Photography

A few shots I’ve taken recently which I’m pretty happy with: Comments, critisism, appreciated. I posted these to the forums a bit ago and got some good feedback there, both positive and negative 🙂

DPReview had a nice little review of Adobe Photoshop CS2. Good read.

Long time, been very busy lately, and will update soon, but in the meantime here’s a couple of my favs from a photoshoot in the garden last night. The color is a little off, in real life the rose is more purple than red, but my whitebalance just didn’t seem to want to believe me,

A really nice workflow for creating really nice black and white images from a digial photo.

Neat article/comparison of the native canon RAW conversion software to dcraw, the free alternative. It calls dcraw an Excellent RAW Image Converter and shows some pretty shocking examples of how bad the Canon software is (or at least, the author claims it to be) and has a nifty little .bat file to help with the

VERBA.chromogenic.net: Become Your Own Lab For $49.38. Seriously cool tutorial for those developing (or wanting to develop) their own Black and White film. I have a roll in dad’s Bessa right now…. hmm…… Via CameraHacks

< ul> Zone System at luminous landscapes Tonal quality and dynamic range The first link is really good at explaining things, and after reading it I finally understand the quote “Expose for the shadows; develop for the highlights.”

Bill in the forums was kind enough to post his list of photoshop links. So far my favorite is this luminous landscape contrast enhancement tip. Unsharp mask 20/50/0, and it seems to work pretty well. Sweet!

Linky: he Analog Photography Users Group. Cool.

Thanks to ScoobyD for pointing out this Photo Contests page. Very cool stuff there.