Tag Archives: Photography

Walter’s been busy messing with the GIMP and scheme! His script is a handy way to interlace an image. Must have a look later!

Picture of the Day from Photosig for me -> Postcard from Venice

Via the GIMP User Mailing List.. I’d give K Image Database a go but I’m too lazy to go beyond naming directory names! *shrug* Looks nice though!

Here we go again, backups backups backups! Mike Johnston, the Sunday Morning Photographer has an article on Finding The Best CDRs. I think most useful comment from the entire piece is the follow..

But I think that if all discs were marked in the store on an A to F scale for permanence, the market might speak differently.

Wow! This critique made me sit back and think. I dragged my camera around town on Saturday afternoon and while I didn’t get any great shots Luis’ words were ringing in my ears. Thanks, much appreciated!

There’s lots of “picturesque”, risk-free, sentimental images….that look like a standardized catalog of themes I can only characterize as “safe” and “pleasant”. They confirm, but do not challenge the average viewer’s expectations of the world.

Death in the Afternoon – bullfighting still persists in some areas of Spain, and while I don’t agree with it, it’s a huge part of Spanish culture. Michael Reichmann, the author, has posted some great photos in this article, but please don’t read it if the subject at hand bothers you!
I do love this photo however, and it’s safe material to view!

I must admit I haven’t a clue what the author of this article means when he says, ‘Ever wonder how to turn your $1500 DSLR into a $10 Holga? Well a “lensbaby” is one way!’ but I presume he meant to ask if you want out of focus, soft, photos that show ugly defects? To each his own, and I have to admit the photos of the flowers are pretty! 🙂

I tend to over-expose my photos, especially in bright light as I use the LCD At the back of the camera more than that digital viewfinder. What looks like a dark image there turns out to be a beautiful exposed portrait of a scene!
This article is going to be useful, although I don’t know if I’d have the patience to follow everything there!
I’ve already started shooting at -1 EV and it helps. Many over-exposure problems can be solved in post-processing but when it’s way over-blown, well, bye bye detail!

While I completely forgot about the lunar eclipse on Tuesday night (I remembered at 11:30pm when I was locking the back door and looked out at the clear dark sky!), APOD has a great photo mosaic of the event!

This Slashdot discussion touches on a subject I’ve covered before and is close to my heart. What’ll happen to all my photos when I die? Will anyone be interested enough to look through them? At least they’re in dated folders, many with descriptions, so my grand-kids won’t be wondering if that hot blond in the photos was gran..