Cheap Ring Flash

Cool tutorial on how to Build your own Ring flash (via strobist). From what i see you basically you mount a flash pointing into a cereal box which has had the insides covered in tinfoil, and direct the light out in a circle cut in the cardboard that your lens is poking through. Pics and

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Memories of OS/2

OSNews reports that OS/2 is 20 years old today. Wow, that makes me feel ooooold. My first experience with OS/2 was the 2.0 version (I think) around the end of highschool. According to Wikipedia 2.0 was released in 1992, so that’s about right. I think I remember going with Fred to go over to someone’s

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Snow Snow Everywh–what??

Like Darren did, we got snow last night. Unlike Darren though, I don’t live in the frozen north. Luckily it didn’t extend far past home, and wasn’t more than a bit of slush on the car, and I’m pretty sure there won’t be any evidence of it when I get home. Still, crazy weather. Dang

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HDR Blending Tutorial

Found a link to a nice HDR tutorial from one of the forums. Not unlike the bevy of other tutorials on the subject, with the one exception being that instead of a straight gradient on the layer mask (to simulate a split density filter), the HDR Blend Tutorial by Roman Johnston uses a select by

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