A whisper from beyond - a photo on Flickriver

            The title of this scene is not derived from anything relative to the moment of the capture, but rather reflect the feelings and thoughts flowing in the back of my mind these days.

My dear dad Giuseppe died on May 6 2010, so these are days full of memories. During postprocessing I have been sometimes tempted to look for a kind of message in this sunrise, a whisper from beyond our world. In the last steps of my rather longish workflow I was tinkering with two luminosity masks comprising only the lighter and more-than-lighter tones of the scene - in the sky, plus a faint echo in the reflection. It was then that I somehow caught the whisper - "I am here, so much closer than you can imagine"...


I have blended five HDR images derived from a 3-bracketing, -1.67 ev/0/+1.67 ev, generated and tonemapped with Luminance HDR 2.4.0 (Fattal, Reinhard05, Mantiuk06, Durand, and Pattanaik operators) Pattanaik contributed only to the sky; conversely, Mantiuk06 and Durand did not contribute at all to the sky, and some regions of those two images were slightly masked. 

Luminance HDR 2.4.0 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
alpha: 1.86
beta: 0.90
Saturation: 0.69
Noiseredux: 0
fftsolver: 1
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PreGamma: 0.91

Operator: Reinhard05
Brightness:  -0.2
Chromatic adaptation: 0.00
Light adaptation: 0.40
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PreGamma: 1.21

Operator: Mantiuk06
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.72
Saturation Factor: 0.72
Detail Factor: 1.6
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PreGamma: 0.42

Operator: Pattanaik
Multiplier: 364.75
Cones: 0.17
Rods: 0.7
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PreGamma: 0.97

Operator: Durand
Spatial Kernel Sigma: 98
Range Kernel Sigma: 9.3
Base Contrast: 5.9
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PreGamma: 0.48
   

Taken in: Italia / Lombardia / Brivio (show map)

Taken on: April 11, 2015

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Camera: Nikon D5100, f/11.0, 1/13 sec, 18mm (=27mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D5100
Lens:	18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.077 sec (1/13)
Focal Length:	18mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	ViewNX 2.9 W
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