Winter is a Great Time for Black and White Photography
Winter is a wonderful time for black and white photography. But I have this silly personal bias against digital black and white photography on non-monochrome sensors. If the colour information is there in the file, why are you throwing it away? That's what I love about winter time; I can find scenes where a full colour image *is* a black and white image.
Remember: your camera's metering is looking for 18% grey. It doesn't know what snow is, so bump that exposure compensation up a bit.
Shot with a full spectrum converted Nikon Z5 and 24-200mm lens with UV/IR cut filter and 50mm/1.8 S with 720nm filter.
Feet are gross.
My lovely lady did my nails the other day.
Now (part of) my feet are shiny and sparkly!
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Sometimes, a thunderstorm is so crazy you just have to climb on top of a metal bridge and record some high speed video.
The June 3rd lightning storm was one of those occasions.
I stretched the audio to match the length of the video, but it sounded a bit weird, so I threw on some reverb and delay to make it sound even more weird.
Recorded on a Nikon Z6.
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(This time, I colour corrected the footage a bit, to give it some visual flair)
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I gave my hedgehog some of his favourite treat - freeze dried duck liver.
And he got excited by it. Very exited. Maybe a little too excited...
I miss you little buddy!
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This time, I went all '1980's video art' and pointed a camera at a monitor connected to that same camera, creating a feedback loop.
I launched a drum machine app to create some background sounds. The monitor, an ASUS PB278Q, has built in speakers, so lots of fun feedback going on.
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Unity has finally made it to Linux!
I've been waiting years to be able too use Unity3D on Ubuntu, my operating system of choice, so I was very excited to try it out and see how it works.
Unfortunately, my answer is, it doesn't. :(
I couldn't even get the package to install.
I'm afraid Unity3D for Linux still needs a lot of work.
What was your experience with Unity3D for Linux?
Did you have better luck than I did?
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I've been using Affinity Photo 2 to do focus stacks with my macro lens, but I just realized it can do other kinds of stacking as well.
I've been playing around with taking high speed image sequences and using the "HDR Merge" feature as a means of high ISO noise reduction, and the results are pretty impressive.
I'm not using a tripod; these are all hand held, and the software does a great job of auto aligning everything for the stack.
The stack of photos after an HDR merge will look pretty contrasty and saturated and garish, but if you turn "Tone Mapping" all the way down, it will return to normal.
Note: merging 2 images is not a one stop improvement in ISO performance, it takes 4 images to get a one stop ISO improvement, 8 photos for 2 stops, 16 photos for 3 stops, etc. It makes a huge improvement in bright areas, but shadow areas are still pretty noisy, so I like to run a curves adjustment on the image to darken those shadows and hide the noise.
The images can end up looking soft after a merge. I think much of the fine detail is lost in the high ISO noise, and doing a photo stack cleans the noise but doesn't restore the detail. I ran the image though Topaz AI to sharpen it up a bit.
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