Morning Shadows 'LINK'
Kaja Wombles
The basic steps for this watercolor painting are as follows: 1. Find a suitable subject that captures your interest. 2. Decide what you want your message to be. In my case it was the beautiful shadows falling on the foreground. 3. Make any needed design decisions. As I wanted my watercolor painting to focus on the shadows I increased the foreground area. I also decided to add some sheep as it is a painting of a shearing shed. 4. Paint the sky and ground under painting in one go. It is important to get the tones right with the lightest in the sky and those in the ground getting stronger towards the foreground. It is very important to let this stage of your watercolor painting fully dry before you continue.
For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows. J.R.R. Tolkien. LotR. Book IV, Chp. 2.
At last, on the fifth morning since they took the road with Gollum, they halted once more. Before them dark in the dawn the great mountains reached up to roofs of smoke and cloud. Out from their feet were flung huge buttresses and broken hills that were now at the nearest scarce a dozen miles away. Frodo looked round in horror. Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes. Even to the Mere of Dead Faces some haggard phantom of green spring would come; but here neither spring nor summer would ever come again. Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths that feed on rottenness. The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. High mounds of crushed and powdered rock, great cones of earth fire-blasted and poison-stained, stood like an obscene graveyard in endless rows, slowly revealed in the reluctant light. J.R.R. Tolkien. LotR. Book IV, Chp. 2.
The sheep could be often frightened, but the shepherd urged them on, leading them through the difficult terrain. With the risk of falling to their death. He had a rod and staff to help them as a protection. And so my point is, this morning we can walk through any darkness. If the Lord Jesus Christ, our great shepherd, is with us. There is no place so dark where God cannot reach you and lead you. We are led by the gentle shepherd.
This morning as I came down the stairs, the rising sun was casting shadows on the wall and closet door after passing through the lace curtain, past the dracaena marginata, and the stair rail. Leaves from outdoors were dancing amidst the lacy and muted pattern.
Sunrise in the desert southwest creates some interesting shadows and light. The desert mountains stretch across the horizons in a slow profile that allows for some long shadows and sharp contrasts of light and dark. There is a simple beauty in the desert at this time of day. On my commute on a busy freeway I appreciate the calming influence of a landscape vision like this one.
I've got a lot of data from this morning taken with differing ROI's. The early frames before Europa's shadow entered the disk are still in process but this series with Europa in the FOV have had an initial set of processes completed.
I also realized this morning that not doing white balance in Paint Shop Pro but instead leaving the colors as generated by Wavesharp RGB Balance was yielding a color palette closer to what others get for Jupiter with the warmer brown tones than the harsh blues I've been generating. Just a first cut and it is what it is. Just wanted y'all to see that I'm trying to listen to all the inputs.
Drum roll please. I've make a couple of minor breakthroughs with this data I think. Not sure it apples to anything else but I was applying the white point in levels too close to the end of the histogram and it was blowing out a bunch of detail in the belts. Check this out. Still a 3-image derotation. I captured the data in three image groupings, and this afternoon I've been processing them in the same three image groupings. I had been running large batches through AS!3 this morning, but it turns out that seeing and/or my ability to focus was creating large differences between groups in terms of where the quality graph crosses the 50% line too. The result was I was loosing what could have been deeper stacks without realizing it. This is comprised of 30% stacks.
I had been running large batches through AS!3 this morning, but it turns out that seeing and/or my ability to focus was creating large differences between groups in terms of where the quality graph crosses the 50% line too. The result was I was loosing what could have been deeper stacks without realizing it.
Shadows on, On ground = On, On faces = Off, and in the morning
Here is how things look as a baseline. Note I have the True North pointing along the green axis as expected but the west side of the buildings are lighter in color, and there are no shadows on the ground, so appears to suggest the sun is rising from the West.
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