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Rock

@rjrock.bsky.social

I’m an Army veteran, tech exec, and East Coast Kin member. Photography is presence--a way for me to connect with this amazing world and the wonderful people in it. I enjoy shooting landscape, street, and architecture, but love exploring all milieus.

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𝙰𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚉𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛.𝙰𝚛𝚝 @alanzucker.bsky.social · 18h ago

#ECK #PostProcess #Subtraction Original 📷: @rjrock.bsky.social This was a fun exercise. I used some of Adobe's removal tools (which are AI based) to subtract the cables and wires. It did an ok job. I spent some time hand fixing the artifacts. Next target: the big blue screen. I got creative

There were a bunch of edits, and I did this a couple of days ago, so I won't remember them all.

First thing... I removed the wires and cables

Then I created masks for the sky, the buildings on the left, the structure on the right and the track area. I made an additional mask of just the rails. Did tonal/color adjustments for all those.

I created a layer with a copy of just the traveller (dude on platform) and pushed exposure and shadows pretty hard. Then I masked it off and slowly painted back in a little of that pushed layer to bring out the left side of the dude (lighting motivated by sunset).

Then I took a copy of the whole scene to a new layer, fit it into the screen area and used blending and masks to make it look like the screens were showing what the camera sees.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · yesterday

Night Falls Tervela waterfall, Santa Cristina, Val Gardena. The stream comes off Monte Pana and drops 50 meters into the Rio Gardena. At night it is floodlit, and I can see it from my hotel. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Fuji #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #WaterfallWednesday

$The image rests on one diagonal line and a contrast of textures: smooth, blurred water against fractured rock. Color splits the frame between warm artificial light and cool moonlight, and the water runs along the seam where they meet. With the sky excluded, only tonality signals night, so the fall reads as a pool of light in surrounding dark. It takes a familiar subject, the long-exposure waterfall, and makes it about the rock face and the light placed on it. Notification: This alt-text is generated by a custom built Claude skill and edited by the photographer to provide a rich experience for people that use screen readers.$

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · yesterday

Fly Me to the Moon The Olympia Looping at Oktoberfest. Five loops painted like the Olympic rings, on the Wiesn since 1989. The moon sat right inside one of them while the train came around. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #urbangaze

A vertical color photograph taken at dusk looking up at a large roller coaster at Munich's Oktoberfest. Several steel loops fill the frame, their rails lined with rows of small pink and red LED lights, one loop trimmed in green. In the largest red loop on the right, a green train of riders arcs through the top and down the far side, blurred by speed. Inside that loop, just left of center, sits a small, bright half moon. Glowing yellow script signs read "Looping" and "München." Above them a lit panel of orange and yellow bulbs stands on thin posts topped by three red pennants. A blue and white checked Bavarian flag hangs at the left edge beside fragments of green neon. Along the bottom runs the edge of a festival stand, its roofline strung with warm bulbs over a painted blue and violet mural. The sky is deep blue with low gray clouds near the bottom.

jpr @jpramon.bsky.social · 2d ago

#PostProcess #Subtraction #ECK Original 📷: @rjrock.bsky.social

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾@alinagrafik.eurosky.social · 2d ago

#PostProcess #Subtraction Original by Rock @rjrock.bsky.social. I removed distracting objects (wires, people), cropped, intensified the sky and color to look more like a sunset. #ECK #Photography

I cropped it to make the image more horizontal to match time/track board and train. Removed wires and people. Made the sky more like a bright orange sunset which is also picked up in the time/track board and window reflections on the buildings.

Image shows an outdoor train platform at sunset, so it is on the dark side, and the sky is a bright orange. To the left are industrial buildings with windows which are reflecting the bright orange sky. The center of the image shows the train and multiple tracks. To the right is the platform and time/gate info.

AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾@alinagrafik.eurosky.social · 2d ago

I also tried a monochrome version. Image by @rjrock.bsky.social #PostProcess #Subtraction #ECK #ClassicMono

I cropped it to make the image more horizontal to match time/track board and train. Removed wires and people.

Image shows an outdoor train platform at sunset, so it is on the dark side. To the left are industrial buildings with windows which are reflecting the bright sky. The center of the image shows the train and multiple tracks. To the right is the platform and time/gate info.

jpr @jpramon.bsky.social · 3d ago

#PostProcess #Subtraction Original 📷: @rjrock.bsky.social

jpr @jpramon.bsky.social · 3d ago

#PostProcess #Subtraction Original 📷: @rjrock.bsky.social

jpr @jpramon.bsky.social · 3d ago

#PostProcess #Subtraction Original 📷: @rjrock.bsky.social

Dave Treece @normadybounder.bsky.social · 3d ago

#ECK #Photography #PostProcess #Subtraction @rjrock.bsky.social Took away 1/2 the light in the sky.

mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 3d ago

This week's challenge takes you to a busy frame in Munich where you need to take something away to make the frame meaningful. Color, detail, light, a subject, a corner. Your call. Tell us what you removed and what you almost kept. #EastCoastKin #PostProcess

All I did to make it "make sense" was remove the approaching train off the track and cancel or erase the first two arrival times.. I have no idea if this is what the challenge was.. if I did this correctly, the next train doesn't arrive for 16 minutes, so it wouldn't be anywhere in sight..I also got rid of the two people who were standing there waiting on the ramp.... since I don't speak/read this language, it's hard to say if I was anywhere near correct 🤭😬🤪

mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 3d ago

Final Entry...😉👍 "Closed For Repairs" This week's challenge takes you to a busy frame in Munich where you need to take something away to make the frame meaningful. Color, detail, light, a subject, a corner. Your call. Tell us what you removed and what you almost kept. #EastCoastKin #PostProcess

I realized I made it too difficult for myself...I just removed the trains and the arrival board, took away the soda machine and the people! It's obviously an abandoned, closed down train station. Maybe repairs will happen soon?

jpr @jpramon.bsky.social · 2d ago

#PostProcess #Subtraction #ECK Original 📷: @rjrock.bsky.social

Jason @bloodraynes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Evening #BlueSky 🫖 Inspired by deleting the human factor. For challenge #PostProcess #Subtraction #ECK Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social Achieved using LightRoom & info #AltText Have a great rest of your day my freinds ☺️

Once again, an outstanding original Rock image to work with and thank you my friend for that ☺️

I took the original image into LightRoom and raised all the lighting values to see what l was working with.

I then free hand masked and deleted any humans from the image, the trains and the electronic information board.

I then dropped all the lighting values of the image below the original values, isolated the sky with another mask and boosted those colours.

After that, another separate mask to isolate the tracks to reflect the new sky colours.

The last few steps of the edit was to introduce a new depth of field perspective and l finished with a slight vignette and my usual white border frame.

What I wanted to achieve was subtract the human factor out and any obvious machinery.

Boost some colours, introduce that depth of field to hide the buildings and the built-up nature of the scene and to really concentrate and highlight those leading lines.

Katherine Mancuso @katherinemancuso.bsky.social · 3d ago

✨🛤️✨ #PostProcess #Subtract Original 📸 : @rjrock.bsky.social Details in ALT

I wanted to take away most the details in the tracks and leave just the light reflections because I found it to be busy. I also blurred and darkened the edges trying to bring focus to the sky and the overhead wires.
Canva - enhanced the sky and darkened the details of the wood trestles to simplify the train tracks.
Snapseed - adjusted once more to brighten the light on the tracks and bring out more detail in the clouds. Blurred the edges and the station sign. Added a vignette.

A train at sunset arriving into the station.

P Pekka @prepekka98.bsky.social · 3d ago

#ECK #PostProcess #Subtraction Original 📷: @rjrock.bsky.social For this week's challenge, I wanted to emphasize the leading lines and architecture of the structure. Alt-text for Lightroom edit details.

Pepper @pepper10.bsky.social · 4d ago

Couldn't sleep, so I'm sitting here at 3 this morning trying my hand for this challenge ... It's now a school bus, early morning on the road; on the way to pick up the children for school. *Details in alt @rjrock.bsky.social #PostProcess #Subtraction

First had a cup of coffee... then I enlarged the picture.
Erased the train tracks...
Erased part of the train; made it into a school bus on a cold morning, driving out of the bus depot to pick up the children for school ...

Rosemarie @roabrams.bsky.social · 3d ago

For this week’s #PostProcess #substraction original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social Cropped and took out color for a black and white photo of train station platform

Black and white photo of train station platform with people waiting for train

Rosemarie @roabrams.bsky.social · 3d ago

Since we are having a downpour and I can’t get out, here’s an edit the other side of @rjrock.bsky.social #PostProcess photo. This time, I edited out platform #substraction and intensified the colors

Railroad tracks with a train in the distance at sunrise/sunsety. Windows of buildings on left side reflecting the orange sunlight

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 4d ago

#Subtraction This week's challenge takes you to a busy frame in Munich where you need to take something away to make the frame meaningful. Color, detail, light, a subject, a corner. Your call. Tell us what you removed, and what you almost kept. #EastCoastKin #PostProcess tinyurl.com/ycx9sfry

Sep 21 - Sep 27 #Subtraction

This week's Post Process Challenge is takes you to a busy frame in Munich, Germany where you need to take something away to make the frame meaningful.

Color, detail, light, a subject, a whole corner. Your call. Then tell us what you removed, and what you almost kept.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Luthier's Wall A luthier at his bench under a wall of finished violins. The shirt is the only cool color in the frame; everything else is varnish. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #ColorADay #orangesun

A vertical color photograph of a violin maker's workshop. A man with long gray hair tied back, wire-rimmed glasses, a blue-gray short-sleeved shirt and olive cargo pants leans forward at a wooden workbench on the right side of the frame, head bowed, hands working a pale, unvarnished piece of wood. Above and behind him, rows of violins hang neck-up on wooden pegs in amber, red and brown varnish. Lighter, unfinished instruments fill the upper left, and a rack of bows runs across the middle of the wall. A window near the top center backlights the scene and rims his hair. At left, a double bass with deep orange-red varnish stands beside a workbench holding an unfinished, striped-wood body. An orange desk lamp and a lit white lamp sit beside him. Tools, clamps, a cream backpack and a grinder crowd the foreground and edges, softly out of focus.

The composition sets one moving figure against a field of repetition. The rows of instruments create rhythm, and his diagonal lean breaks the grid. The palette is warm and analogous, oranges and browns, with the blue-gray shirt as the single cool note, so the maker reads first. Shallow depth of field layers a soft foreground, a sharp subject and a slightly softer wall. As an environmental portrait, the workshop stands in for the man: accumulated work, and a craft measured in hours at the bench. The mood is quiet and absorbed.

Notification: This alt-text is generated by a custom built Claude skill and edited by the photographer to provide a rich experience for people that use screen readers.

Mimi_TlRife💙📸☕️🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒🍊🏈🐻🏀🧳🎮@mimitlrife.bsky.social · 5d ago

For the #PostProcess Challenge #Texture #ECK Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social I used the Snapseed app to achieve the texture changes.

Using Snapseed, I cropped the photo, and used tonality, halation, HDR scape, vintage, and chromatic aberration. A desert photo of mountains mountains and rocks.

Ian Guffogg @thegeekysnapper.bsky.social · 5d ago

Photo taken by @rjrock.bsky.social & processed by me (brief process in alt) #ECK #EastCoastKin #PostProcess #Texture

Black and white photo of a Moab desert landscape. In the distance a towering red-rock formation is framed by the remains of two long dead (at least they look that way) trees in the foreground. The photo was taken by @rjrock.bsky.social and was processed by me.

The image was edited in Darktable…

I cropped the image. Going rogue and using a portrait orientation. I did this to focus on the most textured part of the image, and to play a little with natural framing.

I upped the exposure a smidge in the—aptly named—Exposure Module.

Then I activated the Contrast Equaliser Module, initially running its clarity preset, and then tinkering with it, fine tuning it by eye.

I then activate a second instance of the Contrast Equaliser Module, running the sharpen preset, and tinkering with it to also fine tune its the results by eye.

Then I converted the image to black and white, using the HP5 preset on the Colour Calibration Module (by far the easiest method to convert an image to black and white in Darktable, and it almost always does a damn good job).

Finally, I activated the Colour Equaliser module, repositioned it so that it was before the black and white conversion in the pixelpipe (the order in which Darktable processed the modules) so it would alter the final image, and flung the sliders around for a bit, using them to in effect dodge and burn areas of the image.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 5d ago

Self portrait in the window of a passing S-Bahn at Berg am Laim. everything is moving except me and the rocks. i'll take it. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #ColorADay #Golden

The image sets speed against stillness twice. The train dissolves into horizontal streaks while the reflected photographer stays legible inside it, and the gravel below is the only fully sharp texture in the frame, anchoring the motion above it. The cool blue and lavender of the left window play against the saturated yellow of the right car, and the reflection turns a passing vehicle into a self portrait made without a mirror or a plan.

Notification: This alt-text is generated by a custom built Claude skill and edited by the photographer to provide a rich experience for people that use screen readers.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 5d ago

Put On a Happy Face Self portrait. Fifty-eight years in this face and it still won't hold a straight one for the camera. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Fuji #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #selfportrait #portraiture

A tight, vertical head-and-shoulders portrait of a bald man in his fifties, filling the frame from the crown of his head to the chest. He is smiling broadly with his teeth showing, and his left brow (on the right of the frame) sits slightly higher than the other, giving the expression a crooked, caught-mid-laugh quality. His eyes are amber-brown and sharp, with deep crow's feet at the corners and horizontal lines across the forehead. Light comes from the camera-left side, putting warm highlights on the scalp, forehead, nose bridge and cheek, while the right side of the face and the underside of the jaw fall into soft shadow, with a hint of gray stubble along the jawline. He wears a saturated royal-blue crew-neck t-shirt; a worn white block graphic is cut off by the bottom edge of the frame. The background is a smooth, dark charcoal gray.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 6d ago

Rollin' on the Bay Pelicans work the bay past the San Francisco Belle like they hold the lease. #EastCoastKin #Photography #ClassicMono #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #Scape

The pelican line works as a leading line and an implied diagonal, carrying the eye from the empty upper left to the ship, which is the heaviest and brightest mass in the frame. The birds' even spacing sets a rhythm, and the bunching at the end of the line gives it a stopping point. The open gray sky supplies negative space and a quiet, overcast mood. The ship's white tiers against its black hull set up the strongest contrast in an otherwise narrow tonal range, and the small buoy balances the ship at the opposite corner. Scale is set by the birds: the boat is fixed and heavy, the flock is loose and moving.

Notification: This alt-text is generated by a custom built Claude skill and edited by the photographer to provide a rich experience for people that use screen readers.

Kafka @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finding beauty, structure, order, and mood in the ordinary: #AOfoto Minimalism combined with maximalism? Moody metallics that are glowing portals to strange new worlds? You decide. #Architecture #UrbanGaze #ECK #Linear #StreetPhotography #Photography #Photographers #GeometricShapes #Reflections

A photo emphasizing a striking industrial minimalism combined with a dramatic, high-contrast architectural aesthetic.

Modern architectural details dominate this close-up shot, capturing a complex interplay of glass, metal, and light. Strong vertical and horizontal lines create a geometric grid, while a slatted awning or overhang casts dramatic linear shadows across the lower windows. The highly reflective glass panes mirror a dramatic, cloudy sky, blending the solid structure with soft, organic patterns. However, the real focus of the shot are the strong linear elements —the repetitive parallel lines of the slatted awning structure create a rhythmic grid pattern that catches bold shadows and highlights.

The color palette is deeply muted and monochromatic, consisting of dark charcoal tones, metallic grays, and stark whites, accented by an atmospheric reflection of clouds in the glass panels above. This play between transparent glass, rigid structural steel, and deep shadows gives the image an edgy, abstract quality, highlighting the geometric interplay of light and form within modern architecture.

Kafka @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social · last wk.

I get it bc, odd as this may sound, I have some skyscrapers that do that very same thing for me. 😆🤭 It's wonderful to find a Muse of some sort, isn't it? We're lucky to share in the beauty you create around yours.

Juan J Rivero @jwolfiedog.bsky.social · 7d ago

#ECK #PostProcess #Texture Thanks to @rjrock.bsky.social for the original.

In Snapseed, I increased the structure and sharpening. I used Selective to adjust different areas of the image. Then I used Tonality to adjust tonal contrast.

Kafka @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social · last wk.

#WindowsOnWednesday Post-Modernist, Art Deco, & w/ a Secret Cat top/profile (that I've never been able to see), the Williams Tower is, at 901 ft tall, the tallest "suburban" #skyscraper. #LightAndShadow #UrbanGaze #ECK #StreetPhotography #Photography #Photographers #Architecture #GeometricShapes