Photography

Very cool, a post on Linuxart pointed me to the the classes over at http://www.morguefile.com/. It looks like it goes from the “standard” stuff from the quick look I took, rule of thirds, get closer… no closer… no… closer still, all the way into studio lighting, portraits, etc. Lots of good stuff, with example images […]

A few days ago I made a lovely new lens aquisition, curtesy of my dad (provider of all things photographic), a pentax f2.8/28mm lens. Very nice. I’ve taken a few shots over the last couple of days, a test film if you will, but so far it seems very nice. Not as sharp as I

Making Fingerprints is a pretty nice overview, both high and low level, of digial photography, editing, printing, etc.

Anyone who has worked with image processing software has seen the terms “Interpolation” or “Resampling” or “Bicubic” or such like. Well, maybe you have or maybe you haven’t I guess. Anyway, found a page with a relatively good explanation about what they are and how they work, with examples. Clicky Clicky: Resampling and Interpolation Demystified?

One of the things that is on the list of stuff to fix at the house was correcting the big bump in the floor. This involved FireflyBro bashing out supporting beams, hoping the house didn’t fall down, cutting or shaving as needed, and putting the beams back in. Got a couple of good shots of

In a fantastic example of keeping it’s citizens free from harm, the Ministry of Truth has once again fended off a potential Terrorist by kicking some random guy taking pictures off the street. He’s lucky they didn’t truck him down to the Ministry of Justice for doing such evil deeds as taking pictures around and

A nice article on creating panoramic views using Hugin, Enblend and The Gimp appeared on LinuxFocus.org, which shows pretty much what the title says. Not a complete look at all the tools available I don’t think, but it has the major ones. I’ve never heard of enblend as well, have to go and check that

Jimmac has posted yet another excellent tutorial on boosting shadows using the gimp. It’s an AVI and shows some neat tricks with layer masking and levels.

Found an interesting article written by a lady on Working for Nation Geographic Magazine and what goes into those 22 pictures that you see in their articles. Another oldie but goodie is the Sports Illustrated Workflow article, not sure if I’ve posted it before.

One of the issues that comes up a lot in the Pentax Talk forum is the much-lambasted topic of “exposure latitude”…. how much range from dark to light can a digital camera (the *ist-D in particular) grab compared to $other_camera_or_system. Someone posted about this again tonight and one of the responses pointed to Is slide