The April 2020 Challenge - day 27

[drd1135]

I really like this photo, Steve.
And I love the processing - the contrast, the subdued shadows, the intense (but not overly intense) nature of the coloration.
I also have what may be an ignorant question, but I'm curious --- did you shoot this RAW originally and then process it? Or did it begin life as one of the X100v's different in-camera 'modes' or looks?
Regardless of which, it's seriously cool.

It was raw and processed by me. The bright background meant I had to expose for highlights and pull up the shadows. That also meant I needed to do noise reduction which is better in raw. I fiddled with the clarity and saturation to pull the colors back out. Finally, I sacrificed a chicken to A’Q’Tance, the Sumerian god of microcontrast.

 

[christilou]

Backlighting .....

 

[MoonMind]

M.

 

[MB007]

A bit of HDR on this usually very busy but not now scene, why not.

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Where is this? Lovely building.

 

[MiguelATF]

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M.

Damn!....what a great image, Matt.
Beautiful light, too. Or should one say, beautifully lit? either way, the sense of light - and darkness - and shadow - is really quite special in this photograph.

 

[MiguelATF]

Day 27: my mailbox

I live in an old turn-of-the-century (built in 1902) farmhouse, just on the outskirts of a small town. In rural areas, mailboxes are often put up together on small posts to simplify the mailperson's delivery schedule. In my case, my mailbox has a neighbor - the mailbox of the neighbor who lives across the street. The neighbor's house is a little newer than mine, but his mailbox looks positively ancient alongside mine (bought a few decades ago, and crudely painted with a stylized Yin-Yan taiji circle, which has faded over the years).

This was taken with one of the customized in-house jpeg Colour Profiles of the Pen F - in this case, a color profile developed by R. Cleveland Aaron, the British Olympus-friendly photographer who has done quite a bit of (great) work with his Pen F.

 

[William Lewis]

Tried puttering with color filter effects with my Plus-X emulation. This is supposed to be with a yellow filter - the sky looks right, the rest not quite there yet though it's slowly coming together.

 

[rayvonn]

Where is this? Lovely building.

Thanks, Queen Victoria Building or more locally known as QVB, in Sydney

 

[Walter Palmer]

Day 27. Only 3 more days to go with this challenge. I thought today I would take a photo of my morning meds (tea and meditation). Why not? The garden got some more finishing today, so that is in the outtakes.

 

[donlaw]

Day 27, Empty seats at the local highschool baseball venue...closed for the season

 

[tonyturley]

Day 27, Empty seats at the local highschool baseball venue...closed for the season
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That must be tough for the youth. With your population and large schools, I imagine high school baseball down there is like our small college ball.

 

[Bobby Tingle]

@tonyturley love following the progress of your projects

The birthday girl. The oldest spawn is 17 today. The middle spawn made her cake. And the youngest spawn made her some Minecraft characters out of paper. Love that they always make something for each other. I did at least one thing right.

 

[davidzvi]

I'll try something a little bit abstract today inspired by @MB007 pan in the outtakes thread. I did 3 (f/1.4, 2.8, & 5.6). I think I like this one at f/2.8 the best. I'll post the other two in the outtakes thread.

 

[donlaw]

That must be tough for the youth. With your population and large schools, I imagine high school baseball down there is like our small college ball.

I am sure that it has reduced chances for those seniors competing for scholarships.

 

[gordo]

M O O N

That time of the phase when you can get good shadow definition on the craters, for the next couple days then starts to become flat again. Approximately 21% illumination this evening. X-H1 + 100-400, handheld, heavy crop.

 

[Briar]

 

[marlof]

So Gordon and Karen, this was a setup, right?

 

[MiguelATF]

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If this otherwise brilliant photograph of TinTin in astronaut garb were also a documentary photojournalistic 'snap' from a real-life seance....then one obvious conclusion might be: that TinTin is channeling Bibendum....aka the Michelin Man!

 

[gordo]

So Gordon and Karen, this was a setup, right?

Not from me, but it worked out to be a nice chuckle.

 

[agentlossing]

Tiptoeing in late, as has been my wont this go-around more than once, I'm afraid.