North Shore Park
April 26th, 2008 by
Aeden
Some shots from North Shore Park. A few panoramic shots in there that turned out nicely; one or two HDRs that weren’t too bad.
Archive for April, 2008
Masking & Lightroom 2.0
April 15th, 2008 by
Aeden
Recently, Adobe released a beta version of Lightroom 2.0 for public consumption. Here’s an image of the result achieved by solely using arguably the best new feature of Lightroom 2.0: masking.
In this image, I’ve upped the saturation on the clouds and the treasury building, to build a bit more contrast, while maintaining it at its regular level on the street and cars. Prior to Lightroom 2.0, I’d have to exit and head over to Photoshop, where I’d be messing with pesky, disparate options, in order to achieve a similar effect with effort as minimal as this required.
New Flickr Uploads
April 14th, 2008 by
Aeden
Following on from that last post, I’ve posted some new uploads to flickr.
Pesky Little Threads
April 14th, 2008 by
Aeden
As I mentioned in the previous blog post, on the fourth (and arguably, the longest) day of my vacation to DC, I took what was, for me, the most amount of photos in a day - a little under 500. To my dismay, when I reviewed the downloaded shots in the hotel room, I noticed a pesky speck on more than a few shots:
While I was able to clean it up on many shots (props to Adobe Lightroom’s awesome dust spot correction tool), it appeared the object was still getting in the way of my photos. After switching lenses and not seeing the speck show up, I (wrongfully) concluded that it was confined to the internal lens element of my EF 28-135 IS.
Silly me. On Friday, a little over two weeks since we got back, we took my lens and camera to the Photosource down on Louetta, and after explaining to the technician what I believed to be the source, he proceeded to search for the cause.
Within five minutes, he had concluded that it was not within the lens element. He then discovered that in fact, it was “merely” a piece of thread caught on the shutter of the camera. Shifting around each time the shutter went up, it became clear now as to why it might sometimes have disappeared on some photos, while at others reappeared at different positions. I say merely because, as he told me, had the thread fallen in and onto the sensor, things could have been disastrous.
Anyway, after removing the piece of thread, the lens was back in action.
DC Photos
April 11th, 2008 by
Aeden
I’m kind of late with this, but my collection of photos from Washington DC are now posted on flickr. 400 or so out of about 1800 were worthy of uploading. Not too bad a ratio, I would say; but a tripod would have improved many of the shots.
…It so happens we discovered the tripod sitting in the garage, after we returned home. Oh well, now I’ve got to get my EF 28-135 repaired by Canon, since there’s a little speck of thread or something in the barrel itself. Which kind of hampers my efforts.
More later.