Author Archives: Donncha

Here’s a couple of interesting digital camera hacks. The first one, an explanation of how the camera histogram works, is something I kept meaning to learn about for a while now!

What you want to be leery of is when the graph information bunches up on one side or another. A graph heavy to the left usually indicates underexposure with the image appearing dark (move exposure compensation to +1). If everything is scooted over to the right, that often indicates overexposure with blown highlights and washed out shadows and midtones (move exposure compensation to -1).

Later… There’s another 10 hacks on the book sample page!

Mark Goldstein described this article as informative and opionated and it certainly fits both those categories! Take it with a pinch of salt.
I can’t wait until The STF stumbles across it!

I just love the silhouette used as the main photograph in this essay shot in Spain. Shooting in the rain isn’t something I normally do. I don’t want my camera getting wet!
Maybe if I had someone to hold my umbrella.. any takers? 🙂

Walter’s been busy messing with the GIMP and scheme! His script is a handy way to interlace an image. Must have a look later!

Picture of the Day from Photosig for me -> Postcard from Venice

Via the GIMP User Mailing List.. I’d give K Image Database a go but I’m too lazy to go beyond naming directory names! *shrug* Looks nice though!

Here we go again, backups backups backups! Mike Johnston, the Sunday Morning Photographer has an article on Finding The Best CDRs. I think most useful comment from the entire piece is the follow..

But I think that if all discs were marked in the store on an A to F scale for permanence, the market might speak differently.

Wow! This critique made me sit back and think. I dragged my camera around town on Saturday afternoon and while I didn’t get any great shots Luis’ words were ringing in my ears. Thanks, much appreciated!

There’s lots of “picturesque”, risk-free, sentimental images….that look like a standardized catalog of themes I can only characterize as “safe” and “pleasant”. They confirm, but do not challenge the average viewer’s expectations of the world.