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Comment on 11 Tips for Better Gig Photography by Battle of the Bands + Black & White Photography Q&A | York PhotoSoc

Battle of the Bands + Black & White Photography Q&A | York PhotoSoc — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:50:43 +0000

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Comment on Can you hear an echo? by chetan

chetan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:14:33 +0000

I came across these and thought they would make pretty awesome business cards for a photographer such as yourself: http://uk.moo.com/en/products/minicards.php

Comment on Let There Be Dark by Matt Grum

Matt Grum — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:12:31 +0000

Their technique is mostly of theoretical interest to me, especially the concept of exploiting the [usually good] correlations between the colour channels (the existence of which makes Sigma’s foveon sensor fundamentally flawed in my eyes)

However I like the idea of shooting in IR with flash, although it has been pointed out to me that this has been done by other photographers already.

Comment on Let There Be Dark by Tom

Tom — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:20:43 +0000

Just had a read of their PDF. I disregard my previous comment based on my initial amusement

To be fair there system is clever. But not exactly accessible to anyone else without a modified camera

Comment on Let There Be Dark by Tom

Tom — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:17:53 +0000

This is such an incredibly stupid idea.

IR photography is used for forensics as is UV. It shows up details in the sub dermal (or whatever it is) layers of the skins. Bruises, and other exciting injuries. UV produces some really interesting portraits, but none are ‘everyday’ portraits. It shows up veins!

However… this brings us to point two. In order for it work practically you would need a modified sensor as the man says (expensive but doable) so that means for the second high ISO image you would need a separate camera.

Its fine if you have the man above (who looks very suspicious!) who stands still and doesnt move and you trigger both cameras together… but when would you want to use an IR flash? When you don’t want to use a real flash! So that would be events when you want to be discreet. Umm… those types of events do not have people standing still so you can take the same photo twice.

Comment on Let There Be Dark by Bill Millios

Bill Millios — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:39:13 +0000

SIGGRAPH - yeah, we all read those conference proceedings! And attend the showing of every short film, too.

Thanks for posting this over on Strobist!

Comment on Xtreme Restoration Challenge by photoshop restoration and retouching

photoshop restoration and retouching — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:34:51 +0000

Great post! Thanks for sharing.

Comment on The Incidental Entomologist by Matt Grum

Matt Grum — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:24:58 +0000

cheers guys! I do quite like the surreal nature of 2137, I experimented with turning up the fill light in Adobe Camera RAW until the web strands were visible, but I preferred the look of them just falling through space!

Tom- you were adequately warned :-P

Comment on The Incidental Entomologist by Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:51:49 +0000

This is horrible.

It actually makes my skin creep

Comment on The Incidental Entomologist by Luis Cruz

Luis Cruz — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:26:39 +0000

Like Lumi, I followed you from Flickr, and I have to say that I can’t stop grinning at these images. You’ve got some pretty cool shots here. My favorite, btw, is the one where it looks like spiders are raining down (2137).