HDRs from a trip to the Mercado open air market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All shot with a Nikon D-700, processed with PhotoMatix, Nik filters and Photoshop CS5. Click 'em to make them much bigger. And see 360 more HDR photos here, at EarthPhotos.com.
Here's the photogenic Katherine Gorge in Australia's Northern Territory. There was about a half day stop on the Ghan train between Darwin and Adelaide, and the only way to get in in that amount of time was with a kind of paddle boat thing with twenty or so others.
With a little determination, you could get out ahead of the others in time to set your tripod down and fire off a few photos without getting Phil and Marge from Brisbane in the picture.
As usual, it's multiple shots with a Nikon D-700, combined in Photomatix, finished with Nik plug-ins and CS5.
There are 354 more HDRs here and 405 more from Australia here at EarthPhotos.com.
I don't know, I just thought Vatican was a pretty funny name for a café bar nightclub. This was three bracketed handheld shots with a Nikon D-700, combined in Photomatix & finished in CS5 with Nik tools.
There are 352 more HDRs here at EarthPhotos.com.
We're back on the farm and I've had a chance to put up a few Lapland photos on EarthPhotos.com. Here are a half dozen for your perusal.
Click them to make them bigger. See all we've posted so far in the Lapland Gallery at EarthPhotos.com. These will all ultimately live in the Finland Gallery.
I don't know, it was just funny. In lots of places, a big bank like this one in Helsinki probably suggests safety and stability. But in the U.S., with all our bailed out too-big-to-fail financial institutions, mortgage lenders, car companies, you name it, it plays a little differently.
This particular Big Bank, on Salomonkatu in the Kamppi section of Helsinki, was shut tight on a Saturday in these photos. The top HDR was processed from three hand held bracketed shots, and the other is from a single RAW re-exposed and bracketed several times, both photos processed with Photomatix, Nik and Photoshop CS5.
There are almost 350 HDR shots in the HDR Gallery and also check out the Finland Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
In yesterday's Wednesday HDR post of Mt. Cotopaxi, Ecuador with an added texture, I suggested you go out and shoot your own textures and experiment with them in Photoshop. Thought I'd show you an example. This is a photo of the docks at Windhoek, Namibia:
This is just some random, ordinary wall I shot in Riga, Latvia:
Here they are, combined in Photoshop:
This was one of my early efforts with textures and it surely will never win any awards, but it also didn't cost $100 - $400, and I learned a whole lot in the process. Just get out there and try it for yourself.
Istanbul is such an unparalelled location. Europe on the left, Asia across the bridge. You just can't beat it.
Click it to make it bigger. See hundreds more HDRs in the HDR Gallery and lots more of Turkey in the Turkey Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
In this week's Wednesday HDR, a tailor works at his open air shop on Likoma Island, Lake Malawi.
The story of our journey across Lake Malawi to Likoma Island is Chapter Fourteen of Common Sense and Whiskey, the book. We're excerpting the book here on the blog, and you can read the entire chapter here later this year. Not that you need to wait.
This is a single shot HDR, re-exposed at +2, 0 & -2 ev, saved as .tifs, tonemapped in Photomatix and finished in CS5. There are 341 more photos in the HDR Gallery at EarthPhotos.com, and 184 photos in the Malawi Gallery. Click the photo to make it much bigger.
HDR from a single RAW. It's from an amusement park in Dolling Hobba, Sydney, 2009. Click to enlarge, and enjoy 340 more in the HDR Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
Visitors to EarthPhotos.com have voted in a new most popular photo - it's one of the tree-climbing lions in the Ishasha Wilderness, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. This photo was also published in a feature on Uganda in a recent edition of Afar Magazine.
You can vote on any photo on EarthPhotos.com. Just mouse over the photo and click thumbs up. See all the photos voted most popular in the Most Popular Gallery.
Since this wasn't the type of photo for which you have leisure time enough to set up a tripod and walk around composing the best angle, it's an HDR from a single RAW. There's a before and after comparison here.
Proud to tell you this photo is featured on page 38 of the September issue of the Travel Magazine Afar Magazine, on newsstands now. Get yours today.
It's an HDR from an afternoon spent with a group of tree climbing lions of Ishasha Wilderness, Queen Elizabeth Park, southern Uganda. At EarthPhotos.com, it's in the Uganda, wildlife and HDR Galleries.
Many thanks to Afar Magazine.
Colorful small animal market outside Quito, on the road to Volcan Cotopaxi. Mostly llamas and pigs, as you can see in the Ecuador Gallery at EarthPhotos.com. Click this one to make it bigger, and see 330 more HDR shots in the HDR Gallery.
This week's photo is from a May, 2010 visit to Guatemala. This shoe shine man sits on the main square in Antigua, Guatemala. Click the photo for a much bigger version.
We intended a peaceful weekend at Lake Atitlan, but a few hours after our arrival Volcan Pacaya erupted, closing the airport, then we were hit by tropical storm Agatha and had to flee first Lake Atitlan then Guatemala, where the airport remained closed, for a ride home from El Salvador.
Here's what happened: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. There are photos of the experience in the Guatemala Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
And here are three hundred-odd photos in the HDR Gallery.
Reworked HDR photo from several years back. This lady is from a hill tribe near Sa Pa, Vietnam, up by the border with China. We met her outside her village. Click the photo to make it much bigger. More from Vietnam.
Colorful, and one of the top 100 most popular on EarthPhotos.com, this is from the morning market at Hoi An, Vietnam. Click it for the full treatment.
The basics here are similar to last week's two Ethiopian photos. Each is a single image re-exposed at +2, +1, 0, -1 and -2 EV and then combined in Photomatix, tweaked in Photoshop Camera RAW and finished in Photoshop CS5.The top photo this week used a series of blur layers and the Nik Software Duplex plug-in, and the bottom used a series of Stylize -> Find Edges layers in CS5. Click 'em to make 'em much bigger.
There are 300+ more HDRs in the HDR Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
Both of these are newly posted on EarthPhotos.com. They're of worshippers at St. Mary's Church on Mt. Entoto, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Click them to make them much bigger.
Each is a single image re-exposed at +2, +1, 0, -1 and -2 EV and then combined in Photomatix, tweaked in Photoshop Camera RAW and finished in Photoshop CS5. There are 322 more HDRs in the HDR Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
After doing yeoman duty for some time as the most popular photo on our photo site EarthPhotos.com, the balloon over Cappadocia, bottom, has been replaced as number one, as voted by users of the site. (Mouse over any photo on EarthPhotos.com to give it a "thumbs up.")
The new number one is an HDR from the morning market at Hoi An, Vietnam. Click the pictures to make them much bigger.
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