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Archive for July, 2006 - click any heading for the full Article

31 Jul 2006

Senility is a nasty thing

It’s tough to remember everything when doing those panoramas!
So I made a small check list which I embossed and which now happilly resides in my camera bag:

You may like to do something similar. In my early attempts I kept messing up exposure for some reason …. not good for a guy who grew up […]

30 Jul 2006

Test your Photo IQ

This is only a test. Answer Yes or No.
1 - I believe cameras are objects of beauty to be collected and should only be kept in climate controlled display cases.
2 - I like the strap lugs on my Leica M like on the early models where they are too far up and back, ensuring […]

28 Jul 2006

A (QTVR) brush with the law

Your intrepid photographer gets grilled by the law.
Now I’m not the sort of person to flout the law. Except that I speed, now and then, just like you do, the better to avoid being rear-ended by some poorly endowed guy in the Hummer behind me, I have always believed that doing things the legal […]

28 Jul 2006

Finally, a QTVR HDR real life panorama

The whole megillah.
There are times of the year you really do not want to be driving on Highway One in central California. This is one of them. Make it a weekend and you would probably have more fun doing your taxes. You see, for reasons known only to the drafters of the […]

27 Jul 2006

QuickTime + High Dynamic Range photography

Some serious heaviosity, as Woody Allen once remarked.
Putting it all together calls for one more test; namely, combining High Dynamic Range photography (HDR) with QuickTime panoramic images. Not just a dry academic exercise as I propose to put this to work on my first field trip to the redwood forests where the dynamic range […]

26 Jul 2006

Free Ruler

A great utility program to gauge your picture size.
Free Ruler is just that. A small OS X application that shows a ruler on your screen which can display inches, centimetres, pixels or picas.
Here’s a screen shot in Photoshop S2 with FreeRuler set to show inches:

The ruler can be dragged around with the mouse and […]

25 Jul 2006