But I Just HAD A Vacation!

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For the second time in a week, I forgot where I put something and then forgot what I was looking for, while looking for whatever it was that I lost. I need a vacation to recover from my vacation. Somehow, I suspect that this infinitely recursive need to recover from one’s own vacation plagues most [...]

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An Interesting Copyright Question

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I found these shots from someone who buys unexposed rolls and plates and then attempts to process them. I found those after following up on another awesome find. An interesting question entered my mind while I was viewing the photos: Some of the best stuff (I think) I have ever done lives on unprocessed rolls [...]

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Raw Therapee Becomes Free Software

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In case you have not heard (this was covered on Slashdot and I’m sure the rest), Raw Therapee is now available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (Version 3 or later). Other than wishing it was GPL V2 or later, I’m really excited about this. Even though I have the option, I [...]

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K.T. Ligesh / Ligesh.com archive available

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Shortly after hearing that K.T. Ligesh hanged himself, I pulled a mirror copy of his blog anticipating his domain expiring with no one around to renew it and it has. You can find the archive here, from 2007 up until his last post. For those of you who don’t know him, he was the author [...]

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Bracketing Does NOT Mean HDR!

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If I see one more photograph of a dirty toilet basin processed via Photomatix with a caption like “Toilet, Bracketed”, I’m going to pop a blood vessel. Bracketing is a safe guard when using something like the zone system (or your own adaptation of the zone system) with film and some digital cameras to ensure [...]

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The Anthrolight

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Meet the Anthrolight, which is just a SB-600 mounted on its plastic shoe and attached to a flexible tripod. If you have been putting off getting one of these tripods, I would suggest breaking down a buying one now. They are great. You can wrap them around tree branches, fences, sign posts, body parts or [...]

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