Wildflowers near Paicines, CA - a photo on Flickriver

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The wildflowers are starting to wilt and the once verdant meadows are turning brown ahead of summer temps. A very warm and sunny ☀ 95°F (35°C) was the temperature for this day. Paicines is a small community (pop. ~ 600) located near Pinnacles National Park.

Camera details:
• Olympus E-30
• Zuiko Digital 11-22mm f 2.8/3.5 lens
• Polarizing filter
• Save to Olympus RAW (ORF)
• Panorama stitched from 8 images.

Workflow
• rawtherapee v5.0-r1 to "develop" 8 RAW ORF (Olympus RAW) images. For each of the 8 adjust their exposure from -1.0ev to +1.5ev in 0.5ev increments, for a total 6 exposures per image. Save each exposure to a 16-bit TIFF for a total of 48 TIFF images (8 images x 6 exposures = 48).
• enfuse v4.2 to blend each image's exposure stack (6 per stack). I.e. (en)fuse the 6 images into a single 16-bit TIFF image. In the end there will be a panorama stitched (next step) from the 8 (en)fused TIFF images.*
• hugin v2016.2.0 to stitch a rectangular projected panorama image from the 8 enfused 16-bit TIFFs. Save the panorama as a 16-bit TIFF image.
• rawtherapee again, to adjust global and local contrast, black level, etc.
• Perform noise reduction with Noise Ninja.†
• GIMP v2.8.18
▹ Remove lens flare artifacts using heal selection filter.
▹ Resize to final dimensions.
▹ Add copyright text to lower-right of the image.
• exiftool v10.23 to copy the .ORF EXIF tags back into the final JPEG. And to set other tags, e.g. keywords.
• Apply output sharpening with Focus Magic.†
• digikam v5.5.0 to geotag image (using its GPS track log time-correlation feature).
• Linux Kubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).
• MSI GT683 laptop with an Intel i7-2630QM Quad-core 2.0GHz processor and w/16GB RAM.
* Automation software was employed to reduce the large number of image processing steps involving rawtherapee and enfuse.

† Noise Ninja and Focus Magic are Windows applications. To run it on Linux, WINE v1.8.5 is required.

Taken in: United States / California / San Benito (show map)

Taken on: May 3, 2017

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Camera: Olympus E-30, f/10.0, 1/200 sec, 22mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-30
Aperture:	f/10.0
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	22mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Version 1.1
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