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The New York City Skyline
Here’s a very impressive New York Panorama via Daily Web Thing. Nice!
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Noise Reduction the Open Source way
What are your options when you don’t run Windows or Mac and/or don’t want to use proprietary software? Niklas Saers covers some of the options in this blog post. Thanks to him, I learned about ISO Noise Reduction, a GIMP plugin, which I’ll give a try tomorrow. I usually use DCAM Noise, or selective blur…
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Blue Moon
Blue Moon Detail from a decorative earring, laid out on a newspaper. Aperture ƒ/2.8 Camera DMC-FZ5 Focal length 6mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/8s
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Stock photography? Is that a bad word?
Interesting thread on the EOS forums on stock photography websites. I’m a member of both Shutterstock and I Stock Photo but I haven’t been very persistent in uploading photos. After all the trouble one goes to to become a member it’s worth remembering to upload stuff sometimes!
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The Bride and Groom
The Bride and Groom On the weekend that we had our pre-marriage course, a wedding was held in the Honan Chapel in UCC. Here’s the Bride and Groom greeting people after the ceremony. No doubt they’re all partying away in some hotel now! Aperture ƒ/5.6 Camera DMC-FZ5 Focal length 72mm ISO 200 Shutter speed 1/400s
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Black & White Recipes
Here’s a long list of channel mixer settings to emulate various black & white films. I used the high contrast setting for the photo below but the different types of film create interesting effects. It’s worth checking them out, but don’t get hung up on them – one setting will suit one particular type of…
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Bird Feeding
Bird Feeding
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Maze
Maze
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Get your camera books here!
Ted Leung offers advice on what camera books to buy. I’ve read two of them, both books by Bryan Peterson: Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera Learning to See Creatively I have to echo Ted’s sentiments. “Understanding Exposure” was an eye opener for me, but “Learning to see…
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Canon 5D Gotcha?
Michael Tapes has found what could be a major problem for advanced users of the new Canon 5D. It has a “custom settings” function that records a set of parameters such as aperture and EV so they’re available with the flick of a switch. The problem occurs when you’re shooting in custom mode but change…
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Why DSLRs trump Digicams
Or to put it more clearly, why entry level digital SLRs are better than their similarly priced competition in the bridge camera range. As usual, Paul writes very well on a topic that will probably have many people juggling with choices this Christmas: buy a DSLR or an SLR look-a-like digital camera. I have to…
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The Lough Lights
The Lough Lights Cars and buses light up the road as they pass by The Lough