Tag: photography
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Veerle’s blog | Creating grunge brushes
How to make your own grungy brush in photoshop. Veerle’s blog | Creating grunge brushes
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Doing the South(east) Asia thing
No, not me, but lots of my friends this summer. Daniel went to Nepal, Diana went to the Phillipines, Kent went all over the place, and Tom is back in Laos, after rambles all over Thailand and Myanmar and those sorts of places. All of them are photographers or writers or both, and not just…
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Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.
Daniel got roped into a bullshit internship program in Nepal, but instead of turning back, he just ditched said bullshitters and improvised himself some work. In Kathmandu. It does not appear to have been an easy or pleasant experience, but now he’s shooting for an NGO and making the best of his time there. Word.…
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New little camera is impressive
New camera = Canon Powershot A530. It’s a humble little point & shoot, but it kicks the crap out of our old one. Then = slow shutter, barely in focus shots, low resolution, nothing sharp, lots of time in between frames. Now… …that’s what I’m talkin’ about. Canon A530. Under $200. Google it, shop around,…
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The Mystery Spot and other poorly-kept secrets
It took me almost three months to finish this roll of black & white film, (That’s the old stuff with the sprocket holes, kids.) but I like what I’ve got, despite having to run everything through a little extra photoshopping to get rid of some weird scanner gridlines that were overlaid on top of everything.…
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Mercury News Photo becomes a blog. Cool.
MercuryNewsPhoto.com redesigned while I wasn’t looking, and what popped out is a nice modern WordPress blog. Cool. What that means, first things first, is that I (and you) can now subscribe to an RSS feed from the site. Cool. Second things second, you can leave comments on all the slideshows, video essays, and Flash presentations…
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Header graphic nostalgia
New header graphic and a couple other visual tweaks here today. The image is Somewhere East of Albuquerque, and I took it while driving a U-Haul truck full of all my worldly things, probably on September 3rd or 4th, 2001. It was a little less than five years ago that I met the woman who…