climate, photos, miscellany
After Andrea’s show, my father, my brother Sasha, Tristan, and I had a quick look at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche festivities. I have hundreds of wedding photos to process, so I put these ones up totally unedited, straight from the camera, with no Photoshop involved.
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I took photos at today’s Moving Planet event in Toronto. The keynote speaker was former Toronto mayor David Miller, who can be seen here high-fiving a child.
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I have been experimenting with an iPhone program called SynthCam which is intended to produce interesting focus effects (using synthetic aperture) and reduced noise in low-light images. It isn’t the easiest program to use, but it does seem like it could produce some interesting effects – particularly when it comes to intentionally limiting depth of [...]
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Previously, I wrote about why photography may make a better hobby than a career. I still think the points made there are valid, but I have been finding myself thinking about my options for the future and trying my hand at commercial photography and photojournalism is an option that is not entirely lacking in appeal. [...]
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Yesterday I was able to do some minimal processing of my photos from New Orleans and put them online, using a rented Mac Pro at a printing shop. A number of them could benefit from additional post-processing, but it is tedious to spend time editing JPEG files in Photoshop. I prefer to stick to a [...]
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When I was in New Orleans, a local led me to this streetcar storage and repair centre. I ended up with some pleasing photos: Streetcars and pickup truck Red and green ‘Riverfront’ car Car interior Roof support I am working on processing and uploading all my New Orleans photos to Flickr.
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One key lesson learned from my time in Washington: as a photographer, do not go to a major event without a decent laptop and a copy of Photoshop. My iPhone is great, but nowhere near sufficient to publish material professionally to the web.
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Thanks to the generosity of a fellow photographer, I had access to a MacBook Pro for a few hours tonight and I was able to process and upload my photos from the Clay and Paper Theatre Company’s 2011 summer show: The Pedaler’s Wager. The show was very colourfully and professionally put on, and I enjoyed [...]
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Things are likely to stay busy for a while, with little priority accorded to blogging. This Flickr photostream widget should provide at least some novel content as I carry on with executing whatever version of the move/travel plan proves possible. It will stay at the top of the page while I am busy, so there [...]
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As processing power becomes cheaper and smarter software is produced, it seems inevitable that more and more people and organizations will begin to identify people automatically by recognizing their faces with surveillance cameras. London’s Heathrow airport is planning to install such a system, and Facebook may be the ultimate database to let freelancers do it [...]
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