Discarded zinnia.
Category: Photo gallery
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This is three different exposures combined in Photomatix to produce an image with detail throughout its dynamic range. (I’m using the software in the demo mode, hence the watermarks.) The effect is analogous to a zone-system contraction, but here the camera and computer do all the calculations, not the photographer, and it works for color. You can perform similar stunts with recent editions of Photoshop (see the pictures of the cathedral from Wednesday), but the full version of Photoshop is expensive, and I’m considering Photomatix for use at home.
One of the three originals is below the fold for comparison. It’s the middle of the three exposures.
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It’s nice not to have to deal with shutter lag.
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Water lily.
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Volunteer cosmos among the weeds.
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AT&T vs. the Scottish Rite Center.
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This is Kansas, so by law I must post a picture of sunflowers. A curious fact: sunflowers are traditionally supposed to follow the sun, but all the ones I saw today were facing north.
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Watch your step.
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Bustling downtown Wichita.
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Dragonfly, Victoria waterlily leaf.
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Lazy bums, i.e., non-migratory Canada geese.
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The Wichita-Valley Center Flood Control Project, a.k.a. the Big Ditch. It’s the reason why my neighborhood wasn’t repeatedly flooded during the past few months.
The answer to yesterday’s puzzle is below the fold.
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What is it? (Answer tomorrow.)
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Some bamboos are hardy in Kansas. I’d guess that this one is a species of Fargesia.