Your R System Images - September 2023

PKM-UK said:

Images from our recent visit to Warkworth Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland, England.

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop with TK-9 Panel).

You can find out more about Warkworth Castle by clicking Here.

*** We are away now until mid-September, so will be unable to provide any feedback/ comments until after our return. ***

We'll be back...

Phil and Karen


1. Warkworth Castle sits above a loop in the River Coquet and dates to around 1200.

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2. It was the favoured residence of the Percy family - the powerful Dukes of Northumberland - from the 14th to the 17th centuries.

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3. The Great Hall in the Bailey, with the Lion Tower (right), was built around 1480 by Henry Percy the 4th Earl of Northumberland.

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4. The Great Tower (‘a castle within a castle’) was commissioned by (another) Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland in 1377.

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5. The Grey Mare’s Tail Tower may have been used for accommodation and was built around 1290. [Inset right - ancient window art/ graffiti].

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6. The Castle was used by William Shakespeare as the setting for several scenes in his Henry IV plays, written in 1597. It is now managed by English Heritage.

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(Source: English Heritage).

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ACEkin said:

Another Oxalis, or Shamrock flower set. Treated to a slight soft focus effect in Lightroom.

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AOC said:

A couple of shots taken of local critters in my neck of the woods. Green Tree Frogs are hanging out on Cattail leaves while Ruby-throated hummingbirds are in the process of fattening up for the trip South. Most of the mature males have already left the area.


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dgphoto8 said:

Some photos I took during the "blue super moon" that we had at the end of August in Boston. I consulted the Photographer's Ephemeris and saw that the moon would be rising over the Boston skyline. Nancy and I positioned ourselves on the opposite bank of the Charles River and I spent the next hour or so running like a madman up and down the river to get the moon at various positions over the skyline.

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We were treated to a colorful sunset backdrop to the Charles River and the Boston University Law building. The clouds capturing the wonderful color foreboded a tricky photography session for a full moon.

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The moon starting to rise over the skyline. You can see that clouds were significantly occluding the moon. This was exposed for the moon and I used Lightroom Classic masking to brighten the lights of the buildings.


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The moon popped out clearer for awhile as it rose near the John Hancock Tower.

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The John Hancock Building radio towers silhouetted in the moon. This was the photo I used for 52Frames that week.

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Two minutes later, the moon was significantly covered by a passing cloud, showing how lucky I was to get the previous shot.

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After that the moon was always partially shrouded in cloud. I exposed for the skyline and let the moonlight spread through the clouds. You can also see the planet Saturn in this photo to the upper right of the moon. It was a very nice night for photography, although I'm left with some "what if" questions if it was a truly cloudless night

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JohnFr said:

This is an focus stacked image shot with Canon R5, Canon 300mm lens at f/11, 1/125th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 4566 images with the majority of the the images being Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 372 individual Focus Stacked images, 12 rows x 31 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation. Focus stacking was done using Helicon Focus 8 and stitching was done using PTGui. Final processing was done in Photoshop.

The original image is: 6.26 Giga-pixels, 59,349 x 105,509 pixels, 197" x 351" 300 PPI (16 ft. 5 in. 29 ft. 4 in.) un- cropped image size.
You can view a high resolution virtual tour of the image by clicking on the image in this page: https://abbascreationsphotography.com/Dream_sunrise.htm​

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JohnFr said:

This is an focus stacked image shot with Canon R5, Canon 300mm lens at f/11, 1/125th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 4566 images with the majority of the the images being Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 372 individual Focus Stacked images, 12 rows x 31 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation. Focus stacking was done using Helicon Focus 8 and stitching was done using PTGui. Final processing was done in Photoshop.

The original image is: 6.26 Giga-pixels, 59,349 x 105,509 pixels, 197" x 351" 300 PPI (16 ft. 5 in. 29 ft. 4 in.) un- cropped image size.
You can view a high resolution virtual tour of the image by clicking on the image in this page: https://abbascreationsphotography.com/Dream_sunrise.htm​

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