I’m seeing the light at the end of the SoFoBoMo tunnel…
Tip: I’ve found phatch to be very useful for this project. It swooped in off of google to save me in the midst of a nasty downsampling dilemma.
Recommended.
May 5, 2008
March 5, 2008
Enfuse
Enfuse is a command-line program used to merge different exposures of the same scene to produce an image that looks very much like a tonemapped image (without the halos) but requires no creation of an HDR image. Therefore it is much simpler to use and allows the creation of very large multiple exposure panoramas. … Read more
February 12, 2008
JPEG XR
What will happen to JPEG XR? This seems like a decent upgrade to JPEG. About the only thing that would get me to shoot RAW is higher bit-depth. The other benefits are minor, IMO, and RAW comes with some huge negatives (for me): large file sizes, slow workflow, proprietary (and transient) formats, etc.
The big question is whether Microsoft will try to enforce patents (and/or royalties) on it. That will doom it to failure from the start.
February 6, 2008
Online backup
It seems everyone has been thinking about backup these last couple years. Personally, I’m tired of shuffling hard drives that are so cheap and seem to go out after only a year or two. And, I need the “disaster recovery” scenario covered–theft, fire, hurricane, etc. So I’ve been thinking a lot about online backup for my gigabytes of photos.
If you are in the same frame of mind, you may be interested in reading this post.
January 27, 2008
LightZone zonemapper tutorial
Doonster has a really good post on basic use of the LightZone zonemapper tool, and how it relates to more traditional interfaces such as curves. Worth a read.
