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How Does Composition Work?

November 4, 2014 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

Golden ratio image

Understanding Composition | Blender Guru

Discover How To:

  • Why composition is one of the most important things you’ll learn
  • The most common mistake artists make
  • Simple rules to create more engaging artwork

Great video on how composition works. Made for to CGI but is equally applicable to photography.

 

http://youtu.be/O8i7OKbWmRM 

As a fun counterpoint, here’s an article about why the golden ratio is bullshit. 

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Composition, Photography

Fujifilm X100S My New Walkabout Camera

September 29, 2014 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

Fujifilm X100S

Fujifilm X100S camera photo

My New walkabout camera

I used to try to bring my Canon 5D Mark II with me wherever I went. But with the best walkabout lens, the old 24–70 f2.8L mounted on the camera; it became a pain just to carry the beast around. Only the glass weights 1.1 kilos, and with a battery grip with dual batteries, it’s a complete monster. I still use it because of the great optics and the quality when shooting with it, but I no longer use it for street photography.

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: iPad, Photography

JPEGMini an easy way to reduce size of large photos

September 11, 2014 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

JPEGMini Pro icon imageJPEGMini

What if you could reduce the size of all the jpeg pictures on your hard disk? Do you have problems sending full resolution jpeg images via email because of size restraints? Is your iPhoto library too large? Let’s face it; pictures is one of the things that sucks up space on your drives. It’s even more annoying if you are using a newer Mac with an SSD disk where cost is premium. Upload speed when sending emails or uploading images to the web can be slow and annoying. An application called JPEGMini claims to help you with reducing your pictures with up to five times while retaining all the quality. I got a bit curious if the team at JPEGMini and their patented image compressor really could reduce large JPEG photos without losing quality. I’ve tried the application before when I wrote my article about comparing the best jpeg compressor applications for web use. But even though JPEGMini is geared more towards large megapixel pictures, not small images usually used on web pages, my test shows that it stacks up well against the competition even on more modest photographs. Many web pages now use pictures optimized for high-resolution images like for Retina display and high-resolution mobile devices, so the use of an image compressor is getting even more useful for web use.

But how well does JPEGMini retain quality on megapixel images in JPEG format? How much do you lose in quality by using compressing?

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Filed Under: Macintosh, Photography Tagged With: Mac OS X, Macintosh, Photography, Web

New MacBook Pro 15″ Retina Color accuracy

August 13, 2014 by Jack Zimmermann 3 Comments

MacBook Pro 15″ Retina Mid2014 Calibrated compared to sRGB and Adobe RGB 1998

A couple of days ago I got my new Spyder4 Elite Color Calibrator for color calibrating monitors. After doing a calibration on both on the latest MacBook Pro 15″ retina and my factory calibrated Asus PA246, I saved the comparison charts for the two displays to see how they stack up.

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Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: Apple, Mac OS X, Macbook Pro, Photography

RSS Reader

June 28, 2013 by Jack Zimmermann 1 Comment

Now that Google is pulling the plug on Google Reader, I’ve been researching an alternative. I bought Fever, a self hosting solution. My favorite RSS app for ipad is Mr. Reader has just been updated with support for Fever, but it’s slow. So I’m giving up on Fever as my syncing for RSS and going to use Feedly instead, now that they have an API. Feedly has a very nice app on iOS but Mr. reader now also supports Feedly, so I’m going to use it instead. On my Mac I’ll just use Feedly’s web interface which is quite nice. Good to be able to find interesting articles to read again.

Filed Under: Life and times of Jacken Tagged With: iOS, iPad

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Portrait of Jack Zimmermann I'm a Swedish computer old timer hacking away on computers since 1979. I'm a total Apple and Linux gear head. Right now, I'm really into electronics. [Read More]

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