https://minimal.org.uk/categories/photography/ Recent content in photography on minimal.org.uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb ian Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21:31:57 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2018/12/02/monochrome-and-colour-infrared-images/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 21:31:57 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2018/12/02/monochrome-and-colour-infrared-images/ Up until today, I’ve been shooting near-infrared images on an IR modified Fuji X100 (after a short, painful dalliance with a modified 20D) which was converted via a full-spectrum (minus UV) conversion: the hot filter was replaced with UV opaque glass meaning that the camera can be used as normal with an external hot filter mounted, or with any choice of IR frequency filter applied. I had chosen to use an 830nm-ish filter and convert the result into monochrome in camera (as there’s little normal colour information left) and for additional contrast, it’s often a B&W+R setting in camera so any clear blue skies are rendered almost black – there’s loads of examples in the gallery https://minimal.org.uk/2016/04/01/new-obsession-nik-clouds/ Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:54:36 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2016/04/01/new-obsession-nik-clouds/ Earlier this year I had been considering buying Nik just for the Silver Efex Pro 2 editor, but as usual I couldn’t decide if my rework would be that much improved by new toys compared to just learning to use what I already have, and so didn’t go shopping. For some reason, Google rewarded me (and a few others besides) by making the Nik Collection free to download and I’ve since spent a large number of hours just clicking through the presets and seeing what comes up. https://minimal.org.uk/2015/10/08/hasselblad-xpan-canon-style/ Thu, 08 Oct 2015 22:25:00 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2015/10/08/hasselblad-xpan-canon-style/ Looking at old tech (although in this case, actually relatively recent tech) has drawbacks when it opens up a new level of obsession… I naturally gravitate towards wide-angle lenses and have been playing around with multi-image stitches recently to get wider, more detailed images, but after watching Kai use a Hasselblad Xpan in this video, I found that the aspect ratio of a dual 35mm film frame was very, very attractive. https://minimal.org.uk/2014/02/28/aurora-hunting-in-southern-england/ Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:56:47 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2014/02/28/aurora-hunting-in-southern-england/ Not a normally fruitful exercise, but yesterday (27th Feb) a Kp 6 event hit well after sundown, just before a new moon and when the sky was virtually cloudless… Impressive alignment ! Sadly, I didn’t know I’d seen one and until I looked carefully at the above image and noticed an odd green patch near the tree – simply by taking pictures because I was out with the camera anyway meant that I didn’t choose my framing or reduce my ISO as much as I would have if I’d known what was going on. https://minimal.org.uk/2013/05/02/fuji-x-pro1-raw-on-os-x/ Thu, 02 May 2013 21:30:49 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2013/05/02/fuji-x-pro1-raw-on-os-x/ Apple recently updated their native OS X RAW decoder to support the X-Trans sensor, and from comparisons of their efforts (original link) appear to have done a very good job for a first public release – it certainly looks like Adobe have placed a software AA filter into the X-Pro1. There are, however still some aspects to work on – it looks like the lens corrections might be a little overdone when compared to the camera native corrections. https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/26/fuji-fan-boy-how-to-look-after-early-x100-owners/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:16:30 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/26/fuji-fan-boy-how-to-look-after-early-x100-owners/ !FujiFilm My 21 month old X100 had been causing me problems since the end of 2012: I just couldn’t seem to master the metering and assumed that I had more to learn about how the camera behaves, but when I reviewed images from a recent from to London, particularly this one on the Embankment, it was obvious that it had developed the Sticky Aperture Blade problem. Part of the reason it took me so long to discover this is that I naturally prefer to stay at the f2. https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/21/new-gallery-again/ Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:12:19 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/21/new-gallery-again/ Time for another make-over: my old gallery subdomain was fine at the time, but has suffered from 5 years of neglect and has become rather dated and annoying when it comes to trying to navigate or show images to others, so now that I have a WordPress theme which supports both gallery and slideshow modes, I shall be reposting some old images along with newer content, but with added WP tags. https://minimal.org.uk/2013/03/26/homemade-hex-grid/ Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:48:05 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2013/03/26/homemade-hex-grid/ I’ve been wanting to make my own hex-grid flash modifiers for a while but was stumped for a reliable and robust mounting system for plastic drinking straws until I came across this post from Instructables. The secret I had been missing ? Silicon sealant… Right, so you’re welcome to just go and read the original, or you can read about the metric version for a Canon Speedlite 430EX below. To cut the straws I took the very simple approach of just chopping them above the first articulated bend, which comes out at around 44mm. https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/11/glenfiddich-and-the-x100/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:58:58 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/11/glenfiddich-and-the-x100/ So having previously raved about how discrete the X100 is and how good it can cope with low-light, here’s a few shots from a recent trip around the Glenfiddich Distillery (no, I’m not linking as they have a stupid age limit on the web site, despite the fact that both my currently under-18 children were welcomed on the real tour with no problems at all). Web-idiots aside, the tour was fascinating anyway: it’s something that should be experienced rather than watched as the range of smells, sounds and temperatures as you are taken through the various stages of the process was quite unexpected. https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/10/why-buy-a-new-camera/ Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:00:55 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/10/why-buy-a-new-camera/ This post is sort of a follow on from last year when I wrote about how great it was to seek out 5 year old hardware as it can give better results than new. Now, just over a year later I’m saying how great it is to buy new: consistency is great, isn’t it? Ok, so silly openings aside, what makes this fascinating to me is that it’s all about the Fuji X100, possibly the most talked about pre-announced digital camera I’ve seen so far, and a camera which I dismissed and ignored mainly due to the huge volume of hype and excitement. https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/05/fuji-x100-slowdown-after-putting-sd-card-in-a-mac-or-ipad/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:05:36 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/05/fuji-x100-slowdown-after-putting-sd-card-in-a-mac-or-ipad/ If you have used an iPad SD card adaptor to review images taken on a Fuji X100, then you may find that the camera is slow to respond or wake from sleep. In my case, I thought the camera had broken as it took 30 seconds to display any data after being turned on, but it turns out that the iPad had created a folder in the root of the SD card, and it was this that was the culprit. https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/04/aperture-shooting-with-multiple-cameras-and-mismatched-clocks/ Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:36:43 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/04/aperture-shooting-with-multiple-cameras-and-mismatched-clocks/ Ok, so I’m not that bothered about my camera’s clock, but when shooting with multiple bodies and one happens to be 55 minutes slow, it’s a jarring experience to review the full set of images in time order. Aperture 3 does have a neat time adjustment tool in Metadata -> Adjust Date and Time that does, as many websites say, allow multiple images to have their time changed. What I hadn’t realised until I needed to do it is that whilst you set an explicit time on your pick of the selection group, the adjustment is applied to each image, not the exact timestamp you’ve just entered. https://minimal.org.uk/2011/08/06/learn-from-my-fail-do-not-clean-a-canon-focussing-screen-with-a-lenspen/ Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:55:37 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2011/08/06/learn-from-my-fail-do-not-clean-a-canon-focussing-screen-with-a-lenspen/ Whilst LensPens and SensorPens work brilliantly on lenses, sensors and mirrors of DSLRs, do not attempt to use one on the focussing screen (the translucent white area above the mirror with the AF point markings on it). The minute particles of cleaning compound will remove larger items of dirt, but in the process they are small enough to get lodged in the fine fresnel markings etched into the screen, resulting in an almost soot like coating. https://minimal.org.uk/2011/06/03/canon-5d-and-speedlite-430ex/ Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:22:21 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2011/06/03/canon-5d-and-speedlite-430ex/ From an evening spent messing around with Custom Function (CFn) settings on the 5D and 430EX, here’s a summary of behaviours: 5D 1st curtain (CFn.15=0) 5D 2nd curtain (CFn.15=1) 430EX 1st curtain E-TTL mode 5 pin connection Pre-1st curtain metering flash11st curtain main flash Pre-1st curtain metering flash11st curtain main flash 430EX 2nd curtain E-TTL mode 5 pin connection Pre-1st curtain metering flash12nd curtain main flash Pre-1st curtain metering flash12nd curtain main flash 430EX 1st curtain Manual mode 5 pin connection No metering flash 1st curtain main flash No metering flash 1st curtain main flash 430EX 2nd curtain Manual mode 5 pin connection No metering flash 2nd curtain main flash No metering flash 2nd curtain main flash 430EX 1st curtain Manual or E-TTL mode 1 pin connection No metering flash 1st curtain main flash No metering flash 1st curtain main flash 430EX 2nd curtain Manual or E-TTL mode 1 pin connection No metering flash 1st curtain main flash No metering flash 1st curtain main flash 1NB: The metering flash is a short burst from the main flash tube, and so is a very noticeable white light (indistinguishable from a proper flash firing if in front of the camera) and not a pulse from the red AF unit. https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/19/why-buy-a-5-year-old-camera/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:14:38 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/19/why-buy-a-5-year-old-camera/ I probably should have started my 5D blogging with this post, but it’s only just dawned on me that it might not be a common thing for people to choose to do… When I started shooting with my 20D I was impressed with it’s low-light ability compared to 35mm film but after the novelty of changing ISO between shots wore off, I naturally started experimenting with ISO 1600, H (ISO 3200) and also H-2 (two stops under exposure, on the basis that shooting in RAW mostly allows up to 2 stops of recovery in post). https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/14/new-secondhand-camera-dealer-recommendations/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:36:37 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/14/new-secondhand-camera-dealer-recommendations/ I was intending to mention the dealers I bought the second hand gear from, mainly because the descriptions and packaging were excellent and they deserve to be credited, but I’ve also been asked a few more general photography purchasing related questions today and so have decided to compile a list of all the places I’ve had good service from in the past: Ffordes Photographic Based in Scotland, and used multiple times by my Dad for 2nd hand Contax lenses and more recently by me for the Canon 5D body. https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/13/full-frame-dslr-depth-of-field-and-vignetting/ Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:59:58 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/13/full-frame-dslr-depth-of-field-and-vignetting/ I’ve recently become the (very happy) owner of a second hand Canon EOS 5D, and despite the camera being 5 years old this year the difference between it and my previous Canon EOS 20D is stunning. One unexpected change was the difference in the depth of field at any given f-stop between a full-frame and APS-C sensor: take a look at this review page for a clear summary, but that (like the dimensions of a mobile phone) didn’t mean much until I started shooting with it. https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/01/european-court-rejects-home-office-appeal-section-44-found-illegal/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:50:41 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2010/07/01/european-court-rejects-home-office-appeal-section-44-found-illegal/ Well this was well buried in the normal media: European Court rejects Home Office appeal, Section 44 found illegal – British Journal of Photography. Excellent news, and not a moment too soon considering the latest inane activities in Romford: Young photojournalist detained for army cadet pics – British Journal of Photography. I can only hope that the lack of a formal complaint to date is due to potentially deeper legal action based on the European Court ruling. https://minimal.org.uk/2009/08/29/aperture-214-hack/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:24:51 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/08/29/aperture-214-hack/ Tweak the Info.plist if required in order to remove or reduce the CPU MHz limit, and then open up /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture file in 0xED and jump to the offset 0x6f9a80 and change the text in right hand pane from performRequirementsCheck to performLicenceCheck and then add five hex 0x00 in the left hand pane to make the strings equal length. https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/19/aperture-213-hack/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:47:58 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/19/aperture-213-hack/ New version – new offset. Things are getting trickier now as I only have one machine that needs this hack, and that doesn’t have a live network connection which slows down the whole process somewhat. Having said that, tweak the Info.plist if required in order to remove or reduce the CPU MHz limit, and then open up /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture file in 0xED and jump to the offset 0x6f7bfc and change the text in right hand pane from performRequirementsCheck to performLicenceCheck and then add five hex 0x00 to make the strings equal length. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/09/27/take-a-colour-iq-test/ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:41:11 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/09/27/take-a-colour-iq-test/ Wow – this is actually quite hard, especially during the first cup of coffee on a morning: Take the test For the record, I scored 10, where zero was the best for my age range (sob !) but the worst a rather startling 1464. I can’ t even blame my monitor colour depth, although it might be an excuse for a calibration device… Hmm… (From The-Digital-Picture. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/06/11/luminous-landscape-do-sensors-outresolve-lenses/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:36:35 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/06/11/luminous-landscape-do-sensors-outresolve-lenses/ I had been wondering why I don’t seem to be drawn to photography magazines very much – I had assumed that sites like Flickr had quenched my desire to look at other people’s images, and unless I had a large amount of spare money, equipment reviews tend to loose their appeal after a while. Then I read this: Do Sensors “Outresolve” Lenses?: http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/resolution.shtml Wow. It’s got about as much to do with photography as metallurgy has to do with driving a car: engine blocks aren’t often the subject of much thought when going on holiday, but go and talk to an F1 designer for a while and it’ll soon become apparent that what you do with the car and how you build the engine matter. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/05/26/photojojo-aperture-keyboard-skins/ Mon, 26 May 2008 10:06:47 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/05/26/photojojo-aperture-keyboard-skins/ Photojojo – The Fastest Way to Learn Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop, Aperture, FCP, and more: http://photojojo.com/content/buy-this/photoshop-keyboard-skins/ This looks interesting: a fairly reasonably priced set of silicon overlays for various Apple laptops and current keyboards (and, for that matter, more than just Aperture). The layouts are tailored for US keyboards, so I sent a message via Photojojo’s feedback page asking if they had any plans for a UK layout Aperture skin for the slim Aluminium keyboard. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/28/aperture-21-hack/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:17:24 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/28/aperture-21-hack/ This one isn’t mine: Michal was so quick off the mark I haven’t even downloaded the update yet 🙂 this time performLicenseCheck is @ 6F2B0C Thanks very much for the speedy update ! https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/05/aperture-201-hack/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:51:06 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/03/05/aperture-201-hack/ This is pretty much the same as the original Aperture 2 trial hack, but with a different offset for the binary once it’s been installed. Follow the previous instructions but change the offset for the start of the performRequirementsCheck string to be 6dcd44 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/27/aperture-world-tour-just-like-the-world-series/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:25:28 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/27/aperture-world-tour-just-like-the-world-series/ Update: 09mar08 Ok, fixed. Not sure when this changed, but each city now has its own registration link. I had been going to let this pass, but seeing as there’s no change after three days I think it needs to be at least pointed out… Apple have announced an Aperture World Tour to show off Aperture 2 worldwide. Excellent: they include London, so I’ll click on the Reserve Your Seat link and I’ll book one for myself… https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/15/aperture-2-trial-hack/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:53:05 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/02/15/aperture-2-trial-hack/ Update: 18feb08 My original hack required multiple edits in order to get the program to run, but Michal has found a far better method that just means a single change is required – I’ve reproduced it here from his comments and email so it’s easy to see what to do. Update: 04mar08 At the request of hydr0, I’ve added screen shots of the application to demonstrate what zero-padding is – click on the image to view the whole application window grab if you require more context. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/12/01/published/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:28:36 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/12/01/published/ Cambridge – Sights & Attractions – Abbey: http://www.schmap.com/cambridge/sights_abbey/#p=122574&i=122574_4.jpg A picture of mine, on another site ! Well, ok: it’s not the first one, as Ivan’s had of mine one on his homepage for ages, but Schmap found this one on Flickr and asked to use it: one of the very few times that unsolicited email is genuine and has a pleasant result. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/26/aperture-156-hack/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:15:50 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/26/aperture-156-hack/ Now I haven’t actually got around to trying find these myself: 1.5.4 was working just fine for me and I couldn’t see anything that the 1.5.6 update would give me until I get OS X 10.5 (and that’s not likely until Aperture is properly supported there[1]) but others have found this information and posted them in the old 1.5.2 and 1.5.4 threads, so I thought it would be helpful to make a more Google friendly URL. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/19/gloves-for-photography/ Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:18:20 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/19/gloves-for-photography/ Taking pictures in cold weather has always been a little problematical as nice warm gloves don’t really help when fiddling with DSLR settings. One fairly decent solution I found in 2002 was a pair of Windstopper lightweight gloves with a thin leather palm that is just sensitive enough to allow buttons to be felt through them which worked well in Yosemite in the spring with a compact digital camera. Needless to say, this year I manage to loose them (since found in the pockets of an old coat, of course) and so found myself wandering around shops trying to find something similar, and not prohibitively expensive as I’ll probably be doing this on an annual basis when I ‘loose’ these ones too… For some reason, this seasons fashion is for hugely impractical (for camera use) ski gloves, so I’d pretty much decided that I just has to get used to cold hands when my eldest spotted an interesting pair of gloves in my local John Lewis: they are fairly standard looking knitted fingerless gloves with a Thinsulate lining and hence nicely wind proof, at least for the lowlands of Cambridgeshire (-9ft to 480ft ASL) but with an extra pocket (again, lined) stitched to the back of the knuckles that folds down to create a mittens and velcros to the back of the hand when not in use. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/05/10fps-pah-chickenfeed/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:10:07 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/11/05/10fps-pah-chickenfeed/ How about 2000 fps ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm3Zirh-j50 Found via dpreview https://minimal.org.uk/2007/08/10/aperture-154-hack/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:32:13 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/08/10/aperture-154-hack/ As with the previous v1.5.3 tweaks, the Info.plist change for CPU speed (and RAM, if your system needs it) was all that was required to enable my ageing 1GHz 12″ PowerBook to run with v1.5.4, but the MDD Dual 867 machine still needed a tweak. The MDD system is now running a supported graphics card (a Radeon 9800, but don’t worry: it was also hacked from the PC variant), so I don’t have any offsets for getting around the video detection code. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/08/03/chuck-kimmerle-fine-art-photography-from-north-dakota/ Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:14:40 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/08/03/chuck-kimmerle-fine-art-photography-from-north-dakota/ Chuck Kimmerle, fine art photography from North Dakota: http://www.chuckkimmerle.com/deadwoods/photo000.htm Found via John Nack’s blog, these two galleries (particularly the first one) make me want to give up on colour immediately, and spend the rest of my time shooting black & white. Outstanding. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/06/29/max-tyries-hand-made-modest-mouse-video/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:42:37 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/06/29/max-tyries-hand-made-modest-mouse-video/ What to do with 4133 frames of video, a D-SLR and a printer with plenty of ink and paper… Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Video: http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/05/shit_were_diggin_max_tyries_hand_made_mo.html (Via: Photojojo) https://minimal.org.uk/2007/05/10/galleryminimalcx-restyled/ Thu, 10 May 2007 21:41:08 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/05/10/galleryminimalcx-restyled/ gallery.minimal.cx: http://gallery.minimal.cx/ After a few days of PHP brutality, I’ve redesigned the gallery to use my own OSS POTD software, Alder. I aim to have daily updates – some old images and some new ones, with an RSS2 feed that does include the full size images. The software itself will take care of the posting: just feed it a directory full of images and call the script once for each new image. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/04/19/aperture-153-hack/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:16:14 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/04/19/aperture-153-hack/ Update 22apr07: Hex offsets for MDD dual 867MHz now available Ok, things haven’t changed much for machines close to the minimum spec since 1.5.2, so for my 1GHz 12″ PowerBook all I need to edit is the Info.plist file inside the Aperture.app/Contents directory. I changed both the minimum RAM and minimum CPU requirements down to 500MB and 1GHz: <key>AELMinimumRAMSize</key> <string>500</string> and: <key>RKG4LaptopMinimumCPUSpeedMHz</key> <integer>1000</integer> Edit those entries with either a text editor, or the plist editor that comes with the (free) Developer Tools. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/03/16/sensor-klear-from-lenspen-review/ Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:44:03 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/03/16/sensor-klear-from-lenspen-review/ Ok, after using my Lenspen I was ready for the really scary one: the Sensor Klear CCD cleaning pen. Did I buy both at the same time ? Yes. Without knowing if the Lenspen would work ? Yup. That’s because 7 Day Shop were having a sale and the Sensor Klear itself was less than the cost of the P&P for the order… Ok, so I’m about to put something that’s cheaper than the stamps and envelopes for the whole order onto the most delicate portion of my DSLR, and not only expect no damage to result, but expect it to clean as well as a cleaning system costing 15 times as much ? https://minimal.org.uk/2007/03/16/lenspen-review/ Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:46:34 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/03/16/lenspen-review/ Snake oil1. That’s what I had in mind for this product, and to be honest I’d been fooled by the name into thinking that there was something inside that scribbled over the lens/filter and this somehow made it clean. Not even close. Yes, it’s cheap, and in the world of Cameras and Hi-Fi the unspoken rule is that if it hurts to buy it, it’s got to be better than anything that costs less – having seen first hand ‘Best Quality Mains Cables’ being sold at stupid prices by people who have zero knowledge of power supply design I’m cured of the Hi-Fi price/sound lie, but sensor and lens cleaning are still worrisome to me: I want them both clean, but don’t have a working knowledge of what materials are used and how tough they really are. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/02/10/slik-sprint-mini-tripod-review/ Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:24:04 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/02/10/slik-sprint-mini-tripod-review/ After getting my new camera bag, I sold my old one (thanks Andrew !) and got this tripod with the proceeds. Looking at the PDF on the UK distributors site (trust me: you don’t want to bother with the manufacturers site) they indicate that it’s not suitable for SLRs when using long lenses, but the collapsed size is just too good to ignore so I took a mild gamble at bought it anyway: mild in that my current tripod is around 20 years old and is so unstable it’s only marginally better than hand holding (plus it’s now got enough chipped or broken bits that trying to use it quickly results in needing to stop and add plasters to the cuts…) https://minimal.org.uk/2007/02/05/tamrac-adventure-9-review/ Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:24:23 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/02/05/tamrac-adventure-9-review/ Since my last camera bag review seemed to generate so much interest, here’s another one ! Things have changed quite a bit in the last 17 months, and the main issue with my original Lowepro is that it’s no longer large enough for a day out with my family: the primary problem being that my youngest walks everywhere now so we don’t have the extra load space of a pushchair anymore. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/01/18/natural-ufos/ Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:52:43 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/01/18/natural-ufos/ Cloud Shapes: http://pic1.funtigo.com/valuca/?g=25544746&cr=1 Some amazing pictures here (page will take a while to render though) that make UFO stories so much more understandable. Assuming I haven’t been duped by excessive Photoshoppery: the ship heading towards the storm is something straight out of a special effects department. Via John Nack https://minimal.org.uk/2007/01/11/things-to-do-when-youre-ill/ Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:42:30 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/01/11/things-to-do-when-youre-ill/ Sleep. Very nice. What was nicer was waking up in time to go and look for Comet McNaught and actually finding it in time, although I missed out on a better photograph due to running home to get my camera gear and the kids into their wellies to come and see it with me. Colours are messed up (it was a nicer orange/blue sky) as I have attacked the image in Adobe Camera Raw to enhance the tail as much as possible (although you’ll have to trust me that I didn’t use an airbrush to really ‘improve’ it). https://minimal.org.uk/2006/12/12/aperture-152-hack/ Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:02:15 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/12/12/aperture-152-hack/ Update: 15dec06 If you have a PowerBook model with a CPU below 1.25GHz then there’s no need to binary edit this version of Aperture: click on the post title to read the comment from Shane As with all the 1.5 series, this latest update just needs the one change to the binary to function on a 1GHz 12″ PowerBook. The method is the same as for the Aperture 1. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/07/four-free-aperture-15-themes/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:59:11 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/07/four-free-aperture-15-themes/ Not new, but (finally) updated versions of the previous four themes for the new location of the web themes in Aperture 1.5 (and 1.5.1). This version also has a faster installer that simply assumes the program lives in /Applications, and so the whole thing is over in less time than the .dmg file takes to open 🙂 Download the .dmg file https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/03/front-focussing-back-focussing-how-about-doh-focussing/ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:20:49 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/03/front-focussing-back-focussing-how-about-doh-focussing/ Really, this obsession with MTF charts is undoubtedly unhealthy for the wallet but it can also be so all-consuming it confuses solving the most obvious of problems. After getting annoyed with the auto-focus on the 350D and going back to the joys of a ‘proper’ manual lens (Zuiko 135mm with EOS<>OM adaptor) I had then become frustrated with the viewfinder: too small, too dark, too tunnel-like when compared to my aged OM-10 and plainly the cause of all my manual focus woes (being just that little bit wrong when viewed at 100%). https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/02/aperture-151-hack/ Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:27:08 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/11/02/aperture-151-hack/ It’s update time, which means hacking the minimum requirements again. More details on how to actually change the numbers are in the Aperture 1.5 post and comments, but this time I only seemed to need one change to the binary: 0xb8e8: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 and the Info.plist minimum memory requirement had to be adjusted down for me as I only have 768MB on the 12″ PB. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/14/aperture-15-chroma-blur-pros-and-cons/ Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:44:38 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/14/aperture-15-chroma-blur-pros-and-cons/ Aperture seems to have a pretty good set of defaults in the main – it certainly doesn’t get in my way for simple things, but recently I’d been getting upset with the performance of the EOS 350D kit lens (Canon EF-S 18-55mm) where my images just simply looked poorer than I expected. Until recently I’d not been able to use Adobe’s raw convertor, but after a terrible shot of a climbing wall I was really annoyed and on a whim tried the image in PSE3 as well as Aperture. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/02/aperture-15-colour-tool/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:41:31 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/10/02/aperture-15-colour-tool/ I am completely obsessed with the colour tool in the latest point release of Aperture, but it’s got to the point where I’m not sure if I like the results, or clicking the change button on and off and looking at the before and after results… Have a look for yourself and see what you think. The index pages have some description of the images, but looking at the full page views allows a simple before/after click to see the differences. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/30/aperture-15-hack/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:22:31 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/30/aperture-15-hack/ It seems as though the minimum system requirements are still in force in Aperture 1.5, which means that although 1.25GHz PowerBooks are supported, my dual 867GHz MDD isn’t, which is rather odd. Still, the hack for Aperture 1.1 still works on 1.5, but the offsets have (unsurprisingly) moved a little. Using a hex editor (I found 0xed very useful), try changing the following: 0×0b548: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 0×0b5e4: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 0×17390: 40 9E 00 E0 -> 48 00 00 D8 The updated binary has been tested on both an 2GB MDD 867GHz PowerMac and also a 768MB 1GHz 12″ PowerBook, but note that the Info. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/29/photography-techniques-mostly-flash/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:49:33 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/29/photography-techniques-mostly-flash/ I’ve not done much flash work as I never really liked the look it gave the subject when I first tried it, but that was on film (20+ years ago) and I simply couldn’t afford the trial and error learning process. Digital is far better for this sort of experimentation and there’s a couple of sites I’ve read recently that have taught me something useful and are worth trying out. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/22/why-not-to-delete-blurred-photos/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:16:37 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/09/22/why-not-to-delete-blurred-photos/ Being a total Aperture convert, I’ve been amusing (?) myself over the summer trying to get 18,000 or so photos into something like a useable state, but being scattered over 4 hard drives and two computers (with no one drive having enough space for them all, of course) has been an exercise in watching progress bars moving GB of data around. As part of all this I’m correctly tagging, naming and rating images as I get a logical group together, and many images that look good on camera, and occasionally on screen just don’t hold up in terms of sharpness when examined at 1:1, so they’re being classed as Rejects from within Aperture, meaning they effectively vanish from all normal views of my photos. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/15/four-free-aperture-themes/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:57:09 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/15/four-free-aperture-themes/ Update 07nov06: Note that the download here is only for Aperture versions up to (and including) 1.1.2 The location of the themes is different for Aperture 1.5, so view the updated post if you’re using 1.5 or 1.5.1. Well, more variations than true themes, but if you have Aperture I have add a new Stock theme which has a grey background, and also created versions that have a link to a parent directory in the theme itself so it’s a little easier to get at least a one level deep gallery out of the program. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/10/aperture-iptc-autocomplete/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:16:57 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/10/aperture-iptc-autocomplete/ If you are using Aperture and are going through a large collection of older images it’s very nice being able to add IPTC Copyright entries during import. The auto-complete is very handy too, as most of mine have been in a few distinct locations and the saving on typing is very easy to get used to, but I found a problem when I came from adding a load of images from 2005 into 2006: the auto-complete works on an ASCII ascending match rather than most recently used, so by default my Copyright was coming out as ‘Ian Spray, 2005’ which was annoying to correct. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/07/10/minimalist-gallery/ Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:05:15 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/07/10/minimalist-gallery/ After far too long leaving my gallery languishing, it’s now been reborn in a very bare fashion: using (at the moment) Lightroom to caption and edit, and the rather simple to config JAlbum to build the images I have knocked up a mostly CSS (yes, the tables will be going) design that apes the Stock theme from Aperture. Why ? Because it shows the images as the main focus of interest. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/06/06/infrared-basketball/ Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:03:28 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/06/06/infrared-basketball/ Whilst I’m in a positively frenzied posting mood, I’ve ended up emailing this link to more than one person which is the usual indicator of “should have blogged it”. Yes, months after I first read it on Rob Galbraith’s site, here’s a fascinating use of IR photography that just makes me want to get a second camera just to have it converted for full-time use: http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1570 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/05/11/adobe-rgb-are-you-sure-you-know-what-youre-doing/ Thu, 11 May 2006 20:46:49 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/05/11/adobe-rgb-are-you-sure-you-know-what-youre-doing/ In the Canon EOS 350D manual there is a comment next to the colour space menu option description that states: “This setting is not recommended if you do not know about image processing, Adobe RGB, and Design rule for Camera File System 2.0 (Exif 2.21)” To which I had always replied (mentally) “Of course I do”. Ahem. I need to modify that statement to read “Of course I do, under OS X” as it turns out I hadn’t quite done all the config I thought I had. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/03/08/airtight-postcardviewer-download/ Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:03:12 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/03/08/airtight-postcardviewer-download/ AIRTIGHT – PostcardViewer Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/ I meant to mention this a while ago when I was looking at various galleries and it’s a great non-linear way of presenting images, plus it’s free. It just got a lot better for Photoshop users though, as there’s now a script for automatically generating albums. No, it doesn’t work in Elements 3 (I tried !) but there is an iPhoto exporter mentioned which I’ve not had a go with yet. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/02/15/olympus-om-mount-lenses-on-a-canon-eos-350d/ Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:25:23 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/02/15/olympus-om-mount-lenses-on-a-canon-eos-350d/ I’ve had my old OM10 and a selection of lenses (Zuiko 28mm, 50mm and 135mm; Sirius 500m; Vivitar 2x teleconvertor) gathering dust for far too long now: I’ve been kicking myself that I didn’t try to sell everything back in 2000 when we got our first digital camera and I could still have got something for the whole setup, but I’m now rather glad that I didn’t. I really enjoy using my Canon 50mm/f1. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/01/11/lightroom-roundup/ Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:03:28 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/01/11/lightroom-roundup/ I’m sure it’s not possible to own a Mac, shoot in RAW format and not have heard of Adobe’s Lightroom software by now, and there’s no way I’m going to attempt a review when others have had preview releases for months. What I will say is that if you do run OS X 10.4.x and have some RAW files then do go and get the Beta 1 demo – I’ve run it on a 1GHz 12″ PowerBook with 768MB of RAM as well as a dual 867MHz MDD with 2GB and whilst the laptop does really need a few moments to get itself settled into memory (if I’m using anything else then the swapfile does get hit fairly hard) the MDD breezes along. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/01/11/os-x-1044-and-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:03:57 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/01/11/os-x-1044-and-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ As has already been noted, OS X 10.4.4 now supports non-US EOS 350D cameras: I’ve confirmed the European variant, and TK has commented that the Japanese model is also supported. Greg Tebbut sent me an extract of the Raw.plist file, which shows that simple name based aliasing of cameras has now been addressed: <key>Canon-EOS Kiss Digital N</key> <string>Canon-EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT</string> <key>Canon-EOS 350D DIGITAL</key> <string>Canon-EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT</string> <key>Canon-EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT</key> So that’s good news for the future, but what about the decoding ? https://minimal.org.uk/2005/11/05/more-os-x-1043-raw-support/ Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:43:31 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/11/05/more-os-x-1043-raw-support/ I found this in my Inbox this morning from Apple: This is a follow up to Bug ID# 4323918. After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 4325304. So it’s officially a problem now 🙂 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/11/01/make-os-x-1043-understand-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:38:34 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/11/01/make-os-x-1043-understand-canon-eos-350d-raw-files/ Update 11jan06 @ 11:33 OS X 10.4.4 is now available, and fixes this problem. Update 03nov05 @ 12:04: Right, Phil Chapman appears to have sorted out the correct codes for 350D support by utilising values from the Canon PowerShot G6 entry in the Raw.plist file, so rather than post a new entry I’m updating this one so that it shows correct and useful information (the downloadable file has also been updated). https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/21/photosig-review/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:05:41 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/21/photosig-review/ photoSIG: http://www.photosig.com/go/main I’m quite behind the times for many things, and actively critiquing photographs (as well as having others rate mine) is something I’ve been meaning to get around to for the last couple of years. There are lots of places to do this on-line and it’s very tempting to dive into the first new site that offers such features in order to have your images up when there are few to comapre it to, and few harsh reviews are written in order to ensure the site stays healthy. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/19/curves-and-other-goodies-for-photoshop-elements-photo-tips-earthbound-light/ Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:21:27 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/19/curves-and-other-goodies-for-photoshop-elements-photo-tips-earthbound-light/ Curves (and Other Goodies) for Photoshop Elements – Photo Tips @ Earthbound Light: http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-elements-curves.html Wow. It does just workTMtoo. The downside being that I now have to go back and re-read all those PS CS articles with Curves in them that I skipped over the last year or so… It ought to be worth it though. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/12/lowepro-slingshot-200-aw/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:35:03 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/12/lowepro-slingshot-200-aw/ Lowepro – SlingShot 200 AW: http://www.lowepro.com/Products/Sling_Bags/All_Weather_Cover/SlingShot_200_AW.aspx Update 05feb07: I’ve just replaced my 200AW with the Tamrac Adventure 9, and have a review of that bag as a comparison to this bag I wanted two things above all others for my replacement camera bag: to look anonymous to be quick to access The anonymity is purely because I don’t want to advertise how attractive the contents of the bag are to a casual snatcher, but the quick access is because I want to take the camera out with me and the kids, and I want to be able to leave it in the bag until it’s appropriate: anyone who’s tried to help a toddler climb a slide whilst having an SLR swinging around their neck will know what I’m on about, and it’s not simply a case of choosing between trying to grab the camera or child should they fall (that’s an easy choice) but more about not striking the child around the side of the head with the camera whilst bending over them. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/27/exiftool-by-phil-harvey/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:47:12 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/27/exiftool-by-phil-harvey/ ExifTool by Phil Harvey: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ I’ve been playing around with this tool for a while, mainly using it to add IPTC tags to images so that Photoshop can read the entries, but recently I tried it on some 350D .CR2 RAW files, and was stunned to find that not only did it add in the tags, but the rest of the file was unharmed by this activity. After messing around with DPP (see older post) I discovered that version 5. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/25/canon-digital-photo-professional/ Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:56:44 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/25/canon-digital-photo-professional/ Digital Photo Professional: http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/dpp/ Until tonight I hadn’t paid much attention to this application as I’d mainly been sulking at the lack of EOS 350D support in iPhoto. I’m still not sure why I looked at it again but it’s actually a very well thought out program with features that are totally complimentary to Photoshop Elements and Adobe Camera Raw which had been my previous point of reference. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/20/copy-your-digital-photos-onto-film-photographyblog/ Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:56:21 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/20/copy-your-digital-photos-onto-film-photographyblog/ Copy Your Digital Photos Onto Film – PhotographyBLOG: http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/copy_your_digital_photos_onto_film/ Not as retrograde as some of the commenters might like to think: at least properly stored film has a proven real life of over 100 years, which is more than can be said for ‘accelerated aging’ lifetime figures from over-enthusiastic marketing departments who think that UV is the only ageing process (ie: ignoring CD/DVD substrate eating mould). https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/20/crave-privacy-new-tech-knocks-out-digital-cameras-cnet-newscom/ Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:49:59 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/20/crave-privacy-new-tech-knocks-out-digital-cameras-cnet-newscom/ Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras | CNET News.com: http://news.com.com/Crave privacy New tech knocks out digital cameras/2100-7337_3-5869832.html?part=rss&tag=5869832&subj=news Now this is a fascinating system – pretty much a exploit in terms of the method it uses to prevent the photographs, and easily bypassed by analogue cameras but that’s not the point: camera phones are (I would assume) the main target and without some large changes aren’t going to be immune from this any time soon. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/15/updated-gallery/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:11:06 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/15/updated-gallery/ 3 years and it’s still not quite right… Still, it’s better than before, and even has some more recent stuff but none of it has been retouched in quite the manner I want (no colour balancing, no careful cropping, no RAW highlight checking, no careful smoothing/sharpening, etc.), not to mention I’m falling out of love with the whole geographical nature of the albums. However, the colours match those of this site a little better and I’ve got the hang of how the whole thing is set up (thanks to RapidWeaver) so it ought to be so little effort to keep it up-to-date when I do finally get some edits I’m happy with that they’ll actually make it off my drive and online. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/26/glenn-feron-the-art-of-retouching/ Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:46:48 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/26/glenn-feron-the-art-of-retouching/ Glenn Feron – The Art of Retouching: http://glennferon.com.nyud.net:8090/portfolio1/index.html Wow: I’d seeen examples before, but not as many as this in one go and not with such small changes giving such a large overall difference. It ought to be top of the curriculum for every 9 year old in the country to see, understand, and try this out for themselves: I’m positive it’d have a far greater impact on eating disorders than all the talks in the world. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/13/camilla-camel-google-search/ Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:37:13 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/13/camilla-camel-google-search/ camilla camel – Google Search : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=camilla camel&btnG=Search Ok, so maybe it’s not something to be proud of quite yet but Camilla now comes in on the first page of Google for the term ‘camilla camel’, and is two out of the first four hits on Google Images. Now I have to get it into the top 10 for a search on just ‘camilla’, although there is something rather pleasing about it being result 42 at the moment… https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/12/update-ilife-05-iphoto-501-and-canon-powershot-g3-raw-files-with-os-x-104/ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:06:33 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/12/update-ilife-05-iphoto-501-and-canon-powershot-g3-raw-files-with-os-x-104/ For those of you who have iLife ’05 and OS X 10.4 and haven’t yet tried it, iPhoto will now process RAW files from the Canon PowerShot G3 without any tweaks or modifications: this is something that the OS version brings to the mix of software as even using the latest point updates for all apps under OS X 10.3 does not enable this functionality. So, if you’ve used any of the hints from my older post and now have OS X 10. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/07/21/canon-eos-beginners-faq-v-misc/ Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:52:59 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/07/21/canon-eos-beginners-faq-v-misc/ Canon EOS Beginners’ FAQ V – Misc: http://photonotes.org/articles/beginner-faq/misc.html “Is it true that taking a person’s photograph steals their soul? Yes. This is why movie stars, fashion models, politicians and pop singers have such dreadful personality and relationship problems – their souls have been severely depleted by all the photographs which have been taken of them.” https://minimal.org.uk/2005/03/09/macworld-news-hasselblad-leica-to-support-adobe-dng-spec/ Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:17:12 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/03/09/macworld-news-hasselblad-leica-to-support-adobe-dng-spec/ Macworld: News: Hasselblad, Leica to support Adobe DNG spec: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/08/dng/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-0305 Hooray ! Boo ! Great to see it’s being supported, but in a product that I can’t ever conceive of affording… https://minimal.org.uk/2005/02/24/ilife-05-iphoto-501-and-canon-powershot-g3-raw-files/ Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:30:28 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/02/24/ilife-05-iphoto-501-and-canon-powershot-g3-raw-files/ Update: This is now no longer required when using OS X 10.4: noted here Well, I’ve given up sulking about iPhoto 5 not supporting my G3 RAW files, fixed it myself, and am now really annoyed at Apple for being so lazy. Basically, the fix means changing the camera ident string in each .CRW file to say G5 instead of G3 – what a totally pointless and trivial change that a slightly expanded set of test strings within iPhoto would have cured from the outset. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/02/09/apollo-11-17-missions-fullscreen-qtvr-photo-from-panoramasdk/ Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:52:25 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/02/09/apollo-11-17-missions-fullscreen-qtvr-photo-from-panoramasdk/ Apollo 11 – 17 Missions: Fullscreen QTVR photo from panoramas.dk: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f29.html Now these are stunning – the new scans of the originals are excellent quality, and the scale of things becomes much more apparent (even on a tiny 1024×768 display). https://minimal.org.uk/2005/01/05/hmm-time-to-lower-my-expectations/ Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:11:45 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/01/05/hmm-time-to-lower-my-expectations/ BBC NEWS | Technology | Gadgets galore get shown off: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4148473.stm “The average person has a library of 600 digital images estimates the Consumer Electronics Association, the organisation behind CES. This is expected to grow to a massive 3,420 images – or 7.2GB – in five years’ time.” According to iPhoto I have 8,475 photos right now and I know there’s another 250 or so waiting to be added to that. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/12/22/using-image-calibration-techniques-to-reduce-noise-in-digital-images/ Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:33:33 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/12/22/using-image-calibration-techniques-to-reduce-noise-in-digital-images/ Using Image Calibration Techniques to Reduce Noise in Digital Images: http://www.photo.net/learn/dark_noise/ What an interesting idea – guess what I’ll be trying out tonight ! (Lee asked if this was setting the ‘Black Balance’ of an image – not a phrase I’d heard before, but I like it a lot !) https://minimal.org.uk/2004/10/21/adobe-digital-photography-white-papers-and-primers/ Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:03:08 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/10/21/adobe-digital-photography-white-papers-and-primers/ Adobe digital photography white papers and primers: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html Info from people who know their stuff. I’ve seen similar workflow described in books and online tutorials, but being given a few really solid building blocks direct from the manufacturer is very helpful. Only had a look at a couple so far, but the Highlight Recovery in Adobe Camera Raw looks to be very helpful indeed. Now all I need is to get Elements 3 ‘cos my CS trial has expired… https://minimal.org.uk/2004/09/27/adobe-dng/ Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:36:59 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/09/27/adobe-dng/ Digital Negative (DNG): http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html My first thought was “Oh good – another image file format – just what I need”, but that’s a mistake. Adobe do have some very good points about why we need .DNG in their PDF file (see above): “Camera manufacturers often drop support for a propriety raw format a few years after a camera is discontinued. Without continued software support, users may not be able to access images stored in proprietary raw formats and the images may be lost forever. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/26/pantone-to-rgb-colour-conversion/ Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:23:56 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/26/pantone-to-rgb-colour-conversion/ Pantone to RGB Colour Conversion: http://www.reeddesign.co.uk/test/pantone2rgb.html Very helpful. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/24/bye-bye-fp4/ Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:47:01 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/24/bye-bye-fp4/ PhotographyBLOG -:- Ilford Goes Into Administration http://www.photographyblog.com/weblog.php?id=P3504 🙁 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/22/the-project-apollo-image-gallery/ Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:31:33 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/22/the-project-apollo-image-gallery/ The Project Apollo Image Gallery: http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html Images from the first moon misson (Apollo 11), very nicely scanned. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/12/the-world-wide-panorama-quicktime-vr-panoramas/ Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:40:56 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/12/the-world-wide-panorama-quicktime-vr-panoramas/ The World Wide Panorama – QuickTime VR Panoramas: http://geoimages.berkeley.edu:16080/wwp604/ Facsinating, if you can view QuickTime VR’s: the few I’ve sampled are very well done. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/03/simulating-film-effects-digitally/ Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:27:18 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/03/simulating-film-effects-digitally/ Jeremy Daalder Photography Official Site – Simulating Classic Film Effects in Photoshop: http://www.jeremydaalder.com/singleArticle.php?articleID=4 A lot of interesting info. Not so great for non-Photoshop users (ie: people with normal incomes and Elements 2 🙂 ) but I’m sure that with some creative thinking the ideas could give rise to some interesting results. https://minimal.org.uk/2003/07/31/more-images-red-rock-canyon/ Thu, 31 Jul 2003 23:04:02 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2003/07/31/more-images-red-rock-canyon/ From Red Rock Canyon, Nevada (March 2002). A much reduced selection compared to the previous album as I’m trying to find a way to properly blend the sky in the panoramic series. https://minimal.org.uk/2003/07/31/new-images-cheddar-gorge-caves/ Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:35:24 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2003/07/31/new-images-cheddar-gorge-caves/ Just to add to the previous Cheddar album on the gallery there is now one of the Caves in Cheddar Gorge.