Some photos

[pecunium]

I've played with a few more.

I've got a copy of Nik Color Filters 3.0, for review. The first thing I did with it was more clever than useful.



The desaturation in the center was done with a brush, and the filter set to convert to IR.

You can compare it to the original:



A better use was this one:



Where I had the wrong setting on the camera, (actually, the only way I could have gotten it close would be to have the things set to automatically set the white balance, and I'm leery of that), so the application is more akin to using a color correcting filter when one has the wrong film stock in thne camera.

So I used a skylight filter. I did a little localised correction in the center (on Pat and the horse) and then did a secondary one on everything.


One of the things I like about flickr is that one can plot the photos on a map. That map can be either drawn, or satellite, or a mix of both.

So this photo:



Was taken a couple of years ago, when I was in Ukraine. It's an artillery piece on the entry lawn of the Ukrainian Military Acadamy. When I was trying to plot it to the map I managed to plot it exactly.

In fact, it's presently misplotted by about 10 meters,because the marker was completely hiding it; so if one goes to the map link on the right hand side of the page one can see the satellite image of it, both in place, and in detail




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Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Sure. It isn't, by the way, a flower, but a fungus of some sort.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

And somehow, in the e-mail message I didn't see that you knew it wasn't a flower.

Sorry.

[songblaze.livejournal.com]

NP, happens to the best of us.

That's actually why I like it - that in the original it's clear that it's a fungus, but in the desaturated version, it's far more difficult to tell that it isn't a flower.

Things that aren't what they seem appeal to me.