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
Wasn't sure whether you'd get tired of the joke, so I left out the 'in Slovenia'.
Increased the structure of the water, darkened the highlights to reduce over exposure of the boats. The shot was a bit tricky, I wanted to go higher up but it's in the outer controlled airspace of an airport which restricts altitude to 50m AGL
I tried that but found that it is still too unpopulated. The instances I found just had posts by the same five people. But I agree, the software is great, it just lacks an audience :)
The color of the water is just incredible. I added some Vignette and increased the structure of the image to bring out the little eddies made by the oars. Additionally I darkened the boat as it was overexposed. No further editing, no playing with colors or saturation. Still - pretty sure the dji drone already does some post processing before I get to see the image...
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.
Added some lens blur to create a better focus, desaturated a bit and added more contrast
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.
This image is edited to a slight degree. Cut, framed, and and I touched up the sky a bit, because I was too late to capture the perfect moment and it was already growing darker again
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...
Unedited, that's just how it comes out of the camera (but pretty sure dji does some editing)
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
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?
Die FDP will mehr Autos in den Innenstädten und fordert weniger Platz für Fußgänger und Radfahrer. Das Pro-Auto-Programm soll ein gezielter Gegenentwurf zur Verkehrspolitik der Grünen sein. Die Kritik folgt prompt. Von Oliver Neuroth.
And the Greens party gave those Croûtons the traffic ministry...
Bundeswehr zieht bayerische Hochschulen ein
Bayerns Hochschulen und die Bundeswehr sollen enger zusammenarbeiten, Jugendoffiziere öfter an Schulen im Freistaat auftreten, Kasernen mit weniger Vorschriften gebaut werden: Damit will das Kabinett von Ministerpräsident Söder das Militär stärken.
TL/DR; Gesetzentwurf für Propaganda im Klassenzimmer und das Verbot der Zivilklausel (sprich des herzlichen "Nein Danke" aller Hochschulen zur Militärkooperation). Universitäten sollen gezwungen werden mit der Bundeswehr zusammen zu arbeiten. Maggus, mir graut vor dir.
The plaintiff in the Pfizergate affair has called on the European Council to force the resignation of EU executive chief Ursula von der Leyen and the rest of her Commissioners in a letter seen by Euronews.
Excerpt:
> The lawyer based her request on Article 245 (action incompatible with their duties) and Article 247 (serious misconduct) of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
> The case concerned the disclosure of calls and text messages exchanged between von der Leyen and Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla through which both parties negotiated vaccine contracts during the COVID-19 crisis.
> Following a criminal complaint filed by Frédéric Baldan, a Belgian lobbyist focusing on China-EU trade relations, the Belgian authorities initiated the case in early 2023. Subsequently, the governments of Hungary and Poland joined the lawsuit.
> Von der Leyen kept “stubbornly refusing to disclose contracts for the purchase of COVID vaccines [...and] the electronic messages she exchanged with Mr Bourla, CEO of Pfizer", according to the letter which said her actions offended "public morality" and "shatter the legitimate confidence that citizens should be able to have in all members of the European Commission".
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15573986
> Tacos.