I use Hugin to create panoramas from stitching together many separate photos, usually taken by standing in one location and turning the camera quickly on drive mode.
However, the downloadable version on that page is very old. There is a regularly updated build of Hugin for Mac OS X, but I can never find it by searching.
So since I finally found it again, I’m putting a link here for posterity.
In case all zero of my regular readers have checked back here, I’ve been busy putting my business website together. It’s my wedding and portrait photography for Newcastle and Sydney. Have a look for yourself at Living Light Photography.
I was fortunate enough last year to win a scholarship through the Apple University Consortium to attend WWDC, the Apple developer conference in San Francisco. I just got a heads-up from a friend I made while over there that I’m now headlining the WWDC 2008 announcement page. That’s me, in the photo second from the right, grinning manically as my hard drive upgrade goes swimmingly in the waiting room, 15 minutes before the keynote. So I believe this entitles me to officially claim super-geek status.
The photo was taken by Pinar Ozger, who together with James Duncan Davidson photographed the conference. I’ve been following his work, and briefly had a chat at the bash (see photo below). He has a post up about the WWDC page.
Well, I’ll definitely be applying to attend again this year. Wish me luck!
My first LOLcat.
What else are digital SLRs and Photoshop good for?
In case you’ve never heard of LOLcats, learn more at I can has cheezburger?, lolcat.com and of course, the ever helpful Wikipedia.
One of the new features on the 40D is an sRAW “small RAW” capture format. It halves the vertical and horizontal resolution from the standard RAW format, but is still a RAW file when it comes to the adjustments that can be made in post-processing. The sole advantage is the smaller file size.
I shot the following image from a bridge over a creek this morning, in both RAW and sRAW formats. They are taken handheld at a 50mm focal length with IS on, with the camera set to 1/50, f/6.3, ISO 800.
Yes, these are rather extreme settings, but it’s often what I need to use in a church or reception area with dim lighting, and I wanted to test in conditions as close as possible to how I’d use sRAW in practice.
Continue reading ‘Canon EOS 40D DSLR Review Part 4: sRAW vs RAW’
For this second Python and DTrace installment, I thought I’d provide a translation of one of the pages I found most helpful when I went searching for usage examples. This example of how to get started with DTrace and Python on Leopard in Italian dates from November 2007, and I have translated/paraphrased it below, with the assistance of the Google translation.
This is a (moderately lengthy) collection of initial impressions of the Canon EOS 40D in my first hour or two of exploration.
Continue reading ‘Canon EOS 40D DSLR Review Part 3: First thoughts’
I got a little note in the mailbox today, something about a package? Well, that was quick. I ordered it yesterday afternoon, and here we are, one day later and off it is to the post office with me.
(Kudos to Discount Digital Photographics. I sent them an email at noon, and they’d called me back by 2 and posted it the same day. They’re the cheapest legitimate Australia-based retailer as far as I can tell.)
It was pouring rain, so I took some heavy weather protection gear with me. I love summer here; thunderstorms all week long.
Continue reading ‘Canon EOS 40D DSLR Review Part 2: Unboxing’
I’m in need of a second digital SLR camera body, so I’m getting a Canon EOS 40D.
Why the 40D? It’s the camera targeted at the ‘prosumer’, and it fits what I need it to do. It’s essentially a newer version of the 20D (see the spec differences), with all the advances that three years of technological progress provides. It’ll relegate the 20D to being my backup camera.
Continue reading ‘Canon EOS 40D DSLR Review Part 1: Introduction’
For those of you who are using Lightroom to manage your photos, I came across a great tool that was just released. It’s called ImageReporter and it churns through your Lightroom database and gives you statistics on what combination of camera, lens and focal lengths you used the most.
Check out the blog post and download site, or read on for my stats.
