Category: Computer programs
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Updating The Wet Ware
We are forced at intervals in photography to update things. Note the use of the word ‘ forced ‘. These compulsions are most often associated with operating systems. Whether they’re on a desk or in a lap or pocket, they all work well until someone decides that they are to be found wanting…and decrees that…
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Another Week And…
You will know the week has rolled over when: a. You get another email from the social media firm you cancelled yourself out of. This means you need to unsubscribe yet again through some new complexity. Go to a computer nerd and get them to cancel you out properly. b. The invoice you sent to…
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The Constant Update
This is v 3.5 of this post. You should install it in your brain and trash the previous versions. Two of the pleasing aspects of life on Earth are the fact that the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, and gravity makes things fall down. People have grown accustomed to…
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You Need Not Be Shy
About using whatever means your workflow possesses to make your art. I am not. Since I discovered that the digital process frees me from the one-look-forever circumstance of film photography, I have added a number of filters, plug-ins, processes, and presets to my equipment. I use them constantly, and undertake some of the most complex…
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Can A Filter Do it?
To answer this you must think back to the film days. Could it do it then? No? Well it probably won’t now – at least it won’t if you screw it on the front of your lens. Whatever you mount can only degrade the image in some particular way. You’ll then have to supply the…
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AS Becomes The New Demon In The Pentangle
Forget AI -Artificial Intelligence is no match for Artificial Stupidity. The business of calling forth a photo-realistic image from a typed script is goggling the eyes of some photographers. The bold ones see a new way of making trite images sell, while the timid photographers are afraid this will block them from profit. Relax, folks…
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Learn From The Children
Even if they are big ugly children. A friend at my Men’s Shed scale model club asked me about HDR and bracketing – he is learning how to use his Nikon camera with Lightroom. I explained the processes and sort of clarified the terms as we understand them. Then I wondered if I understood them…so…
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Welcome To The Euphrates
It’s better to be upstream than downstream. Cleaner water. And cleaner workflow. You have organised your desk – now organise your computer. There are any number of computer programs that will organise your files. A number of them are right there in the thing to start with – put in by the maker to stack…
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Do Not Deride The Preset
But do not allow it to corral you into a pen – break out on your own sometimes. People sometimes pooh-pooh presets in popular programs or equipment. They see that a plug-in for the image editor can generate a series of ” looks ” and summarily reject them all. They are too pure, too smart,…
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Playing Lucille Ball
As Lucille Ball got older, she became cautious about how a camera might see her. There was never any chance that she would be seen in a bad light – not by the technicians of her own studio. She was the boss of the outfit and a very astute one, too. What she said, went,…
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