Male Canada geese are very aggressive. During mating season they choose a female (if they do not have one, as they are monogamous) and defend her (and later the nest) against all rivals (even other species).
This scene started with a couple sleeping at the edge of the pond, when suddenly a second pair loudly came swimming across to chase the couple away. The couple did not budge, and instead it lead to a long fight about whom the pond belongs to. I was standing right next to them, and they were a) loud and b) scary!
Olstinden is a prominent 675 m high mountain in the south of the Lofoten Islands in Norway. We saw it from the car on the way to the next campsite, and I just had to stop and take a panoramic photo.
The sunlight beautifully catches on the rims of the waxing crescent moon's craters.
This image was stacked from 20 individual photos. The process was similar to an earlier attempt (see https://www.picturavis.com/picture?/253/), except that I converted to JPG at the very end.
Treecreepers can be found in forests flying from tree to tree looking for insects. They are very good climbers and often start further down on a tree trunk, working their way up. Their coloring can make them almost invisible on a tree if they stop moving.
Started processing images from my trip to #Indonesia. Lots of high-contrast scenes, under-exposed to protect the highlights. It takes a bit to get used to, learning to trust the histogram when the images look so dark on playback.
First, I wish you all a happy new year! The Fediverse is awesome and you are all awesome!
This is my first attempt at creating a stacked moon image. The moon was a bit low, so there is a lot of "wobbling" in the images, making perfect registration of craters difficult. After some quick research and trial and error, I settled for the following workflow:
Batch processing of 14 individual RAW files with RawTherapee to JPEG
Manual cropping around moon for each image in GIMP
Nonrigid registration of all photos onto first image in Fiji via bUnwrapJ
Second nonrigid registration via Align Layers from G'MIC in GIMP
Stacking of all 14 images into one image via Blend [Average All] from G'MIC in GIMP
Sharpen via Sharpen [Gold-Meinel] from G'MIC in GIMP
The spoonbill is a striking bird with a long spoon-like bill that makes it easily recognizable from a distance. Depending on the specimen, it is as large or slightly smaller than a white stork or grey heron, but has shorter wings than either. Although its biosphere is shrinking, it is not considered endangered.
Taken at the Reindeer Lodge near Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. A beautiful place, but unfortunately without reindeer in August. They do not like the mosquitoes. Neither did I.
For practical reasons, photos that you #ShotOnLibrem5 are processed into JPEGs with lower quality than what the camera can do. There are some (complex) ways in which this processing could be made faster and therefore cram more pixels and algorithms that make things prettier, but meanwhile...
Each photo you take is stored as both raw DNG and processed JPG - so you can go back to raw data and retroactively gain quality. See https://dosowisko.net/l5/photos/ for an example.
That said, you don't need huge powerful but complex tools like #darktable or #rawtherapee to make your photos look better. Imagine a simple to use app that lets you do basic stuff on the phone, like white balance or contrast correction, which could then take its time exporting at full res with all the heavy noise reduction algos without annoying the user while taking photos.
Does that sound like something you'd like to work on? 😁
I'm kinda unsure if I should keep using #RawTherapee since I'm sorta familiar with it, or move over to #darktable and learn that so I've tried both major FOSS alternatives. Anyone got some good advice?
The Nationaal Park Duinen van Texel beautifully demonstrates the formation of coastal dunes. From the flat plane of the beach to large and completely overgrown dunes further inland and everything in between.
Thank you all for your likes, boosts and comments. I really appreciate each and every one of you! And thanks to all of you who contribute to any #FOSS projects. Without tools like #digikam, #darktable, #RawTherapee, #GIMP and of course #pixelfed my #photography workflow would not be possible.