SLR…

Hipstamatic…

May 25th, 2010 by Ad.
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Crosby beach yesterday in the company of the metal Gormleys and wouldn’t you know it – forgot the camera. Millions of photos of these fellas must exist already, but I fancied a go all the same and of course had my telephone on me.

Coloured in Mill Colour, cropped, sharpened and slightly contrast-adjusted in Photogene, I like this one with the wind farm and the clouds over the hills in the background. Not a bad resolution either.

Having played with CameraBag and everything else, nothing really stuck till Hipstamatic.

Just checked now and found you can stick higher quality on in the settings. Damn. 525px wide’ll just have to do for these.

May 10th, 2010 by Ad.
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One last ice photo from yesterday’s ice adventure. Again, retouching was great fun, so maybe I should get out and shoot more than once every six months.

January 31st, 2010 by Ad.
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Went for a drive over Snake Pass this afternoon. Came across the other side and a pond had overflowed and flooded the road, so ice had kept freezing on the bushes as cars kept splashing them. Strangest thing I’ve ever seen. Click through for the big pics on Flickr.

I can recommend extensive dodging and burning to make ice sparkle. It’s very therapeutic.

January 30th, 2010 by Ad.
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A £3.50 Ikea light, from above, pepped up on with Photogene on the phone. Love the way the 3GS handles white balance and focus.

January 28th, 2010 by Ad.
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Never get round to taking photos these days, which is a pity as it’s quick and easy and fun. So went cycling off down the waterpark as the weather’s been good today and photographed some birds. Again. Had to wait ages for this fella to spread ‘em:

April 20th, 2009 by Ad.
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I was looking through some photos online last night and saw some amazing effects that were like nothing I’d ever seen before. So I looked into it and it’s called HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography. This article explains it pretty well and it turns out there’s a massive Flickr pool devoted to it too. Obviously some are pretty ropey as it depends how well you use the software, but it gives a general idea of how incredible they can look. Apparently you should bracket exposures for proper HDR, then the software merges them together for some real magical-looking craziness, but I haven’t done that yet and you can get a good approximation anyway using tone-mapping, which approximates the process by squeezing more out of your usual 16-bit RAW image. I’ve had a go on some more photos from last weekend and here are the patchy results. First the RAWs, then the HDRed-up painting-looking ones.

April 21st, 2006 by Ad.
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