Pix for the Week Ending May 13th to 15th, 2022

Hello Sigma shooters:

Well May is half over and spring is half over and summer is around the corner.  A good time to get out in the fresh air and take some photos.  You guy know the drill, image taken with any Sigma camera and lens is welcome.  Try to limit you post to 3 images and please give your post a subject title so that comments are properly directed.

Shoot some photos and have fun!  

Enjoy!  

Shot with filter removed:

Sigma SD9; Sigma 24-105 ART

The purplish-red bits are not flower petals, only the little yellow things!

From May 2019. sdQH with 105mm macro.

Valerian:

Geranium:

Don

An impressive cloud to the East at sunset last night:

I did something different with the white balance - does it look natural?

The bird is a juvenile bald eagle, so no white head or tail.

David

DavidWright2010 wrote:

An impressive cloud to the East at sunset last night:

I did something different with the white balance - does it look natural?

The bird is a juvenile bald eagle, so no white head or tail.

David

The WB looks fine on my monitor. Better than natural.  

Don

D Cox wrote:

DavidWright2010 wrote:

An impressive cloud to the East at sunset last night:

I did something different with the white balance - does it look natural?

The bird is a juvenile bald eagle, so no white head or tail.

David

The WB looks fine on my monitor. Better than natural.

Don

Actually, yeah. When I was working on this, there was an obvious blue cast - which is to be expected, since I took this in the 'blue hour'. But, while I was out on the beach, the white objects did not appear to have a blue cast - my brain expected white and that's what I saw.

But not so for the image on the computer screen.

So I selected the foreground, and feathered the top side to the max PS would allow (150 pixels), and then used the eyedropper to WB on the wave  foam at the bottom. So the WB was fully applied at the bottom, and up for a way, then gradually went to zero over 150 pixels somewhere around the distant shore.

David

DavidWright2010 wrote:

D Cox wrote:

DavidWright2010 wrote:

An impressive cloud to the East at sunset last night:

I did something different with the white balance - does it look natural?

The bird is a juvenile bald eagle, so no white head or tail.

David

The WB looks fine on my monitor. Better than natural.

Don

Actually, yeah. When I was working on this, there was an obvious blue cast - which is to be expected, since I took this in the 'blue hour'. But, while I was out on the beach, the white objects did not appear to have a blue cast - my brain expected white and that's what I saw.

But not so for the image on the computer screen.

So I selected the foreground, and feathered the top side to the max PS would allow (150 pixels), and then used the eyedropper to WB on the wave foam at the bottom. So the WB was fully applied at the bottom, and up for a way, then gradually went to zero over 150 pixels somewhere around the distant shore.

David

A good idea that worked.

Don

Awesome images Rick, those clouds are striking, thanks for sharing.  

Nice capture David:  Thanks for sharing!  

DavidWright2010 wrote:

D Cox wrote:

DavidWright2010 wrote:

An impressive cloud to the East at sunset last night:

I did something different with the white balance - does it look natural?

The bird is a juvenile bald eagle, so no white head or tail.

David

The WB looks fine on my monitor. Better than natural.

Don

Actually, yeah. When I was working on this, there was an obvious blue cast - which is to be expected, since I took this in the 'blue hour'. But, while I was out on the beach, the white objects did not appear to have a blue cast - my brain expected white and that's what I saw.

But not so for the image on the computer screen.

So I selected the foreground, and feathered the top side to the max PS would allow (150 pixels), and then used the eyedropper to WB on the wave foam at the bottom. So the WB was fully applied at the bottom, and up for a way, then gradually went to zero over 150 pixels somewhere around the distant shore.

A WB gradient, so to speak!

Cool.

Sigma SD14

Nice capture Piotr K, thanks for sharing.  

Zanskar, Ladakh - Januray, 2015

Photograph from a winter expedition to this remote, winter wonderland.

Access to this place is 'practically' possible for only 4-5 months in a year when the road from Kargil becomes operational after the snows melt on the high passes enroute.

Rest of the year this location is cut off from the world.

I made my way to this place with the locals, who in the depths of winter make it to the outside world on a blanket of ice...'The Chadar'...when the Zanskar river freezes, allowing passage over it.

It was -25 degrees celsius when i made this photograph. At night it was -36 degrees celsius.

Best regards,

Sattva

P.s: Things have changed quite a bit now as far as access is concerned. Two more roads are making their way to this location from different directions...one of them is all season, all year access road.

I wonder how long the tranquil beauty of this place will last once that road becomes real and operational. 

Absolutely beautiful image Fotoflo86; thanks for sharing.

PS.  That old SD9 is still producing great images!