Category Archives: Photography

Lightroom, Core Image, Quartz Composer, and Channel Mixing

2006-01-10 – 21:53

Lightroom has a greyscale mixer, similar to the channel mixer in Photoshop and the GIMP, and adds HSL Tuning with a similar user interface, but instead of the RGB values I’m used to, it also provides access to CMY. I’ve had a lot of fun converting some images from my archive in to black and […]

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A first look at “Mastering Black & White Digital Photography”

2006-01-09 – 18:20

I stumbled across Michael Freeman’s book while browsing for a copy of Tom Ang’s “Digital Photographer’s Handbook” to give to my mom for Christmas. It looked interested enough in the store that I couldn’t resist buying it.
So far I’ve only read about the first twenty pages. I tried to dive right in and use […]

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Aperture to see some competition from Lightroom

2006-01-09 – 15:34

It’s nice to see that Aperture will be getting some competition from Adobe/Macromedia Lightroom, but there are a few things missing even from Lightroom’s beta.
Where is the crop tool? I almost always crop an image before I print it or put it on the web.
Where is red-eye reduction or basic retouching? Even iPhoto […]

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Rainy late-night drive

2005-08-14 – 19:32

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Pima Air Museum

2005-07-12 – 12:30

We also went to see the Pima Air Museum on a recent business trip to southern Arizona. I realize Google Maps is nowhere near as slick as Google Earth, but it’s still pretty neat you can get decent quality satellite photographs this easily nowadays.
Unfortunately, I did notice while looking at extreme southern AZ that […]

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