Category Archives: Photography

This image and this this one are very likely to make your eyes water. You’ve been warned!

Amazing photograph on APOD today. It looks like someone was flying over the moon to take it with mars rising over the horizon. Wow!

And very nice this plugin is too!

This is a great photograph and description of how it was done. Cool!

This simple tutorial is a good introduction to the workflow involved when editing images. I like the author’s idea of adding more sky!

Neatimage has been mentioned a lot on The Sony Talk Forum but it only works in Windows. I searched for GIMP related solutions to the problem of digital camera noise. There’s a couple of good sites out there! 🙂

So, I had a few minutes to spare at lunchtime and took to reading a few articles on street photography.
I’ll hopefully post more tomorrow..

I walked from Bennigans on Michigan Avenue up to the John Hancock Building. Unfortunately, that was way too far as I meant to go over to Navy pier and meet Martina. I backtracked along the lakeshore and it was a nice evening..

This is the old Carbide & Carbon Building, dating back to 1928. The tower on this building has real gold leaf on it!

This is the view looking south along North Michigan Avenue.

This is taken from the side of the Wrigley Building. It’s almost 90 degrees to the prvious photo. This photo was hard to work on. Auto-levels wanted to add a green hue to the sky. so I manually adjusted it somewhat.

When I finally found my way to Navy Pier I wandered up the pier hoping to get a shot of the City Skyline. Alas, boats were moored, but I got a shot of this sailing ship against the bright lights of the city.

The Sony Talk forum has a thread on taking photographs of fireworks. With the 4th July coming up I’m sure there’s plenty of people in the US interested in this. I’ll certainly have my camera on the Lake Front to capture the spectacle in Chicago!
Basic idea: Get a tripod, F5.0 – F8.0, couple of shutter speeds from 2 seconds up to 10.