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By Anton Piatek, on February 24th, 2008% The photo right out of the camera looks incredibly red.
I use Bibble to convert my raw files – during the conversion I set the white balance to “click white”, and select somewhere on the grass or a leaf. The idea is to remove the red tint from the light leaves in the image, but the sky can still have a dark red tint (in fact the red tint is usually desired). I have also seen posts where people suggest setting a custom white balance in camera to a photo with the frame full of grass, however I have not tried this
Continue reading Infrared Workflow
By Anton Piatek, on February 24th, 2008% I was reading on a friends blog a while ago about air miles (I have forgotten who now), and wondered how many air miles I did last year…
According to kls2.com my flights last year totaled 23,000 air miles. Quite scary really, especially as I feel I didnt really fly much.
The one trip to Australia clocks up over 21,000 miles on its own.
By Anton Piatek, on February 16th, 2008% One of the last annoyances with running 64bit linux is the fact that there are no java plugins available. I have 64bit firefox (well, iceweasel) with flash (using nspluginwrapper which allows the 32 bit version to work) but java is a no-go.
Turns out Sun has had a request open for this for 5 years: Bug ID: 4802695 Support Java Plug-in on 64-bit AMD and Intel
Given they are looking at it for java 1.7, I guess I had better move back to 32bit firefox until then. I cannot find any reference to getting nspluginwrapper working for java
By Anton Piatek, on February 15th, 2008% A quick walk last weekend yielded some wonderful IR photos – I still can’t decide whether I prefer the red of the blue sky though
 
 
 
 
By Anton Piatek, on February 10th, 2008% I got my replacement hot mirror filter, IR-cut glass, from lifepixel.com and following their instructions for a 300D
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Continue reading Converting a Canon 300D to Infrared
By Anton Piatek, on February 9th, 2008% If you have $100,000 spare and like zoom lenses, you may want to think about this one:
The Mother of all Telephotos | B&H Photo Video
If you’re into bird watching, the holy grail would have to be the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, a huge (20″ tall with a 30″ wingspan), yet incredibly elusive woodpecker that despite reports of extinction, is spotted every now-and-then deep in the boonies of Florida and Arkansas. It’s also known as the ‘Lord G-d’ woodpecker because that’s what spotters have been known to blurt out – often accompanied by soiled trousers – when dive-bombed by one. ‘Lord G-d’ has also been exclaimed – minus the soiled trousers – by those seeing a Canon 1200/5.6L USM for the first time. At 36lbs, 33″ long and 9″ wide at the front element, calling this lens a ‘tele’ is like calling King Kong a monkey.
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