and 900s). This is my longest project so far!. It used 6 nights, 161 photos for a total exposure of 16hours and 40 minutes during 6 different nights (all in the urban site of Aix en Provence).
Technical details:
C11-HD configured in hyperstar mode on G11 mount, auto guiding by a separate ED80 refractor.
Luminance with Halpha filter and a SXVR H-18 camera cooled at -30°C, binned 1x1.
RGB done separately last year (yes! see: www.flickr.com/photos/trois_merlettes/6574398379/in/set-7…) with narrow band filters (Hubble palette): Ha (green), SII (red), OIII (blue) and a QHY8L bin2x2 and cooled at -30°C.
Processing with MaxImDL and PixInsight.
Exposure details:
Luminance: 20x3s + 20x9s + 20x30s + 19x300s +12x900s all in Halpha
RGB: 20x600s in SII +31x600s in Ha + 19x600s in OIII

stairing down by Jon Downs on Flickr.A través de Flickr: I’m a little behind - slowly catching up :) .Facebook + Twitter + RedBubble + 9876543210Press L to view in Lightbox© Jon Downs 2012 All Rights Reserved
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stairing down by Jon Downs on Flickr.

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La Grande Hermine – (HDR) by jwvraets on Flickr.A través de Flickr: Driving along the Queen Elizabeth Way, or as the locals call it, the ‘QEW’ or simply ‘Queen E’, in the Jordan Harbour area of Ontario (midway between Hamilton and St Catharines), you pass a rather distinctive landmark: a shipwreck in the harbour. The ship was originally a ferry in Quebec and was converted to a gambling ship and tourist attraction by the simple process of cladding it with a fake wooden shell to make it look like one of Jacques Cartier’s ships, La Grande Hermine, in the late 1960s. Eventually, basking in somewhat limited success, it was towed to Jordan Harbour to await a further relocation to a spot near Niagara Falls in hopes that the gambling venue idea might be approved there and be more rewarding. Alas, the owner passed away before permission was received and it became a derelict. Eventually, the story goes that some young people lit a fire on the boat to keep warm during a winter period but the fire got out of control revealing the original carcass underneath the cladding. Since then it has sat there beached and rusting, and ever since, a tourist draw and landmark. - JW This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range image made by combining three different images taken at different exposure settings and processed using HDR software. The original three images were taken using a tripod-mounted (so the images would align properly) Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISO200, Aperture priority mode, f/8.0, and a three image auto bracket at EV+/-2 around a nominal shutter speed of 1/640 sec. HDR processing was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui with settings as indicated in the file nam e and/or the setting summary below. PP in GIMP: load the HDR base image twice as separate layers, the top one labeled sky and the bottom one labelled ship, edit the sky layer to optimize the cloud appearances and the ship layer to optimize the ship and water areas, disregarding on the areas to be provided by the other layer, using the tone curve tool to make adjustments, use a large soft edged eraser to delete the ship and water area from the sky layer to reveal the improved boat and water layer area below, create a new layer from the result, perform some additional minor adjustments to contrast and colour saturation, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and test on left, scale to 1024 wide for posting. =============================== 1DSC_5515_shipwreckjordanHDRadjbarsigx1024_pregamma_1_mantiuk_contrast_mapping_0.5_saturation_factor_1.2_detail_factor_1 =================================== Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters: Operator: Mantiuk Parameters: Contrast Mapping factor: 0.5 Saturation Factor: 1.2  Detail Factor: 1  ——— PreGamma: 1
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La Grande Hermine – (HDR) by jwvraets on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
Driving along the Queen Elizabeth Way, or as the locals call it, the ‘QEW’ or simply ‘Queen E’, in the Jordan Harbour area of Ontario (midway between Hamilton and St Catharines), you pass a rather distinctive landmark: a shipwreck in the harbour. The ship was originally a ferry in Quebec and was converted to a gambling ship and tourist attraction by the simple process of cladding it with a fake wooden shell to make it look like one of Jacques Cartier’s ships, La Grande Hermine, in the late 1960s. Eventually, basking in somewhat limited success, it was towed to Jordan Harbour to await a further relocation to a spot near Niagara Falls in hopes that the gambling venue idea might be approved there and be more rewarding. Alas, the owner passed away before permission was received and it became a derelict. Eventually, the story goes that some young people lit a fire on the boat to keep warm during a winter period but the fire got out of control revealing the original carcass underneath the cladding. Since then it has sat there beached and rusting, and ever since, a tourist draw and landmark. - JW

This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range image made by combining three different images taken at different exposure settings and processed using HDR software.

The original three images were taken using a tripod-mounted (so the images would align properly) Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISO200, Aperture priority mode, f/8.0, and a three image auto bracket at EV+/-2 around a nominal shutter speed of 1/640 sec. HDR processing was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui with settings as indicated in the file nam e and/or the setting summary below. PP in GIMP: load the HDR base image twice as separate layers, the top one labeled sky and the bottom one labelled ship, edit the sky layer to optimize the cloud appearances and the ship layer to optimize the ship and water areas, disregarding on the areas to be provided by the other layer, using the tone curve tool to make adjustments, use a large soft edged eraser to delete the ship and water area from the sky layer to reveal the improved boat and water layer area below, create a new layer from the result, perform some additional minor adjustments to contrast and colour saturation, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and test on left, scale to 1024 wide for posting.

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Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.5
Saturation Factor: 1.2 
Detail Factor: 1 
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PreGamma: 1

“Mr.Council, Your ship Looked like shit, so i painted it! Bombed “Duke Of Lancaster” by annar_50 on Flickr.A través de Flickr: Artist “Kiwie “
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“Mr.Council, Your ship Looked like shit, so i painted it! Bombed “Duke Of Lancaster” by annar_50 on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
Artist “Kiwie “

The Comet in Queenstown by Stuck in Customs on Flickr.A través de Flickr: On the night of the Aurora Australis, I was about to pack up and head back to the car when I saw this amazing aurora right over the top of my head. It made this long triangle across the ceiling of the sky, so I had to do that thing where I get my camera in that strange position on the tripod of pointing up. There is always a tough yoga move you gotta perfect to get the camera situated at the right angle. Also, frankly, there’s a little bit of guesswork that comes into play too! - Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
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The Comet in Queenstown by Stuck in Customs on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
On the night of the Aurora Australis, I was about to pack up and head back to the car when I saw this amazing aurora right over the top of my head. It made this long triangle across the ceiling of the sky, so I had to do that thing where I get my camera in that strange position on the tripod of pointing up. There is always a tough yoga move you gotta perfect to get the camera situated at the right angle. Also, frankly, there’s a little bit of guesswork that comes into play too!

- Trey Ratcliff

Click here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

Welcome To Hamilton – (HDR/Tone-Mapped) by jwvraets on Flickr.A través de Flickr: ***For best results, click on image to view on black*** As you head North on McNab Street in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, you eventually need to cross the railway tracks serving the downtown train station as well as being a major East-West rail traffic route. On McNab, the solution was to go under, not over, the tracks. Over time, the underpass has been decorated by local artists, although perhaps not in an official manner. Sitting near the railway station, I assume that the artistic community felt a greeting to visitors was in order and hence the title of this image. The title is taken from the text in the yellow ‘box’ centred above the stairs which greets all with ‘Welcome To Hamilton’ and then in a very helpful manner, provides a number of arrows indicating directions from that point to some of the major destinations in the core. Over time the walls of the tunnel itself have been decorated and tagged and the whole tunnel has become a bit of a surreal entrance to the downtown core. Welcome to Hamilton. - JW This image made use of an HDR-processed version of the original image although, since that involved only a single image is strictly speaking tone-mapped rather than a full HDR The image was made from a single photo captured using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 18mm, ISO400, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, ISO400, 1/8 sec. HDR processing to make use of the tone-mapping stage was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui with settings as indicated below. PP in GIMP: the tone-mapped version was loaded as the lower layer and the original image as the upper layer, the opacity of the original was set to 50% to allow some of the shadow detail of the tone-mapped layer to supplement the highlight areas of the original giving a better overall look while retaining much of the lower noise of the original, created a new layer from the result, applied tone curve tool to get better tonality, increased contrast slightly, boosted saturation overall slightly, sharpened, added fine black and white frame, added bar and text on left, scaled to 1024 wide for posting. ========================================= 1DSC_2526_mcnabunderpassgraffitiTM50pcorigadjbarsigx1024_pregamma_1_mantiuk_contrast_mapping_0.5_saturation_factor_1.4_detail_factor_1 =========================================== Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters: Operator: Mantiuk Parameters: Contrast Mapping factor: 0.5 Saturation Factor: 1.4  Detail Factor: 1  ——— PreGamma: 1
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Welcome To Hamilton – (HDR/Tone-Mapped) by jwvraets on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
***For best results, click on image to view on black***

As you head North on McNab Street in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, you eventually need to cross the railway tracks serving the downtown train station as well as being a major East-West rail traffic route. On McNab, the solution was to go under, not over, the tracks. Over time, the underpass has been decorated by local artists, although perhaps not in an official manner. Sitting near the railway station, I assume that the artistic community felt a greeting to visitors was in order and hence the title of this image. The title is taken from the text in the yellow ‘box’ centred above the stairs which greets all with ‘Welcome To Hamilton’ and then in a very helpful manner, provides a number of arrows indicating directions from that point to some of the major destinations in the core. Over time the walls of the tunnel itself have been decorated and tagged and the whole tunnel has become a bit of a surreal entrance to the downtown core. Welcome to Hamilton. - JW

This image made use of an HDR-processed version of the original image although, since that involved only a single image is strictly speaking tone-mapped rather than a full HDR

The image was made from a single photo captured using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 18mm, ISO400, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, ISO400, 1/8 sec. HDR processing to make use of the tone-mapping stage was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui with settings as indicated below. PP in GIMP: the tone-mapped version was loaded as the lower layer and the original image as the upper layer, the opacity of the original was set to 50% to allow some of the shadow detail of the tone-mapped layer to supplement the highlight areas of the original giving a better overall look while retaining much of the lower noise of the original, created a new layer from the result, applied tone curve tool to get better tonality, increased contrast slightly, boosted saturation overall slightly, sharpened, added fine black and white frame, added bar and text on left, scaled to 1024 wide for posting.

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Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.5
Saturation Factor: 1.4 
Detail Factor: 1 
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PreGamma: 1

treadmills? by Jon Downs on Flickr.A través de Flickr: this was originally posted here: treadmills? - I thought it would be good to have all three pics on Flickr :) this is a mirror treatment of things are escalating here’s another treatment: the rise and fall of the modern escalator this is the final installment :) slowly catching up :) .Facebook + Twitter + RedBubble + 9876543210Press L to view in Lightbox© Jon Downs 2012 All Rights Reserved
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treadmills? by Jon Downs on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
this was originally posted here: treadmills? - I thought it would be good to have all three pics on Flickr :)

this is a mirror treatment of things are escalating
here’s another treatment: the rise and fall of the modern escalator

this is the final installment :)

slowly catching up :)

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things are escalating by Jon Downs on Flickr.A través de Flickr: this was taken a little distance from my previous shot in Canary Wharf tube station in London .Facebook + Twitter + RedBubble + 9876543210Press L to view in Lightbox© Jon Downs 2012 All Rights Reserved
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things are escalating by Jon Downs on Flickr.

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this was taken a little distance from my previous shot in Canary Wharf tube station in London

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day 234 - True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing by AlexTurton on Flickr.A través de Flickr: I have walked past the birmingham market and bullring most days for the past few months on my route around town at lunch. Not once have I noticed that the war memorial just by the market has a massive hand poking out the top about 15 feet tall. It amazes me how up until recently I have been living my life, looking without actually seeing. I stumbled across this quote on the internet and thought it fit today perfectly.check out my Facebook Pagecheck out my Twitter
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day 234 - True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing by AlexTurton on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
I have walked past the birmingham market and bullring most days for the past few months on my route around town at lunch.

Not once have I noticed that the war memorial just by the market has a massive hand poking out the top about 15 feet tall.

It amazes me how up until recently I have been living my life, looking without actually seeing. I stumbled across this quote on the internet and thought it fit today perfectly.

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Big Sister’s Watching by CJSmith (OutofChicago.com) on Flickr. A través de Flickr: This is a shot from a few weeks ago when I was borrowing the Canon 8-15mm fisheye, shot at 14mm. I am always admiring those shots from guys like Seth Oliver of reflections off of park benches and other objects around the city. When I saw this puddle in Crown Fountain, I wanted to try the same type of thing.Earth Hour Earth Hour is tomorrow night. Many of the city’s buildings, including most of the skyline, will be turning off their lights from 8:30 to 9:30 tomorrow night. Any good ideas for where to go to shoot this? I imagine there will be a lot of you down at Adler planetarium. I think it’s the lights that make the skyline look as good as it does, but this is an opportunity that only comes around once a year. Maybe this is a good time to shoot from the Hancock? What do you guys think?Jaume Plensa en muufi
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Big Sister’s Watching by CJSmith (OutofChicago.com) on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
This is a shot from a few weeks ago when I was borrowing the Canon 8-15mm fisheye, shot at 14mm. I am always admiring those shots from guys like Seth Oliver of reflections off of park benches and other objects around the city. When I saw this puddle in Crown Fountain, I wanted to try the same type of thing.

Earth Hour
Earth Hour is tomorrow night. Many of the city’s buildings, including most of the skyline, will be turning off their lights from 8:30 to 9:30 tomorrow night. Any good ideas for where to go to shoot this? I imagine there will be a lot of you down at Adler planetarium. I think it’s the lights that make the skyline look as good as it does, but this is an opportunity that only comes around once a year. Maybe this is a good time to shoot from the Hancock? What do you guys think?

Jaume Plensa en muufi

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