Ever wanted to try a Linux operating system to see what it’s like but can’t or don’t want to spend time or data downloading and setting up a virtual machine. Maybe you aren’t sure how to use a virtual machine to test something like that.
Checkout distrotest.net, a service that…
Photography lighting
What light style do you want and how to get it.
Photography is about capturing light. Without light, we wouldn’t be able to see anything and neither would the image sensor in a camera. It’s common practice for portrait photographers (and many other types of photography) to use light to control the look and feel of a photograph. …
Photography thoughts
Some thoughts on a video by Manny Ortiz
Recently a photographer and YouTuber Manny Ortiz uploaded a short video called 100 seconds of NO BS photography composition hacks!!
I’ve seen plenty of comments complaining about how it’s just another video showing an attractive woman in tight clothes with bokeh and that it’s not very helpful at all.
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Video editing
Using masks, mosaics and keyframes to hide a subject
What is Shotcut?
Shotcut is a free, open source and cross platform video editing application that is easy to use but has some powerful tools to make it easy to put together quality videos without the costs of some commercial software.
For this tutorial we will look at using a simple mask and…
Photography techniques
How to capture those photos of golden sparks
Perhaps you’ve seen those photos with sparks flying from a central point out across a landscape and wondered as I once did about how it was done?
The technique is called steel wool spinning and it involves a long exposure capture of steel wool that’s been ignited and spun so…
Thoughts about photography
Some thoughts on oft mentioned absolutes of photography
Like most any other topic you could think of, photography has its fair share of absolutism. Just look in any social media community for photography and you’ll soon find posts and comments such as “you need to shoot RAW” or “prime lenses are the best” or “never go above 800…
I’ve written in the past about creating simple responsive image galleries or a simple lightbox for your website or even a simple slideshow tool for your site. …
Most people who do web development would already have some sort of local web server to do their development and testing with but if you’re getting started or want to experiment and follow a tutorial online then you might just want a simple, easy to use web server you can…
I’ve been working on doing some digital landscape paintings recently and thought I’d share this technique that uses 3D software (in this case Blender) to create the basis of the landscape. …
At one point in history, the human race looked to the stars and declared that space was the final frontier. It’s been some time since then and we can say we have, as a race, made some inroads into that space. …
