Posted January 24th, 2010 by admin | 105 views
I stumbled across this work by Gerhard Richter – 4900 Colours: Version II (his other Colour Charts are great too) on ffffound and fell in love with it. Taking the randomly coloured grid concept a bit further (in the graphic design sense) is the Pet Shop Boys album, “Yes”, seen below.
I thought it would be interesting to see how hard it would be to achieve in Illustrator. With one small, free Illustrator script, it turns out it is quite easy.
The script we’ll need is “vary_hues” from wundes.com. Save the .js file on to your computer somewhere. It’s well worth checking out the other scripts too. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted January 22nd, 2010 by admin | 195 views
My web browsers in order of usage. I was just noticing how good they all look now, so I thought I get them all together.
- Opera for general, long sessions of browsing. Opera 10.50 pictured above.
- Chrome + AdThwart for looking up something quickly, or if something doesn’t work quite correctly in Opera.
- Firefox mostly for web development. Firefox theme pictured above is TwentyTen with Fission + Locationbar2 + Adblock Plus + Firebug.
Wallpaper is from here.
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Posted January 8th, 2010 by admin | 922 views
If you’ve decided to participate in Project 365 this year, you might start to find it difficult to keep track of which number day it is in the year once you get out of January – I know I did when I did my Project 365 last year.
Last year I made a special Project 365 Calendar with all the days of the year on it and after a few requests, I’ve updated it for 2010.
Details
The PDF contains three A4 pages (all vector graphics, so it’s no problem to larger or at a different size). Page one is the full colour calendar. Page two is a black and white version. Page three is a simplified version – just black text on a white background.
Download
Project 365 Calendar 2010 – (PDF ~34kb)
Also
I’ve also updated Tagr for 2010 to help you tag your Project 365 photos with the correct date, number, etc.
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Posted January 8th, 2010 by admin | 2,508 views
The project is complete! I took one photo every day in 2009 and the above mosaic is the result. Definitely a worthwhile experience and it’s very satisfying to complete such a long running project.
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Posted December 26th, 2009 by Luke | 8,038 views
What is Freelensing?
Photos taken with the lens detached from the camera but held in place and moved around to focus. This also lets extra light in sometimes causing light leaks and giving a vintage look and feel.
Freelensing can also:
- Give extra bokeh by shrinking the area in focus (aperture is 0)
- Allow for super macro shots
- Produce ethereal lighting by allowing stray light to get in to the sensor
- Make delicious light leaks
- Create tilt-shift effects
How do I do it?
If you just want the tilt-shift effect, you can detach the lens, but hold it in place against the camera. Slightly move the lens left, right, up or down.
It’s easier if your camera has a “live view” so you can see what it looks like, but it’s not too much harder with the view finder.
You only need to move the lens a few millimetres (fractions of an inch), and doing it this way, there’s not much risk of dust getting in to the sensor.
If you want lightleaks or the super-macro kind of effect, you will need to hold the lens a little bit further away (probably no more than a finger width, though). This is a bit more risky if you’re worried about dust, so try not to hold the lens away from the camera for too long and only do it in a dust-free environment.
For light leaks, I’ve found it’s best to be in a fairly dark room, with a big window in front of you. This lets the outside light get in to the camera (i.e. not through the lens, but just going straight in to the gap between the lens and the camera) but limits the ambient light getting in (which makes the photos less defined).
Will it work with my (SLR) camera?
Canon – Yes
Nikon – Yes – You have to put the camera into manual mode (thanks Eddie Barksdale)
Sony – Yes – In your camera’s menus, look for the “Release w/o Lens” option, and make sure it is enabled. You might also need to make something that will hold the aperture lever on the back of the lens in the open position (thanks ted @ndes)
If you’ve had success with your camera and it’s not on the list, let us know in the comments here or on the freelensing forum on Flickr.
Examples
See more on the Flickr Freelensing pool.
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I stumbled across this work by Gerhard Richter – 4900 Colours: Version II (his other Colour Charts are great too) on ffffound and fell in love with it. Taking the randomly coloured grid concept a bit further (in the graphic design sense) is the Pet Shop Boys album, “Yes”, seen below.
