Summer season & travel to old places

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Published on: July 13, 2022

Faro, Portugal

Computational photography overview

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Published on: November 8, 2020

An interesting 3 part article by Vasily Zubarev at dpreview on Computational Photography (CP). CP means many things, involves all aspects from sensors to optics to signal processing..

From the article, “Everywhere, including Wikipedia, you get a definition like this: computational photography is a digital image capture and processing techniques that use digital computation instead of optical processes. Stanford Professor and pioneer of computational photography Marc Levoy (he was also behind many of the innovations in Google’s Pixel cameras) gives another definition – computational imaging techniques enhance or extend the capabilities of digital photography in which the output is an ordinary photograph, but one that could not have been taken by a traditional camera.” …

He concludes..

“Throughout history, each human technology becomes more advanced as soon as it stops copying living organisms. Today, it is hard to imagine a car with joints and muscles instead of wheels. Planes with fixed wings fly 800+ km/h — birds don’t even try. There are no analogs to the computer processor in nature at all.

The most exciting part of the list is what’s not in it. Camera sensors. We still haven’t figured out anything better than imitating the eye structure; the same crystalline lens and a set of RGGB-cones like the retina has.

Computational photography has added a “brain” to this process. A processor that handles visual information not only by reading pixels through the optic nerve but also by complementing the picture based on its experience. Yes, it opens up a lot of possibilities for us today, but there is a hunch we’re still trying to wave with hand-made wings instead of inventing a plane. One that will leave behind all these shutters, apertures, and Bayer filters.

The beauty of the situation is that we can’t even imagine today what it’s going to be….”

Some recent GYW boots

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Published on: July 9, 2016

Redwing IR: 8111, Redwing IR: 8112, Santalum brown pull up

[2015] Collection of fountain pens

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Published on: May 25, 2015

Fountain pens Left2Right

  1. Waterman Hemisphere [F]
  2. Lamy Safari [F]
  3. Montblanc LeGrand (146) [EF]
  4. Waterman Expert [F]
  5. Cross Townsend [F]
  6. Gama Eyas Ebonite [F]
  7. Gama Popular Ebonite [F]
  8. Jinhao X450 Black [M]
  9. Jinhao X450 Deep Red [M]
  10. Lanbitou 865 [F]
  11. Baoer 388 Marble Blue [M]
  12. Hero329 Red [F]
  13. Parker Frontier Black [F]
  14. Pelikan Gallery Getaway [M]

Go From Static to Dynamic: How to Create Photographs with Impact [Brenda Tharp]

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Published on: July 1, 2014

A nice video turorial of lightroom 5 (basic processing)

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Published on: March 2, 2014

Learn to see like an artist

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Published on: March 25, 2013

Via www.teachingtosee.org

 

 

Great lightroom 4 primer for raw photo editing

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Published on: January 3, 2013

[curtesy Serge Ramelli]

[2012-13] New Year’s Eve

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Published on: January 2, 2013

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2013!

cheers

The effect of color [PBS Off Book]

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Published on: October 19, 2012

An interesting snippet from PBS about the effect of color…

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