The dynamic range of a sunrise over the sea exceeds the limits of even the best sensors. Thus, with a single shot, you’re forced to accept crushed shadows, blown highlights, or a compromise using graduated neutral density filters. Instead of fighting those limits, I prefer creating an HDR image by merging multiple bracketed shots.
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Kingfishers have held a special place in my heart since childhood. I can still recall the excitement of receiving, then devouring in a single breath, one of my very first books: a beautifully illustrated story about a kingfisher family and its struggle to survive in a human-dominated world. Kingfishers on the Blue Bay by Karel Nový did not romanticize their lives.
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DxO PureRaw has carved out a niche among photographers seeking to efficiently and automatically denoise their Raw files. With the release of PureRaw 6, I had high expectations for new features that would further refine this powerful software. After extensively testing it, I found that this version adds something new, but it is more of an evolution than a revolution.
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It almost felt like the autumn of 1989, when the totalitarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia was collapsing. Back then, Letná Plain—the largest open space in Prague—was filled with 800,000 people. This Saturday, “only” around 250,000 showed up, but the goal was similar: to send a clear message to the current government about disagreement with the direction in which the country is heading. Nothing we don’t see in news reports from around the world every week.
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When we think of a duck, most of us probably imagine a stocky bird with a flat beak, cruising across calm, mirror-like water. And indeed, of the 165 species of ducks known today, the vast majority fit this description. But there are four species that have chosen a very different path of making fast-flowing rivers their home. And among them, the undisputed extremist is the South American Torrent Duck, a bird whose entire existence is bound to the raging rivers cascading down the steep slopes of the high Andes.
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