category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, West Vancouver • 1 min read
Golden Retriever coming to ask me: what do you want?
This Golden Retriever came to ask me what did I want. She came to me, looked at me, waited with the “look”.
She came to see me. I walk and take the photos with my dog on his leash (usually). Since this is a dog park, he was without his leash but staying behind me (for protection). She didn’t …
category Photographers • hashtags Canon, 7D, B&W • 2 min read
A dozen of photographers trying to take photos of 3 sleepy Snowy Owls
A dozen people are trying to taking photos of 3 sleepy Snowy Owls. Their cameras range from nothing to $$$.
category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, Vancouver, B&W • 1 min read
Big George is a pushy Mastiff
This big Mastiff is named ‘Big George’ and weighs at least 175lbs (his last weighting was about a year ago).
Big George knows that he’s big. He is very, very pushy and when he pushes he often gets his way.
I don’t think I could ever own a Mastiff because of all the farts and because of the drool/slobber. (I think …
category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, Vancouver, B&W • 1 min read
Cleo needs a “good trim”
Cleo is supposed to be a mix between a Cairn Terrier and a Norfolk Terrier (that’s what her owner was told but somehow she doesn’t seem convinced when she said it.) She knows a dozen tricks and Cleo loves learning new tricks. She gets paid extremely well when learning and doing tricks…
BTW, she’s due for a wash and a ‘good trim …
category darktable • hashtags lighttable, darkroom • 1 min read
Darktable is excellent at finding out what’s worth processing and what’s not worth processing. Darktable gives you the tools.
One of these tool is the Focus Peaking Mode. It works in both the Lighttable and the Darkroom.
Pressing “Ctrl-Shift-F” will enable the focus peaking mode.
The Focus Peaking mode uses a “heat map”
Focus Peaking in the Lighttable
Focus Peaking in the Darkroom
The yellow, green and blue …
category darktable • hashtags lighttable • 1 min read
Select all the images in the lighttable, then X to enter the culling and X (again) to exit the culling mode and go back to the Lighttable.
To check for sharpness, I usually set the image count to just one
It’s possible to zoom and pan to compare in the images in the culling mode.
category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, Vancouver, Newsletter • 1 min read
Chihuahua Howling: Vancouver, BC
Normally, Chihuahuas bark. They bark a lot. It’s a small dog then it’s small barks but they are annoying barks.
This Chihuahua didn’t bark, she howled and howled and howled. She kept on because her owner wasn’t acknowledging that there was a big danger coming (aka: me taking her photo). This is proof that the standard recommendation to deal with dogs howling …
Darktable does local edits, but not like Adobe’s Lightroom. It does them just like Adobe’s Photoshop, by layers.