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So this one got some more than just the usual 'adjust contrast, desaturate, increase vibrance' treatment. After seeing what someone made of my fog post with some local contrast etc, I thought I'd experiment a bit. So I first did some work on the overall picture, toning down highlights, increasing ambiance, desaturating and setting the white balance a bit further to the cold side.

But then I added some extra darkening to the shadows of the road to increase its local contrast and lit up the shadowy regions of the mountains. Somehow that makes the image work a lot better now imho.

Saw this wonderful fog the other day and tried to capture it. Turns out it's not as easy as I first thought. Am not quite happy when th the result yet. Any pointers to how to capture fog well are very welcome :)

Skiing Hut from above, using a DJI Mini 3. Cropped, contrast up a notch, ambiance up half a notch and framed. Erased some artifacts (snow is good for that)

So... That was quite a surprise, here's the link to the statistics: Link

188 fatalities out of nearly 24k accidents don't qualify as 'most cases end deadly'. I don't want to speculate as to how someone can misread a statistic that significantly while writing an article for a public service news site. But the damage of such false narratives is considerable.

took two images with different exposure, overlayed them in gimp and used a mask to bring the cloud reflections from the darker shot into the lighter image of the island, no further editing

So something pissing me off is websites like lusha or dropcontact who use AI to give their customers your mail address if they only enter your name (which they get from LinkedIn, your company's website,...).

Our mailaddresses have the most basic format of [email protected]

So after threatening another one of those nuisances with a GDPR complaint, it got me thinking that this will become the new normal. We will have to live with it that someone tries to guess our mailadress instead of getting them from some shitty address dealer.

An idea to get rid of the problem in the future would be to add a random secret to work mail addresses, like

[email protected] Where the secret could be anything consisting of several letters. That way you can ensure that only people who you shared your contact details have your mailadress. What's your thoughts?

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

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...

Added some lens blur to create a better focus, desaturated a bit and added more contrast