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what a difference a lens makes
I couldn’t have taken this photo last week. Not because the rugrat wouldn’t have posed (although that’s difficult enough to do on the best of days), but because up until last Friday the main lens on my Canon 300D was… Continue reading
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custom white balance tutorial
I’ve written up a tutorial on using LAB color space in Adobe Photoshop PS2 for adjusting a custom white balance (WB) with digital IR images. I hope you find it useful, it was a useful exercise for me to write… Continue reading
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Reflections on color processing IR with LAB
Well I think I’ve sorted out a basic workflow for processing false color infrared images using LAB color in Photoshop that gives results that I’m happy with. I’m writing up a tutorial describing the basic steps of what I’m doing.… Continue reading
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LAB color processing IR
Still making progress with post-processing IR images with color adjustments using LAB color space. Continue reading
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the future is here, and I don’t want to answer the door
I’ve felt a bit like a Luddite the last month or so, as I’ve started to explore Flickr and realized how much it offers. The last couple of years I’ve tended to ignore social sharing sites like MySpace, Yahoo! 360,… Continue reading
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experiments in IR
Visible I’ve started experimenting with digital infrared photography. I’ve always appreciated the art that goes into good quality photographs. As with most professions, the really good photographers make it look simple. The superficial simplicity hides the skill that goes into… Continue reading
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don’t give your dog chewing gum
This was news to me when I heard it. It seems that xylitol, an artificial sweetener used in a lot of common things like chewing gum, can be fatal to dogs, even in small doses. No Sugar Coating: Products Sweetened… Continue reading
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buji
I found these characters a few years ago in a copy of Shambalah Sun (March 2000): These two Chinese characters read buji in Japanese or wu-shih in Chinese. A tentative modern rendering is, free from anxiety or fear. Literally they… Continue reading
