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August 1st, 07

The Night Approaching series

From time to time I play with software. This time I combined ufRAW, qtPfsGUI and TheGIMP, three outstanding open source programs, to experiment with multiple exposures of the same RAW shot. And that's what came out:

 


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August 2nd, 07

The winners: Best of the Week - Week #4

This week the winning shot is [op]drie's "Mont St Michel:"

 

Second place goes to franck's "scary?"

 

Third place goes to Sunneschii's "spleepintrain"


Congrats to the winners and thank you to all the contenders and the voters

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August 5, 07

Best of the Week: Last day for voting and posting

Posting open for Week #6 :
www.ipernity.com/blog/robertoballerini/17774


Voting open for Week #5 :
www.ipernity.com/blog/robertoballerini/17057

 

Note: I will not start the Week #7 contest --> closed for holidays! My intention is to start an August, Best of the Month Contest and then restart with the weekly contest in September (hoping we'll have a group to make it more easy). Let me know what do you think about it.

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August 6, 07

The winners: Best of the Week - Week #5

This week we had a plebiscite for the shot #9, "Schöner Wohnen", by Aufzynden: 

 

 

Second place goes to shot #5, "untitled", by Annjin: 

 

 

Third place to shot #16, "divided into stripes", by Marcel; 

 

 

Congrats to all three!!!
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August 7, 07

A statistical note

Using the data collected by the fine Carsten's Ipernity and Flickr Visits Graph, I noticed that after less than two months of activity on Ipernity (and almost complete inactivity on Flickr) the visits on my Ipernity account slowly surpassed that on my Flickr account. My network on Flickr is slightly bigger and in the last weeks I uploaded the same shots on both sites. The visits on the single shots are now normally higher on Ipernity (but for some shots Flickr has sudden raises, I don't know why...). Only the old Beauty and the... Beast shot continue to have a continual flow of visits and faves (but it's stably around 50th place in Explore).

What's your experience?

 

As a side note: the sum of Flickr and Ipernity visits is similar to the visits to Flickr before migration.

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August 9, 07

Photostream of the Day - August 9th, 2007

An all-new discovery: from Dubai, Ulysses.

Tales from a different culture.

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August 10, 07

Going, going, going... boing

Tomorrow we will make a trip to Alto Adige/Sudtirol. Some days of vacation, before the usual medical check for our Anna Chiara. I will be back to Ipernity August 20th or 21st. Hope to have some new shots (but the weather seems to be an enemy...).

Have a nice week.

The voting for Best of Week - Week #6 is postponed to August 21st, of course.

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August 21, 07

The winners: Best of the Week - Week #6

This time the winner shot is #18 (My sons - 3 @ once) by Jochen (aka Nehcoy Siola):

 

 Second place goes to #21 (I forgot to ask his name ; ) ) by Melpomene:

 

 

Third place goes to #09 (Appelscha (2) ) by [op]drie:

 

Congrats to all three and a thank you to all the contenders and to all the voters ;-) Next contest will be a best of August month and I'll start it September the first.
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August 21, 07

Back from vacations

I'm downloading over 5 Gigs of shots from my memory cards.

I hope I can show you a little bit of the fantastic Sudtirol mountains and locations in a short time.

Only a little note to remark that I found some friends disappeared from Ipernity (and someone from Flickr too) during my vacations and I'm sad for a lost occasion to know them better.

I hope Team Ipernity will read this and start to consider enlarging the team to have better time to market.

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August 22, 07

Summer Jamboree

How about a voyage in time to the Fourties, Fifties and Sixties?

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August 24, 07

Cars and Bikes from Summer Jamboree

Another little gallery. Tonight all the peoples were at Jerry Lee Lewis concert (have you seen the Great Balls of Fire movie, years ago?). Tomorrow (last day) I hope I can shot some more cars and bikes and lot of peoples.

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August 25, 07

Last gallery from Summer Jamboree

I had no sufficient time to devote to my camera, but you can find more serious galleries on the Summer Jamboree website.

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August 28, 07

Photostream of the Day - August 28th, 2007

Another great talent on Ipernity:

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August 28, 07

QtPfsGUI

An open source alternative to Photomatix for making HDR

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August 29, 07

Photostream of the Day - August 29th, 2007

Another interesting artist:

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August 29, 07

QtPfsGUI operators

An example of the results given by the different QtPfsGUI operators on the same set of bracketed shots.

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August 29, 07

Still experimenting with QtPfsGUI

... and I am unable to decide which operator is more natural; all of them have drawbacks.

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