Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor

[rstein]

It just hit the feeds. 20 minutes long. I just copy this from the blog:

You are in for a mix of topics in this screencast.

I start with answering the first comment I got and show some ways how to get the GIMP 2.3 for different operating systems.

Then I begin to work at an image of a ship coming down the river Weser on a foggy morning. The image is mostly gray and very low in contrast. As this was shot in RAW, it is possible to get something usuable out of it. You get a lecture about the difference of 256 steps between black and white in JPEG and why the 4096 steps in RAW are better.




I show how to access the menues of the GIMP in three different ways, how to analyze an image with the histogram tool and the colour picker, how to rotate an image just a little bit and how to crop it using the Rule of Thirds (not a LAW - but a nice rule of thumb) to get an aesthetic result. And I nearly forgot to save the image in GIMP’s native image format - XCF.


Rolf
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[rmh1985]

WOOHOO! Going right over to view it...
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[rmh1985]

Once again, most informative. Among other things, I learned a lot about the histogram and the crop tool which I had never explored. Thanks, Rolf.

I still can't get the itunes feed - I get a "The webpage cannot be displayed" message.

By the way, dinner was the reason for the long time between my last post and this one - I had to pause the video. Now, I am off to my swim club to photograph the pond and fountain from the dock. I hope the light will give me something I like - I am usually there in the afternoon when the light is way too harsh. I just hope the champagne I had with my filet will not adversely affect my camera!
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