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It has been a long road, but I hope everyone enjoyed my 4 part series on digital black and white photography. One thing that wasn’t mentioned in my tips though, be sure you take your photographs in colour! Shooting in black and white mode on your camera will eliminate all of the colour information you …
Over the past few weeks, I have discussed different methods to create black and white photographs from your colour images. I covered the three main conversion techniques, convert to grayscale, desaturate you image, and using the channel mixer. Of course, there are still even more ways to convert you image to a black and white …
I came across this link yesterday pointing to a free, open source software utility used for recovering photos from digital media. There is no install needed, just run the software from a directory. It is a DOS based program but still seems very easy to use. Photorec does not write anything to your digital media …
Last week I continued my discussion of black and white digital photography and the topics of using grayscale and saturation to convert you colour photographs to black and white. This week I discuss using the channel mixer in order to create pleasing and dynamic monochrome photographs. Channel mixer is available in the full version of …
I received this press release this morning: Microsoft on Top of Its Game With Launch of Exciting New Gaming Peripherals Company boosts gaming offerings with top-of-the-line gaming mice and wireless controller  LEIPZIG, Germany — Aug. 23, 2006 —  Today at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Microsoft Corp. unveiled several new products to enhance …
Goggles is a Google Maps flight simulater you play in your browser. There are a bunch of predefined locations or you can use your own location (through a bit of work). Here is a link to fly over Niagara Falls. Hint: Head east until you reach the river then turn south. http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html?loc=tqsqttsrsssttqssq
Last week I began my discussion of black and white digital photography. This week I will further that discussion by talking about the first two methods of converting your digital photographs to black and white, or more specifically, monochrome. For the sake of simplicity, I will use black and white in my text, but even …
I may have mentioned in the past that I began my journey into photography by working with black and white images and film, from start to finish, including loading my own film cassettes, developing and printing my own photos. Still to this day, black and white has a special spot for me. With digital photography, …
I have been active with computers for many years, and much of that I was also active in photography. Organization of my personal space, work space and life are all pretty haphazard, but my photography has always been very organized. I started in photography many years ago, and soon after began developing my own 35mm …
Last week I discussed practicing using a single focal length to get a better understanding of how a given focal length can affect you photographs. This week, I discuss a few tips for improving your travel photography. If you have ever had to sit through a slide show of someone’s travel photographs, you are well …