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  1. M_J_Helin

    Before the nightless summer nights

    Thanks everyone! This photo has eluded me for over a decade. I have wanted to take a photo where auroras and summer meet. But It's very difficult, because when summer comes, dark skies vanish. So, the window is approx. two weeks to get this kind of photo. Then again, its not possible every...
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    Before the nightless summer nights

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    A sunny spring day

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    Restoring old photos with the help of ai

    I worked with the photo some more. I wasn't satisfied with the eyes etc. In this post I have a couple of pics constructed by ai only. Those pics may clarify the amount of what I did, vs what ai made. Here's the original. About ten hours after. And this isn't the final form yet, I'm...
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    Restoring old photos with the help of ai

    Thanks! I suppose the hair is OK. I heard he had a light brown hair, so I coloured it that way before ai. Practically, what Ai did was add skin and skin details, eyes and eyebrows and -lashes. And that hair, of course. Basically, generated details. But as I wrote, the amount of manual editing...
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    Restoring old photos with the help of ai

    Thanks! Took about three hours. And it's not in the final form yet. But I'm quite excited and impressed of what can be done! I'll definitely edit some more oldies. I have a few photos of my great grandparents from 1890s...
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    Restoring old photos with the help of ai

    I became interested in retouching old photos. And especially now that various AI programs have emerged. They can be very useful. So, here's my father's father, circa 1920 I opened the image in Photoshop and sharpened it a bit and added rough colors. After that I threw the picture here...
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    Summer night

    This might been here already, but I did this picture again, from the scratch. So, 12 photos, focus stacked. Exposure time for each photos was around four seconds. I did this from three different stacks, because none of the programs (helicon focus) automatic stacks didn't end up being perfect...
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    Capture One express is shutting down

    Yep. It's a free raw converter. Basically the same as lightroom and gets the job done (imo) as well.
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    Capture One express is shutting down

    https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/15419149985309-Capture-One-Express-is-coming-to-an-end See here: Express deprecation FAQ How to access your catalog images outside of Capture One From the email communication sent out earlier today: "... This means that starting...
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    Sleepless

    Thanks. Well, it does get a bit darker. This was around 4am. 1,30am is the darkest moment: You can find for example the Big Dipper from this image.
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    Sleepless

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    Dream

    Thanks :) It was around 3am. I actually sat on a rock in the middle of the river, closed my eyes and just listened to the sounds. I actually felt like I'm about to sleep. So, I decided to go home. Got 2,5 hours sleep that night.
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    Dream

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    Summer night

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    Ten years of waiting

    Thanks. Well, there is an airport some 15 miles away, but it's not particularly crowded.. That airplane flies from Netherlands to China almost daily. This time I got lucky. The moon and plane were at the same height seeing from my yard :) Maybe some 20 minutes later or earlier the plane would...
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    M101 - Supernova

    Very nice.
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    Ten years of waiting

    Thanks everyone! I got maybe 5-7 pictures where the plane is in front of the Moon. And amazingly, they're all in focus and not shaken :D
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    Ten years of waiting

    Finally got it.
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    Summer night

    Thanks everyone! This was around 1:30am It doesn't get dark any longer for two months. This was one of my first photos with my new gears. I wasn't yet (and still aren't) familiar with them, so the pictures didn't come out as I expected. They were a bit underexposed, which then caused some extra...
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