Archive For The “Photography” Category
We went to see the Gypsy Kings play in Cork last night. It was a great concert but we were slightly disappointed that they didn’t play their older stuff that we knew better. Still, they got the crowd hopping, and I’ve never seen such a mix of young and old at one concert!
A recent thread on the GIMP User mailing list asked about why previews are so small, and why the “main window” preview isn’t available everywhere. Replies were soon forthcoming. It seems that plugins can’t preview their changes in the main window, but built-in tools can. Carol Spears even offered a small tutorial explaining how you [...]
First of the RAW images I took over the weekend at Sherkin Island. Forgive the grain, this was shot at ISO 400 under difficult light and the gull was flying directly outside our hotel room! So far I’ve imported a few photos into the GIMP using UFraw and to be honest I don’t think shooting [...]
Good overview of wide angle lenses available for DSLRs. Expensive though, anyone want to buy the Canon 10-22 for me?
Here’s a long thread which has almost convinced me that I should shoot RAW this weekend. If I wanted to batch process I can probably do something like this: for i in *.cr2 do dcraw -c $i | ppmtojpeg > `basename $i .cr2`.jpg done RAW files are known to be much bigger. File sizes? $ [...]
I’ve steered clear of RAW photography for some time. Maybe it’s the extra few steps required to get a finished product, or the very large file size, or just that “it’s not jpeg!” I changed the quality mode on my 20D to RAW this afternoon and was shocked when it told me that I could [...]
Issue 34 of “Digital Photographer” magazine has a great feature on cityscapes. One of the photos in it is very similar to one I took while I was in Chicago a few weeks ago.. Canon 20D, 1/4 sec, f/3.5, 18mm, ISO 1600. Hand held The shot in Digital Photographer.
