The dome of San Frediano in Cestello, Florence at dusk
Statue of David by Michelangelo, Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Six paintings of shop fronts for sale, Place du Tertre, Monmartre, Paris, France
Neon sign outside a sex shop, Pigalle, Paris, France.
A man walks underneath the railway tracks at the end of Yonge Street, Toronto.
If you have images in Aperture 3 that you’d like to re-process using Aperture 3’s new tools (like dodge and burn, curves etc.), you will have to first reprocess any images that were originally imported into Aperture 2 or Aperture 1 so they are rendered using Aperture 3’s new rendering engine.
To do this, select your image, go to the Adjustments tab, and click on the ‘Reprocess‘ button.
And sometimes this is what you get. Trying to fix this by changing the white balance doesn’t work – so what do you do?
Go to the RAW Fine Tuning brick, and click on the reset button – the curly arrow thing second from the right.
You should now have a rather less green image you can edit to your heart’s content.
Kah Kit Yoong has a great post at magichourunplugged.com called Respect Your Photography. He asks a really very simple question: what should you do if someone asks to use one of your photos for free? (more…)
Fotografiska is a museum/gallery focusing on contemporary photography in Stockholm, Sweden. I went there on the last weekend of the Annie Leibovitz show in September 2010 , and was a bit surprised by what I found.
The gallery is on the waterfront, just south of Gamala Stan island. There is a water-bus stop next to the gallery – the nearest metro stop is Gamala Stan.
The outside of the building is lovely and well restored, and the content of the two exhibitions I saw was excellent.
The design of the galleries themselves however was really poor – they are badly laid out, the lighting is terrible, and the photographs were not particularly well hung.
There appeared to be no effort to manage attendance, and the galleries were horribly overcrowded.
The bookstore was rather strange – while the selection is large, it is not particularly comprehensive or international (no Ansel Adams for example) and was more ‘mass market’ than I had expected.
I would only go again if there was an exhibition I was absolutely desperate to see. Or if I wanted to photograph the building.
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Do you see a dark blue band in the middle of the picture?
Nikkor 12-24mm f/4 lens @12mm
While many people find that a polariser can help provide dark[er] blue skies, there are limits to what a polariser can do and the filter may not create the effect you want in certain circumstances. Polarisers filter light [and darken blue skies], but they do not do so uniformly – stand with your back to the sun, point your camera to the sky and then turn your polariser ’till the sky is a darker shade of blue and then turn so you are at a 90 degree angle to the sun – you will see the colour of the sky change through your viewfinder as your orientation changes.
If you are using a telephoto or a ‘normal’ length lens [i.e. anything above 50mm], you probably won’t notice these variations in the colour of the sky in your photos – your camera’s angle of view is narrow enough for polarised skies to appear to be a uniform colour.
If you are using a wide or super-wide angle lens however you will have to be careful to make sure your polarised skies do not show this uneven banding – in this case the sky above the boat’s cabin is much more polarised than the sky on the left of the picture. In this case a better way to uniformly darken the sky would have been to use a neutral density filter.
You should know exactly what equipment you have with you whenever you’re shooting, and [just as with everything else in life] you should use the tools you have.
So if you’re doing night or long exposure shots, don’t use the shutter release button on your camera if you have a remote release cable in your bag.