Tag: Photography
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It was a dark and stormy morning
It’s been said that the best camera is the one you have with you — heck it’s even the title of a book on iPhone photography. Which makes sense, because you can easily stumble across a nifty scene, as I did here, and not be able to capture it if you don’t have a camera…
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How to make a Polaroid from any digital image
Even though Polaroid instant camera and film packs are no longer being made by the Polaroid Corporation, you can get that same look on your digital photos with Rollip.com. Once upon a time you had to manually create these things in Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. Not any more. Basically, Rollip takes your image and does some…
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Lucky with sunsets lately
Over the past few days I’ve been testing out a cool device, the Eye-Fi SD card. It’s a camera’s memory card that uses Wi-Fi to upload photos to your network, or a website. I’ll have a full in-depth review in a bit, but for now, just know that it’s a neat device 😉 UPDATE: Sep.15.09 —…
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Launching a photoblog
I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but hadn’t really had a valid reason to ‘get me going’ on it. Until now, and the recent vacation my wife and I took to Quebec. Everybodybe.com/photo is the URL of the photoblog that’ll contain images, galleries and posts. Sounds like any regular blog right? Well,…
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Great Big Head up to his nose in snow
With all the snow melting it seemed that this Great Big Head was finally getting his head above the snow. Tomorrow’s forecast is more snow.
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Top of the World Provincial Park (2008)
I decided to take a scan through some photos from earlier this year. This one from our summer vacation stuck with me as one that I could play with. And I did. Using Lightroom again. A bit of Sepia. A bit of dodging and burning, and I’m rather pleased with the result. There’s an easter egg…
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Alberta Legislature Ice Sculpture
We went to the Alberta Legislature last Thursday to listen to A Joyful Noise choir — Tess sings in it. The night was warm and we parked at the other end of the Leg. The Christmas lights were in all the trees, and in the centre fountain was this very neat (and colourfully lit) ice sculpture.
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Two resources for planning your lunar photography evening
A friend pointed me to this BBC article about tonight’s full moon. It seems that tonight’s full moon event will occur when the Moon is the closest it’s been to the earth (during a full moon) in 15 years. Well, methinks. A perfect time to get out the photography and telescopy equipment and capture this event. But…
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Get back to where you want to be
P1030481 Originally uploaded by bgrier Today I picked up one tool that my photography kitbag has been missing for a while, a flash slave trigger. And this one of the first shots taken using it. Beer, of course 🙂 Slave was a Vivitar 283 sitting about 60 degrees to the right of the glass, triggered by…
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Alberta Winter on the Desktop
Happy New Year. I’ve been having more fun with Photoshop and with my new Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet, and decided to share the fruits of my labour. Here’s a new 1280 x 865 wintery-themed image, taken one frosty morning out on the trail near the Waskahegan trail at the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Recreation Area, just east…