Photography
Semigallian days
Few weeks ago I attended medieval folk festival “Semigallian days” in Tērvete. Tervete once was important center in southern region of Latvia named Zemgale or Semigallia. Unfortunately we almost missed everything as we came only at afternoon of second (last) day of festival. Though I made some photos you can find in gallery Semigallian days [...]
Engure
Last Saturday despite drizzling rainwe decided to take a little trip to Kolka creek visiting small fishermen’s villages by the way. Though in those villages we found nothing worth of attention. Though we stopped in Engure, small costal town with tiny sea port. At the port I made some nice pictures.
Our next stop [...]
Dark art
Last Saturday was closing party of gothic / dark art exhibition. With a show – as it’s supposed to be. Some pictures from the event.
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Positivus AB 2008
Last weekend i had a luck to get a free ticket to Positivus AB festival in small town called Salacgriva here in Latvia. Though stars like Travis, Manic street Preachers and Fatboy Slim were to come, my favoretes was local Latvian bands: Inokentijs Mārpls, Voiceks Voiska and Pienvedēja Piedzīvojumi. There was quiet a lot of [...]
Acronyms and photography
I just came around of list of Canon specific acronyms used in conection with photography. This list is made by photographer Joe Kurkjian to help out folks that don’t speak English as their first language.
AA - anti aliasing
ACR – Adobe Converter RAW, the RAW converter included in PS
ADC - analog to digital converter
A/D - analog [...]
70 Free Photoshop Actions to enhance your photographs
Just to drop a note for Photoshop lovers that Rains Wim is sharing free Photoshop actionscripts for photography enhancement - noise reduction, color correction, sharpening and much more. Actionscripts are divided into several categories. Preview of each actionscript effect is available (needs Javasript to function properly).
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True emo
I think you all know him. His birthday passed just few days ago. He was true emo. Really. Here’s his photo revealing it all.
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Nature mort
Wery nice set of nature mort photos by some Russian photographer. Unfortunately i don’t know his name or web site. I fou do, please tell me.
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Win a Nikon D60 DSLR camera
What you have to do? Nothing much. Just two things:
1. be a member of Digital Photography school (who are organiser of this competition) forums.
2. be active (asking a question, answering someone else’s, sharing an image, critiquing someone else’s, posting a review of a camera or book etc) on DPs’ forums between now and the end [...]
Best pictures of the year 2007
News agency Reuters just publishet their Pictures of the year 2007.
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