I figured out a handy trick for making dodge/burns more natural. Blur the layer containing your burn/dodge work which will remove any distracting marks!
Maybe I should write a small tutorial on that one..
It’s not just your camera, it’s your technique.
The letters mentioned here point that out:
Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own.
Someone posted a link to their first wedding job to the Canon EOS forum on dpreview.
The Wedding Photojournalist Assoc. was suggested later as a source of inspiration because those photos are so important to the client, they have to be perfect!
This is only one of many shots I took today. I’ll post more over the next few days including photos of the Mini Marathon too!
Later.. This image was selected as photo of the day at Digital Photography Blog!
Dcraw is an amazing open source app that decodes many RAW formats to a more usable format for computer manipulation. It’s used by many commercial programs including Google’s Picassa!
It outputs pnm files, but with a little command line magic it can be used to convert a directory of RAW files to Jpeg.
Canon cameras produce RAW files with the extension “.cr2” so:
for i in *.cr2; do dcraw -c -a -n -h $i | ppmtojpeg > `basename $i cr2`jpg; echo $i done; done
This produces low quality jpeg images alongside your RAW images which makes it useful when browsing the directory with a file manager that doesn’t understand RAW.
You could have the camera produce the low quality jpeg images but why sacrifice the space on your media card?
It goes without saying that this will work on any UNIX platform that Dcraw supports!
The Ladies mini marathon is to take place tomorrow at 2pm. Last year it started from Grand Parade so I presume it’ll start there again. I’ll be there at 1, who else is going? Photo.net has a few related articles:
Photo is a little warped because I used the GIMP perspective tool to change the viewpoint from street level to that about 10 feet in the air!