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Forget carpet. Wood or laminate. Carpet is SO last millennium.
Open Mike: Moving Day
So...long story, but I have to get new carpet in the house. Turns out a lot of carpet is made of really nasty stuff...the fibers, underlayment, and treatments can all emit VOCs, and carpet is the #1 cause of indoor air pollution. My carpet is apparently worse than that. The guy who lived here be...
Epic.
Watch out pedestrians! Have you heard about the bike butterfly?
This is a cracker! Check out the website for more information — and laughs.
I'm running one in a few weeks. Excited! Hope to learn as much myself :)
The Power of Workshops
By Joe Reifer A life of photography has peaks and valleys. And then there are the plateaus. Sometimes moving into the next phase of your photography can involve a lot of time on the plateau. Over the last 10 years, I've found that workshops are a great opportunity to have a peak experience that ...
The big Canadian you're after is this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Werbeniuk
Also dead.
The ravages of smoking and cancer...
We all know that long term exposure to chemical insults and carcinogens from smoking and alcohol can act as irritants, leading to biochemical changes that can induce the development of hyperplasia, and potentially, carcinomas. Over the weekend I was shocked to learn that Alex "Hurricane" Higgins...
"which camera"?!!
Surely *any* camera with you would have been better than nothing.
I always have the Canon S90 with me which takes a second to fire up and is usually good enough to get something from a moment.
Don't You Just Hate That?
Here's another shot I took on the brewery tour last weekend. I came around the corner and looked up and there was a great photograph right there in front of me. I mean a great shot. This isn't it. The great picture was there, oh, I don't know, maybe half a second before I took this one. It h...
Fiction? The "Girl who..." trilogy was pretty good.
I'm sure you've got photography books covered :)
Sunday Open Mike
Anybody read any great books lately? I'm looking for what to read next.... Mike And a P.S.: Historically I get my best book recommendations from my brother Scott, and he and I have a friendly guideline we call the Pinker Rule. The name comes from a Stephen Pinker book that starts out very promis...
If you're going with the black t-shirt, don't forget the commando paint on the face too.
Darkroom: Paint
Well, I was afraid of this: I'm afraid I'm just going to bore the pants off people for a while as I maunder on about darkroom stuff. What can I say? It's where I am. Walls Anyway, paint: there is a deathless myth which holds that darkrooms need to be painted black. Not so. Darkrooms should be wh...
Two things I think are happening here:
1. The camera is applying some noise reduction when rendering to JPEG. Ah, yes, there's on-camera noise reduction.
2. The JPEG algorithm itself is reducing aberrant pixels. It is after all, a curve approximation for the changes of colour in an area. Hence "jaggies" on sharp edges.
I wager with the right combination of noise reduction and JPEG you can achieve the same results.
Can You Get Good ISO 6400 from an Olympus E-P1?
By Ctein I've just hit upon something rather cool and somewhat unexpected. Some of you will recall a column of mine from a year or so back called "JPEG...Seriously?" Well, I've found a reason for photographing JPEGs with my Olympus Pen E-P1. I can use them to get much, much better results at ISO...
Just a point of note: crop lenses work perfectly well on the D700, just at crop resolution.
I'm at the D300 stage, still finding interesting things in the menus, most recently a pretty usable b/w mode:
http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2010/05/final-call-for-shi-da-night-market/
Got an itch for new lenses, mine have taken a beating in concerts. I foresee at 24mm and 85mm in my future.
P.S., but not to "George"
Well, that was fun. Amused myself, which is something. Thanks for all the great comments. Of course, "George" is fictitious. And I've never actually recommended that a beginner start with a D700 and two primes. Wouldn't be a bad idea, though. Especially if fictitious George could buy the camera ...
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