Preparing for the Ansel Adams exhibition

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Guthlac
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One final one from the archives

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Guthlac
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One from the achieves

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Guthlac
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The one that got away

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Guthlac

This was supposed to be a very well known and beloved TV presenter, no not Jimmy Saville, but it got away from me. However, it is still a really interesting face so overall I’m quite pleased. To me it looks like a cross between Tom Berlinger and John Noble – not the person it should be.

By the way the iPad spellcheck wants to correct Savile with servile – interesting!

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Ideas

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Guthlac
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It is amazing how ideas spark ideas.  Having spent another hour or so wondering through the vast expression of human creativity on the internet more ideas have come flooding into my head.  This is just a quick experiment as to how I could combine my two creative strands of drawing with digital image manipulation.  Hardly earth shattering stuff I know, and if truth be known I have been doing this for some while on my iPad.  This time, however, I have decided to try to use my full blown version of Photoshop CS6.  I wonder were this will lead me? 

Simon Marchini 

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Lifted or who to loose even more hair

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Guthlac
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Well that was a way to spend a day.   I have been working on some photographic images over the past couple of days and I thought it would be fun to make a little video of them – after all isn’t that what iMovie was for?  Well maybe but it has taken me most of the day to sort it out to something I’m starting to be satisfied with.

So silly me believed that it was going to be a doddle – just download the images into iMovie – no problem.  Only there was a problem – all my images are managed in Lightroom so I don’t touch iPhoto which, of course, is where iMovie looks for the images.  It took me a while to realise I could just drag and drop the images into iMovie.   The next problem was getting my head around the iMovie interface.  I have very little experience with video editing – other than Windows movie maker and some Adobe video editing express package I once owned.  Both of these packages seemed to be more intuitive than the iMovie interface.  In the end I had to start reading the help pages which is usually a bad sign.  To be fair the tutorial videos were really quite helpful but it meant further delays.

Then it was time to choose the music.   I had by chance stumbled across Lifted by the Lighthouse Family when I was trying to make a simple package in Lightroom and this seemed the best tune for my needs.  It loaded easily into iMovies and away I went or would have done if I could get the images to sync with the music.  More fiddling around, I’m still not sure I truly know how to do this which was so simple in Windows Movie Maker.  Anyway, after more fettling around I managed to get the job done and I have to say I’m quite pleased with the results given the contraints until, that is, I came to view it on my iPad.  Whatever compression system is used to compress/configure the file so that it can run on the iPad has made a real mess of the images.

So what have I learnt?   Well first of all I don’t think that iMovies is as user friendly as Apple tries to make, no surprise there.  Second, whilst the final result is pleasing it is a lot of hard work to try and make it look in anyway like I wanted.  Thirdly, if you are going to make a movie out of stills then capture/make the stills with this in mind rather than trying to shoe horn images made for all different purpose – it makes things so much easier.  And of course the final thing is I can’t publish this to my Facebook, web site, blog etc because I have used copyright music, which I know doesn’t seem to bother too many other people but it does me.

Simon Marchini 

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Almost Square

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Guthlac

Even my drawings are turning square – almost

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Here is what I know now

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Guthlac
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Another day going through the images I have made this year and it has been very interesting and rewarding.  I’m not sure what to make of the images that I have made today – they certainly are a mixed bunch from iPhoneographic to panorama.  There really isn’t one theme other than they were made in 2012 and may appear in my next year book. 

Simon Marchini 

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iPhoneography

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Guthlac
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Going all square

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Guthlac
There was a time when being square meant that you were using a Hasselblad.  Of course in our digital world this is nonsense – apart from I believe that the Hasselblad digital cameras still produce a ‘square’ digital image.  I know this is a bit of a nonsense but there we go.  Anyway, a couple of days ago I read something about the square neg of a ‘Blad’ and it seems to have stuck in my mind.  I used to produce iPhonographs in this format but then I upgraded and they didn’t seem the same.  Anyway the square is back and I am enjoying the discipline of trying to make an interesting image in  the square.

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