Take it easy with the Tone Curve

Well, I didn't. I wanted to "test" my Precision T7500.

The processing load is well distributed, and it takes about 50% of the processing capabilities. I'm testing ACR 7.4 for a file opened from Bridge.

A screen shot before

You can take a look at the indication of the Back-UPS' monitoring software. I reckon this machine of mine is pretty hungry, eh? I love it.

The screen shot taken while I was "drawing circles" with a point on the Tone Curve

Everything: Bridge, Camera Raw, Photoshop, and Lightroom 5 beta work very smoothly and the response of the actions is instantly visible. No loading bar that says: preparing/processing/whatever image.

Adobe Creative Cloud

I love this image!!!

It's my blog, my taste, my opinion.

I subscribed for the trial yesterday night.

Here, in Canada, if you have a phone, you pay at least 20CAD/month, doesn't matter the company. Most of the plans are over 50CAD/month.

From the whole Adobe software offer, I need only Photoshop (with Camera Raw). After the first (trial) month, 20 bucks/month, cheaper than 25 euros in Europe (the EURO is a little bit over a dollar, US or Canadian!!!). Excellent for me. It's a passion or a hobby, doesn't matter.

I don't have a car, so I don't pay insurance monthly. How much is that?! What for?!

Winter in Toronto

I found some other "last snow flakes this year". Hope these are the real last ones.

April 11, 2013

The filter adapter's inner diameter

This is a follow up (suggested by a comment) of my posts about:

• the sketch and
  
• the filter adapter for
  
• my RX100
  

My reading is 33.7mm

The Last Snow Flakes This Winter

I think/hope these are the last snow flakes this winter in Toronto.

This image is taken today.

Wiping the dust off this book

Geoff Dyer -- The Ongoing Moment - ISBN: 9781400031689

You won't have much dust accumulated on your sensor till you finish this book...

You can take a look at it on Google Books

Photographers list

William Henry Fox Talbot Eugène Atget Alfred Stieglitz Lewis Hine Edward Steichen Imogen Cunningham Edward Weston Paul Strand André Kertész Dorothea Lange Ben Shahn Brassaï Weegee Walker Evans

Bill Brandt Eudora Welty Robert Capa O. Winston Link W. Eugene Smith Roy DeCarava Richard Avedon Diane Arbus Robert Frank Elliott Erwitt Garry Winogrand William Gedney Bruce Davidson Lee Friedlander

Steve Schapiro Joel Meyerowitz William Eggleston Michael Ormerod Stephen Shore Peter Brown James Nachtwey Hiroshi Sugimoto Jack Leigh Richard Misrach Nan Goldin Philip-Lorca diCorcia Merry Alpern Francesca Woodman

Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers and some other goodies online

Martin Evening -- Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC.

There are some pages missing. Very good as a search (through the book) tool. You can never compare book and file search. You can search electronically then look at the page in the book. Well, except missing pages. For those guys that do not use the index of the book, of course ;) .

Jeff Schewe -- The Digital Negative (a chapter for free)

and an article about Camera Raw Controls.

heavy duty winter... for rent

Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)

I took a shot whose reds I don't understand:

Bystander: A History of Street Photography

Authors: Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz.

ISBN: 9780821227268

It was $50 for Canada ($35 FPT), in 2001. It doubled its price, even used.