Hywel Jenkins, blographer

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Swans don’t give a XXXX about anything else


A day after Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and northern Herefordshire were all hit by severe flooding, the River Wye finally gave way at Ross. This swan is 50 metres from the river.

Taken at the same location as this, give of take a couple of metres.

posted by Intermanaut at 5:28 pm  

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Foamcore Macro Studio

A few months ago man schutt, a Flickrite, posted a design for a home-made, foldable and portable macro box. After managing to source some foam-core from Graphics Direct I gave it a try. (more…)

posted by Intermanaut at 7:24 pm  

Monday, July 9, 2007

Flickr: Amazing Coincidence

Flickr is full of photos of the same flower, same angle of the Trevi Fountain, all devoid of emotion, inspiration and originality, but these two photos, taken by two different photographers from different viewpoints are amazing.

At first glance they look different, but if you look closely at the position of the couple, in particular the gentleman’s hand, you’ll see that their of the same scene taken at the same time.

posted by Intermanaut at 8:50 pm  

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Multiplicity: A new tutorial

Multiplicity: The five of me - Finished resultI’ve written another “cloning” tutorial. This one explains how to use layer masks to achieve the result with the benefit of being able to fix mistakes in the cloning.

Read it here.

posted by Intermanaut at 12:26 pm  

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Multiplicity: The five of me

Following on from my “Multiplicity: Pouring yourself a beer” tutorial that used the eraser tool to merge the images, this slightly more advanced tutorial explains how to use layer masks to achieve the result. Layer masks are better suited to this because you can selectively “undo” changes to the layer long after you’ve made other changes. (more…)

posted by Intermanaut at 11:31 am  

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