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The gates to Sossusvlei opens at sunrise. Waiting there to enter the light is fantastic as the sun is about to appear from behind the far mountains.
For #DawnOnSunday curated by +Ray Bilcliff and +Sherry McBriar

Dawn before Sossusvlei

This is an example of how shooting in RAW can save a bad exposure. This shot is from Langedrag wildlife park (http://www.langedrag.no/english). The lynx moved from the sun to a shadow, and I didn’t think of compensating the exposure of the lynx for the sunlit background.

The raw file was developed with Bibble Pro 5. First I adjusted the exposure up 1.5 stops. Then saturation was boosted a bit to compensate for loss of colors due to the underexposure. I adjusted the curves to enhance the contrast. The last steps where to do a slight crop and flip the image horizontally.

I applied a signature in Gimp. Theres nothing worse than a good image ruined by a large ugly signature, so I keep it subtle.

For #BeforeAndAfterSaturday curated by +Raghav Sood

Before

After

For #floralfriday curated by +Tamara Pruessner.

#photography
Must everything be HDR? I've just discovered how many amazing good photograph(er)s there are on G+, and this is my main reason for spending time here instead of Facebook. However, of all the photographs I see here a lot of them are ruined (in my view) by being over processed in photomatix. It feels a little like when people first got their hands on photoshop and went crazy with all the fancy filters.

I don't hate everything in HDR, and I use it sometimes myself. Then again for many photographs is hard to say if HDR is applied. What is to much when it comes to HDR? When is HDR ok?

Just a simple flower macro. Canon 400D, Canon 100mm F2.8 macro at F22. Lit with a 580EX and 430EZ triggered with Cactus radiopoppers.
#PlusPhotoExtract

Just playing a little with photivo. Overall a good first impression, but seems like it don't save edits to the raw files in a sidecar file. I might be wrong though. It's late and I'm going to bed. Good night….

Only 10 days old this is my daughters feet wearing our wedding rings.

Little spider… shot with EOS 400D and 100mm macro 2.8 at F11 with two speedlights fired with cactus radiopoppers. #PlusPhotoExtract #Spiderthursday #macro