Wynding Way: Image with motion

I found this isolated boardwalk at Birdlands in the Dandenong Ranges, Australia. After a few picts I just couldn’t capture the curves, motion and contrasts I was seeing. I tilted the camera and voila … an image with nice motion running down the curves of the boardwalk. Now that’s more like it!

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Dreaming : Digital Multimedia with the GIMP

I have started experimenting with combining my love of art, especially indigenous art, with my photography. Using the GIMP, I edited one of my old photos of a butterfly garden decoration. I removed the background to the butterfly and tweeks the image curves to produce an image with nice stark contrasting lines and no background.

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Using the Threshold Tool in the GIMP

I mentioned in my last the GIMP tutorial, Opensource Digital Photo Processing for Novice Photographers, that I’d explore some of the more advanced features of GIMP editing later on. Using the Color>Threshold tool wouldn’t be what I call advanced by it was a tool that I didn’t mention earlier. I neglected to cover it [...]

Opensource Digital Photo Processing for Novice Photographers

or Makin’ good pictures with little experience and money
Tools of the Trade

Camera

Any digital camera will work. I have used, and continue to use, a number of digital cameras(Canon A340 Powershot, Canon A640 Powershot and a Canon EOS 400D). I still play around with the first one I bought over four years ago. It’s a boxy [...]