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A gaze from a great distance: The Lord of the Clouds is staring directly at YOU (extreme crop of a much larger image)

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Description	English: A piercing gaze from a great distance. The Lord of the Clouds staring directly at YOU. This is an extreme crop of a much larger image, first detected when scrutinising a series of cloud images onscreen. Indeed this depicts a double gaze, with a ghoulish sycophant staring just below.
Date	28 July 2022, 07:16:05
Source	Own work
Author	Franz van Duns

Camera location	51° 28′ 48″ N, 7° 33′ 00″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	51.480000; 7.550000

en: A piercing gaze from a great distance. The Lord of the Clouds staring directly at YOU.

Specially selected for the Wiki Commons challenge "July/2022 - Gaze".
This is an extreme crop of a much larger image, first detected when scrutinising a series of cloud images onscreen.
Intentionally removed all colouring except natural blue within two pairs of 'eyes'.
Indeed this depicts a double gaze, with a ghoulish sycophant staring just below.
Image taken in July 2022 in Aplerbeck, Dortmund, Germany.

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Image title	A gaze from a great distance: The Lord of the Clouds is staring directly at YOU (a tiny crop of a much larger image)
Camera manufacturer	SONY
Camera model	ILCE-7RM3
Author	Franz van Duns
Copyright holder	Franz van Duns
Exposure time	1/1,250 sec (0.0008)
F-number	f/7.1
ISO speed rating	100
Date and time of data generation	07:16, 28 July 2022
Lens focal length	25 mm
User comments	Extreme crop. [1] Camera: Sony Alpha 7R3, 42 Mpixels, sensor size 7952x5304. [2] Lens: Zeiss E 25mm F2. [3] Scope: single image, extreme crop. [4] Camera / lens settings: manual mode, electronic shutter, ISO 100, 1/1250s, aperture 7.1, bias (=exposure compensation) -1.33, WB (white balance) 5600K, colour space 'Adobe RGB'. [5] Handheld exposure. [6] Adobe Lightroom: (a) Applied current standard preset 004 (WB,tint:unaltered, Exposure+1.06, Presence: Texture+30 Clarity+30 Vibrance+5 Saturation+3, Sharp: Amount+70, Radius:1.0 Detail:25 Masking:20, NoiseRed: Lum:50 Detail:50 Contrast:0 Color:30 Detail:50, Smooth:50, LensCorr:all) (b) Subsequent changes (final values stated) for images with subdued colours: Texture+50 Vibrance+10 (c) exported as TIFF/16bit, 'ProPhoto-RGB' colour profile. [7] ---. [8] Adobe Photoshop: (a) imported stacked TIFF/16bit image, explicitly preserving embedded colour space 'ProPhoto-RGB' (b) removed single sensor speck (c) tone curve (0..255): 80>40, 180>200 (d) removed all colouring except natural blue within two pairs of 'eyes' per softedge mask (e) enhanced sharpness:NO (f) rotated:NO (g) cropped:from original size 7952x5304 to 300x300 (h) saved as PSD file (i) exported as JPG max. quality file with embedded 'sRGB' colour profile. [9] Dimensions: mid-eye to mid-eye angle: approx 1 degree of arc. [10] Wiki Commons categorisation: 'Category:Pereidolia clouds'.
Short title	A gaze from a great distance: The Lord of the Clouds is staring directly at YOU (a tiny crop of a much larger image)
JPEG file comment	Prepared for release to Wiki Commons with the help of 'ExifTool.exe'. Many thanks.
Width	7,952 px
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Compression scheme	Deflate (Adobe)
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Orientation	Normal
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Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Lightroom Classic 11.4.1 (Win) / Adobe Photoshop 23.4.1 (Win)
File change date and time	20:27, 31 July 2022
Exposure Program	Manual
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Date and time of digitizing	07:16, 28 July 2022
APEX shutter speed	10.287712287712
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APEX brightness	10
APEX exposure bias	−1.33
Maximum land aperture	2 APEX (f/2)
Metering mode	Pattern
Light source	Other light source
Flash	Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression
Color space	Uncalibrated
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Focal plane resolution unit	3
File source	Digital still camera
Scene type	A directly photographed image
Custom image processing	Normal process
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White balance	Manual white balance
Digital zoom ratio	1
Focal length in 35 mm film	25 mm
Scene capture type	Standard
Contrast	Normal
Saturation	Normal
Sharpness	Normal
IIM version	4
Keywords	Cloud, sky, eyes, stare, gaze, double, crop, blue eyes
Lens used	Zeiss E 25mm F2
Contact information	Dortmund, , Germany
Date metadata was last modified	22:27, 31 July 2022
Unique ID of original document	F91699564965A4B23085E9EFBAAB799E

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