Photography – Page 32 – Something Odd!

Horse

Today I took delivery of a new Canon 75-300 IS USM lens. It’s a nice zoom lens, although seemingly slated by everyone who has used more expensive lenses. That seems to be par for the course – the lenses I can afford aren’t up to much apparently.
On the way home I took a few photos of horses in a nearby field. Here’s one I liked..
Here’s a 100% crop fron the photo below. The shot out of the camera is a little soft but hover over the photo to see what effect a simple unsharp mask does for the sharpness of the image.

Haunted Photo

The story accompanying this photo is creepy! Photo is great too! I don’t think I’d have gone back there if I’d known it was haunted!

Image Theft – Protect your photographic work

About.com discuss Image Theft and ways of detering users from stealing from your site.
The simplest way IMO is not publishing hi-res versions of your photos!

Enhance your photos by using the High Pass Filter

Interesting technique here for sharpening images. The GIMP has a high pass filter too so I’ll give this a go later!

The Canon 20D has arrived!

The Canon 20D finally arrived from Tecknikdirect.de after a week in transit! As Ryan found out earlier, the manuls are in German but you can download English manuals (and firmware updates) from Canon’s site. (Damn, it uses an Adobe Reader 6.0 watermark feature. Grrr. Nothing shows up in gpdf except “COPY”)
Check out this page of the dpreview review of the Canon 20D. It lists all the controls and functions available in the different modes. That’ll keep me going for a short while!
Here’s an example picture. It’s a lot more saturated than I expected but I had a polarizer filter on the lens. WB was auto.

Night Tree

Night Tree – nice colouring!

Funny?

This is supposed to be funny but these series of photos titled, Break Time at the Nike Factory are frightening – that a shild would be comfortable enough with cigarettes to light one and handle one with confidence.