Fine Art America
I am currently in the process of setting up a few gallery type sites. My main site is still The Minimalist Photographer (theminimalistphotographer.com) which is where I am blogging but I am attempting to set up a few sites on established portfolio/gallery networks. The first of these is on the Fine Art America servers and [...]
A quick note about email delivery
As I’m sure you have gathered, The Minimalist Blogger has moved. This means that if you want to carry on receiving the post in your email inbox you’ll have to sign up again on the new website – it’ll only take about 20 seconds – Page with signup box To be honest I could have [...]
Announcing a Change of Venue
As of the 21st Jan 2013 this blog will no longer be maintained. It isn’t going anywhere – I’ll keep it online indefinitely. I have started a new, more comprehensive site that incorporates a blog, an online shop, information about my book and much bigger images. I will write a post here with a more [...]
Lowdown Fun
A couple of ant eye views. These were shot with my Nikon d40x, 18-55 mm kit lens and a $10 x.45 wideangle/macro adaptor. Not exactly expensive glass! The lighting is ambient and processing Lightroom 4 Click on thumbs for larger versions.
iPhone Type Editing Without the iPhone
introduction The desire to make an image look worn or imperfectly exposed can be traced back to the grunge aesthetic of the late eighties and early nineties, if not before. It really left the design world and became commonplace with the introduction of the iPhone and apps such as Hipstamatic and Instagram. This post is [...]
YouTube Progress Report
I have finally got around to putting some slideshows on YouTube. So far the total number of videos that I have posted is three, the total number of views is 196, and the total subscriber number is one. Hopefully those numbers will tick up in the coming months. I am planning to post roughly one [...]
Point and Shoot Urban Macro
Mention macro to most photographers and I suspect that images of bugs, flower parts or other living nature type subject matter comes to mind. There, however, is a whole world to explore that is man made and things not regarded as beautiful can reveal hidden depths. Personally I like working close up with the stuff [...]
Removing dust from a Lumix ZS8 Sensor
“Out Damned Spot” Something bad happened a week or so ago. My brand new toy, a Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS8 point and shoot became all but unusable. A black spot had taken up residence in the inner parts of the camera and dominated every shot. Normally I am not one to worry about little imperfections [...]
Rain
Cooler and more overcast day here in NW Indiana. Current temp is around 60F as opposed to the 80F degree days of the past week. Current average high for this time of year is 47F. To really put things in perspective this region gets, on average, one 80F March day every 14 years. This year [...]
Leaf in the Sun
More playing around with tiltshift software, to be specific this browser based app - http://tiltshiftmaker.com/ No sign up, log in or pet’s maiden name required. Control of size of in focus strip, amount of blur, gradation of blur and bokeh are possible. I think that I prefer the results of this app than of Photoshop CS4′s lens [...]
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