Category: Post-processing
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Sandhills On A Stroll in Black and White?
At an art festival many moons ago, a visitor wondered aloud if our “Sandhills On A Stroll” image might look better as a black and white. I may have mentioned that the sandhill’s red cap could be considered it’s most distinctive characteristic, and I might have been too dismissive at the time, but our busy…
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Ideas For Your Sun Selfie
Since I promised in the Postscript of my last blog articleLink1, here are more ideas for taking pictures of the solar eclipse with your smart phone. This article gives no suggestions specifically catered to regular cameras. However, thoughts on image composition, etc. would apply to both crowds. For the sake of transparency, I should mention…
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“The Singing Tower” – A New Framing Idea?
I’ve come up with a possible variation to our image The Singing Tower, a Gigapan image of Bok Tower in Florida. As I stared at the canvas print on our wall, I wondered if a trapezoidal frame would work. What if I found a vanishing point by extending the tower walls up until they met…
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Which Color Space Should I Use?
I don’t generally write an article on a subject that’s already adequately covered; I write when I think I can add something new. After recently discussing this topic with members of our local camera club, I’ve reviewed the existing color space material and still have little to add, but maybe I can at least steer…
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How To Make Your Beveled Edges Look Like A Continuation Of Your Image
When describing our canvas gallery-wrap optionslink, we mention that the technique we use, the digital stretch wrap, creates an optical illusion. For any given amount of stretch, there is a particular “illusion angle” at which the sides look like an unstretched and uncompressed continuation of the frontthe math. Figure 1 shows that angle for various…