Photography

B&H Web Photo School has 15 different sections with some interesting info in each for multiple subjects.

A link for later Color Management and ICC Profiles document from Canon.

Not info on taking pictures of the moon, but instead how to take pictures of subjects illuminated by moonlight.

This is a nifty little hack… picturetile.pl is a perl script that utilizes perl imagemagick magic and does something similar to the iPhoto life poster, but in perl. Cool stuff.

For future reference, Bojidar Dimitrov’s Pentax K-Mount Equipment Page is an excellent resource for Pentax information. Also, I just discovered Yarda’s page of lens tests and comparisons. I’m quite glad I got the 16-45 instead of the sigma 18-125 after seeing results like these.

Figured in a day of linking to other photo sites I should show off my spoils. Here are a couple that I grabbed after work this evening on the Matsqui flats. Not sure which one I like best though. $teacher has been talking about landscape + hyperfocal + vertical + low to the ground =

For my own reading later: Digital Zone System with Pentax ist D (ist-D) zone system cheat sheet The Simplified Zone System Spot Metering

Wow, I can’t wait until I can take pictures like this.

Some great inspiration over at dg28.com and some wonderful examples of different techniques when taking portraits. Via the D70 forum at dpreview.com

I have to say I have a lot more understanding of scanning and what it takes to make a print from a negative these days. Basically was up till something like 2:30am last night as I finally hit my stride in the negative scanning I’ve been trying to get to. I’ve only (after spending a