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I knew this is what you look like!!!

ya, iam camera shy because of my body/head proportions ;))

and here is the video.. again, keep in mind this area is the ex Iron Curtain no-go zone.

https://youtu.be/iFN587e3K0E

had a little trip to and around a small town in South Bohemia called Bechyně.

http://lychee.michalgrega.cz/#16944611984946

Not many photos, but i was mainly testing and fooling around with polarizer filter i just bought.

bitkar wrote: 08 Aug 2023, 21:52 and here is the video.. again, keep in mind this area is the ex Iron Curtain no-go zone.
https://youtu.be/iFN587e3K0E

Great film making! Good choice of music and good use of it. I always enjoy the beauty of the landscapes you show. Those buildings are making me want to do CG pictures. So many textures.

bitkar wrote: 11 Sep 2023, 20:17 had a little trip to and around a small town in South Bohemia called Bechyně.

Got this. Might proceed anyway. Nothing bad detected on previous visits.

thanks Finis... i always care for music in videos, it has a big effect lot :) And iam a sucker for a good quality non-mainstream music. Funny enough I also look at the wall or floor and think of textures :D

You can proceed to my gallery site. It does not use any secure connection, but you are not entering there any data or anything, no need to login or so. So its not a risk. Its my own hosting. I might get to it some day and turn some things on, but there is barely a reason for that.

is anybody a hockey fan? Its World Hockey Championship in Czech Republic :) anyone watching?

I hope they use rackets to shoot a field goal through the hoop and across the finish line. That's my knowledge of sports. I do hope your team wins!

haha, thanks :D USA is there too.

a Historic car venue in my hometown. This is organized every year by the North Bohemian Car Club, which is one of the oldest...since 1914. In 1921 there was one of three oldest hill climb races at the nearby hill called Šébr (or Schober in german).

https://sebr.cz/ (you can switch it to english, german or french in the lower right corner)

http://lychee.michalgrega.cz/#17167386547750

...video coming later (car sound competetion mainly)

and the video from the Sound Competetion

https://youtu.be/Wzd5NXQB9lU

Hahaha a big New Yorker boat!
Most of these vehicles are still around. I wish I could have entered my old Baracuda.
It made windows shake.

cool... got some video of yours?

i added HTTPS certificate to my lychee on my hosting... so those who had some problem accessing should have it no more

I enjoyed the youtube video. If I got a diesel truck I'd win that sound ... um, wonder what it costs to ship a truck to CZ?

Now I can visit your site with shields up! Saw some of the great photos. I'll return to look at them all.

My old Baracuda...1967 FormulaS Fastback

that looks mint! i like the color too. Beauty!
Thanks for showing me.

ok, i will continue the car topic. I made a photoshoot of my beloved Honda recently. Finally the pics are done more or less:

https://lychee.michalgrega.cz/#17328312995346

Those photos would be great advertisements for the car. Good use of the available lighting. Good choice of locations. Depth of field used well. Point of view used well. Some have a vignette that improves them. Needs photos of wheel centering rings, ha ha.

Did you use any post processing on these?

Thanks FInis... yes, all those were shot raw and processed. Some of the DOF shots are artificial (AI funktion of the Adobe Camera Raw) as i dont have glass capable of that. I could do it by shooting pictures with and without proper focus and using it as layers in PS. This is a bit faster although not perfect.
Also reg. plate removal in PS and removed few leaves that fell on the car while i was taking the pic. Slight retouching.

Mostly setting the levels (darks, lights), colors and such. Oh and many of the pictures are shot using exposure bracketing (in RAW) and merged to an HDR photo. Thats why the car lights have detail and are not overblown. Ofc I used a tripod for many long exposures. It took a lot of work to do all the photos.

There are centering rings on that car/wheels ;D

Finally a video from my vacation full of driving, hiking and climbing via ferrata. I hope you enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/deCCgNuXL-M

... and have a great holiday season!

Excellent. Perfect choice of music. Great editing. I like the FX showing the sleeping knights. Good story telling. Of course interesting subject. Are those towers built for viewing? Did or do they have another purpose like fire detection, communications, or something historical? Spacekdet is now in 2nd place and must strive to regain the championship of adventure documentary making.

I agree the music was perfect and I really enjoyed your adventures !

thanks mates :) Iam glad you liked it.

Finis: the lookout towers are usually pretty new, built mainly for the tourism and pleasure to see the landscape clearly with no obstructions (some for free, some for fee). But its true that there are 4G/5G/Wifi antenas on top of most (maybe all) of those, as that would be a missed oportunity.
Some of those i showed you earlier, that are placed at the former "iron curtain" are repurposed military towers. But that is rare.

PS: those knights were AI generated on my PC locally using Stable Diffusion. Took about 5 min. and generated around 20 images to refine the prompt and so to get what i needed.