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Graffiti composites

June 10, 2023 JimK Leave a Comment

About ten years ago, Jack Wasserbach showed me some graffiti-covered abandoned buildings at Fort Ord. I took pictures, but nothing grabbed me when I went over the images in Lightroom. Yesterday I got the idea of doing some composites.              

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Hasselblad X2D firmware 2.0

June 1, 2023 JimK 1 Comment

This is the 43rd in a series of posts on the Hasselblad X2D 100C camera and the XCD lenses. You will be able to find all the posts in this series by looking at the righthand column on this page and finding the Category “X2D”. In this post, I laid out my thoughts about the… [Read More]

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UniWB on the X2D

May 29, 2023 JimK 2 Comments

This is the 42nd in a series of posts on the Hasselblad X2D 100C camera and the XCD lenses. You will be able to find all the posts in this series by looking at the righthand column on this page and finding the Category “X2D”. If you’ve read this set of posts, then you’ll know… [Read More]

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Specularity, part 2

May 23, 2023 JimK 1 Comment

In the last post, I talked about specularity. If you haven’t read that post, it would enhance your understanding of this one if you took a look at it now. Although I mentioned the light source as a component of specularity, all the examples I posted related to changing the object in front of the… [Read More]

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Specularity

May 19, 2023 JimK Leave a Comment

In the last three posts I’ve dealt with photographic subjects that have some degree of specularity. It occurs to me that some readers may not understand the concept well, and if they do understand it, they may not be able to relate the concept to their photography. Hence this post. In general English, specularity is… [Read More]

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