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  • Einstein & Monroe

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    You may have seen this illusion. Look at it close-up, and it is Albert Einstein. Back away a few feet and it is Marilyn Monroe. What is going on here? You’re seeing the effects of frequency resolution. Close-up, you’re seeing the finer detail that is familiar to you as details of Einstein’s face. When you…

  • A quick note on my posts…

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    I’m in the process of revamping my site and these are old posts. Some will be outdated so beware. New ones will be coming soon, and I’ll be archiving and correcting or deleting outdated information.  Just as I’ll tweak images over time, so too, with my blog posts – with one main difference:  while I’m…

  • Arrival! – Viltrox 33mm f/1.4 for Fuji

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    After a long three (!) months of waiting from order to delivery, it arrived. It was said to be held up at shipping facility. So far I only have “build” impressions (very good ones) but will be reporting soon on the quality of this budget prime lens. UPDATE – early returns are in – I’m…

  • Great Photography Quotes

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    Sage words from some of the best. “Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.” — Ansel Adams “Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson “The world is falling to pieces and all Adams and Weston photograph is rocks and trees”— Henri Cartier-Bresson “A thing that you…

  • Why you (probably) don’t need more megapixels

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    If you’re worried about whether you need more megapixels, I used to be like you; let me help you. You do not need more megapixels. I’ll explain in a somewhat Zen-like manner. If you need more megapixels, you already know it, so you aren’t worried about it. If you’re worried rather than knowing, it is…

  • Lightroom Enhance Details and Fuji – a winner!

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    Note: this was written late 2019.  Fast-forward to mid-March 2021, Adobe launches “super resolution” – currently only in Adobe RAW and Photoshop. I will review it when it comes to Lightroom. Introduction Almost all my Fuji image-gurus believe the images produced using Lightroom’s new Enhance Details feature are as good, if not better than any…

  • Meow Gallery Plugin – wow!

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    (stock photo) If you’ve taken serious look into galleries for photography, you’ve probably fallen in love with tiled galleries, easily the most attractive way of presenting images. And you might have seen Jetpack’s implementation. It looks good, but it comes with one major drawback – Jetpack itself, a bulky sledgehammer of a plug-in that includes…

  • John’s Big Note

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    “John’s Big Note is a very simple plugin to add a big free-form note for your own metadata.” If you’ve worked in Lightroom for any length of time, there’s come a moment when you’ve wanted to leave yourself a note about the photo, be it details of the shot, or development notes. This plug-in is…

  • Killer WordPress Plugins

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    In addition to photography, I build WordPress websites. Want one? Go to “About” and email me. How I created this site. Plugins: AppearanceNeve themeSmushFooboxWP/LRTiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack FunctionWP Real Media Library Advance Custom FieldsAdvanced Custom Fields – Real Media FieldNested Pages

  • “Chasing” in Lightroom

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    In construction, an accumulation of small errors can aggregate to create a large catastrophic error.  I once heard someone use the word “chasing” to describe this phenomenon. The way to avoid the problems was to measure total distance and subdivide rather than adding together smaller measurements. When you work in Lightroom or other post-processing applications,…