Photography
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A nifty photoshop video tutorial
It has some great stuff on color correction and sharpening. Check it out at Digital Photography School.
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Photography Note
For good portrait shots with an SLR camera, make sure the focal length (zoom) is around 72mm (or 50mm if you’re using Nikon DX lenses, which most Nikons are). This minimizes lens distortion and ensures that the photographs actually look their subjects.
My magic portrait lens is set at this by default, and it’s a wonderful thing.
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Thursday link roundup
- Hitchens has a sharp pen – Jimmy Carter is his particular target today.
- The economics of The Wire – I suppose I need to write one about the economics of the Shield to fully flesh out the crime show econ world.
- Top 100 website run by one guy – hopefully someone will be writing that about me.
- How to photography silhouettes
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First HDR attempt
The image is nothing spectacular, but the HDR process really brings out the grain and contrasts from the source files (HDR stands for high Dynamic Range).
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Wednesday round up
- 5 Techniques for Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos
- “Breeding dysentery in the ranks” – the best misuses of the English language in the Sopranos
- What journalists need to know about economics – quite good
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Tuesday rapid fire
- A BBC documentary about Private Military Companies
- Geoengineering
- Amazon.com buys DPReview.com – I’ve bought my last two camera based on DP Review’s recommendations
- High Dynamic Range photography – I’m surprised I haven’t heard of this before. A flickr group is here, and the photoshop tutorial is here. I’ll probably have some examples soon.
- Photoshop madness – unmentioned is American free time
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New photo gallery
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Sunday photography
I wound up taking some shots for a friend of mine’s site and wound up with a lot of good shots. My brother took the one of me (the first one) and I took the one of Steve Coffey (of the band the Rockin’ Pontoons) (the second one). Galleries on the way soon.
Taken at my brother’s house
Taken off of North Highland
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How to be a better photographer
In video no less, on Digital Photography School.
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Thursday rapid fire
- In camera photo tricks that get you around Photoshop
- Business 2.0 magazine fails to back things up with disastrous consequeces
- Getting fat can mean that men are committed to a relationship, among many other things
