New Script Link
As regular readers of my blog know, I have been putting a lot of effort into Magic Lantern Lua scripting, for example my auto bracketing script for focus, exposure and LE simulation, and my...
View ArticleFinally a blue sky!
For the past week in the South of the UK, the weather has been awful: flat, white, boring skies! Today, things changed and we finally saw blue skies.So tonight it was my first opportunity to try out a...
View ArticleToggler 2
First of all an apology for posting another Lua script, however, I do this so that others may benefit from my humble efforts. Either making use of my scripts or using my scripts to help them develop...
View ArticleAuto Bracketing Update
Just a quick post to announce the release of version 2 of my Auto Bracketing script (access by panel on the right).This version allows focus stacking from a point of focus to infinity, as before, and...
View ArticleDual-ISO continues to deliver!
As readers of my posts know, I am a single-minded Magic Lantern user. As the UK summer has decided to not show its face yet, or at least until Wimbledon is over :-), I found myself 'playing around' in...
View ArticleRev 3
Just a quick post today to say that version 3 of my auto bracketing script (Canon Magic Lantern based) can be downloaded from the link on the right.In addition to tiding some things up in the code,...
View ArticleBringing it all together
It’s Wimbledon week and Men’s Final day, so it’s raining! Of course. But that gives me an opportunity to write a few things that I hope will bring into focus (sorry!), what I’ve been trying to do over...
View ArticleAuoto Bracketing: Rev 4
This is a short post to say I'm releasing the 'final' beta of version 4 of my auto bracketing script.In previous versions, you had the option of focus stacking from the focus point (FP) to either the...
View ArticleGoring-on-Thames Field Trip
In order to break the relentless posts on scripts, I thought I would post a few images from our short trip to Goring today. Wiki and other sources tell us that Goring-on-Thames and its neighbour...
View ArticleStory of an Image
Yesterday a few of us from our Camera club (Boundary Camera Club) decided to use our club night for a field trip to Pangbourne. Wiki tells us that Pangbourne's name is recorded from 844 as Old English...
View ArticleGetting Ready for a Trip
I'm off to the US next week for a business trip and want to travel light: so I've decided to make use of my EOSM, which, of course, comes with Magic Lantern :-)The current weakness of the EOSM is that...
View ArticleSometimes it's best not to plan
Although today, as a non-working Friday, I was hoping to get out and do some photography: when I looked at the flat-white sky I knew the day would have to unfold in its own way. So the first decision...
View ArticleCouldn't get it out of my mind
In the last post I hinted at not being content with the blown out highlights in the All Saints church images: after all Magic Lantern Auto Bracketing should have taken care of things.So, within an hour...
View ArticleThe Getty Center
Wiki tells us that Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion Center opened to the public on December 16, 1997 and...
View ArticleCouch-based Practice makes Perfect
As readers of my blog are aware, I believe in practice, especially when in comes to knowing the limitations of your equipment: and where better to practice, than in your own armchair!My current 'focus'...
View ArticleThe Invention of Photography
Having just returned from a business trip, and two 10 hour international flights, I thought I would let readers of this blog into a little secret, get the podcasts from 'In Our Time', to make long haul...
View ArticleWet days can be productive
A rather on/off weather day today, coupled with a need to stay at home. But this allowed me to grab this experimental image using a light box, bracketing and some Photoshop layers.
View ArticlePhotoshop: Exploring different looks
As all digital photographers know, capturing the 'raw' data is only the start of the photographic process. Although it is is not universally used: Photoshop and Lightroom are considered the 'go to'...
View ArticleAnother cloud resource for Photographers
As you are aware, there are some great photography resources 'up in the cloud'; and many of them are free, In case you are not aware a new one has been added by Google: an introduction to the...
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