About Mike
I’m interested in photography and outdoorsy stuff like climbing and canoeing, amongst other things. (Read more...)
Gimp Archive
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21 F
Posted on May 31, 2010 | No CommentsThis photo was taken with a Beston MC Auto Zoom/Macro 1:3.5-4.8 35-200mm on a Pentax K to Nikon F mount with my D90, and post processed with Qtpfsgui and the Gimp. -
The old country road
Posted on May 16, 2010 | No Comments27th of October 2006. There was a light drizzle, and my wife and I were walking along this road. Our dog, Oscar the flat-coated retriever, was bouncing around, happy as only a flatcoat can be in this kind of weather. Suddenly we came around a bend and... -
High skies
Posted on May 15, 2010 | No CommentsIt was the second of September 2006, just after lunch on top of P. di Cassino Bagio (2621 meters). Wolfi and I had been been up to the central alps, into the Piansecco area in Switzerland, an area with beautiful, slabby granite. There, we had... -
Fight of the elements
Posted on May 13, 2010 | No CommentsEarly March 2010. It was cold, and it was windy. The first signs of spring were just showing. Suddenly, the sky turned menacing, and I managed to get this shot before fleeing inside for a hot mug of tea. -
The church behind the wall
Posted on May 11, 2010 | 1 CommentThere was a bit of editing (RawStudio, Gimp, LuminanceHDR, and some more Gimp), involved in getting this shot to look OK. The sky was rubbish, but it looks halfway decent now. -
Knight
Posted on May 10, 2010 | No CommentsMy eldest son (he’s three) has a lot of books already. Many of them are about knights and dragons and castles and heroic quests. He absolutely loves knights (he loves pirates and builders too, but that’s another story)! So yesterday, I took him to a... -
Cloud
Posted on May 7, 2010 | No CommentsI wonder, where is it now? -
Violet and yellow
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Toned black and white HDR wolf moon
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsOn January30 it was a windy night, with lots of snow. It was wolf moon. Here’s a picture of the wolf moon, it was taken hand-held through my front door. With UFRaw, I created three exposures (+/-2 EV). These I combined & tonemapped in picturenaut.... -
Hard light
Posted on February 5, 2010 | No CommentsI’m learning something new every day. Over at iffles.com, there’s a cool, concise post about dramatic use of Gimp layers. I applied two of the effects (hard light and desaturation) to a recent image that looked kind of dull. Now it pops a bit more,...