Category Archives: Photography

I link to this tutorial not because of the method which uses Panotools that I could never get my head around, but because of the fearsome picture of the “Ten-Lined June Beetle”! *shudder*
Enblend – Panorama generating tool. One to try later.

This short guide is useful if you’re starting out in digital photography. I’ll have to try his sharpening suggestions as I usually use the following when sharpening images for this site: Radius 0.1, Amount 0.50, Threshold 4

In this Ask Slashdot Question, like so many others, the question/headline is misleading. It asks about scanning slides, and no matter what type of OS you use, if you use cheap hardware you’re not going to get great results. Still, take a look at the comments for more.

Pictured at the Lough on Sunday evening.

It’s amazing what can be done with the clone tool on photo!

Nice, this DIY flash bouncer looks great. Something to try later.

Garret’s busy with his 20D this week. He’s taking portraits, something I’d like to do more off, luckily, here’s some tutorials to get me started.
He linked to this Carier Bresson article too. To read..

Now, how do I justify spending €2000 on a camera and lens kit to myself? No, seriously – how? 😉

On a foggy day familiar things looks strange. I love the stark contrast between black and white on days such as these and especially by a body of water the difference is very pronounced!

I came across the site PhotoJournalism by Mark Hancock several days ago and this afternoon read a few of his posts. He offers some great advice and writes well on the subject of photography, here’s a few of his recent works:

• Gain trust for protraits
• Soften artifical light
• What is focus?
• Have dark corners