Tag Archives: Photography

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 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 – nice colouring!

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.

Hidden Pictures – Look carefully!

This short essay contains a few gems for budding photographers. Thanks Damien for the link!

Be A Storyteller, Not Just A Picture Taker – tell a story with your photography and make things more interesting.