Originally, I believed that I can’t build an HDR image from the mini-3 AEB-shots, as somehow HDR from JPEGs seems to not be a good idea, and apart from Photoshop there’s no software around that fully understands the DNGs of the more modern DJI drones. Then I found that I can just put them in gimp and manually build the HDR part. That meant that quite some shots I’ve taken last year could be rescued :)
I like your composition, the dramatic clouds, the path, the clear subject in the middle, the outlook on where the hike goes, great photo!
They’re all in the contacts anyways, with autocompletion once you start typing their mailaddress
Someone asked the other day ‘why so photoshopped’, when I basically did nothing to the image’. The commenter was downvoted heavily and I thought that’s not good. I liked the discussion tbh. So I thought more transparency would be good on what I do with the images. I only do this for fun, so don’t have anything to hide
Feel free to make it one
Edited the title
Wasn’t sure whether you d get tired of the joke, so I left out the ‘in Slovenia’.
TL/DR; c/pics and c/photography are the only places I share images.
Wow - that’s quite the compliment for a dude who just likes to post holiday images. I don’t post my pictures anywhere else, as I don’t believe in letting Meta and others commercialize my photos or feed their AI monsters with it.
I like it here, I like the federation, I like that nobody restricts my upload size or compresses my images and I really like the vibe of the whole place and that I can just pay a buck a month to cover my costs instead of lots of ads and data scraping. Some months ago I thought c/pics is great but it could do with more content. So instead of complaining I started posting my own humble tries here, following the motto mediocre content is better than no content.
I’ll take your question as encouragement and keep posting.
Oh wow, didn’t expect that :)
Thanks!
Sensor noise on higher gains I’d guess. Normally I take images like this in manual and fiddle around with the settings until I get it right. In this case I had to be quick because the light was changing by the minute so I shot in auto. But I agree with you, I also liked the effect here that’s why I kept it.
Didn’t do any editing, came out of the camera like that. But dji already does quite heavy editing. The problem is that the raw format in which they save the file is AFAIK only fully implemented by Photoshop, so working with jpegs it is…
The limestone above is not high enough to really filter out whatever the farmer on top throws on their field, so it’s contaminated with pestizides and not recommended for drinking. It smells like fresh water.
As whitewater paddler on the alps you get used to relying on the weather report (and develop a healthy judgement for what’s the kind of rain that will get you in trouble). The kind of rain it takes to make trouble doesn’t come out of the blue :) Still, the cave has rescue spots that are fully equipped with food and thermal blankets and have several meters height as buffer. And still after all of that you are right, it always is a risk
The oldest traces of mankind in the cave go back to the Celtics, so quite some time ago. It is well explored. The cave is only accessible with licensed guides. We went in the first kilometer, where everything is still pretty tame, no protracted crawling etc + it was a dry day with low water levels. But yeah, 2h in and you know you will take 2h again to get out. That’s the point where you start wondering what happens if someone breaks their ankle…
The guide explained to us that there is a cave rescue team that comes and gets you out of anything happens, but it takes roughly 14 h to get someone injured back out again o.O
Thanks :)
Correct the drainage is around the next bend, but then you don’t see the beautiful exit anymore…
The cave’s interior is out of a story book, with stalactites, stalacmites and gigantic round dripstones, cathedral like openings, waterfalls and tight spots to dive and press through. Was a real adventure
SCMP… ain’t that a state run propaganda agency?
what a beautiful shot!