History States are memory gobblers.

Photoshop doesn’t save History States parametrically. That is to say each history state is saved in RAM (or cached if RAM gets flooded) as a fully layered composite file. Next time you’re woeking on a really big file and your machine is starting to bog down, remember that. Then go change your History States prefs to a nice low number, like 5.

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iPhone Camera Control. Sweet.

Great googley-moogley! This is the niftiest thing I’ve seen all week. Canon-only so far.

From the site:

DSLR Camera Remote is the next-generation cable release for your Canon EOS DSLR camera. Just connect your camera to a WiFi enabled computer and the DSLR Camera Remote software enables you to use your Apple iPhone or iPod touch to wirelessly adjust cameras settings, fire the shutter, review images, even get a live viewfinder preview. DSLR Camera Remote is a must-have for remote shooting applications like high or low angles, self portraits and children. With its advanced timers it makes remote monitoring a snap. No internet connection required!

12:59 PM | Miscellaneous, New Technology | permalink | No Comments

Do a loam from childlike stoolie.

Somebody is using an autotranslater to hilarious effect in this Photoshop resumé (tutorial?).

A few gems:

“… i inject some changes in Hue and Saturation value and sharpness of whimsy to display sediment.”

“Well, here are some instructions on how to grind your whimsy.”

“If you name one’s fiddle with on exaggerated sharpening then diet the impermeability of this layer.”

The whole thing wraps up with this common Photoshop technique:

“To smarmy in default the effect, apart out to Filter – Noise – Median and into a value of 3.”

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Got me a photo blog.

Started a new photo blog as a place to display things I’ve shot. Let me know what you think of  the design (and the pictures).

10:18 AM | Miscellaneous, Photography, Web Sites | permalink | No Comments

Grand Theft Lego Evolution Video

Click here. I’ll figure out how to do the direct embed later.

11:34 PM | Miscellaneous, Retouching | permalink | 1 Comment

SlowMo: SprintCamV3

No Mo: Phillips/stinkdigital

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Baaa!

@pixeljammer. Knock yourself out.

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Grand Theft Lego, Part 1 Behind the Scenes

HDR is all too often over-the-top, sort of illustrated looking. I’ve done it myself—there’s a strange pull to see how Three-Dee you can get those clouds to look. But it can also be more subtle, and that’s what we are shooting for in the Grand Theft Lego series. (Yes, there are more to come)

Partner in crime David Pahl shot twelve exposures of each element, and I merged three to five of each together so that I had complete control over the amount of light falling on every part of the shot.

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A little dodging, a lot of burning, some serious pounding on the color, and we got this:

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(click images for bigger versions)

Thanks to Jay Roth, James Pelz and Tom Pounders for all the help and ideas.

9:17 AM | Miscellaneous, Photography, Retouching | permalink | 3 Comments

Blogs are Yucky

“I hate blogs. I even hate the word blog. It’s ugly in print and it’s ugly rolling off the tongue. And, as a class, the content in them is just as bad. Simplistic, repetitive, puerile, self-indulgent twaddle that nine times out of 10 I’m almost embarrassed to look at (and I avoid looking as much as possible). A serious waste of bandwidth and a club with which I do not wish to be associated, thank you very much.”  —Ctein in the comments at theonlinephotographer.com

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It’s a Telecom Tower and a hotel.


Jested Telecommunications Tower and Hotel – Cold War Modern.

Coldly beautiful.

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