I know a photographer named Bert. Bert is a graphic designer by profession, an ImageMaker, and an incredibly productive artist. He once did a series on close-ups of automobile headlights that was conceived of, completed, and hanging on museum walls, all in the space of six or eight months. He went on vacation last year,… [Read More]
Archives for June 2011
Wag the dog, part two
I’m a day into this experiment (using the Leica 16-18-21 mm Tri-Elmar on the Sony NEX-5), and I have good news and bad news. First, the good news: The lens is really sharp. That’s no surprise. What is a surprise is how little sharpness is lost because of the Sony’s antialiasing filter. The NEX-5 manual… [Read More]
Wag the dog
What’s this? A multi-kilobuck lens on a body that costs a tenth as much! Isn’t that crazy? Maybe not. Put that lens on an M9 and you won’t be able to use the perfectly good focal lengths between the click stops (the Tri-Elmar is a real zoom lens) you won’t have live view for accurate… [Read More]
Setting rendering intent in PS, LR, & QI
This post is to illustrate a point I made in a comment to the preceding post. If you’re not following that thread, don’t worry; you’re not missing much. Setting rendering intent in Photoshop: Setting color rendering intent in Lightroom: Setting color rendering intent in Qimage:
Qimage color management
I blew it in the previous post when I said Qimage doesn’t do color management. I’m not sure what I was thinking; I had forgotten that I had used the color management features in the previous generation of Qimage, and I couldn’t find them in the v2011.136 version that I am currently using. The reason… [Read More]
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