PHOTOGRAPHY

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The camera never lies, or does it?

I should stress at the beginning that I am neither a doctor nor an optician so if I use the wrong terms, consider the source. I have, however, been fascinated by photography since getting my first SLR a quarter century ago. They say “the camera never lies”. There is a world of difference between the camera and your eye and I will use that to challenge the above statement (ignoring of course the wider truth that some “CGI” is now indistinguishable from reality – and if you still believe that CGI is not “real” take a look at this stunning piece of video - the first few seconds (after the…
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Removing Objects from Photographs in Gimp

The title says GIMP but I’ll cover other packages in here – read on. Normally I put photos in my blogs and leave the reader to wonder how i made them. I’ve uploaded approaching 8,000 photos to Flickr over time and that’s just a small selection of the pics I’ve taken over the past 50 years (digital since 1998) – that’s a lot of photo clean-ups. From the dawn of digital photography I’ve been trying out different tools to enhance my pictures and in these pages I’ll describe some of them. Anyway, here’s a quick tip. Let’s say you’ve taken a holiday photo and there’s something (or someone) in the…
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The camera never lies, or does it?

I should stress at the beginning that I am neither a doctor nor an optician so if I use the wrong terms, consider the source. I have, however, been fascinated by photography since getting my first SLR a quarter century ago. They say “the camera never lies”. There is a world of difference between the camera and your eye and I will use that to challenge the above statement (ignoring of course the wider truth that some “CGI” is now indistinguishable from reality – and if you still believe that CGI is not “real” take a look at this stunning piece of video - the first few seconds (after the…
Read More

Removing Objects from Photographs in Gimp

The title says GIMP but I’ll cover other packages in here – read on. Normally I put photos in my blogs and leave the reader to wonder how i made them. I’ve uploaded approaching 8,000 photos to Flickr over time and that’s just a small selection of the pics I’ve taken over the past 50 years (digital since 1998) – that’s a lot of photo clean-ups. From the dawn of digital photography I’ve been trying out different tools to enhance my pictures and in these pages I’ll describe some of them. Anyway, here’s a quick tip. Let’s say you’ve taken a holiday photo and there’s something (or someone) in the…
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