Author Archives: domi

Having a dabble with little planets…

I’ve been meaning to have a go at doing a little planet for a while. Finally I got around to it with “Planet Catalunya”. Quite pleased with that, I’m going to try a few more…
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Watch out! He’s got a zoom!

<yawn> But at least the reporting is pointing out the stupidity of this, and the growing resistance to it.
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Sanity prevails.

See here. Nice one Austin.
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Lightroom 2: what’s missing?

Someone always comes up with what they wanted to see – we want it all! But one thing I think I would have liked to see this time would be more advanced cropping, including some lens correction options. Specifically, being able to correct barrel/pincushion and trapezoid distortion would be most welcome. I was collecting together [...]
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Lightroom 2 beta

A very nice update to Lightroom just landed. I’m already a fan of LR for various reasons – speed, non-destructiveness being the main standouts. The beta adds a few things I was just thinking the other day would be nice to be able to do without having to open Bridge (not exactly my favourite Adobe product!) [...]
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rotted roller coaster

rotted roller coaster, originally uploaded by el_rebelde.
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2008-03-30-161746-_MG_7398

2008-03-30-161746-_MG_7398, originally uploaded by domipix.
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H.M.P. London

Tangentially related (well not that tangentially) to my last post is this great outdoor work by Dr D: [Via]
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Yet more insanity/manipulation/demonisation/*

They’re at it again. The authorities want to make photography a criminal activity, at least as far as I can tell. And they want you to get involved. This has been reported everywhere, and the web is teeming with responses to it. One of the most apt responses was this: Or maybe I just found it interesting because [...]
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Sigma DP1 samples on DPReview

Digital Photography Review has some samples from a beta of Sigma’s upcoming and LONG-awaited large-sensor compact DP1. From what I can tell having a very quick look at these is that the detail as you’d expect with a Foveon sensor, and the dynamic range looks pretty too. Colour aberrations look pretty controlled in that lens too, [...]
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