Author name: Arcterex

Welcome to 2006

Wow, a new year. 2006… oooohhhhh…. So what’s been going on lately? Christmas was relatively quiet. My family was all out of town in various warm places and/or not rainy places, so we spent time at home. It actually worked out well because I had some contract work to do, so being home was the […]

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More Photo Retouching

The Art of Retouching, another good site to see just how different you can get those sexy airbrushed girls in the magazines to look before they are airbrushed. Pretty insane just how different the original version of what you look at in magazines as the “accepted” normal look is. Also seeing what parts they make

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Overheard from Alan Programming

“My god, I think that actually works!” foreach my $id ( keys %$hr ) { my $d = $hr->{$id}; if( $d->{parent_id} == 0 ) { $hr->{$id}->{top} = $d->{pagename}; } elsif( $hr->{$d->{parent_id}}->{parent_id} == 0 ) { $hr->{$id}->{top} = $hr->{$d->{parent_id}}->{pagename}; } elsif( $hr->{$hr->{$d->{parent_id}}->{parent_id}}->{parent_id} == 0 ) { $hr->{$id}->{top} = $hr->{$hr->{$d->{parent_id}}->{parent_id}}->{pagename}; } } In case anyone is wondering,

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What Do I Want for Christmas?

Regardless of my previous post of my wishlist, I really have no idea what I want for Christmas. I was out this evening with Firefly (had to drop by the office to get some files, hit the bank and whatnot) and we went Christmas shopping. She kept on asking me what I wanted, and I

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My Amazon Wishlist

For those wondering what to get me for Christmas, feel free to check out the wishlist over at amazon.ca. Course, some of this stuff may already be bought, and some (ie: camera books) probably are ahead of others (allo allo series). Honestly I have no idea what I want that’s afforable by humans… still waiting

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Are You a Professional Photographer

A really nice way of looking at professional photography I found in the forums: If you worry about equipment, you’re an amateur, If you worry about money, you’re a professional, If you worry about the light, you’re a master :o) Well put! (Especially for someone (me) who has been contemplating how the heck to move

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Photoshop Retouching

At a Christmas party on Saturday I met up with a guy who has a photo studio in Surrey and mentioned I did a shoot with a friend of mine in Squamish. He asked me to send up some of the pictures, original and retouched…. anyway, I’d seen this Photoshop Retouching link a few days

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