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Often the storm chasing day ends not with the last glow of the setting sun, but with a photogenic show of pyrotechnics dancing from cloud to cloud and into the ground and lasting well into the night. This strike was captured just a few miles from my home after a long day of driving and looking for marvelous supercells and their awe-inspiring structures. Typically, any isolated cells that form during the day in western Oklahoma will race through the portions of Oklahoma that I call home, I just have to drive back ahead of the racing squall line and on such days will end the hunt with a tripod and a camera on this gravel road. It isn’t a part of my public offered storm chasing tours, but instead just my time to relax, snap shutters and enjoy my favorite hobby – lightning photography. I’ve always hoped for a dead centered strike at the end of this long gravel driveway. So many times I have closed my eyes and envisioned this very shot. Then, one night in 2006 after a long day’s work of hunting down tornadoes I ended my chase day in this fashion, opened the shutter and waited – “bang” – I had it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Be sure to check out my company, StormTours.com. It’s a great opportunity for anyone who wants to chase storms to improve their lightning photography skills and see awe-inspiring photogenic storms. www.stormtours.com AND www.stormchase.com
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Outback NSW New Zealand / Real Estate Series / Lensbaby / Infrared / Beach / Industrial / Spam / Panoramas / Landscapes
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Canon Powershot with IR filter “As Is” / Brandywine Falls Ohio / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / I have been waiting for this kind of shot for a long time. The storms were fierce with a ton of rain last night. I decided to take of work and spend the day at the falls near my house. I must have snapped 200 pictures today. What a great day!! I found a new toy its my infrared lens. Of course I have many different shots just like this :-) I posted a photo in color as well at a different time called – Approaching / Autumn / ....................................................................................................................... / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / Click to View By Category: / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / - Waterfall Photos / - Selective Coloring / - Infrared Photos / - Black and White Photos / - Animal Photos / - Downtown Cleveland ............................................................................................................... / ................................................................................................................ /
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A February storm unleashes its power in the beauty of non-stop lightning over Spencer Gulf in South Australia. This 15 second exposure shows just a small sample of a spectacular night’s viewing. The tiny lit chimney, that you can see on the left (which belongs to the lead smelter in Port Pirie), is actually 205 metres in height, which gives perspective to this, the power of natures finest glory.
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Above and Below / Left or Right / Real and Reflected / / make your choice… / / Photographer for Hire – All Occasions – Mail Me :) / / My rules for photography and art are very simple – I like it, or I don’t… / / Thanks for visiting my folio :) / I certainly appreciate you taking time to view what I’ve been up to, and enjoy reading your comments. Calendars: Sets available on request. / / Writings (or ramblings) / Ballerinas & Stuff / Music of the Spheres / Another World / Time & Tears / The 10th / I Knocked / A Long Walk / Weaver / High-Flyer / Paper Boat / The Great Feast More Here
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Blue Lake, St Bathans, New Zealand Seascapes / New Zealand / Frogs / Lensbaby / Infrared / Industrial / Spam / Panorama / Landscapes / Real Estate Series / People
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EARLY MORNING MOUNTAIN TOP ENVELOPED IN DISSIPATING FOG
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At Day’s End As the sun goes down over the front range mountains of Denver, Colorado, the Sunflowers turn, in anticipation of the sun coming back up in the morning. Photographed in a field where all you can see for miles and miles is Sunflowers….billions of Sunflowers. An entire sea of yellow and gold….caught in my lens for a fleeting instant, where the whole world was at peace…. Minolta 5D / Minolta 50mm f1.7 Lens / Singh-Ray CPL / Dynatran 858 Tripod / HDR through Photomatix, final output through Photoshop
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Surrealistic Digital Art / / 3rd place in the The Art of Intrigue Group – Moon Intrigue Challenge. / / ... / The world we knew / Won’t come back / The time we’ve lost / Can’t get back / The life we had / Won’t be ours again… / / Mousepads in Zazzle / / / Feedback / / Hi! This is such a great image, I had to have it! Thanks for being so talented! Harlan Mayor / / / MCN: C2CBD-0BDCB-A0C69 / / © Imber 2007. All photographs and artworks in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Imber. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved. /
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Dog Rocks is located at Batesford near Geelong in Victoria, Australia. WINNER of the 2008 Henry Lawson Festival of Arts photography bronze statuette for BEST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE EXHIBITION. Also WINNER of the OPEN COLOUR section.
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“Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.” – Hamilton Wright. / Windswept by SD Smart. / Millicent, South Australia. HDR – Three exposures (-2, 0, +2). / Combined and tonemapped in Photomatix and finished in CS2. Also available:
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One of the more beautiful sunsets I have witnessed over Mt. Rainier and all reflected in the still waters of Upper LAke Tipsoo
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Sunset / dusk and a boat, Convict Lake in Mammoth Lakes, CA “Eureka” (I have found it) The ultimate merge of being one with your environment. Nature, human, beauty. First place: Group Avatar challenge @ The Great Outdoors group, September 2009 2nd place: Reflections of mountains challenge @ Mountains Across the Globe Group, September 2009 3rd place: Landscapes challenge @ The Male Photographer Group, October 2009 Top ten: Let’s Hunt for Watercraft challenge @ The Scavenger Hunt Group, September 2009 Featured: The scavenger Hunt Group, September 2009 / Featured: Landscape Photography group, September 2009 / Featured: light & reflection group, February 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / *—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—
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Taken on a beautiful evening at Wattamolla in Royal NP just south of Sydney Australia. This is the upper Wattamolla Creek falls on the way to Marley Beach. Canon 30D / Tv – 1sec-30sec / Av – f/8 / ISO – 400 / FL – 21mm / Circular Polarising Filter Info for gourps – as of 13/11: 1 Sale on RB – 1 framed print / 349 Comments / 233 peopleFavorited by / 7465 Views
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Dawn at Garie Beach, Royal National Park just south of Sydney, Australia. A seagull very obligingly flew into shot as I was taking this. Can you spot the silhouetted fishermen? / I’m lucky enough to live in one of the most beautiful landscapes I’ve ever seen – it’s only a little national park (14,000 ha) but the variety of stuff to photograph is simply endlessly inspiring. Canon 30D / Tv: 1/125 / Av: f/32 / ISO: 100 / FL: 70mm then cropped Taken on the same magic morning as Light’s Flight: / /
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Taken at the Waterrun, Royal National Park just south of Sydney. The rainbow is from some wave spray and that’s a little waterfall off to the left. / This shot was taken at dusk about an hour before Poetry of Chaos. It was amazing watching the storm come in and the colours changing and the sea swell growing. One of the great privileges of living in this park is watching the same landscapes in a myriad of different moods depending on the weather and time of day. Canon 30D / Tv: 1/6sec / Av: f/25 / ISO: 100 / FL: 18mm Poetry of Chaos:
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Definitely worth clicking on the photo to see it large. Part of the Raging Stillness series this is a blend of 10 X 30 second exposures taken as part of a series of 110 sequential images during a particularly lovely night storm we had a little while ago. You’re looking at 5minutes of the storm at its height. The lines above the storm are startrails and the reflection in the water is from the full moon (out of shot). / Taken off Bundeena Cliffs, Royal National Park, just south of Sydney Australia. / This is a tiny section from the original photograph – being able to blow up such a small part of the image to A3 is where the 1Ds and the L series Canon lenses come into their own. / Canon 1Ds MkIII – 16-35mm f/2.8 LII USM lens / Tv: 30secs / Av: f/3.2 / ISO: 200 / FL: 27mm Oh wow how cool – Rob Mullner nominated Raging Stillness for the briliant Pay it Forward Group with this comment: “Having tried my darndest to get lightning shots with mixed results and success, I know how hard it is to nail it perfectly…This shot really highlights the awesome power of storms, technically perfect and a difficult element of nature to photograph – so hats off to your Geoff for this and these series of shots, and your work in general….Rob. Thanks heaps Rob. Taken on the same night as these two (just click on the pics): This second pic has a link to an animated time lapse version of the whole storm – 91 photos linked into a sequence so you get to see the whole storm in 23 seconds.
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A passing storm at Black Rock, near Barwon Heads. The remnants of a rainbow just visible beneath the storm cloud. /
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Title inspired by the David Lynch film ‘Lost Highway’. Calder Highway, Victoria, Australia, somewhere between Kyneton and Bendigo. Photo composite. Original images taken with Motorazr V9 mobile phone camera. Edited in Photoshop CS4. Featured on Redbubble Homepage – 25 May 2009 / / Group Features: ‘The Woman Photographer’ – April 2009 ‘You’re Accepted’ – April 2009 ‘Calder Highway Photography’ – April 2009 ‘Mad Hatters – May 2009 ‘The Feature Fraternity’ – May 2009 ‘Which Way?’ – May 2009 ‘A Spiritual Walk’ – June 2009 ‘Budget Photography’ – September 2009 / Challenges: Top Ten Winner in ‘Dark and Moody’ Challenge in ‘The Woman Photographer’ group – May 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Let’s See Your Dark Side’ Challenge in the ‘Shameless Self-Promotion’ group – May 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Nite Drive from My Dashboard’ / Challenge in the ‘Road Photography’ group – May 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Storytelling’ Challenge in the ‘Parallel Dimensions’ group – May 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Work Featured on the Homepage’ Challenge in the ‘First Things’ group – June 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘My Private Nightmare’ Challenge in the ‘Unconventional Artistry’ group – June 2009 Top Ten Winner in ‘The Journey or the Destination’ Challenge in the ‘First Things’ group – July 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Emotion’ Challenge in ‘The Woman Photographer’ group – July 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Best Budget Shot’ Challenge in the ‘Budget Photography’ group – August 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Moody, Dark, Evocative’ Challenge in ‘The Woman Photographer’ group – September 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Best Featured Work’ Challenge in the ‘Live and Let Live’ group – October 2009 Top Ten Winner in the ‘Inspired’ Challenge in the ‘Parallel Dimensions’ group – October 2009 Second place in the ‘Strangely Unique’ Challenge in the ‘Mood & Ambience’ group – November 2009
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CHANGING SKIES IN COMPLEX LANDSCAPES: A Photoshop Tutorial
by Anna ShawCHANGING SKIES IN COMPLEX LANDSCAPES: A Photoshop Tutorial I have written this tutorial in Photoshop CS4, but it will work in earlier…
CHANGING SKIES IN COMPLEX LANDSCAPES: A Photoshop Tutorial I have written this tutorial in Photoshop CS4, but it will work in earlier versions too. How many times have you been out with your camera, found a beautiful landscape, but the sky was uniform, dull or flat? It has happened to me more times than I can remember! As with everything in Photoshop, there are so many different ways to remove skies from a landscape. It is very simple to do this in Landscapes which have straight edges into the sky, like cutting around buildings etc. But it is much harder to cut out skies when there is a lot of foliage around. The normal lasso tools, the quick select tools and the ‘magic’ tools do not work too well. But there is an easy way. The length of time it will take will depend on how many colours are in your existing sky. This tutorial will show the steps needed to go from this image… to this… Lets get going! You can download the lovely start image from Dangerous Stock / You can download the great sky from Hatestock / Do remember to use the download button so that you get the hi res versions and to click on the ‘Add To Favourites’ button. This is courtesy for being able to use the image. Also, if you publish your work do please remember to credit the artists who have given their stock. Step 1: * With the start image open, *double click on the background layer so that it then becomes Layer 0. Re-label this layer as ‘Background’ by double clicking in the box that says Layer0. This sounds silly, but now we have changed the start image into a layer, it will enable us to move the layer around later. Click onto the New Layer Icon. This will place a transparent layer above Layer 0 . / It is now labeled as Layer 1. You can leave this as it is. / Slide your background layer above Layer 1. / This is what it will look like… Step 2 The next step is to select the area containing all the blue sky that you want to replace. You can use a variety of tools to do this, but the easiest one for this image is the Polygon Lasso tool. / All you are doing with this selection is making sure that you do not cut any pixels out of the image that you do not want to loose. This is particularly important where you have pixels in the foreground, which are the same colour as the sky. In this image there is lots of blue in the barn, which we do not want to cut. So, click onto your Background layer and start to make your selection. I have highlighted my selection in red, so that you can easily see it, but yours will look like a dotted line. You can see that I have gone just below the trees where sky shows through. You now need to SAVE this selection. Go to the menu bar and to Select/Save selection and save it as ‘1’. Step 3 Now you have saved your selection, go to the menu bar and choose Select/Colour Range. / A dialogue box will pop up. Select ‘Sampled Colours’ / Tick ‘Localised Color Clusters / Fuzziness = 104 (You can increase or decrease this depending on the colours in your image, but for this image 104 works well. / Select the Image button. You will see your image behind the dialogue box. / Now, with the little eyedropper tool, click onto an area of blue in the sky. / You will see a selection created of that particular colour. Go to the menu bar and select Edit/Cut. Now just repeat this process as many times as you need to, to get rid of all the shades of blue in the sky. / DO REMEMBER TO LOAD YOUR SELECTION EACH TIME. / To do this, go to *Select/Load Selection and scroll down until you come to ‘1’ / Then once again, Select/Colour Range…. Edit Cut. I took about 6 cuts to end up with an image like this Step 4 Whilst you have a transparent layer under your background image, it is sometimes hard to see if you have cut out all the unwanted pixels. So to do a ‘safety check’ you will need to fill Layer 1 with a white fill. To do this go to the Paint Bucket tool, and with white as your foreground colour, click on that layer and it will fill with white. / If you have any hazy blue areas showing, just go to your History Palate and dump the white fill into the dustbin. Then go back to your select colour range and cut out some more. Step 4 Now you need to choose a new sky. I have found a beauty, which you can download. Just click on the image. / / Again, if you download it please do remember to favourite it out of courtesy. You can choose any sky you like, but it should have the horizon roughly where the horizon is in your original image. The most important thing to remember is that when you choose your sky, you will need to ensure that the strongest light source in the sky fits with the brightest part of your start image. In the sky I have chosen, the strongest light source comes from the top left hand side of the sky. This fits with the brightest part of the start image – the highlights on the roof of the barn, so immediately the image is credible. If this sky were flipped horizontally, so that the light source was on the opposite side, it would not work at all. Step 5 / / You can skip this step if you wish Because the sky is so dramatic, and because the start image is lovely, I want to extend the canvas in order to balance out the different elements in the image. So to do this, simply highlight your bottom layer – Layer 1. / Go to the menu Bar and select Image/Canvas Size. / In the dialogue box, scroll down the width and height settings and change this to Percent. / In the Height box, alter the percent to 140. / Click OK. This will have transformed the size of your image. Go back to your background layer, and with the move tool, slide the image to the bottom of the canvas. Step 6 Open up your sky image, and go to Select/Select All / Then to / Edit/Copy / Go to your barn image now and select Layer 1 – the bottom transparent layer. / Go to Edit/Paste You will see that the sky you have imported is larger than the original image, so you will need to make it smaller. / On the sky layer, go to Edit/Free Transform and from corner of the image, shrink it to fit. Step 6 You will see now that there are a few annoying bluish leaves hanging around on the start image. So select the start image layer and create a layer mask. (see image below) With your foreground colour set as black, choose a soft round brush and on the layer mask, just paint them out. Do this until you are happy with the end result. If you paint out something by mistake, just set your foreground colour to white to paint it back in. Step 7 Just to unify the two parts of this image, select the background layer and on the menu bar, select Image/Adjustments/Colour Balance. Slide the Yellow/Blue slider towards blue. You can see what I have done here. Also, I felt the need to slightly darken the start image to fit better with the sky, so go to / Image/Adjustments/Levels and slide the middle slider slightly towards the right. You can see what I have done here. Step 8 This is the really clever bit, and it something I do whenever I merge any images together. You can use this technique in many photomontages to achieve a unified colour scheme. Create a new layer above the start image. / Select the Paint Bucket tool. / Click onto the foreground colour and when the dialogue box comes up type in 336633in the hash box. Like this… Then, with the paint bucket tool, pour this into the new layer. / Select Color Blending Mode and reduce the opacity to 20% (see below) Step 9 Repeat this process. Create a new layer and fill with color 333366 / Set blending mode to color and reduce opacity to 20% Step 10 Repeat this process on a new layer and fill with cc9966 / Set blending mode to Overlay and reduce opacity to 21% / Your screen should look like this… / This will have unified all the colors in the image. One final step… / Go to Select/Select All ... then….. / Edit/Copy Merged... then…... / File/New (no need to change any sizes here) .... then….. / Edit/Paste That will give you your final image. You can then save this as a .jpg file. / Your original .psd File with all its layers is the preserved, so that if you wish to go back and change any bits at a later stage – you can do so. I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial. If you have, please let me know. Also – if you have found any bits too difficult, or which do not work please let me know too. I would love to see your final images too. If you want to show me, or ask any advice, but do not want to load your image for other to see, just upload it as normal, but tick the box ‘Hide From Public View’. You can then send it to me by Bmail, using the normal codes – !! either side of the url when you copy image location. / xx / Anna
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Corio Bay in Geelong really turned it on this morning. I saw this from my window and jumped in the car immediately. Unfortunately, in the 5 minutes it took to get there, the beautiful pinks were gone but still quite spectacular. / Image as shot – no adjustments. / Nikon D700 with 24-70 mm lens
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